Area 51 did it.

Not sure how a location name became a verb.

You've been Area 51ed.

#Monsterdon

Aw, movie, why do you have to spell out the reason for why it's all happening like that.

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

This is some truly A-grade technobabble

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

Are you *sure* you're smarter than the trucks though

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

Which building are Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward sheltering in?

#Monsterdon

This movie is also very silly, I don't like it as much as Maximum Overdrive but I do still like it.

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

I suppose if you *have* to get a guy killed by a toy truck, that's not such a bad way to go about it

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

@ax6761 @SnoopJ aw I love that song

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

@SnoopJ 🎵Things'll go your way
[Hang] on for one more day

#monsterdon #afterParty

An evil toy truck!!! Yes!!

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

Awww, cute widdle killer truck!

#Monsterdon

No TV, no radio... they're stuck with just basic cable!

#Monsterdon

That was a suspiciously helpful TV.

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

TV conveniently cuts in exactly the right time to hear the official message from the sheriff. Immediately cuts out to static again the moment his message ends.

That's how TVs work. Everyone knows this.

#Monsterdon

JD Vance is the co-driver?

#Monsterdon

and they even know to run perpendicular to the path of the crazy truck

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

I also can't get over how the characters in this one are reacting with appropriate amounts of concern to discovering dead bodies and wanton destruction

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

cackling observed

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

Those cellphones take me back. Wow.

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

@bstacey @Taweret 100%. Dug too deep for oil, dug up demons in the oil, comet activated them. It's magic so why not. But then they can do all this whatever and it's _fine_.

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

@NickGates #Monsterdon transcends time

@forestine yeah seriously

I think this speaks to how much our sense of what constitutes a "good movie" has been warped by #Monsterdon (and I am all for it)

@CactuarJoe

I think the supercomputers run on Texmexium because Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars

#Monsterdon

Folks, I need to know if there's a video out there that puts Maximum Overdrive footage over Plankton from Spongebob yelling about maximum overdrive

#monsterdon

@Taweret unironically think it should've been straight up supernatural, e.g., literally demons

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

This movie actually mentioned aliens in the first 10 minutes

I'm not sure I can deal with this level of coherence right now

#Monsterdon #Trucks1997

@forestine I know, it feels so wrong

#Monsterdon

@paco @ramsey @lytta Or spin its pulleys and strangle somebody with a rope

#Monsterdon

@klu9 Too bad it looks like GUNHED isn't on Tubi or Pluto, it's an experience

#Monsterdon

@NickGates Yep - been there, done that! #Monsterdon

That movie was like “we’re definitely down for a sequel!” And we’re like, no we’re good.

#monsterdon

Am I still participating in #Monsterdon if I’m watching it two hours after everyone else

@SnoopJ @miru It’s based on the same short story written by Stephen King.

#Monsterdon

@klu9 I got there late, so I only saw the last bits. Hey @ryan , are you going to post that video where we can watch it in its entirety?

#monsterdon

In GUNHED, "In the year 2038, the world is ruled by supercomputers powered by a rare and powerful element called Texmexium."

#Monsterdon

@jammerb @pngwen and Commie fake weather satellites with laser weapons in the comet cloud…don’t forget the Commie fake weather satellites with laser weapons in the comet cloud. 🙄 #Monsterdon

anyway good job team and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

@ramsey Maybe that mean they have Airbourne instead of AC/DC :)

#Monsterdon

@srol I had a Bart Simpson “Eat My Shorts” t-shirt in the early 90s. Many adults thought it was a very rude t-shirt to wear. It wasn’t allowed at school.

#Monsterdon

"Trucks" with Brenda Bakke from GUNHED https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunhed_(film)

#Monsterdon

@srol I always wondered where that phrase came from.

#Monsterdon

@ryan @klu9
So cool!
https://archive.org/details/mo-hsa-t-death-of-rt-edition-v-1
#monsterdon

My review on #letterboxd where I specify the circumstances one might enjoy this kind of film. I am not really able to claim membership in that class. Two and a half stars https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/maximum-overdrive/ #monsterdon

TRUCKS: A Thriller Without Brakes

so #Monsterdon

(now on https://miru.miyaku.media/)

Gonna need to slowly wean myself off this movie by blasting synthwave.
#Monsterdon

I should have jumped on sooner. I won't hesitate in the future.That was a lot of fun!
#monsterdon

That was a fun one! I don't think I've ever seen this from start to finish in one sitting, though I am sure I have seen it all in bits and pieces on some Turner network.

Have a great week, and I look forward to the next one! Thank you @Taweret for setting this up once again.

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

This movie answers the question “wouldn’t Duel have been improved if we put a big face on the truck” (The answer was no.)

#monsterdon

That was one fine, long succession of mayhem, crashes, and explosions. #maximumoverdrive made no more sense than a dumb movie that's rolling tons of fun needs to. Thanks #Monsterdon !

