Thursday, October 16, 2008

Orgy sightings of Nokia handsets in the "How to Rob a Bank" movie

[after grabbing ringing cell phone from Jessica's pocket] Jason 'Jinx' Taylor: "What's this?"
[removes tape from Jessica's mouth] Jessica: [sarcastically] "That's what they call a cell phone."
---quoted from "How to rob a bank" movie

Soon after the opening scenes, the above conversation took place between the two main characters in the "How to rob a bank" movie. Which pretty much give an early clue of what you'll see in the movie, right from the start to the end.

I didn't want to do anything tonight, only but to relax after a hectic day and watch a movie. Any movie will do, I thought, and so I picked this movie with a title that intriqued me most.

Basically, this movie is an 'orgy' of Nokia handsets sightings. Pardon my language there, but it is true. It looks like the movie is funded and directed by Nokia, because the talking between characters in the movie is done mostly with mobile phones; and there's no other branded phones in there beside Nokia's.

The first Nokia phone to appear is the 6103, if I'm not mistaken. This phone belongs to Jessica, played by the sexy Erika Christensen. And it's being used from the start until the very end of the movie, amazing if the phone's battery can actually lasts that long. ;-p It's a movie after all...

After that the 9300 also makes few clear appearences, like you can see in the middle picture above; the 9300 is shot in close up for several times. This one also brought by Jessica.

The villain named Simon, played by Gavin Rossdale is using 5140i, again if I'm not mistaken. There's a funny scene, where he throws the 5140i to the police when it's battery died. In contrast with the 6103 up there, perhaps this act is to tell the truth about 5140i's battery real life? ~LOL~

And then Jinx, the main character played by Nick Stahl, pulls out his own Nokia's phone: the 6630. But this one doesn't shot clear enough, only partial shoots while in use and often blocked because of Jinx's face.

The last but not the least, is the N90 used by Officer DeGepse played by Terry Crews.

It's funny for me, and a pity that there's no expensive Nokia's handsets seen in the movie. For example like the 8800 series, or the business series such as the E61/62.

Overall, the movie's idea itself is interesting and gives a true fact about how banks are literally "rob" us even only in the amount of cents. But too bad, the conversations are nerve wrecking. Apart from those conversations are all done with mobile phones, the audience must see the same room and same places over and over again.

Personally, the only reconciliation for me to bear keep on watching this movie is because of Erika Christensen... ;-)

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