Maximum Overdrive

[Hammock Rider]

"We made you!"  I've yelled that at various appliances and contraptions over the years. Did no good. I should have just used a steam roller.

[Chainsawmidget]

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.

If there's something that movies have taught me, it's that radioactivity will make ANYTHING want to kill humans. 

And how do you know machines weren't just waiting for an excuse to kill people.  I already don't trust my alarm clock. 

[AndyC]

That is very unrealistic.  A comet's tail wouldn't cause machines on Earth to kill humans.

No kidding. I don`t know how I missed it before, but that is hilarious. Has to be one of the goofiest serious statements to appear on this forum. It`s like lecturing on the inaccurate portrayal of pixie dust in a movie.
 

I have one. A hat wouldn`t really make a snowman come to life. It would just sit on his head. I would much rather have an accurate snowman in my story, thank you very much. You would have to think people are pretty stupid not to give them a snowman that stands in one spot until it melts.


Sorry. Had to get that out. Back to King.

[FatFreddysCat]

I just watched this last night, it was on the Independent Film Channel (of all places!) a few nights ago so I recorded it. Hadn't seen it since it first came out on VHS back in the day and remembered very little of it except for a vague feeling that it wasn't very good. Those memories were accurate. This movie was a thunderous half-baked frickin' mess, but it was SO much fun!!

I remember when it came out in theatres, Stephen King did the talk show/morning radio circuit to promote the film and even then he was calling it a "moron movie." That should've been the first clue that this was gonna be a train wreck. But what a glorious train wreck it is! Plot holes, awkward dialogue, and "WTF" moments abound, but that's balanced out by the fact that a whole lotta stuff blows up real good and the soundtrack is by AC/DC.

King has gone on to admit that he was "coked out of his mind" during the production of M.O. and therefore he had no business trying to direct a movie. Legend has it that he basically let the assistant director do most of the work while he went "*SNORT* Yeah, yeah, that looks fine, whatever, man, it's great *SNORT*"

[JayJayM12]

"We made you!"  I've yelled that at various appliances and contraptions over the years. Did no good. I should have just used a steam roller.

Ha!  I actually do that all the time too!  Whenever an electronic device or machine of mine doesn't work right, I always yell out "we made you.  We MADE YOU!", doing my best impression of the waitress.  My wife used to think I was totally nuts till I made her watch the movie with me.  Now, she's even done it a few times...

[voltron]

The one scene that stuck to me when I first saw this as a kid was the part where the soda machine goes nuts. Cool! Also, I didn't know King was a cokehead! I know in Danse Macabre he reflects on watching Robot Monster while baked on weed, but I digress....