Two Good Moves--One Better Than the Other

I watched two movies yesterday, one on pay per view and one that my wife got me for Christmas. The pay per view movie was The Dark Knight. It was action-packed with cool special effects. The underlying theme was the question, what does it take for a good person to do bad things, even when the bad things have some good benefit to society?

The other movie was Fail-Safe. It is an old black and white movie dealing with the perpetual issue of the cold war, what happens if weapons of mass destruction are used accidentally. The special effects in this move were, well, zero.

Which do I prefer? Fail Safe of course. It seems the old black and white movies are, for the most part, better than the new movies. I realize that there are plenty of bad black and white movies, but there also seem to be more good ones. I also enjoyed watching It's A Wonderful Life over the holidays as well. In the old movies there were not stunning special effects which means the strength of the movie had to lie in its script, its theme, and its acting--especially its acting.