Maximum Overdrive

[Alan Smithee]

I checked this movie out at the local library.

It's pretty bad. First off, I have this bias against anything remotely Sheen (although Apocalypse Now was a great movie)- Emilio Estevez inspires the same reaction in me that fingernails over a chalkboard does for others.

The movie was doomed from the beginning. It  has barely enough material to pad out a feature length movie.

Furthermore, the dubious end notes mention a UFO being shot down over Earth.
This comes as an after-thought. It's like the producers were to cheap to actually show this and instead tacked on this 'follow up'.

If anything, this movie sealed Stephen King's fate as a budding movie director.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Yep, this is King's worst flick to date and the only one he ever directed.  Even as bad as it is, I still find myself watching it whenever it comes on cable.  It might be terrible, but atleast it's fun as hell.

[ulthar]

Skaboi wrote:

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> but atleast it's fun as hell.
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It is that.  I cannot recall any specifically right now, but are there not some pretty funny Emilio quotes?

And wasn't this the one shot in Wilmington, NC?  Skaboi, are you in it?  :)

[Georgie Boy]

Terrible movie..

AWESOME SOUNDTRACK

Fiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr_Vindictive]

Yup, sure was shot in Wilmington.  Unfortunatly though, you'll not see a cameo from me in the flick.  :o)

[Yaddo 42]

You do get to see the future Mrs. Trump #2 (Marla Maples) screaming her head off before she's killed by the truck full of produce.

I liked this the first time I saw it, a buddy in high school told me it was great, and I still think it's fun on that "don't think about it" level. Like the coke machine shooting the cans out as projectiles. But I find myself wondering why only certain vehicles came to life (the semis but not the cars) and how the little military vehicle could fire the M-60. I know it's not that kind of movie, but my enjoyment hasn't lasted over the years.

I know that King has said this is why he no longer criticizes film adaptions of his work, although he still removes his name from them sometimes. He said he had his shot to make a film based on his material and he found out how hard it really was.



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[peter johnson]

The Green Goblin head on the front of that truck!!!!
Hey, it's a friggin' masterpiece, wottaya talkin about?
"Look at the trucks circling.  They want us to fill them with gas!" -- Prophetic!
Hell, I'll never miss it if it's on at 1am --
peter johnson/denny crane

[Cullen]

I've always liked this movie.  No real reason, I guess, except I've seen worse out there.

[Zapranoth]

I just remember Steven King on the TV ads:

"I'm gonna scare the HELL outta you!"

[Susan]

i wouldn't say by far this is kings worst flick, it's actually midway - there were way worse king movies made. this one is watchable and it grows on you

[Zapranoth]

It's almost Father's Day, and so I must bring up my favorite bad King movie -- Creepshow!

"It's Father's Day, Bedelia.  I WANT MY CAKE!"

Rrrrrrah!  *crunch!*


And of course there's one of my favorite King-uttered lines in that one:    "Met-eee-or s**t!!!"

[trekgeezer]

There was a cable version of the King story Trucks which Maximum Overdrive is based on. It starred Timothy Busfield and was much more like the short story.

[AndyC]

Creepshow was a great movie. I like horror anthology pictures in general, but that is one of my all-time favourites. Loads of fun. I try to watch it every Halloween.

Maximum Overdrive was actually pretty popular with the people I knew in high school. We were all in our late teens, it was lots of mindless fun and action, and best of all, it had a soundtrack by AC/DC! We rented it a few times.

[Yaddo 42]

I think by the time I saw the movie I had begun to pass from my AC/DC listening phase, If I'd only found the film sooner.

Thanks to classic rock radio over load, even now I can only listen to their songs that I haven't heard thousands of times like "Jail Break". Yet if I were to look through my old tape collection I know that I have at least three taped copies of the album "Black In Black", only two of which I know where they came from.

[Jim H]

""It's Father's Day, Bedelia. I WANT MY CAKE!""

My favorite part is the flashback where he goes "It's father's day.  WHERE'S MY CAKE?  YOU PROMISED ME MY CAAAAA-AAAAKE!!"

Here it is http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies/creepshow/creepshow1.wav