These are the worst car castings you’ve seen in movies and TV

Making cars is hard. we know this. But did you know that making movies and TV shows is also hard? Yep, who knew! One of the most difficult parts of making a film is set design. The whole purpose of media is to take the audience into a different, but still believable, world. Cars have been a big part of any piece of art over the last 100 years, but some directors only see jump cuts and close-ups, and treat the cars like an afterthought.

That’s why I asked you earlier this week what bad car casting takes you out of that moment. From forced product placement to cars that don’t fit the character, you guys have come up with a tidy list of cinema car sins for your fellow jalops. The once humble, now highly desirable Classic Bronco appears twice on this list. We get it, they’re nice, but come on. Understand its meaning!

Every Adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

The story is based on 1922. The cars that the main characters drive are almost always from much later times, as they are more stylish and attractive for the screen, but are completely historically inaccurate.

from DiRF

It bothers me (for many reasons) that the down on her luck main character in Bridesmaids drives a rust-free AE86 (or 85) in Wisconsin.

From Jake Wetherill

In the mare of Easttown, a teenage kid in a working-class Philly suburb had exactly the same Bronco in the early ’70s. Easily a six-figure car.

From David Spiess

Not a car, but in Terminator 2 it always drove me crazy how John’s dirt bike, which was apparently an XR100 4 stroke, looked like a 2 stroke…would it really have been that hard to find a YZ80 for him

from bmied

Not any specific show/movie, but any time a random all-black government suburban the main characters live in on a motorcycle or in a legitimately fast car. I’m sorry, but speed is a thing, and there’s no way the Suburban can brake/turn/accelerate as fast as the car/bike the heroes are riding in.

And

Also, don’t forget, for the driving/chase sequences, it’s usually a new, or fairly recent model year Suburban, but if one crashes and/or explodes, suddenly it becomes a Suburban from ten to fifteen model years earlier.

…or if it’s an Escalade, it’ll become a Tahoe or Yukon with a Cadillac badge if it’s suddenly destroyed.

From SnakeJG and DIRF

Not exactly the worst, but probably the freshest. Apple’s recent Cape Fear remake stars Amy Adams as a lawyer who is married to another successful lawyer. They live in a big fancy house and are members of high society and she drives a late model Hyundai Sportage. I was surprised how much it bothered me.

And

Whenever I see a Hyundai Sportage I get worried.

From Matthew and the Randomizer

The Matrix Reloaded was just a GM infomercial and at times a distraction. Completely unnecessary.

And

The explanation I saw (“GM gave us free cars”) was that the Matrix was spending extra computational resources to handle the freeway chases and the compromise to keep things smooth was to fill in less specific vehicles, so you get a bunch of light-colored GMs.

And

The parking garage they pull out of right before they get into the Cadillac™ CTS™ was like a weird Cadillac museum… very disturbing.

potbellyjo, sensi, dirf

Bruce Wayne was driving the Jeep Renegade in Batman v Superman.

From William Goetz

In the film Ambulance, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s character is out of work and looking for money to pay for his child’s illness/surgery. He tells his wife that he will figure something out. He then drives off in a fully restored first generation Ford Bronco.

from our blank

Surprised no one said it yet, but the new Hyundai Santa Fe he started driving in seasons 2 and 3 of The Walking Dead. Not only did it not really mean anything but it was clearly a plant

From Gerrit DeBoer