Spoilers, maybe:
If Jack and Besty had cellphones to keep in constant conact, there is no way the movie could have worked. As an example, had she been able to call Jack when "Korman" lied to her about the bet amount, to confront him, the whole thing would then fall apart. Not that they didnt have cell phones then, but they were not nearly as common as today.....
I guess for that fact alone a modern day remake is off the table lol
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Except for car phones, they didn't have cell phones back then. Heck, very few people even had cordless landlines (look at the massive cordless phone with antenna Betsy uses to call Jack. Even the hotel phone is a rotary dial).
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piquebu, when were you born.......LOL......... WRONG... Cordless phones were very common then and the Motorola brick phones were becoming very normal to see. (That's a mobil phone, not car phone). I was selling car phones in the late 80's and mobils started really selling around '89-'90......
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LOL.....YOUR experience? That's your gauge on when they were around? That's just a fact, they were....."it seems to you"...So what the hell is that supposed to mean....? So you were poor and never saw a phone until the mid 90's, big fricken deal that's not the reality. The statement was, there weren't mobils until the mid 90's. Not that's when YOU think they were around. What were you 9 years old then? READ THE STATEMENT. God your one of those that thinks the world started when they decided. I'm gonna puke. Crawl back under your rock and grow up before you make stupid comments like that. They were around when I stated and I had one as did many...Period.
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Why don't you just admit when you're wrong and back off? The poster most likely remembers 1992 far better than you do.
shareYes, they were around (mobile phones), but they were definitely not convenient to carry around, nor were they overly common. I clearly remember back in the mid to late 80s when I was at summer camp, and the daughter of the owners carried around a GIANT mobile phone. It was so big that she had to use a knitting bag to house it, and we'd (campers) get a huge laugh whenever someone called her and she had to take it out of the bag to use it. The antenna was almost the length of the phone, and the sound quality SUCKED. But the point is, yes, they were around. And for the wealthy, car phones were around even earlier than the 80s. They, like mobile phones, may not have been common, but they were definitely around.
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share"Cordless phones were very common then and the Motorola brick phones were becoming very normal to see."
Wow!! What fantastical fantasy land did you live in during the 90's?
In 1991 cell phone ownership was extremely low. In that year 7 million people in the U.S. had a cell phone subscription. That also includes car phones, so for someone to have a hand held would be rare. They were also the large brick style which were hard to carry around.
But, as for the original post, it is very true. And there are many movies from the 80's and 90's that I'm sure confuse the youth of today. I just watched Mission Impossible on cable and had to laugh at the early internet that was featured in that movie. It's interesting to look back and see how many of the movies we loved from that time wouldn't work with cell phones and internet around.
As I said they were brick phones and I worked in a business that sold them so I got a good look at how common they were getting. Most were still using alpha numeric pagers and using their phones for call backs. Car phones were common in the working world although the per min rates were high. I still remember having that Moto Mini brick phone in my back pocket with the antenna running up the back of my shirt.
It was Seattle so I guess it was a fantasy land if you say so. The phones weren't too totally expensive by then (early 90's) but the range was short and you had to have pretty good credit. We sold many car phones in the late 80's because their range was much better, they had more wattage and early mobils had terrible battery times (they were in bags then). The car phones in the late 80's ran about $1500.00 to the 3k's then.
Admit when your wrong. Portable cell phones were not common during the time period.
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Because you say so? Oh OK...... Your right then..... This is so stupid. I'm sure in places they were less common. There were few servers. They weren't common, they just weren't uncommon. Depended on where you lived and if you had the money I guess. No, kids didn't have them like today. I mean hell in '94 they were selling them in appliance stores! How uncommon were they? I remember the day I bought my first totally portable phone. Were you even 10 years old then? If you lived in the UK, yeah, nobody had em.
share"They weren't common, they just weren't uncommon."
I'm not even sure what to say to that, or the rest of your message for that matter.
The year this movie came out the percentage of people with cell phones was around 3 percent in this country, and most of them were in NY or LA. I had a car phone in 88' but if I left the city limit (mid west city) I would lose any signal at all.
Now, from the early 90's on, cell phone ownership increased by leaps and bounds every year. 7 million in 91' jumped to 11 million in 92' and kept increasing by about 50 percent every year after.
So the point is that when this movie was made you would be surprised to see someone with a cell phone, but you wouldn't be shocked. So congrats on having an early cell phone Thom, but try to understand what the poster was talking about before going on a rant.
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Actually, I don't think Betsy would have called him. She believed Tommy and was furious with Jack.
But you are right that only clever rewriting would be able to take care of the problem with cell phones. Jack would have tried to call Betsy in his attempts to win her back.
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She would have called....She was confused and had a long relationship with him. She had questions...
shareCell phones as a possible plot hole are irrelevant. With service areas, roaming, and other cell phone issues that exist today plus the obvious plot choice that either Jack or Betsy could have lost their phones or had them stolen, the advent of cell phone technology need not hamper a re-make.
As for the usage of cell phones in 1992: The technology was around but nowhere near as flexible as it is now. Cell phones in 1992 were bulky, heavy,the size of small stereo speakers, ridiculously expensive and were limited to local service areas only.
Agree with the OP. I had the same thought when I saw the movie last night. The story wouldn't work today because of cell phones. Thanks for the good post.
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