Last night, perusing my DVD library to find something to fall asleep to, I realized something: I’m increasingly unable to enjoy movies with outdated technology, specifically, cell phones. I can’t handle old cell phones anymore! And it’s endangering some of my favorite movies!

I was literally thumbing through DVD’s last night being like “no… too many old cell phones”… LITERALLY! My thought process: “Clueless? No… too many glorified walky-talkies… She-Devil? No… Ed Begley Jr.’s car-phone… Teen Witch? No… that car-fax machine is bothersome… Mean Girls? No… the discontinuity of the fact that it pre-dates texting doesn’t sit right with me… Hackers? That entire movie is about outdated technology PLUS I can’t buy Angelina Jolie as a pixie-cutted high-school student!”… I even passed over Superstar and My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding - two movies that have arguably nothing to do with technology, outdated or otherwise - basically because they pre-date the iPhone and, I guess, this makes them seem too far-fetched!

I really don’t understand my psychology behind this, as I have zero.zero problems watching ‘period pieces’… it might have something to do with being able to enjoy intangible nostalgia but not tangible nostalgia? That can’t be right as there is no one whose body and soul long for the 90’s than I. I really need to crack the psychology about this!