• lime!@feddit.nu
    31·
    7 days ago

    *sigh* i guess it’s time for this again…

    Kill James Bond Highlights: “The horrific implications of Cars 2 (part 5)” (the Popemobile bit)

    Edit: There’s a real good comment by youtube user CleverCrumbish on one of the highlights:

    So, the thing about Cars 2 right.

    In Cars the plot of the film revolves very tightly around the idea that the way people live in the modern age (and particularly the way they transport themselves) is incentivised to progress and develop toward alienating those people from communities that live in and on the places they move through and that those changes are causing suffering as adherents to or prisoners of the old ways of doing things are left behind and underserved. Because this is a theme explained through the parallels between motor racing and the older rural automotive landscape, that is, because most of the metaphor the film is using concerns the automobile, it makes sense to simplify the framing for a children’s cartoon and make all the characters cars.

    In Cars 2 every character is a car for absolutely no fucking reason whatsoever except that they were in the first movie and it would be weird to change it now.

    • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      7 days ago

      So as they’re contemplating the existence of a Cars Jesus, I find myself what kind of car Jesus was. There were no motor vehicles in that time so was Jesus a cart? Were Jesus and his vehicular disciples pulled around by ox or were they self propelled? Were the Roman soldiers chariots? And the cross - how does that work, I mean logistically? Which of Cart Jesus’s appendages would be appropriate to nail to a board in order to bring about death? And I’m not even at the point where I dare speculate on what Cars God is even like.

      Edit: Was there a Cars Bud Dwyer?

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        5·
        7 days ago

        reminder that the villain of cars 2 is famous for being “the first car to circumnavigate the globe without gps”.

        also jesus was obviously a Model ✝️

    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
      17·
      7 days ago

      When cars go to the grocery store in the cars universe do they park and wait outside or do they “drive” into the grocery store?

      If they do drive into the store, do things like parking lots exist, and what are they used for if they do?