• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Most films that require some degree of miscommunication couldn’t work because cellphones are ubiquitous.

    Additionally a lot of old sci-fi films based on a hypothesis that later turned out to be pseudoscience are here as well.

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      3 months ago

      Modern media just handwaves this easily with phones being broken or low battery whatever. It still works

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        3 months ago

        Even makes it a tiny bit funnier (if it’s a comedic miscommunication, not if it’s “someone gets killed” miscommunication)

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            3 months ago

            I have no issue with movies killing off characters, I just meant that miscommunication can be funny, but usually not if it’s tragic. But then again, deaths can be comedic if we’re talking Final Destination or Tucker and Dale vs Evil. So it’s all in the context

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      3 months ago

      Even in movies before mobile phones, more often. Than not, they could resolve any problem by just telling the other people something, but they don’t because the movie would be over.

      Also, ever since covid, a lot of movies became way more believable. Man if only the people knew that a pandemic was coming. If only we knew how dangerous it was, if people in other countries could’ve been warned from other countries where it’s already ravaging