What do you mean AI isn’t useful for anything?
Mrs Magill’s coders use it all the time to steal write code.
They look exactly the same in the original poster.
Ok. Well - still weird!
It’s well worth the watch. Maybe one of my favorite movies I have ever seen.
I don’t know what my takeaway was supposed to be, but my takeaway was how arbitrary and chance-dependent the justice process can be. Which is chilling.
One might say it looks… Psycho?
Yeah, the image generator is just doing a straight swipe there. As is its nature, I suppose.
It feels a little too, well, programmed or manipulative for my taste. With a lot of stereotyping. And of course Henry Fonda doing his thoughtful, reasonable thing (and potentially causing a mistrial with at least one of his shenanigans). Anyway, it smells like propaganda for the jury system, “12 good men and true” to quote something else. (This is leaving aside why there were no women on the jury, I know there is a version of the play out there called “12 Angry Jurors” that has women roles in it.)
I mean I had the exact opposite takeaway. It made me lose confidence in the jury system.
I don’t know what the creators intended but I did not come away from that feeling good about our court system.
It seems significant to me that you never actually know whether the defendant is guilty or innocent. Just the blind biases that influence people’s opinions about it.
I mean, it was 1957. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that women just weren’t called for jury service in those days.
Women had been on juries in New York since 1927 (according to Wikipedia).
Interesting. Based on my own quick Google I see that many states had an “opt-in” policy where women were excluded from jury pools unless they personally requested eligibility, so I would assume that in many places all-male juries were common and the filmmaker chose to go that route since it’s what viewers would expect.
Yeah, but “10 Angry Men And 2 Pissed Off Women” wouldn’t fit on the marque.
I won’t lie, that title is very intriguing and would make me want to see it more.
Kind of funny, that. Just the year before 12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda was the subject in the most terrifying Hitchcock move ever made, The Wrong Man. It might be interesting to watch those two movies in order of their release.
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Oh, look, a robot dog with a flamethrower that’s available for sale to the public and is operated via a video game controller.
I can’t think of any way this could POSSIBLY go wrong.
Yep.
Here’s Shayne Smith’s take on it:
Despite appearances Mr. Smith is not from Florida himself. If I recall correctly he’s from Utah but don’t quote me on that.
Shayne Smith’s comedy is where I heard about it! You’re correct about where he’s from; his hometown is Fillmore, Utah. IIRC, he grew up Jewish. I know he converted to Roman Catholicism and was baptized this year. I wonder what it was like growing up Jewish in that town.
This has been misattributed by some Twitter/X users as an issue on Amazon’s Prime Video, but the incorrect A.I. poster is actually on Amazon’s FAST channel (free ad-supported streaming TV), Freevee. Though they’re owned by the same parent company, Prime Video has a real poster for the Henry Fonda-fronted film. This discrepancy between the two posters seems to be a licensing rights issue. A source explained to The A.V. Club that the service licenses 12 Angry Men from a third party, which is responsible for the images that accompany the film. Though MGM (which is owned by Amazon) seems to have some form of distribution rights for 12 Angry Men, older movies have more complicated licensing stemming from third-party distribution deals and Blu-ray and DVD remasterings.
LEGO thieves busted in California.
Here’s a choice quote from the article:
While at the scene, investigators saw people show up to buy the toys. They’d seen advertisements Siegel posted online.
Yeah, if Eight hadn’t been there, the defendant would have been found guilty. Not every jury has someone like him on it.
Re @Railer13 's article, I’m really curious about what “nearly 3000 toys” means. Clearly, Lego are toys, but is “one toy” a single brick (or other piece), or is it one complete kit? Some of the larger kits can have more than that number of pieces in a single box. And there are websites where one can find individual Lego pieces (usually the rarer ones, though I’m sure those sites would be happy to sell you a red 2x4 brick if you asked).