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Cars
You know, when I watched this film, I kind of felt cold indifference to it and disliked a few pieces of it. The more I think about it in retrospect, the more I dislike it. Total flaming piece of crap.
First off, Car-world is creepy. No people and the cars never open their doors. They have big freakish eyes that go into the wrong end of the uncanny valley.
Asthetics aside, there's so much more of this film to hate.
Cliched characters.
A plot that's been done several times before.
And the subtle things. The ones that really bother me.
Like the part about how mean and superficial 'city people' are.
And conversely, how deep and meaningful ignorant yokels must be.
Didn't you know that gap-toothed freaks know everything?
The film totally bashes 'modern life' and instead clings tightly to the 1950's kitchy fantasy world of Babyboomer land and Route 66 Nostalgia. I grew up not far from old route 66 and spent entirely too much time in towns way too similar to that one. The film somehow skips over all the ignorance, racism, prejudice, and xenophobia of those little shit-hole towns. There also wasn't a single chain-smoker with a beehive and blue eye-shadow wearing a mumu to be seen in the whole picture. Though of course we had the requisite hippy and militia freak.
There were other things, maybe even more subtle that bothered me. Like I've heard lots of people drone on about how this movie was at least better than Shark Tale or Shrek because it wasn't trying to use urban ghetto-speak.
Oh no... Not at all. Instead, it uses white-trash ghetto speak. That's SO much better. Or at least it's what America is more comfortable with. Remember. The moral of this film is: Cities bad. Inbreeding good.
Moreover, the american obsession with the auto industry was leaving an unpleasant taste in my moth throughout the film. Cars are so great! Everybody loves cars! Everyone should take a long car trip with frequent stops in middle america!
You know why they built the interstates, fuckheads? For the military! But now wait. Aside from that, the built it because the midwest fucking sucks. No one really wants to spend more time there than they absolutely have to. Do you know how many times I heard the same story about that funny time with Aunt Fae's bunions, or about that time Aunt Vicki cut some Z-list actor's hair? ABOUT A MILLION TIMES TOO MANY. People move to big cities because they can't stand you and while there's other people like you in the city, it's a hell of a lot easier to avoid you.
All in all. Hated it in almost every detail but hey, the money is in white suburbanites, so I'm sure it'll make fantastic amounts of money. That's all that really matters right? People in big cities sucking more money out of these little Hell hole towns?
Hmm. In that light, maybe this movie wasn't half bad afterall. :)
First off, Car-world is creepy. No people and the cars never open their doors. They have big freakish eyes that go into the wrong end of the uncanny valley.
Asthetics aside, there's so much more of this film to hate.
Cliched characters.
A plot that's been done several times before.
And the subtle things. The ones that really bother me.
Like the part about how mean and superficial 'city people' are.
And conversely, how deep and meaningful ignorant yokels must be.
Didn't you know that gap-toothed freaks know everything?
The film totally bashes 'modern life' and instead clings tightly to the 1950's kitchy fantasy world of Babyboomer land and Route 66 Nostalgia. I grew up not far from old route 66 and spent entirely too much time in towns way too similar to that one. The film somehow skips over all the ignorance, racism, prejudice, and xenophobia of those little shit-hole towns. There also wasn't a single chain-smoker with a beehive and blue eye-shadow wearing a mumu to be seen in the whole picture. Though of course we had the requisite hippy and militia freak.
There were other things, maybe even more subtle that bothered me. Like I've heard lots of people drone on about how this movie was at least better than Shark Tale or Shrek because it wasn't trying to use urban ghetto-speak.
Oh no... Not at all. Instead, it uses white-trash ghetto speak. That's SO much better. Or at least it's what America is more comfortable with. Remember. The moral of this film is: Cities bad. Inbreeding good.
Moreover, the american obsession with the auto industry was leaving an unpleasant taste in my moth throughout the film. Cars are so great! Everybody loves cars! Everyone should take a long car trip with frequent stops in middle america!
You know why they built the interstates, fuckheads? For the military! But now wait. Aside from that, the built it because the midwest fucking sucks. No one really wants to spend more time there than they absolutely have to. Do you know how many times I heard the same story about that funny time with Aunt Fae's bunions, or about that time Aunt Vicki cut some Z-list actor's hair? ABOUT A MILLION TIMES TOO MANY. People move to big cities because they can't stand you and while there's other people like you in the city, it's a hell of a lot easier to avoid you.
All in all. Hated it in almost every detail but hey, the money is in white suburbanites, so I'm sure it'll make fantastic amounts of money. That's all that really matters right? People in big cities sucking more money out of these little Hell hole towns?
Hmm. In that light, maybe this movie wasn't half bad afterall. :)
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As for the horrible stories, I'm amazed that you don't play your tapes of things like the baby shower for the freedom of being able to yell SHUT UP! and turn them off, over and over again.
But okay! I can give Cars a miss. Monster House sounds a lot more my groove anyway.
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It's the people and the memories she doesn't like.
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I kinda like benign stereotyping in cartoons as long as it's done to unbelieveable extremes, which is what happened in Cars. Overdoing it enhances the understanding that the film is a cartoon, and not trying to make the viewer identify with it. That's why "urban ghetto-speak" and pop culture slang bothers me in cartoons - they tend to come with built-in sinister cynicism that taints the scene it's in.
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This movie sounds awful, I've heard more than a few people complain... when it comes down to the only thing good about a movie is the animation and nothing else, it's a crappy movie all around.
But go fig that it's insanely popular now. The stuff you do that you like the least is what everyone else thinks is the greatest thing ever.
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And it had alot of homages and making fun of the Nascar people who'll love this anyhow - even though Nascar didn't approve of it.
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I agree with you about the midwest. It's full of small towns populated with people who are dull at best and ultraconservative at worst. And between the small towns? Miles and miles of monotonous farmland. I don't understand people who don't want to drive on the interstate, saying "It's boring!" Pshht, do what I do and listen to music.
The big thing we disagree on is the design of the characters. There's something about Pixar's character design that tickles my brain! I love to just stare at the characters and watch them move. But hey, to each zir own.
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There are two things I really liked in this movie, though: Click and Clack had speaking roles, and I LOVED the way that lo-rider showed up in a new paint job each day.