Review 1: 12 Angry Men

This review will allow me to face an unfortunate truth I've had to deal with. A disturbing percentage of teenagers; are total philistines. Don't deny it, it's true. Particularly in film. I have a copy of 12 angry men...somewhere. It's on sky movies alot anyway, but even though I tend to share my favourite films with friends, I wouldn't risk 12 angry men. Why? It's black and white and it was made 50 years ago. Is it biased of me to think my friends won't warm to it? Slightly, but that's not the point, the point is that it's the sensibilities I have to put up with every fucking day that have made me think like this, for example, a few weeks back I had a party, during which I put Pulp Fiction on, great film, no question, SOMEONE WALKED OUT AND SAID IT WAS THE MOST PATHETIC THING THEY EVER SAW! That's their opinion I suppose, but it provides unquestionable proof that hollywood is killing its own line of work.
They keep making generic bull crap and ramming it down our throats so much that some people get so loaded with it they don't know a good film when they see it. Again this is all a matter of opinion and I could be wrong but that's just the way I feel. 12 Angry Men in my eyes is one of the greatest films of all time. It's acted to level as yet unmatched by any other crime or courtroom drama, and even now the way it plays out seems ingenious. All it is, is 12 jurers, shut in a room together trying to come to a unanimous verdict about whether or not a young man should be found guilty of murder and executed. More or less the entire film takes place in this one room. At the end no-one has hit anyone or stabbed anyone or clubbed anyone to death with a rabbid badger, they just come to a verdict and leave, yet this is one of the ost involving and tense works of cinema I've ever witnessed, it's mind boggling, it really really is.
Films of this nature are dying, it's a crying shame, things like improvisation and tense drama that really works are a seldom seen phenomenon, Casino Royale came close to the tension of The Cincinatti Kid and The Sting, but constrasting elements in that film somewhat subtracked from the experience it was trying to give. 12 Angry Men is an instant classic and anyone with an attention span long enough to get through Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix without giving up should love it, but they won't, because it's old, it makes me sick to my stomach.