They killed off Doc Hudson in Cars II...

JasonNC

without ever saying how he "died". My daughter, who hates my old cars for taking me away from her doing her formative years, gloated, "He's dead, Dad. Just like your Hudson should be." Good movie, though.

Unknown

I agree, good movie, but I too was thoroughly disappointed how they just glossed over the fact he was gone without addressing how.

I'm hoping for a Cars III Prequel, "Rise of Doc Hudson"!

I can dream ;-)

hudsontech

JasonNC wrote:

without ever saying how he "died". My daughter, who hates my old cars for taking me away from her doing her formative years, gloated, "He's dead, Dad. Just like your Hudson should be." Good movie, though.

Get her involved with working on your Hudson.


Hudsonly
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN

Aaron D. IL

That's just wrong. Sounds like some resentment there ?

Also Doc Hudson being out of Cars is the reason I'm not going to bother to see this movie. Not just because of the absence of him but also because they took what was a uniquely American narrative story about values and turned it into a stupid Spy-comedy movie rip-off and that's just too bad because up until now Pixar has hardly done any movies I didn't like.

GrimGreaser

The story wasn't anything special I'll grant you. But the visuals, the setpeices, the little details and how they fleshed out a world full of living cars made up for that for me.

StillOutThere

There is a tribute or memorial of sorts to Doc Hudson that probably uses about a minute of the film. I thought that was very nice and with Paul Newman being deceased, I don't know what more they could have done unless it would be to use "flashbacks" and people aren't paying for that.

But as to the film I thought it WAYYYYYYYY over the top crammed with action, a zillion personified cars, more dialogue than I could keep up with, more intricate detail than I could begin to absorb. And the plot was poor too. We wasted our money seeing it IMHO.

RL Chilton

Well, that means I'm certainly going to wait for it on Netflix.

Sarah Young

StillOutThere wrote:

There is a tribute or memorial of sorts to Doc Hudson that probably uses about a minute of the film. I thought that was very nice and with Paul Newman being deceased, I don't know what more they could have done unless it would be to use "flashbacks" and people aren't paying for that.

Although the new Cars is definitely an animated James Bond movie and the pace is a 180 from the original... it's true to the times and how history has gone down. If Paul Newman was alive, I still don't think Doc would have had a large roll and that it was respectful for them to discontinue his character. I just told my kids Doc was old and he'd already passed on his knowledge to the younger generation and it was time for him to go to heaven just like the guy who did his voice. True to reality, orphan cars are fading away into the depths of small town museums. Gone are the dirt track days and American built hot rods, we're left with sponsored raceways and foreign tuners. Disney got greedy and tried to make bank a second time around. I have a friend who won't allow her kids to see this until she's watched it and decides whether or not it's appropriate because of the family website reviews on how it promotes the consumption of alcohol and the level of violence in the film (particularly the car torture scene). OH, I did like that they made the Pacers, Gremlins, and Yugos outcasts but can't believe that they had great numbers of them in those particular countries when they actually had VW Golfs, Renault Le Car, Peugot, Opels, Fiats, Trebent, etc - but it was an American movie, right?

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I think you should wash her mouth out with soap

JasonNC

Harry Hill wrote:

I think you should wash her mouth out with soap

I've thought about it a few times, but she's old enough now to figure out how to really kill my Hudson and/or the Kaiser.

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I got my 15 year old daughter working on my Hudsons with me. I am also teaching her to drive in a 51 Hornet which as you know is the ideal car to do this. On my cars I gave her the 51 she cleans it keeps the interior looking like new. She changes the oil stuff like that. She would kick you in the head if you said girls shouldn't be working on Hudsons. Only way to pass it on. A. Let them drive them (supervised) B. let em maintain them.

I can tell her what parts we need and she will be digging around swap meets and getting her hands dirty. I got her hooked young and thankfully its never left.

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51hornetA wrote:

I got my 15 year old daughter working on my Hudsons with me. I am also teaching her to drive in a 51 Hornet which as you know is the ideal car to do this. On my cars I gave her the 51 she cleans it keeps the interior looking like new. She changes the oil stuff like that. She would kick you in the head if you said girls shouldn't be working on Hudsons. Only way to pass it on. A. Let them drive them (supervised) B. let em maintain them.

I can tell her what parts we need and she will be digging around swap meets and getting her hands dirty. I got her hooked young and thankfully its never left.

My son is 15 1/2. I picked him up yesterday from summer school in my 51 Hornet. A car full of girls came by as he was walking to the car and said to him "Hey Niels (Jr.)is that your ride?" He said Yes. They said "Sweet!" He was diggin it.

[Deleted User]

Women love Hudsons its a scientific fact. :woohoo: