Cell phones have almost ruined film. Discuss
Cell phones have almost ruined film. Discuss
David Rivera
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Luke White
Cellphones HAVE ruined everything. You can't even walk down the street without some faggot capturing you onto their instafacebook. Pray for an apocalypse.
Brayden Campbell
Edgy
Aiden Stewart
Kek what a fag
Jordan Roberts
phonebooths used to be bad for film. every film pre-2010 had phonebooth scenes that had taken up at least 50% of it's runtime. Thank god for cellphones
Kevin Wood
no, just technology in general, you mean as a storytelling device right?
Dominic Torres
um. just set the movie in the 90s or earlier?
problem solved.
Brayden Lee
How long until the use of a cell phone in film makes a movie look dated?
Logan Anderson
>catch Superbad on t.v.
>flip phones in the first conversation of the movie (and throughout) immediately remind me that this was shot in mid 2000's
I never thought I'd feel nostalgic about that time period in the slightest
Nicholas Scott
Preaching to the choir. I hated all that telephone booth time in Apocalypse Now.
CHARLIE DON'T MAKE PHONE CALLS
Ryder Parker
Every horror movie since 1996 has had to have a scene like this.
Connor Ortiz
>You now realize the real problem is bad writers who can't adapt their minds to the realities of modern inter-connectivity.
Julian Carter
>srsly using your normiephone outside
William Taylor
Upvoted
Matthew Wright
Chill out nekbear
Isaiah Roberts
True, you can't even have sex in the open without the fear of some bastard recording you.
Colton Ortiz
Somebody should make a movie where they just don't have cell phones, see if anybody complains.
Hudson Taylor
Texting ruined film.
>jarring cut to the phone screen and back
Or even worse
>magical floating letters appear over the phone
Elijah Garcia
>dammit why didn't I think of using my phone
>can't get a signal/connection
>the battery's done
>it broke
>someone stole it
>I must've dropped/forgot it somewhere
>nobody's answering
>they didn't believe me
>even if I message them they won't get here in time
>google doesn't know the answer
>the picture I took is too dark and blurry
Alternatively, cellphones are TOO useful and they are used against the protagonists.
Joseph Davis
I can't stand scenes with floating bubbles of text, that's usually an indicator of a shitty movie, it works sometimes in House of Cards.
Chase Butler
Henry Martinez
They're certainly not as cinematic. If a film is set in the modern day, mobile phones, or the implication that one could just use a mobile phone, kills tension. And of course if a writer tries to eliminate the opportunity of mobile phones, it's with a contrived cut to a "no service" symbol which takes us out of the movie a little bit. They're also boring - watching two characters on mobile phones isn't interesting to look at.
Zachary Reed
What will happen to cinema when technology has eliminated all inconvenience and tension from daily life?
Ryan Baker
A return to period movies probably. As technology continues to get more invasive, it'll get harder to write about for the screen.
Joseph Barnes
no, phonebooth scenes are comfy as fuck
Justin Gutierrez
>phonebooth scene
character is speaking nervously, experiencing claustrophobia
>cellphone scene
hot wimmyn texting while relaxing in her underwear on a double bed
phonebooth's so comfy lad wew