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[–] 44 points 3 weeks ago* (9 children)

*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.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 32 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    There was a Pope Mobile in one of them, which means that there was a Car Jesus. Or at least a Christian Car Bible.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago

    There was a planes spinoff where one of the characters is a helldiver plane, and has literal flash backs to being in WW2,

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    The second movie is all about spies, which means there was a Cold War, and if there was a Cold War, there was a Russia, and if there was a Russia, there was a Stalin and a Lenin, which means there were communists, and eventually a Red Scare and a McCarthy, which means there was a nuclear scare and, naturally, nuclear weapons.

    The Porsche girl character, I can't remember her name because I'm 40, had one of those lower-back tattoos, which opens up a whole other series of "which means" implications that I absolutely do not want to get into.

    This rabbit hole goes much deeper than Pixar intended.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I haven't seen Cars 2 but why would "spies" imply the Cold War?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    Reminder that Cars is a pro-eugenics franchise, and probably would have depicted the smashing of "lemon" cars as a heroic act.

    I wonder how the nonexistence of horses in the Umamusume franchise affected war, and how Hitler viewed the horse girls.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    There's a WW2 battle in the Pacific in the planes spin off film.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Did lightning m’queen get that hussy Fast Sally or w/e did he get her cargnant

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    No it doesnt. Fictional worlds with a basis or reference to real worlds, are not required to be 1 to 1.

    Dont get me wrong ya made me giggle a lil bit.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    a VW of course

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago*

    Auto Kühler, der fahrer.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    And that bunker was just chock-full of Minions.

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