“All work and no play makes Jack …Hey, Candy Crush Saga!”
It’s A Wonderful Life 2: Clotbusters and stenting save the life of Pop Bailey, allowing George to go to college as planned.
It’s A Wonderful Life 3: Security video in the bank lobby clearly shows the $8000 deposit being dumped into Potter’s lap; Potter and Uncle Billy both go to prison for conspiracy to embezzle money from the Building and Loan.
Usual Suspects: I have absoultely no idea how RL police procedure works, but I’ve got a picture in my head of the detective handing the transcript of the interveiw to a rookie and saying “Check these leads out” 
Or someone would just do it on an iPhone during the interrogation.
Yeah, but you’d still get the same movie, Jack’d just go nuts because of the hotel’s Wi-Fi cutting out 
They saw the moose out front and left.
True, bu5 what I meant was that today’s security is so much tighter, that it’d require a super computer with a great anti encryption engine to get into such sensitive systems
“By the way, Ms. Gulch, I emailed PETA. Touch Toto and they’ll sue your scrawny ass for everything you’ve got.”
“Let’s see – FAQ about ruby slippers…why, they can take me right back home! Yeah, thanks anyway, Glinda, but I’ll pass on that Wizard guy.”
The Breakfast Club - The kids sit and play their cellphones and never speak to each other.
The Terminator:
After obtaining clothes and weapons, the T-800 does an extensive Internet search on every Sarah Connor (with spelling variations) in southern California. Amassing dossiers of profiles, it optimizes it’s hunt to kill the most likely targets as quickly as possible before an alarm can be raised. But let’s say that Sarah gets lucky and again escapes with Kyle’s help. The attack on the police station is extensively documented by security cameras and cell phones, showing the attacker shrugging off massive retaliatory gunfire. Other people photograph and video “The Killer Zombie” with their cell phones. The security system at the factory records the robot attack, and a copy gets leaked to YouTube, where it gets extensively copied before the government can prevent it. Government security agencies seize the Terminator’s remains, the name “Cyberdyne Systems” is preemptively copywritten, and Sarah goes into witness protection.*
*Although even with the foreknowledge of how dangerous it is, that doesn’t stop the government from developing AIs.
BRILLANT!
After Hours (one of my favorite movies) is not workable with smart phons, and ATMs. He could just use UBER to get a lift back uptown.
Verbal peppers his story with enough real events (the lineup in NY, the Taxi Service job) to prevent this exact scenario from happening.
Agreed. First one that made me actually laugh out loud. Not that some others were not funny just not nearly as much.
Any of those “Hey kids, let’s put on a show!” movies with Mickey Rooney, where the neighborhood teens are desperate to find an old barn to stage their musical show. Today they’d do a Kickstarter. “Hey kids, let’s do a Kickstarter!”
I’ve often wondered if there would be a way to modernize Network, which is probably one of my Top 5 all-time… I don’t see how it could be done today though…
It would have to be “guy goes nuts on YouTube channel, it goes viral… for like a week.”
They might be able to make it work. They had ATMs when After Hours came out in 1985. However, as I remember, because Griffin Dunne’s character lost his wallet, he would not have been able to use his ATM card since that’s where he probably would’ve put it. As for a smart phone, it could easily be lost or broken.
There are numerous episodes of Columbo (which were really made-for-TV movies) that wouldn’t work at all since they depended on a telephone call or something simlar to help the murderer establish an alibi. The one with Jackie Cooper as a US Senate candidate is my favorite of these: his alibi fell apart when Columbo learned that the gas station from which the call was allegedly made was closed that evening because they’d run out of gas (which also puts it sometime in late '73).
The password would probably have been ‘00000000’
That’s the same password I have on my luggage!
I hope you saw The Simpsons from two weeks back when they did a brilliant spoof of Ned Beatty’s speech from Network.