Smartphones have made screenwriting so much harder, as tons of storylines could easily be resolved if characters pulled their phones out of their pockets and made a quick Google search or entered a location into Maps.

According to Redditors, if smartphones existed in these movies, they wouldn't have been half as entertaining, would have been cut short, or wouldn't exist at all. Between a phone booth being the central point of the premise and a character with amnesia tattooing information onto their body instead of jotting it down on the Notes app, these characters' lives would be much easier in 2022.

The Dark Knight (2008)

Harvey dent Rachel Dawes The dark knight

After finding out that Joker had kidnapped Rachel and Harvey and locked them in two different warehouses in The Dark Knight, Batman chose to save Rachel. But what the Caped Crusader didn't know was that Joker lied about which warehouses each of them was in.

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Batman went to Harvey instead, but MickJoest notes, "Batman could've saved Rachel if he used the Find My Phone app in The Dark Knight." Ironically, in the final act of the 2008 superhero movie, Batman turns everybody's cell phone into a sonar device, meaning that he can see almost anything just so long as there are cell phones around.

Titanic (1997)

Jack toasting at dinner in Titanic

Violetgranger argues that Titanic would be ruined if the characters had access to smartphones. The Redditor notes, "At the rate news gets across social media, the ship wouldn't even be sinking properly by the time somebody tweets: 'Titanic is sinking in middle of Atlantic, e need help PRONTO #yolo #swag #iceburgnoiceburg'".

The Reddit user does make a good point, as that's exactly what happens today. However, Titanic is based on a true story, and it's a little hard to separate the movie from the real-life event. But the idea of Jack tweeting "#yolo" is definitely a funny one.

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)

Harold, Kumar, and Neil Patrick Harris in a car in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is one of the best movies about food. The movie follows the titular characters as they search for the fast-food joint to fulfill their munchie's hunger. However, certain distractions and getting increasingly lost lead them much further away from White Castle than they were to begin with.

5IVER1 thinks that if they had a cell phone, they could have simply popped White Castle into Google Maps, hilariously noting, "In 4000 ft. Turn left." While the movie would be ruined by the use of a smartphone, this applies to hundreds of other movies about getting lost, not just the stoner comedy.

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)

homeward bound trio

Just like Harold & KumarHomeward Bound: An Unexpected Journey is about characters getting lost and trying to find their way back. However, the characters aren't ordinary people or stoners trying to find food, but pet animals, including two dogs and a cat.

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The_Eagle_Has_Landed believes that the 1993 movie would be ruined by smartphones, "Assuming talking animals have the capacity to use the GPS device on smartphones." And while animals being able to use smartphones sounds ridiculous, within the context of the movie where cats and dogs can speak to each other in English, it's perfectly acceptable.

Cast Away (2000)

Chuck counts down the days he has been stranded in Cast Away

A lot of fans think that Cast Away would make a great video game, as it could follow Chuck solving puzzles on the uncharted island and building survival tools with what's available to players. However, the movie, just like the game, according to one Redditor, wouldn't be very long if cell phones were involved.

The Redditor explains, "Cast Away would've been a lot shorter if he'd found a phone in one of the packages." In the 2000 movie, a ton of FedEx packages wash ashore from the plane crash, many of which Chuck uses to his advantage. In fairness, while not everybody had a cell phone in 2000 as they do now, there's no doubt that there would have been at least one phone in one of those packages, even if it wasn't a smartphone.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Socrates and Billy the Kid exit the phone booth in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Darkglobe77 makes a great point that the 1989 movie would be ruined with the use of smartphones, as the whole premise would fall apart. If smartphones existed in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the film wouldn't just be shorter, but it wouldn't exist at all, as a phone booth is the central focus of the movie and is almost a main character itself.

The movie follows two high school students who come across the phone booth, and they use it to collect historical figures spanning hundreds of years for their school project. Now the very concept of the phone booth is practically historical itself.

Memento (2001)

Leonard Shelby holding up a polaroid In Memento

oh_my_god_brunette_a notes that Memento wouldn't have been half as engaging if cell phones had existed at the time. The movie follows Leonard, who is tracking down the murder of his wife but struggles because of his anterograde amnesia, which means that he makes a lot of notes. If Leonard had a cell phone, the Redditor explains, "Leonard would have been able to write down why he shouldn't trust Natalie, instead of her stealing all the pens and him not being able to write it down."

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But the Redditor is also forgetting another significant reason why Memento wouldn't be half as interesting if Leonard had a smartphone. As the character lives from amnesia, he tattoos clues on himself every day, which he wouldn't have had to do if he had a phone. He could have quickly taken HD photos too, instead of carrying around countless jumbled-up polaroid pictures.

The Departed (2006)

Colin speaks with Frank in an adult movie theatre in The Departed

The Departed is Martin Scorsese's best gangster movie, and it's the only movie of his that's set in the present day, or at least that was the case in 2006, making it a very distinct film in the director's period setting-filled filmography. It almost felt weird seeing gangsters use cell phones in a Scorsese flick, but Shortboarder notes that it would have been ruined if it was set just a few years later and the characters had smartphones.

The Redditor explains, "relied heavily on phones with actual keys so characters could text by feel. They'd be out of luck with an all-glass phone." One of the most intense moments in the 2006 movie is when Colin, a mole in the FBI, surrounded by other FBI agents during a sting operation, needs to urgently text Frank, his sadistic gangster father figure. He does so by feeling the buttons of the phone in his pocket, but that action would have been impossible if it was just two years later.

The Matrix (1999)

Trinity Matrix phone booth

There's a strange link that connects some Keanu Reeves-led movies, which is that phone booths are extremely important in getting his characters where they need to go. In Bill & Ted, the phone booth time travels, and in The Matrix, phone booths, and landline telephones general, help him exit the Matrix. Puffycheeses notes that if the characters had cell phones, they could "Leave whenever they feel like it."

There would be significantly fewer stakes if Neo, Trinity, and co. had smartphones, as they're generally looking for a phone booth when they're on the run from agents. That might be why 2021's The Matrix Resurrections radically changed the story. Instead of exiting the world by using phones, it's through reflections.

The Breakfast Club (1985)

The Breakfast Club sitting on a bannister.

Like Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Breakfast Club might be confusing to younger viewers because its central premise is no longer relevant in real life. It follows a group of teenagers who are given weekend detention, which was a common occurrence in the '80s. All the teenagers are completely different and belong to separate cliques, but they bond and become closer throughout the film. My_venting_account mentions that would never happen these days, whether weekend detention still existed or not.

The Redditor posits, "No one would have talked to each other, no one would have got laid, no backstories would have been told, and I don't think I'd love Judd Nelson as much as I do." The teenagers would have stayed silent, staring at their phones the whole time and, ironically, probably looking at each other's social media profiles.

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