• normalexit@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Really any movie that involves legacy telephones.

    • Phone Booth: The whole movie
    • Scream: “The call is coming from inside the house”
    • The Matrix: “Pick up the phone!”
    • Etc, etc.
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      2 months ago

      The Matrix could still sort of work as a period piece, since they explicitly said that the simulation being set in the late 90s was an intentional choice by the machines.

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        2 months ago

        That’s a good point. It is a simulation as others mentioned. I was thinking more from the aspect that it’s completely unrelatable to gen-z and alpha as they’ve never used a traditional phone. It’s like an 8-track player for millennials.

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          Gen Z’s are well aware of traditional phones. Smartphones were not really that ubiquitous (up until 2010(ish)), and by that time Gen Alphas were already born.

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      The Matrix would still work because it’s supposed to be a reconstruction of the world of the 1990s from the future.