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Modern caller ID and cell phones really date this film


This film is really dated, but nevertheless is fun to watch at least in one respect that it harkens back to a more "primitive" time, technologically speaking, when phones were rotary dial, and there was no caller ID where people could weed out the sort of prank calls those girls were making. Also, if the parents and kids each had cell phones, call waiting, text messaging, etc. etc., like they do nowadays, the parents wouldn't have had nearly as much trouble staying in touch with their kids, and wouldn't have had to call telephone operators and police departments to go check on the kids.

Fun movie, just awfully dated.

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That doesn't make it dated. That's not what "dated" is.

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That doesn't make it dated. That's not what "dated" is.

Care to elaborate? Perhaps provide an example? Preferably in your own words.


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A 50 year old film can be dated for various reasons, but being made in a time before call display is not one of them, even if in this case, the use of a telephone played a pivitol role in the storyline. That's like saying old westerns are dated because cowboy's took all day to ride 50 miles on horseback, when today they could have done the same distance in 1 hour via Jeep or 20 minutes by plane.

On the other hand newer films that are overly dependent on technology du jour, such as CGI and special effects, and the storyline makes heavy usage of the latest and greatest consumer gadgets, will most certainly look dated in 50 years time.

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A 50 year old film can be dated for various reasons, but being made in a time before call display is not one of them, even if in this case, the use of a telephone played a pivitol role in the storyline. That's like saying old westerns are dated because cowboy's took all day to ride 50 miles on horseback, when today they could have done the same distance in 1 hour via Jeep or 20 minutes by plane.

On the other hand newer films that are overly dependent on technology du jour, such as CGI and special effects, and the storyline makes heavy usage of the latest and greatest consumer gadgets, will most certainly look dated in 50 years time.

Yes, very good explanation.

"Dated" is not something that isn't of the present.

"Dated" is something that looks cloying and insincere and contrived today which was once accepted, rightly or wrongly, as valid; it's not something that's "old."



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I think antiquated would be a better word to describe how communication was then.

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Right. "Dated" means it's implausible for the timeframe in which it takes place. Since this was a mid-60's movie, it correctly reflects what would have happened in that timeframe. However, the remake of "When A Stranger Calls" was laughably dated. A girl is babysitting the house of a ritzy family. A creep keeps calling her and she keeps picking up. No caller id. No answering machine. So she always has to pick up when it rings, in case it's an important call. The remake was about 2008 or so, so caller id and answering machines had been in wide use for decades. Let me see the year it was made.

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It was 2006. Has it really been that long?

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Your comment is somewhat naive.

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