#listen godzilla vs kong was outrageous enough

[joezworld]

Has there been any media specifically catered to sentient vehicles in your universe?

Yes

In the early days of films, many silent movies featured locomotives as leading and supporting actors - Buster Keaton’s film The General launched several engines into stardom, and Charlie Chaplin once considered going into the railroad business after he filmed three films back-to-back-to-back on the same California short line.  

The isolated nature of mountain railroading has often been used as a backdrop for both thriller and horror movies, and many locomotives have found modest or large stardom as a result. 

While most movies featuring sentient vehicles are intended for mass markets, the rise of affordable film equipment in the 1970′s and onwards led to the rise of independent films made by trains, ships, and airplanes for trains, ships, and airplanes. While these films could be considered to be part of [insert minority here]-ploitation genre that was common at that time, many of these films were actually very well done, including the 1979 Oscar-nominated war film Trijet Sunrise. 

Most war movies have also been aimed at the sentient vehicle demographic, with the 1991 film Fleet of the Sun featuring over two dozen US Navy warships as they reenacted part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 

While aimed at humans, the 1986 Ridley Scott film Top Gun has been enormously popular within the fleet and aircraft of the United States Navy, to the point where the song Danger Zone has become the unofficial anthem of Navy aviation.

While it has never been released to the public, Miles Up was a film collaboratively made by NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet between 1991 and 1999, and is currently the only non-documentary film to be made entirely off-world. 

The most recent film to feature sentient vehicles in a major starring role is the 2021 film Godzilla vs. Kong vs. Battleships, which follows a group of US Navy vessels as they seek revenge for their colleagues killed by Godzilla during the events of the previous two Godzilla movies. Originally meant to feature only USS Missouri, the film was heavily rewritten after every surviving World War 2 battleship (from both sides) agreed to participate. The film features a massive climactic fight in the center of the earth between numerous anti-gravity equipped Battleships, King Kong, Godzilla, and Mechagodzilla. Despite its ludicrous plot and outrageous scope, the film is being hailed as one of the best (CGI) fight scenes in recent years.