12 Angry Men
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Ehm... I think it's up to the writer of the play to determine if his character, the kid, is guilty or not. That he doesn't make a great realistic legal case to prove his innocence may be so, but that's not the case they are making or the story they are telling here. It's about being careful when deciding on a man's faith and not judging a book by it's cover. Don't worry, nobodoy got set free because of this movie, nobody else was murdered.
Arjan Pelle
2024-05-14 14:21:56 +0000 UTCThere is so much wrong with this movie. I mean of course it is extremely biased in favor of letting murderers go free. But for example, when Henry Fonda pulls out that knife... You can't do that! That's an automatic mistrial! He's bringing "evidence" into the jury room that was NEVER introduced in the trial! I could go on about how obviously guilty the "kid" is and how the eyewitness testimony isn't needed to convict, but I know you all want the kid to be free to murder again, so I'll stop.
Patrick Mondout
2024-05-14 07:36:10 +0000 UTCThat's the one about oil right? Saw it as a kid, great movie too!
S Y
2024-02-11 03:05:04 +0000 UTCOne of my favorites...and I'm not THAT old 🤣
Dan Rosen
2024-02-03 03:35:12 +0000 UTCJust heard Carl Weathers the terrific actor from Rocky past away. God Bless
George Bakis
2024-02-03 01:02:49 +0000 UTCI’m 61 years old. I’ve seen the movie on more than one occasion. Probably one of my favorites. How did I feel about you guys reacting to this. I had to watch it with you because I was excited to see your response. It’s an amazing movie the writing is phenomenal. And I think sometimes people lose sight of the fact that it all took place in one room. There was a conversation going on. Sometimes hostile. But nonetheless a conversation. Finally they all agree that there is a reasonable doubt to convict. I enjoyed your reaction. There are some amazing movies out there. It’s quite a rabbit hole to explore. In fact, while I’m commenting. Another movie comes to mind “GIANT”. It’s starred, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, A very young Sal Mineo. It’s a long one for it’s time (1956)…3h 21m.
Michele Perez
2024-02-03 00:21:56 +0000 UTCI’m so glad you reacted to this film. I recommend 3 classics. One would be… To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 The Imitation of Life 1959 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 1967
Michele Perez
2024-02-02 21:55:15 +0000 UTCHenry Fonda's wealth of work has been impressive. Some of my favorites: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE playing Wyatt Earp blows me away with the tension and how the b&w cinematography lends to the inevitable historic gunfight. Others on my list: GRAPES OF WRATH, JESSE JAMES, OX BOW INCIDENT, THE WRONG MAN, THE LADY EVE, JEZEBEL etc
George Bakis
2024-02-02 10:07:42 +0000 UTCI know what you mean.
George Bakis
2024-02-02 09:57:34 +0000 UTCInteresting Henry Fonda being soft spoken while Lee J. Cobb was loud. Here you have the soft spoken character alone begin a calm and cool dissection of many jurors reasoning. But then slowly he also gets jurors to begin to find valid points to see it his way.
George Bakis
2024-02-02 09:47:14 +0000 UTCI enjoy old movies of this quality. Its a shame certain people would never think about watching a movie in black and white.
Dan Gershgol
2024-02-02 05:49:11 +0000 UTCIt's a little scary how a movie this old can still be so relevant today. I think they ought to have free screenings of this movie all over...
Rhonda Turner
2024-02-02 04:36:43 +0000 UTCYes, the script and the acting are amazing. But beyond these, the camera work and editing add to the drama. One room for nearly the entire story, beginning with longer shots of the entire room from a high point of view. The coming together of many individuals. When each speaks, we see much of the character, often with people sitting next to them. As the film progresses, the camera angle becomes lower. When the final guilty juror is floundering, we see an angle from below their chins of just closeups of faces, often two at a time... the truth is closing in on the holdout. Once the tension is relieved, we return to a shot of the entire room again. The filming matches the intensity of the script and the characters and the acting. Love this film... an all-time great.
Cliff Adams
2024-02-02 04:19:12 +0000 UTCGreat choice. Love seeing the classics!
Randy Ripley
2024-02-02 02:00:45 +0000 UTCLow-key all time favorite. You guys are killing this week!
Travysaurus Rex
2024-02-01 23:25:40 +0000 UTCHaven't seen this in years, an astounding screenplay, and so well acted! Gripping as ever!
Quiche
2024-02-01 21:04:23 +0000 UTCThe hand towels on the wall. The big white box is full of a roll of wound up towel. As you pull it from the front it gets sucked up into the back so it's always new. Schools and public bathrooms used to have these when I was young. I'm 43 so I'm a little older and can remember these things. The worst thing was when someone would pull too hard or too fast and the retractor would quit working and you would end up with 10 ft of towel on the floor. It was a pain in the ass especially if the front quit working then you couldn't wipe your hands on clean towel lol.
