Cell phones? - 30 Days of Night (2007) Discussion

[–] bdwgml 13 years ago

ever heard of "suspension of disbelief" ?

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Well it would be quite an incredible suspension of disbelief if we were to assume he stole everyone's cell phone. As it happens, from what I could see, there were only about ten or so phones in that burnt pile, so I'm guessing he stole as many as he could, as opposed to everyone's.

We call this the Loom of Fate.

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[–] stardust (5) 7 years ago

That's not what suspension of disbelief is. It means you as a viewer accept the movie's premise; that there's such a thing as vampires, or magic or other dimensions. The following details though, have to believably fit into the rest. Such as there's no way a newcomer into a small town, unwashed and unlikable, somehow manages to sneak around people and steal a whole pile of phones.

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[–] Fishtales 13 years ago

They were still using cell phones so not every ones cell was stolen.

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[–] sam_orozco2002 13 years ago

i think he stole every phone that he could, but not everyones. in the film some people still had there phones. i think it would be nearly impossible to steal everyones phone since some people don't ever let go of their phone. it's like attached to them. then others don't seem to care for it much and leave them in areas like their truck, kitchen table, ect.

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[–] eagle9112-98-111594 12 years ago

He only stole satellite phones. He didn't care if people in the town could communicate, he just didn't want anybody contacting the outside world. He didn't steal everybodies cell phone because Stella called Ebin when her crashed. Also, those phones wouldn't be used all the time like a cell phone, so it might be sometime before the theft was noticed. Also, everybody in the town might not have a satellite phone so there might not be a lot to steal.

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[–] ztpt 12 years ago

yup,they even explained it was mainly sat phones in the pile..

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[–] foob-5 12 years ago

Maybe the cell tower in Barrow is not connected by land line to the rest of the world. So if you got a cell phone it's just to call others in town within cell tower reach.

A bit far fetch but very possible for remote locations.

The only way to reach the rest of the world is with satellite phones.

Of course it's a bit far fetch that a single stranger can steal all the satellite phones in a town with nobody finding out.

A better storyline is the stranger destroying the cell tower. And just not mention satellite phones at all.

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[–] mel2000 8 years ago

A better storyline is the stranger destroying the cell tower. And just not mention satellite phones at all.

They should have ditched that unbelievable stranger character entirely and found other ways to sabotage communications.

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[–] lexyladyjax 8 years ago

Made perfect sense.to those of us who comprehend th he concept of living in the back of beyond like Barrow. Without a satellite phone you're cut off from the world of help. Now you know, too.

These broken pipeline will bring lots of help. It'll be too late.

Bored now.

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[–] mel2000 8 years ago

My gripe wasn't with the sabotaging of communications, it was with the choice of having the stranger character do the sabotaging.

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[–] crc32 (2584) 6 years ago

I'm thinking they would still need a stranger that was human (immune to sunlight) to do some scouting prework work before the vampires came in force. I think this story lie would be easier to swallow if the vampires treated the stranger as an idiot that was acting on his own and not being very smart about it. I think the attack on the utilidore's uplink dish was good enough. I'm sure geosynchronous satellite communication would be useless for 2 way communication in alaska and I don't know if there were any low earth orbit sattalites in use back then for people in Alaska. I think they should have left out the SAT phone part of the story out only because people would nitpick it like they are now doing in this thread.

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[–] Goliard (1413) 5 years ago

Ehhh, I'm conflicted. It's a valid gripe. . .even in a town like Barrow, there are NOT going to be 7 phones serving as the linchpin to communication w/the outside world. Anyone w/even a glancing knowledge of Anything knows better than that. On the other hand, it's not really a big deal unless you care. On the other hand, it's fairly easily fixed. . .they could've come up w/any number of better scenarios for isolating Barrow from communication.

Ah well. YMMV, and all that.

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[–] Strazdas (2328) 2 years ago

Well, sattelite phones arent your usual phones. They are pretty damn expensive. Its absolutely normal that in a town like that not everyone has one.

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[–] Goliard (1413) 2 years ago

True. . .3 years later 😄

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[–] PaladinNJ (20310) 2 years ago

The vampires destroyed the cell tower themselves.

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[–] PaladinNJ (20310) 5 years ago

He stole satellite phones (probably a few cell phones as well) which were capable of operation without the cell tower which the vampires destroyed. How he knew who had a satellite phone I can't begin to understand as he was only there a few days.

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