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I remember people calling this outdated when it came out

posted 4 years ago by BourbonKing (5787)
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even in 2002 many young people were laughing at the concept of the phone booth for a movie at the time because many teenagers already had their own Flip Phones with cameras.

[–] davodikum (6212) 4 years ago

Bullshit.

[–] BourbonKing (5787) 4 years ago

Nope. True. I'm a Gen Xer but I was working in Silicon Valley at the time this came out and many of the kids in the Bay Area had cellphones. I'm sure this wasn't the case in middle-america

[–] davodikum (6212) 4 years ago

Yeah but the whole point they make in the movie is payphones are out of date. Why would people laugh at the concept of payphones not existing while the movie points out that very fact. Plus in 2002 not everyone had a mobile.

[–] BourbonKing (5787) 4 years ago

Your take away from this movie is that payphones are out of date? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[–] davodikum (6212) 4 years ago

You're a lunatic.

[–] BourbonKing (5787) 4 years ago

Better than being a dunce like you

[–] davodikum (6212) 4 years ago

Well I had sex with your wife.

[–] HelpMeRhonda (1158) 4 years ago

His wife's in a coma.

[–] ManToTrust (1663) 4 years ago

If you were in the Bay Area you were in a bubble. There’s the disconnect.

[–] samoanjoes (58491) 4 years ago

Phone booths were still being used up until around 2012.

[–] PaladinNJ (21762) a year ago

I believe there are still phone booths in NYC. Just a lot fewer of them.

[–] samoanjoes (58491) a year ago

Maybe they don't work. I can't imagine paying someone to collect the coins.

[–] Galilguy (2525) 4 years ago

That's news to me. I was a teenager when this came out and don't remember any of that non sense..

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

It was delayed and pushed to April 2003 because of the 2002 D.C. beltway sniper attacks. It was supposed to come out in October 2002, but the producers thought it wouldn’t be good timing because of the people killed during that high stress time, only a year after 9/11.

It’s funny because the movie was filmed in November Of 2000. Between then and the time it was finally released....American society had changed so much. November 2000 people were far more happier, laid back and yes somewhat more oblivious. In less than 3 years society became far more stressed out, scared and paranoid.

[–] BourbonKing (5787) 4 years ago

That's a good point, and I think many of us who lived through that tend to forget that major event and its subtle way of changing our attitudes about life in general.

[–] Knish (1721) 4 years ago

That was sort of the point, like the opening of the film said, it was the last Phone booth in manhattan and was about to be torn down.

[–] Redsfan001 (6213) 3 years ago

Just read that the last standing public payphone was removed from its site near Times Square.

Introduced in the early 1900s, coin operated phones have been gradually replaced by Wi-Fi kisoks. The one carted away this week is heading to the city museum. ~ The Economist May 28th 2022

[–] B1cKsurN (17788) 6 months ago

Cell phones didn't have cameras in 2002.

[–] RoboReCop (3379) 6 months ago

I'm sure I got my first cell phone in 2002, maybe sometime in 2003, a Nokia chocolate bar [I miss those], that had a camera.

[–] BourbonKing (5787) 6 months ago

Nokia and Sony did. They sucked, but they worked.