Rio Mendoza
2024-02-01 19:04:38 +0000 UTCI love films like this. Full if great dialog the natural way they speak to each other. It's so raw and real feeling. Films just don't feel like this anymore. Films were true art back then now it's all about box office and product placement and having the prettiest woman in your film. These men acted their asses off. I wish more films were made like this. It's awesome how each of them have information about the case while presenting whether they think he's guilty or not. But what they really doing is telling us the story painting a picture for us. How many of you could imagine what they were saying in your head while they were saying it. I've always loved this film. I'm glad Some of you are experiencing it for the first time
Rio Mendoza
2024-02-01 18:40:48 +0000 UTCThis is such a great film, Henry Fonda I thought was one of the greatest actors ever. His last film was a film called on golden Pond and his daughter Jane was also in that film in 1982. I believe it was and that was a great film. That might be something you might want to check out also good work you guys are awesome, but of course you know we’re still waiting on Dexter new blood. Let us know when you’re gonna do that please.
Jeff Swearingen
2024-02-01 17:08:38 +0000 UTCBaltimore is Jack Klugman Jewish who played in Odd Couple and Quincy. Nowhere he is professed to be playing an Italian.
George Bakis
2024-02-01 16:16:34 +0000 UTCFrom a jury point of view, this movie is like a strange model to me -- a guidebook for understanding different approaches to justice in our system. Each juror represents a kind of way of thought -- BJ speaks about this in the outro -- and that's dead on. Pay attention to who brings up what pieces of evidence too, as a result. My favorite unsung hero from this movie is "Baltimore" -- the juror from the slums. I like it because he clearly is supposed to be the truest "peer" of the boy on trial. They are both ostensibly italian-american, from the same neighborhood, and grew up in the same way. Because of that, he was able to swing jurors about his knowledge of knife fighting. Another thing he caught onto was an inconsistency in the old man's story about "running" to the door when he was disabled in court. This guy is the target for the prejudice of others, but here he is about to save someone's life because only someone from that background could know that type of stuff. And because our system is shown as working in this case, the boy is given that assist from Baltimore.
Potato Jones
2024-02-01 15:15:20 +0000 UTCTHANK YOU!!! For watching one of my all-time favorite films, and simply one of the finest films ever made. It truly stands the test of time, and I've seen reactor after reactor watch this and come away floored by how great it is, despite being set in only one room. And I'm so happy you guys, my two favorite reactors, have finally seen this. The wonderful dialogue, direction and story carries this film and makes it so engrossing, something too many films today fail to do. It sucks you right in as if you're there, as the 13th juror, if there could be such a thing. Lee J. Cobb is the angriest man in the room, and the last one to say "not guilty". It's my personal feeling that the moment he says not guilty, he's pronouncing that not only over the defendant, but his own son in his heart as well. He steals the movie away from star Henry Fonda and a room full of some of the greatest character actors of the 20th century, each of whom were wonderful in this in their own right. In the hierarchy of my top 10 favorite films, first is THE GODFATHER, followed by BEN-HUR in the #2 slot, and I'd have to place this film in 3rd place, but TIED for that position with TO SIR, WITH LOVE, starring Sidney Poitier, which is a movie I cannot recommend highly enough, and I hope you guys will check it out soon. Many thanks Asia & BJ! You are the BEST!!!
Michael Wise
2024-02-01 13:33:49 +0000 UTCThanks so much for reacting to this! I feel like this is the gold standard for scriptwriting quality. No matter how many times I see it, it never gets old. The fact that many of the themes showcased in the film has hardly aged tells us a lot about the human mindset, and how we as people interact with each other, how we form our beliefs and how different we can be from one another. If I may add too, at the cost of overthinking, I believe the additional evidence that I could have used would be that 1) If the defendant claimed his knife fell through a hole in his pocket, it is totally possible the knife was dropped somewhere in his neighborhood. And that if the hole did not exist in his pocket as he claimed, then the DA would have brought it as evidence. 2) If the boy was actually guilty, and saw police cars outside his apartment complex, how come he didn't take the extra time to get his story straight about the movies? If I was walking in willingly to that kind of situation, I would have made sure that I knew my story top-to-bottom. Otherwise i could end up arousing suspicion that I was lying about the movies. The only reason a person would rush into that situation without thinking is if he did nothing wrong, or did not believe that his father was even dead at all until seeing it firsthand. That's just my thoughts on the matter, though.
