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Not a bad movie, but...


they should have just taken 15mins or so to go through the whole kidnap story and then use the remainder of the time to show jessica biel strutting around in a bikini - that would have been WAY better.

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Or you can watch a porno if you want to see that. Lets focus on the story here now.

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it's a giant phone ad.

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"it's a giant phone ad"

The ad didn't work very well then, cos I ain't seen anyone with a giant phone lately...

"You've got lovely eyes Dee-Dee, never noticed them before, are they real?"

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Hehe!

Actually it was a Nokia ad. But you can still make the same reply:

"The ad didn't work very well then, cos I ain't seen anyone with a Nokia phone lately... "

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http://forum.earwolf.com/topic/59133-episode-205-cellular-w-ike-barinholtz-erin-gibson/?do=findComment&comment=293037

What if we switch all this phone shenanigans around so Chris Evans is someone who's supposed to be getting an emergency phone call: a 911 operator! Kim Basinger can still manipulate the pulses of the smashed phone, but DOES call 911 and it's Chris Evans who answers. 911 operators are obviously people who are supposed to be responsible and punctual, etc., qualities that Evans has been accused of not having. So you automatically connect his personal and professional life. Maybe his unreliability has put him in hot water with his boss as well as his ex-girlfriend, so he is close to being fired. When he gets a call from Basigner, his immediate supervisor tells him it is a prank and to not waste time and resources following it up and to GET BACK TO WORK. But Evans takes note of the number and decides to call it himself on his CELLULAR phone when he shift ends (maybe he just pulled a 3rd shift so he is getting off work right around the time kids are being taken to school, thus adding an element of lack of sleep and therefore stress to his character). When he calls the 911 switchboard after discovering that the kidnapping is, in fact, real, we discover that his boss is ALSO in the pocket of the dirty cops, who recruited him/her to curtail any possible incoming 911 calls in case Basinger, her son, or her husband were reported missing (or if anyone saw them capture the husband in broad daylight). I realize this takes away some of the point of the movie, that it's a random stranger who gets a call and has to decide to help that person, but we still get a random 911 dispatcher getting the call and having to step-up, defy authority, and become a hero.


https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/11/14/ign-visits-the-set-of-the-upcoming-action-flick-cellular?page=3&=1

http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/16574

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