Lawn? Please get your tiny text messages out of my movies and series!

[Todd's keyboard]

Is anyone else irked by the frequency of movie and tv scenes that show close ups of text messages on a phone? I assume the messages move the story forward. However, these tired, old eyes can't read them.

Todd's keyboard

[TheTominator]

Yup.

[steve...]

I need to have my fingers on the rewind and pause buttons to keep up with the dialogue.

:oldfogey:

[DeusxMac]

I have to pause videos, get up, and move closer to read them. :cursin: the

[Speedy]

Put your TV on a pulley system to move it back and forth. Or your couch. You’re not going to get any younger.

[Black]

Only a problem when trying to watch Ted Lasso on my 11" MBA from the bathtub....

[Don C]

Step son was in his first year in law school and renting a house with a fellow law student. They were trying to watch Paper Chase on their VHS but had to frequently rewind to hear the dialogue. Both had Pugs who were really excited to have a friend and were running around the room with great gusto and snorting and making sufficient Pug noises to drown out the dialogue.

[Blankity Blank]

Todd's keyboard wrote:
Is anyone else irked by the frequency of movie and tv scenes that show close ups of text messages on a phone? I assume the messages move the story forward. However, these tired, old eyes can't read them.

Todd's keyboard

Thank you for this. I thought it was just another part of my creeping descent into old.

I’ve surrendered to always on Closed Caption (though I’ve read of even some youngers resorting to that nowadays), but I’m holding the line against trying Descriptive Audio to see if cellphone texts get read aloud. :biggrin:

[NewtonMP2100]

....tiny....bubbles....

[RAMd®d]

I don't know anybody who can actually read them as presented on TV.

I have no problem with any I've seen in the movies.

For TV, I guess directors/whomever think everybody watches shows on 65' screens from four feet.