Lord of the Rings: “Hello, UPS?”
God Damnit!! Yes, yes, I’m a fucking dumb ass. The Shinning is the movie I’m thinking of, but for some reason, the s’s got me.
Bart: Don’t you mean The Shining?
Groundskeeper Willie: Hush, boy, you don’t want to get suuuued.
Joan of Arc
Joan: I got a message from God. He said I was supposed to lead my people to war.
Salesguy: Ma’am, that’s just cellular static. He really said, “Feed your weevil some more”.
Ya wanna know what’s really funny? I used to work for Sprint, and we got great reception inside the building, but the moment you stepped outside? Call drop city, baby!
The movie Gladiator would have been really different with cell phones.
Maximus: Honey, I just pissed off the new emperor, get the kid and get the hell out of the house.
Cujo: “Hey, could you come shoot this dog for me?”
ROTFL!!!
In addition to the X-Files, there are some cell-phone based plots that could not have been made more than a decade ago. Indeed, it wasn’t until 1996’s “One Fine Day” that I saw a movie that used portable phones as a plot device. More recently, “24” would have been radically different without cellphones (thinking especially of the scene where Kiefer is under a car, hiding from cops in a parking lot, while talking to his wife).
Yeah I thought of “The Shining” as one.
Though actually many horror movies would really lose steam with the advent of the cell phone…
That scene in “Fargo” where William H. Macy’s wife tries to take the phone into the bathroom to dial 911 would have been different if she had a phone on her. Of course not a lot of people carry phones directly on them but it might not have hurt.
And for a movie that incorporates mobile/cell phones- look no further than Jurassic Park III. Said phone gets swallowed by a spinosaurus. 