Not sure about movie influence, but we have three very large cars, by most Euro standards.
I have tried to drive a Honda Accord, rental. It felt ridiculously small. I traded it the next day for a Suburban, only other type of regular sized car they had.
I will not drive some kind of insultingly small thing I have to fold myself into a tortellini just to get into the damn thing.
I do not have to and I will not.