It’s such a sadness that you think you’ve seen a film if you watch fucking "Inland Empire". Get real.

my hero.

Cell phones are in many ways symptomatic of our seriously faulty way of communication–which has digressed to the bottom of the manure pile. Cinematograpy of any quality at all has to be seen on a large enough medium to appreciate the immense number of variables present.
Genererally, cell phones have reduced our communicative connections to each other, & awareness of the world around us.
Clearly, anyone with the least appreciation for film, unless they are blind. is doing the artists an incredible disservice, and reducing their own intake to trash.

Its not the cell phones but the people who use them. It's a subtle way to find out the personality of a guy before introducing yourself. I have been saved by huge mistakes as I cringe from Cellphone Etiquette and the surprising morons who don't need a neon sign which reads "Asshole" when they are gabbing hateful dialogue to their phone a friend. The earphone gabbers who used to look plain crazy have only been supplanted by I-Snobs with their little white boxes of way too many songs to possibly listen to in a week, much less one trip. Cruising was much more fun when we were less distracted. Now, soulmates never meet, flirtations are text messaged and the scent of a man is a download. Most of it is poor people acting rich, anyway.