Has there ever been a movie from the 2000s that has dated worse...

[TMC]

than 2004's Cellular with Kim Basinger and Chris Evans?

http://www.grunge.com/10780/films-aged-horribly/

Despite only being made in 2004, Cellular is already super-dated, 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 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 played up cellular technology — 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 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. 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, Androids, and cell reception physically embedded in our brains by 2037 (probably). Cellular could well have the tightest, most gripping plot of all time, but we're too busy laughing at what might as well be tech from the Stone Age to notice.

[Dude111]

I love this movie......... I have it on VHS ....... I first saw it years ago on DirecTV...