• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    I feel like not many people under the age of 30 will get this. I think I may have even forgotten to force my own kids to watch it.

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      1 month ago

      I’m in my early 20s and I have this super vague memory of a beetle car being sentient. The only scene I remember is it spraying oil cus it didn’t like someone or something like that

      Am I thinking of the right movie

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        1 month ago

        Most likely you are, but there were like 4 original movies, and then Lindsay Lohan did a remake around 2005 that i forgot existed, so you might be thinking of that one.

        Just researched it up. The first Herbie movie (which was a huge hit and awesome) came out in 1968. Then there were like 3 more up to 1980, then a bad made for TV movie in 1997, and the Lohans pretty bad one in 2005.

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      1 month ago

      I’m over 30 and was only vaguely aware of it because it was mentioned once in a youtube video.

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      1 month ago

      The challenger/mustang/camaro pulled this off fairly well for a while. There have been others, like the Thunderbird, but they never sold well.

      These days, if it’s not a crossover it seems like no one will buy it. I am blissfully unaware of interesting looking old SUVs, but surely one is out there. Maybe the bronco qualifies? Too bad it’s suffering from size and price inflation.