– Dr. Steven Cale using a cellphone in Anaconda
Remember the good old days when you’d happily watch as movie characters were doomed to die because:
a) the perfectly working car suddenly refused to start
b) the villain cut the phone lines
c) they’d decided to take the road not taken, gotten lost and murdered by locals?
Well, not anymore. Now, you can’t help but watch some movies and be skeptical that the girl in the movie doesn’t pull out her cellphone and call 911 when there’s a nutter with a chainsaw after her, or exasperated that if the Seven Dwarfs had learned CPR, they would’ve checked Snow White’s airway and found that piece of apple in her throat.
The technology we use and the fuel-efficient cars we drive today have made many classic and cult Hollywood movie plots largely implausible.
Here are our Top 5 Movies that could not be made today without alterations to account for new technology:
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