@ryan THIS IS INCREDIBLE #monsterdon #maximumoverdrive1986

"WE MADE YOU!!!!" but the trippy version

#monsterdon #maximumovervibe

@klu9 Wow. This is a very trippy and very cool video!
#monsterdon

that was enough AC/DC for like a decade though #monsterdon

I mean, kinda same, except it would be nice if we got to SEE the space laser instead of getting the AP newsflash about it #Monsterdon
https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/114888917223729731

Ok, this may have been a crazy coke induced plotless nightmare but it does have a bangin' soundtrack!

#Monsterdon

@moira @apLundell

You'd have more luck looking for leftover coke

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Did anyone get Bingo? What was the New England reference or accent?

@georgieboy

It would make good #monsterdon fare in its odd badness, though there are a couple of nastily triggering scenes in it…. On the other hand, it's got lots of cats in.

@forestine @jonny @ryan wheezing over this, this is art #Monsterdon

@ryan Oh my god, this is incredible. 🤯 #Monsterdon

Wait a minute, Marla Maples was in this? Who was "2nd woman?" #monsterdon

@pngwen Don't forget screws and ramps

#monsterdon
#MaximumOverdrive

Ah shoot, we're out of film stock and we need to put in the big finish.

Oh, I know, text overlays!

#Monsterdon

@pngwen There was at least that one valve control wheel on the gas tanker truck

#Monsterdon

I don't know what you're on @ryan but this post #Monsterdon music video montage is something else!

@lytta @diazona I mean, supposedly they were, but whether it had a motor or not, I couldn’t say.

#Monsterdon

So apparently in 1998 they made a movie called TRUCKS that was also based on Stephen King's short story Trucks???

I only know this because it immediately began autoplaying on Tubi after Maximum Overdrive.

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

So how advanced does the machine have to be? Like are wheels, pulleys, and levers sentient now?

#Monsterdon

@Terencio @klu9 I'm watching it and I'm not even sure

Fits very well with the theme of the movie

#Monsterdon

I wasn't wearing them when we started but somehow I've got sweatbands on every limb now.

Great movie!
#Monsterdon

@Terencio Right now a crazy music video with clips from the film

Later, I think a different movie based on the same story

#Monsterdon

hey y'all.... https://miru.miyaku.media/ is killin it with the after-show.... #monsterdon

@tuckerm you're right... we did see a couple simple machines act on their own

#monsterdon

And they all got on a malevolent motorboat and that was the end of their dream of escape #monsterdon

@srol exactly. i thought this was pretty fun. coulda been shorter, but otherwise

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

@lytta Could they, though? Define "machine." This gets deep into the lore of Maximum Overdrive.

#Monsterdon

off into the sea really is

#monsterdon

all they needed was credits for "King's hookup"

@diazona @lytta Early in the movie, Emilio’s character sets it up by saying he knows how to sail and that he knows of an island where they don’t allow any mechanical equipment.

#Monsterdon

@diazona @ramsey oh... i was looking specifically and i didn't see a sail and all the boats had the look of motor boats, which is why i thought it was a motor boat

#monsterdon

@cocaine_owlbear can I just say "cocaine_owlbear" seems like the perfect username for this movie

#Monsterdon

@jonny This means someone saw the first one, and was like, "Well the concept is solid, that was just an execution error."

#Monsterdon

That ammo dump in the basement is gonna blow for days.

#Monsterdon

Trauma check-in: How y'all doin? #monsterdon I'm just as numb as I was before.

Okay finally we get the Green Goblin as a slasher killer.
. . .
And he's instantly shot dead. WTF!?
#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

@rallias that's how you know it's been a good #Monsterdon

@ramsey @lytta Ah I was thinking more of the alien invasion thing when I replied

I missed them saying it was a sailboat, but it does make sense in context

#Monsterdon

Fuck me, it was!

https://youtu.be/EfivdLP0pgM?si=xNbk40QeIDkSq_UA

#Monsterdon

Now time for the #Monsterdon afterparty on https://miru.miyaku.media/

this was actually just an mtv collaboration stunt for acdc's 1985 Fly on the Wall, you cant stop buying this on cassette can you

#Monsterdon

Wow, what a shitty ending! Thanks Mr. King!

#Monsterdon

@SnoopJ @diazona there are cars without motors?????

also we saw a purely mechanical wheel turn on its own and tires detach themselves from cars

#monsterdon

Now this is just fan service for all the truckers in the audience!

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Movie tagline: Have a gay old time on Boat Homo!
#Monsterdon

@wulfric oh, there was a plot? Do tell 😊
#Monsterdon

@lytta ...my brain doesn't work well enough to address this

#Monsterdon

well that wasn't very good, now, was it? xD

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

No Stephen. No. #monsterdon

I'm not a fan of pyrotechnics as justification for a film #monsterdon

@apLundell Paddles? That's the best I've got...

#Monsterdon

Giancarlo Esposito as the video game player! #Monsterdon