Scully and Mulder often had to clarify “they were in an area that did not get great cellphone coverage” thirty years ago, they were always getting separated in urban settings

You couldn’t make Citizen Kane because flashbacks and other innovative filming techniques are now the norm.

You couldn’t make Soylent Green today because literally everybody already knows by now that it’s people

Airplane!

Lots of reasons. Pick one.

You couldn’t make Toy Story today because NOBODY should be okay with how disturbing Sid’s face is.

On a side note, with all the remakes that are made nowadays, why has there not been a shot-for-shot remake of Toy Story using Pixar’s modern tech? Please, fix those terrifying lips. PLEASE

Any Will Smith movie.

To that bottom comment in the picture. You’d be amazed at how incompetent the TSA and other security staff can be at most airports.

I don’t know if this is still accurate, but the TSA failed their surprise tests over 90% of the time.

They didn’t stop the shoe bomber or the underwear bomber either. There’s a term for what they are, “security theater”. They make it look like they’re doing something to protect you, when really all their doing is stealing whatever they can get away with stealing and fingering people’s buttholes as often as possible.

Collateral with Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise because instead of hiring a taxi for the whole night it be easier to call a fresh Uber after each kill.

Arrival with Amy Adams because people would insist on using AI to translate the alien language.

Blow with Johnny Depp because of fentanyl ruining the ability to just snort a line of whatever whenever.

Idiocracy

You would get sued by FOX ‘News’ for copying their daily programming.

You couldn’t make Back to the Future II today because a positive outlook on the future is no longer believable even for a family film.

You couldn’t make Taxi Driver today, because Travis would have already died by suicide in a school shooting before reaching adulthood and getting a job. Plus watching Travis’s nihilism growing not out narcissistic disgust with the seedy underbelly of New York, but out of love for the seedy underbelly of 4chan, wouldn’t really have the same kick to it.

You couldn’t make Titanic today because it wouldn’t be believable… Leonardo Decaprio dating a woman his own age? Preposterous!

Really any movie that involves legacy telephones.

• Phone Booth: The whole movie
• Scream: “The call is coming from inside the house”
• The Matrix: “Pick up the phone!”
• Etc, etc.

Hackers: because no one rollerblades anymore.

You couldn’t make a sequel to The Matrix because it shouldn’t be made.