just realized something…
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strntz — 11 years ago(August 17, 2014 08:37 AM)
Just realized something, why didnt christine just fix herself BEFORE arnie even saw the damage???
To evoke sympathy from Arnie? To show what his "friends" had done to her, so that he'd hate them as well? To justify to Arnie what she was planning to do to the hooligans?
Or, perhaps, Christine's ability to renovate herself was directly tied to the emotional bond that she had to her owner. Perhaps the more that Arnie loved Christine, the more ability she had. She looked pretty sad when she was abandoned and for sale..
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ascappello — 10 years ago(February 24, 2016 10:19 AM)
Just realized something, why didnt christine just fix herself BEFORE arnie even saw the damage???
To show what his "friends" had done to her
Agreed, cause if she fixed herself, he would have never known.
so that he'd hate them as well?
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CichlidAsh — 10 years ago(March 22, 2016 05:50 AM)
Christine does not always need Arnie too be present in order too heal, she heals herself after she kills Moochie, which if I remember right is before she ever demonstrates the healing factor. Christine is an emotional vampire and evil though and probably wanted sympathy from Arnie although I do think that even Christine would have had trouble wiping the crap off her dashboard.
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ascappello — 9 years ago(May 04, 2016 10:41 AM)
Christine does not always need Arnie too be present in order too heal, she heals herself after she kills Moochie, which if I remember right is before she ever demonstrates the healing factor.
Moochie was killed AFTER they trashed ChristineChristine "healed" in front of Arnie before that. -
crysjumar — 11 years ago(August 29, 2014 11:04 AM)
I've seen the movie, read the book, now im watching it again. Just realized something, why didnt christine just fix herself BEFORE arnie even saw the damage??? I know there would be no point for the story to go on after this, it just seemed funny to me. Love both versions by the way.
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mav100000 — 11 years ago(September 04, 2014 12:48 PM)
For the movie, that is a good question, and the answers tied to emotional responses from Arnie are what I would probably side with. However, in the book, if I remember correctly, Arnie actually had to drive the car backwards (rewinding time or something) for the repairs to work.
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moosefeathers — 10 years ago(April 23, 2015 12:10 PM)
Furthermore, why didn't she fix herself before he ever saw her? I mean when she was in Lebay's yard.
So that Arnie could relate to "her" decrepit condition and his own crisis.
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CichlidAsh — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 08:44 AM)
The film is a bit different from the book but in the book she must move in order too repair, this why she is finally overwhelmed in the book when she became too damaged too keep moving and thus repair herself.
In the book she was like a very manipulative woman she wanted Arnie too feel sorry for her. Although it might have been funny if she did repair before he got there and Arnie just found a random crap on his dashboard lol
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Green-Eyed-Girl31 — 10 years ago(April 04, 2015 05:13 PM)
Christine needed Arnie's faith and utter devotion to her to enable her to reconstruct herself. She had effectively "died" when the previous owner killed himself in her, hence her becoming decrepit but was renewed when Arnie came along and came under her power.
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SpaceMountainMike — 10 years ago(January 22, 2016 02:29 PM)
Which made me realize something
Arnie died before they made Christine into a cube
so how was she able to regenerate herself?
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