Comments on: Let Your Fingers Do the Running/Screaming http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/2009/06/28/let-your-fingers-do-the-runningscreaming/ Camo Pants with a Lavender Fringe Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:14:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/2009/06/28/let-your-fingers-do-the-runningscreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-13895 Michael Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:35:25 +0000 http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/?p=957#comment-13895 Oh, gods, I shudder to even think of it. They played that at a local cinema but I couldn't bring myself to watch it. I think the first time I noticed a cellphone being written <em>out</em> of the story was when The Boyf was telling me about an episode of <em>West Wing</em> in which someone's cellphone battery is replaced with an equal-weighted, camouflaged dud, or something like that, so that their cellphone won't work at a critical moment. Oh, gods, I shudder to even think of it. They played that at a local cinema but I couldn’t bring myself to watch it.

I think the first time I noticed a cellphone being written out of the story was when The Boyf was telling me about an episode of West Wing in which someone’s cellphone battery is replaced with an equal-weighted, camouflaged dud, or something like that, so that their cellphone won’t work at a critical moment.

]]> By: Blume http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/2009/06/28/let-your-fingers-do-the-runningscreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-13894 Blume Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:52:41 +0000 http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/?p=957#comment-13894 At the beginning of Michael Haneke's 'Funny Games' one of the intruders drops the phone in the sink full of dishwater. One of the many annoying, seemingly accidental things they do at the beginning that soon take on more ominous meaning. At the beginning of Michael Haneke’s ‘Funny Games’ one of the intruders drops the phone in the sink full of dishwater. One of the many annoying, seemingly accidental things they do at the beginning that soon take on more ominous meaning.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/2009/06/28/let-your-fingers-do-the-runningscreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-13845 Aaron Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:17:24 +0000 http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/?p=957#comment-13845 It interestesting watching how Alexis's soap (One Life to Live) has to constantly plot around cellphones. Nine out of ten plotlines would fall apart if the characters just kept their phones charged, stopped dropping them in toilets, etc. Same thing in comics. Why in the world is Daredevil trying to take this guy by himself? Just call the freaking Avengers or something... It interestesting watching how Alexis’s soap (One Life to Live) has to constantly plot around cellphones. Nine out of ten plotlines would fall apart if the characters just kept their phones charged, stopped dropping them in toilets, etc.

Same thing in comics. Why in the world is Daredevil trying to take this guy by himself? Just call the freaking Avengers or something…

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