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[MGibster]

It could be hugely regional. There were still large swathes of the US where you wouldn't get a signal.

I was in Dallas. For most younger people at the time, owning a cell phone was cost prohibitive. This was back when you had to pay for a specific amount of minutes each month. The idea that it was unrealistic for not one of three graduate students to have a cellphone in 1999 is laughable. It's laughable not just because cell phones weren't that common in 1999, but that graduate students could afford one back then.

 

[Thourne]

I was in Dallas. For most younger people at the time, owning a cell phone was cost prohibitive. This was back when you had to pay for a specific amount of minutes each month. The idea that it was unrealistic for not one of three graduate students to have a cellphone in 1999 is laughable. It's laughable not just because cell phones weren't that common in 1999, but that graduate students could afford one back then.

Completely get that.
Just adding, they wouldn't have gotten a signal in the middle of no where even if they did have them back then

 

[payn]

I was in Dallas. For most younger people at the time, owning a cell phone was cost prohibitive. This was back when you had to pay for a specific amount of minutes each month. The idea that it was unrealistic for not one of three graduate students to have a cellphone in 1999 is laughable. It's laughable not just because cell phones weren't that common in 1999, but that graduate students could afford one back then.

I think we still had pagers going in ‘99 lol

 

[Zaukrie]

Movie and TV shows should be different than the books they are based on.

 

[Zaukrie]

Cannon is silly to worry about.

 

[payn]

Movie and TV shows should be different than the books they are based on.

I don’t mind this if it’s for the better, but it rarely is…

 

[Ryujin]

Looking back, it's astonishing to me how quickly cellular phones went from being rare sights to ubiquity. The Blair Witch Project came out in 1999, and a few short years later I heard people argue it was completely unrealistic that none of them had cell phones. In 1999? I didn't know anyone in my group of friends, we were in our early to mid 20s, who had a cell phone. Most of the people I knew who had a cell phone were in their 40s.

I just got back from getting dinner at a shopping mall where, back in the '90s, people would take one look at my RBF and move out of my way. This time I got walked into, 3 times, by people with their faces buried in their cell phones. If there had been smart phones in '99 "The Blair Witch Project" would have been a short webisode.

 

[MGibster]

Movie and TV shows should be different than the books they are based on.

They're such radically different mediums they really have to be different. I'll be honest with you, I'd rather watch Interview with the Vampire than slog my way through that book.

 

[Zardnaar]

Looking back, it's astonishing to me how quickly cellular phones went from being rare sights to ubiquity. The Blair Witch Project came out in 1999, and a few short years later I heard people argue it was completely unrealistic that none of them had cell phones. In 1999? I didn't know anyone in my group of friends, we were in our early to mid 20s, who had a cell phone. Most of the people I knew who had a cell phone were in their 40s.

1999 was when I heard about this new fangled thing called text messaging. It was another year before they blew up.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I just got back from getting dinner at a shopping mall where, back in the '90s, people would take one look at my RBF and move out of my way. This time I got walked into, 3 times, by people with their faces buried in their cell phones. If there had been smart phones in '99 "The Blair Witch Project" would have been a short webisode.

I remember going to see Blaire Witch in the theater and people were wondering if it was real as they entered because of the marketing