Maximum Overdrive

[El Misfit]

okay, this movie is AWESOME! it is also very weird in a way, as in why did the comet's coma made the machines go haywire? But i'm surprised that it isn't as good as some other movies based on books, as in Fight Club and The Shawshank Redemption. what do you guys think?

[claws]

I think Maximum Overdrive is so-bad-so-good material. A guilty pleasure for sure with a great, kick-ass AC/DC soundtrack.
I saw this on the big screen and the audience were howling, laughing and doing a running commentary throughout the movie.
Not because it was a so good-good movie

[retrorussell]

I saw this at the drive-in.  Pretty bad IMO.. but at least it had the AC/DC soundtrack, and seeing a kid get killed at the beginning was pretty cool!

[joejoeherron]

I always enjoy this movie. It has action. It has AC/DC music. It has stuff blowing up.

I just wish I had an old army M274 "mule" with a machine gun on it.

[Jack]

I really enjoyed it.  Any movie that starts with an ATM telling a guy to f*** off has got to be good!  I thought they mixed the humor and "horror" aspects pretty well. 

[Trevor]

I really enjoyed it.  Any movie that starts with an ATM telling a guy to f*** off has got to be good!  

If memory serves, that was Stephen King getting told where to go by the ATM. 

[jimmybob]

Love this movie! The scene of the baseball team getting flattened by the steamroller is burned in my mind forever since I saw it when I was young.

And I don't think it came from of a book of his, I think King wrote an original screenplay for it, directed too.

-Jimmybob

[Jack]

I really enjoyed it.  Any movie that starts with an ATM telling a guy to f*** off has got to be good!  

If memory serves, that was Stephen King getting told where to go by the ATM. 

I had no idea that was Mr. King himself - great cameo 

[joejoeherron]

originally it was a short story in King's book "Night Shift"

Legend has it that there was a much,much, more gory scene of the kid getting run over by the steamroller. King showed this scene to George Romero,and it made Romero sick.

[WyreWizard]

Yes, I had seen MO.  There are a lot of reality flaws in that film, but I won't go into those now.  All the machines in that film didn't go haywire.  Thinking back on MO reminds me of Terminator 3:  Rise of the Machines.  Anyways, all those machines and vehicles weren't going haywire, they were acting like they were under intelligent control and were slaughtering humans.  You had cars running people down, steam rollers crushing little leaguers, soda vending machines shooting out cans of soda like bullets (which they cannot do). planes dive bombing people and gas pumps firing diesel fuel into people's eyes.  But at the end of the movie, it mentions a UFO was shot down by a Russian weather satellite with a laser and a class 4 nuclear missile.  So that UFO was the cause of this hysteria.  But one thing bothers me, why would a weather satellite be armed with a nuclear missile?

[El Misfit]

So that UFO was the cause of this hysteria. 

that's 1/2 right, at the beginning it tells us that a comet passed, at the end though, a ufo was shot down. Really, which is right? i'm going with the comet's coma because there is a better chance that maybe the tail had a higher radioactivity in it that a regular tail.

[WyreWizard]

That is very unrealistic.  A comet's tail wouldn't cause machines on Earth  to kill humans.  Like I said before, those machines weren't going haywire.  They were under intelligent control.  Radiation wouldn't cause machines to do that.  The radiation would kill all the people saving those machines the extra work.

I kinda laughed at the one scene where the waitress was yelling at the machines "We made you" then she was riddled to death.

[AndyC]

But one thing bothers me, why would a weather satellite be armed with a nuclear missile?

It was a Russian "weather satellite" (wink wink, nudge nudge).

I love this movie. It's funny, campy, loaded with action, and it has that great AC/DC soundtrack. I remember watching it with a bunch of guys when it first came out on video. We had a blast. I've never understood the hostility some people have toward it.

I can just imagine what that cut steamroller scene would look like. A roller going over a human body from feet to head in real life would be like the goriest tube of toothpaste you ever saw. They'd never have gotten that past the MPAA with anything less than an X.

[Trevor]

They'd never have gotten that past the MPAA with anything less than an X.

I wonder how Kevin Kline's encounter with a steamroller in A Fish Called Wanda scraped past the censors, then? 

[The Burgomaster]

I saw this movie in the theater (I think I even went the first day it was released).  After about 20 minutes I acknowledged the fact that it was a bad movie and was not going to get any better, so I switched my mind set from "I hope this turns out to be a good movie" to "well, at least it's good for a few laughs."  I think I saw it once or twice on videotape after that, but I probably haven't seen it in at least 10 years.