Yeah, that’s more or less it for me lizardgirl. Cars has some great things about it, but what’s ultimately important for me when getting into the film is that I’m able to suspend my disbelief so I can fully emerse myself in it. It’s not really about being relaistic. I don’t believe in magic in real life, but I can suspend that disbelief usually for the sake of a story, but Cars is unusual as in that it is very difficult for me to make that leap. And no, it’s not because it’s ‘popular’ to hate cars. And I don’t even really HATE it, it’s simply difficult for me to emmerse myself, which is a shame, because the story at its heart and the main character arc is good and filled with good ideas.
It’s just the setting which really throws me at times. But perhaps, just perhaps there are ways it can work it seems from just a little of the conversation here.
All worlds really require rules to make them work, or as lizardgirl points out, anything goes and the ability to throw a person out of the movie or to prevent them from emersing themselves fully in it in my case is a real issue. Or at least it does for some, and I’m one of those people. Having a world that you can believe in is an interesting thing for me, because I love world exploration,and most of the fandoms I’m in do love the idea and doing that as well, because once I care about the characters, I tend to care about the world they live in- how it affects them, how it works etc.
I’ve also heard people say it’s because the world isn’t ours or even connected to ours in some way in Monsters Incs case. But honestly you could say the same about the Incredibles. We don’t have super heroes after all! But then again, they’re humans. So a part of me is skeptical about that idea of why Cars is unpopular. So a part of it wonders if it’s because like me, they have had trouble emersing themselves and believing in that world. Which can mean that you can be less likely to be able to completely enjoy the story.
Of course there is always a level of disbelief, but there are certain limits to it as well. For instance, for someone they may have NO trouble with the fact dogs could stage complicated aerial attacks in Up and it didn’t throw them out of the movie. I however did and it did throw me out of the story if you will, and preventing me for that time to ‘believe’ in the story as it were. I could handle the things established before- they were simply dogs who were able to talk, but they had the same mentality (going after squirrels, easily distracted, playful and very dog/pack like behaviour… except they talk), and sure I could buy someone training dogs to be able to carry trays etc. But not complicated aerial attacks. Just… no. It seems like mentally they are STILL dogs, they simply are able to talk with collars. Plus, it raises questions as to why they weren’t used in helping the bird hunt, like some dogs on the ground and some in the air and perhaps some way they could communicate…
But Cars had trouble making me believe in it at all, which is a shame.
Because Cars like I said has a great main character arc IMO at it’s core, it’s just a shame I seem to have a bit more trouble believing that world could exist.
But hey maybe it CAN be made believeable to me, and perhaps the sequel might even help in that area. Who knows? The tractors might still remain a bother, but perhaps they could become the mere blip on the record of this world’s believability when the sequel rolls around and we possibly see more about it.
(I mean I’m going to watch it after all. Probably with said cousin’s son).
No but really, it’s weird. You can look if you want but yeah…it’s just human insides in a car. Interesting sort of…but…just…no…lol even I’m on a no with this one. xD
I’m actually excited. 
I’m ashamed to admit, that doubled my excitement.![http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee351/7xJessie7x/Public/insidelightning.jpg[/spoil]](http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee351/7xJessie7x/Public/insidelightning.jpg%5B/spoil%5D){kind=link}