Radiodanoo
2024-02-01 12:55:47 +0000 UTCI remember watching back in my high school at the end of the school year. I think it was English class or something I can't remember, but we had to do it in parts because the class period wasn't long enough. Every time the bell rang everyone in class would say awwwwww lol. Another great reaction and thank you again to the super VIP request. I can tell you guys were into this as well.
Pop_Pop_Taq
2024-02-01 11:11:02 +0000 UTCLol wish I could but sadly this was my last hurrah. Gotta start paying back student loans and I can't afford the tier on patreon. But I'm glad I could end it with a banger
Radiodanoo
2024-02-01 08:33:44 +0000 UTCMy Grandfather in the late 1950s was on a jury for a murder and he would speak about how EVERY juror did not want to rush things and would repeatedly ask for details to be brought to them to review. As he told it they came together and had respect for justice and for each other. The writer here made it a point to mold a group that would trigger arguments many wanting to rush allowing these heady actors to perform and put forth a terrific film.
George Bakis
2024-02-01 08:33:41 +0000 UTCLol I saw it in civics class in high school too when I first saw it.
Radiodanoo
2024-02-01 08:30:04 +0000 UTCThanks! I thought they already saw it, otherwise I would have requested it sooner lol
Radiodanoo
2024-02-01 08:29:09 +0000 UTCThe bathroom used an old style of machine washable (reusable) cloth towel dispenser. You would pull down on the cloth in the front to pull out a fresh piece of the towel roll and the gears in the machine would draw up the used towel in the back at the same time. It looks like the towel machines hadn't been serviced with new towel rolls in some time. When the roll got to the end it would just stop dispensing any new towel so people would keep using the dirty towel section like they showed in the movie.
Kevin
2024-02-01 07:43:18 +0000 UTCTerrific movie choice, more of these please!
Skip
2024-02-01 07:04:26 +0000 UTCGlad you're watching an older classic movie. There are a lot. I've been on jury duty several times and it does get heated when deliberating.
Teri
2024-02-01 07:03:47 +0000 UTCImportant points that you are making about individual characteristics of jurors and how it influences their decision-making. I studied jury decision-making in college and grad school and these were things we looked at in our studies. About 10 years ago I served as a juror on a double homicide case. Our jury spent a whole week deliberating. Not a single juror wanted to rush things. It was sobering experience though. It stayed with me for a long time.
Kimberly Tyda
2024-02-01 06:21:14 +0000 UTCA Loaded group of Great Actors from Lee J Cobb from On the Waterfront and Exorcist to Henry Fonda who shined from Lady Eve and My Darling Clementine (Tombstone Kurt Russell today).
George Bakis
2024-02-01 06:20:29 +0000 UTCExcellent choice and still so affecting all these years later! So glad you are doing all of these wonderful movies!
Mary Merry Berry
2024-02-01 04:49:08 +0000 UTCAgreed 👍🏾
JL Green
2024-02-01 04:48:53 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite films. Who knew a story a little more than an hour long could keep your attention featuring 12 men in one room.
JL Green
2024-02-01 04:48:12 +0000 UTCI'm sure the defendant is implied to be Puerto RIcan. After WW2 hundreds of thousands migrated from the island to NYC by the mid 1950s. This subject is probably most famously seen in West Side Story. It's interesting how this film heavily implies racism without explicitly saying the word or mentioning a specific minority group. It was very likely more progressive than a lot of other films at the time.
Jeffrey Miller
2024-02-01 04:44:54 +0000 UTCNo more series reactions? I’d love to see a Black Flag reaction if I can make a suggestion.
Dominique Cloet
2024-02-01 04:17:38 +0000 UTCGreat pick!
Nathalie
2024-02-01 03:51:08 +0000 UTCWow what a great pick. Great job ultimate VIP. This community and its viewing habits are so unique and so awesome. I really do believe this is the best reaction community there is on YouTube or Patreon. Thanks, Asia and BJ forgiving us film heads or place to watch your reactions to great films and television shows. Go us. We pick awesome movies lol Gooooooo LIONNSS. I see you Asia haha.
Rio Mendoza
2024-02-01 03:24:05 +0000 UTCOoh, I had to come over and see how A & B liked this classic. It's after 9 o'clock here, but whatever. I know I'll struggle to get to bed before eleven anyway, I have time 😉 This is a very fascinating and engaging watch. Hope you guys enjoyed
Renee S
2024-02-01 03:22:11 +0000 UTCSo glad to you reacting to this!
k p
2024-02-01 03:15:25 +0000 UTCA classic. Remember having to watch this in high school sooo many years ago.
Mike S
2024-02-01 03:11:37 +0000 UTC
