Over the weekend, somewhere in between the DayQuil / NyQuil Cycle of Doom, I caught an airing of "Lethal Weapon" on one of the 47 HBO channels.
There's a scene in there that had me laughing at the old school technology. Danny Glover is on a bridge talking to the police psychologist about his new partner, Martin Riggs, played by Mel Gibson. To do this, he's using the world's largest cell phone. It's a giant box, with a real-size phone connected to it with a an actual cord. And then there's that monster antenna!
It's just funny to see movies now, where villians can control the entire world from a phone the size of an iPod shuffle. But back in the day, 1987 to be precise, this was considered bad-ass technology.
Watch the original trailer and pay attention around the :53 mark. You'll see the phone. You'll laugh.
- Mark La Monica