Cell phones have almost ruined film. Discuss
Cellphones HAVE ruined everything. You can't even walk down the street without some faggot capturing you onto their instafacebook. Pray for an apocalypse.
>>70259752
Edgy
>>70259752
Kek what a fag
>>70259069
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
no, just technology in general, you mean as a storytelling device right?
>>70259069
um. just set the movie in the 90s or earlier?
problem solved.
>>70259069
How long until the use of a cell phone in film makes a movie look dated?
>>70260049
>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
>>70259917
Preaching to the choir. I hated all that telephone booth time in Apocalypse Now.
CHARLIE DON'T MAKE PHONE CALLS
https://youtu.be/XIZVcRccCx0
Every horror movie since 1996 has had to have a scene like this.
>You now realize the real problem is bad writers who can't adapt their minds to the realities of modern inter-connectivity.
>srsly using your normiephone outside
>>70259836
>>70259869
Upvoted
>>70259752
Chill out nekbear
>>70259752
True, you can't even have sex in the open without the fear of some bastard recording you.
>>70260554
Somebody should make a movie where they just don't have cell phones, see if anybody complains.
Texting ruined film.
>jarring cut to the phone screen and back
Or even worse
>magical floating letters appear over the phone
>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.
>>70262092
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.
>>70262092
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzuMwNmH9Vo&t=1m9s
>>70259069
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.
>>70262422
What will happen to cinema when technology has eliminated all inconvenience and tension from daily life?
>>70262561
A return to period movies probably. As technology continues to get more invasive, it'll get harder to write about for the screen.
>>70259917
no, phonebooth scenes are comfy as fuck
>>70264218
>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
