I watched a movie recently where they went 20 years back in time and the only discernable difference was everyone had flip phones rather than smart phones.
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I find that a lot of movies/tv shows are doing this. Cell phones just seem to be challenging for writers. In a pickle, yeah call someone. Lost, yeah you've got the internet man, your fine. I think the "my phone is dead" and "there's no cell signal just got beat like a dead horse, and having characters just not answer every time something comes up makes the characters look worse.
Reminds me of Star Trek. The original series made teleporters because it was cheaper. In later shows and series they had to constantly create reasons for why the teleporters aren't working.
To be fair, if a technology was going to disassemble me down to a subatomic scale and reassemble me somewhere else, I'd want the atmospheric and ship's systems conditions to be absolutely perfect, too.
time to re-introduce the good old reliable pats pockets fuck
It would be believable today if someone was in a pinch, tried to call someone else and people would just not answer because it's a call and not a text message.
Need more shows about lefties.
"Dude, i didn't bring my phone!'
Well, now there's also fascism and climate apocalypse.
Set in 2005? But that was just a few years ag.... Fuck!
So it would be Malcolm in the Middle?
My thought as well lol... Probably relatively accurate for working class suburban America at the time too
The "wtf" years
That 2000s Show
Hey internet, stop reminding me of how old I am. My body does that just fine, thank you very much!
The timing checks out, but the culture differences between the two different times aren't comparably drastic.
The year I graduated high school and decided to throw away twelve years of my life to some girl! I wouldn't watch that show again.
Fuck you.
Also kinda demonstrates how stagnant parts of our development have become.
Alright, fellow humans, about time for a renaissance
And you could have a show today depicting 2005.