TMC
02-24-2018, 09:42 PM
than 2004's Cellular (http://putlocker.io/watch/LxRlWXdO-cellular.html) with Kim Basinger (https://moviechat.org/tt0337921/Cellular/58c7f3862214d80b5cec83c7/Basinger-iiiiis-aaawful-in-this?page=2) and Chris Evans (https://screenrant.com/the-avengers-humiliating-bad-roles-before-famous/)?
http://www.grunge.com/10780/films-aged-horribly/
Despite only being made in 2004 (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3zpayj/what_recent_movies_do_you_think_will_age_badly/cynx361/), Cellular is already super-dated (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4wmafq/what_movies_made_less_than_a_decade_ago_already/d68fa2m/), thanks to the backbone of the plot: landline phone usage. Yeah, remember those? It was like a phone … but attached to the wall. You couldn't walk more than a foot or two away from it, you couldn't text, and worst of all, no Clash of Clans. All they had was superior reception and crystal-clear communication. Hardly seems worth it.
As Forbes reports, landline phones were still fairly common at the time of Cellular's (http://www.goojara.ch/m3jALo) theatrical release. Today, however, the majority of American households don't use them at all, and the number of people who still have them is plummeting fast. If a house has a landline phone, chances are they only keep it around so the cat has a dangly cord to destroy that isn't important.
Sure, Cellular (http://0123movies.com/movies-cellular-2004-0123movies.html) played up cellular technology (http://mattschley.com/cell.html) — it was 2004, so it wasn't exactly some crazy Jetsons theory or anything — but it still rested on the idea that the movie's kidnapped heroine would have a working, active landline that she could finagle and use to communicate with the outside world. As we move toward a future where landline phones are about as relevant as the Pony Express, Cellular (https://bmovies.to/film/cellular.zlyl) becomes harder and harder to see as anything but antiquated.
All this, by the way, is without addressing the starring role that the Nokia 6600 played in the film (http://m4ufree.tv/watch-i9fe-cellular-2004-movie-online-free-m4ufree.html). In case you don't remember what the Nokia 6600 looked like, it was this thing: a clunky, chunky, proto-smartphone with a tiny screen, a grainy crap camera, no wi-fi, no lights, no music, just anger. You can see why nobody uses it anymore. Though the Finnish phone was certainly a hit back in the day, now we have iPhones (https://www.cloudave.com/2656/what-nokia-kim-basingers-lifeline-would-be-an-iphone-today/), Androids, and cell reception physically embedded in our brains by 2037 (probably). Cellular (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cellular/reviews/?page=15&type=user) could well have the tightest, most gripping plot of all time, but we're too busy laughing (https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/chris-evans-appreciation-thread-part-xii.1068242/page-61#post-27984182) at what might as well be tech from the Stone Age (https://obsessivemovienerd.com/2012/06/13/the-cohen-case-files-cellular-2004/) to notice.
http://www.grunge.com/10780/films-aged-horribly/
Despite only being made in 2004 (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3zpayj/what_recent_movies_do_you_think_will_age_badly/cynx361/), Cellular is already super-dated (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4wmafq/what_movies_made_less_than_a_decade_ago_already/d68fa2m/), thanks to the backbone of the plot: landline phone usage. Yeah, remember those? It was like a phone … but attached to the wall. You couldn't walk more than a foot or two away from it, you couldn't text, and worst of all, no Clash of Clans. All they had was superior reception and crystal-clear communication. Hardly seems worth it.
As Forbes reports, landline phones were still fairly common at the time of Cellular's (http://www.goojara.ch/m3jALo) theatrical release. Today, however, the majority of American households don't use them at all, and the number of people who still have them is plummeting fast. If a house has a landline phone, chances are they only keep it around so the cat has a dangly cord to destroy that isn't important.
Sure, Cellular (http://0123movies.com/movies-cellular-2004-0123movies.html) played up cellular technology (http://mattschley.com/cell.html) — it was 2004, so it wasn't exactly some crazy Jetsons theory or anything — but it still rested on the idea that the movie's kidnapped heroine would have a working, active landline that she could finagle and use to communicate with the outside world. As we move toward a future where landline phones are about as relevant as the Pony Express, Cellular (https://bmovies.to/film/cellular.zlyl) becomes harder and harder to see as anything but antiquated.
All this, by the way, is without addressing the starring role that the Nokia 6600 played in the film (http://m4ufree.tv/watch-i9fe-cellular-2004-movie-online-free-m4ufree.html). In case you don't remember what the Nokia 6600 looked like, it was this thing: a clunky, chunky, proto-smartphone with a tiny screen, a grainy crap camera, no wi-fi, no lights, no music, just anger. You can see why nobody uses it anymore. Though the Finnish phone was certainly a hit back in the day, now we have iPhones (https://www.cloudave.com/2656/what-nokia-kim-basingers-lifeline-would-be-an-iphone-today/), Androids, and cell reception physically embedded in our brains by 2037 (probably). Cellular (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cellular/reviews/?page=15&type=user) could well have the tightest, most gripping plot of all time, but we're too busy laughing (https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/chris-evans-appreciation-thread-part-xii.1068242/page-61#post-27984182) at what might as well be tech from the Stone Age (https://obsessivemovienerd.com/2012/06/13/the-cohen-case-files-cellular-2004/) to notice.