AND WE HAVE A TITLE DROP #Monsterdon

y'all should have disabled all the evil trucks while you had the chance, now you have a whole evil truck gang on your hands and they're not pretending to not be evil anymore. tsk tsk this movie is really a puritan morality play about how if you don't do your chores then all your motorized possessions will rise up against you #monsterdon

You work at a Truck Stop in NC long enough, you learn how to deal with dead bodies...

#Monsterdon

Evil truck smashes corrupt bible salesman's briefcase.

Me too, evil truck. Me too.

#Monsterdon

Kid on bike sequence. I LOVE this. Such cheese.

#Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🚚 TRIVIA OVERDRIVE 🚚💥

Connie sound familiar? It's Yeardley Smith, voice of Lisa Simpson. She knew she was going to be voicing on The Simpsons during this movie's filming.

She heard "Eat my shorts." earlier in the film.

#MaximumOverdrive

Hey, it's Lisa Simpson! In a horror movie!

#Monsterdon

no way it's actually by stephen king. surely writing novels and directing a movie are transferable skills #monsterdon

I like the part where the trucks drove in a circle for hours and the humans just watched ‘em

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon AND THEY FUCKED OFF INTO THE SEA

thanks everybody for a fine monsterdon <3

Y-you know that signs don't actually talk, right? Like someone talks through the interc-

Ok, we're doing this then.

#Monsterdon

HAHA YES knocking down the gas station roof

love these stunts

#Monsterdon

[AC/DC resumes]

[heavy snorting just off-camera]

#Monsterdon

Connie is incredible, great performance from Yeardly Smith

#Monsterdon

1-how would the truck know how full the tank is?
2-How would it know what with?
#monsterdon

Never show civility to the oppressor, swear at every one of them.

#Monsterdon

why have we given up on the entire rest of the machine universe and this movie is now just trucks vs humans. what a waste #monsterdon

WE MADE YOU

#Monsterdon

According to the captions, a machine gun just growled. #Monsterdon

Pat Hingle, the guy who rocket-launchered two trucks by himself, getting mad that someone else rocket-launchered another truck is some 100% USDA-grade-A management shit.

#Monsterdon

Is this deeply traumatized baseball team kid just in the film to be the one human with which we can unreservedly sympathize? I'm still pretty hazy on his narrative purpose.

#monsterdon

I don't have enough Miller Genuine Draft to process this much AC/DC

#monsterdon

Ride of the Valkyrie #monsterdon #BattleBeyondTheStars

Bingo
#Monsterdon #maximumoverdrive

@moira #monsterdon

How could she not say "You shook me all night long"??!!??

He does get better at writing women by 2020. It is a thing that can be learned. Holly is great.

#Monsterdon

"before the world went into maximum overdrive"

#TheySaidTheThing #Monsterdon

Semi-truck terrorism.

#Monsterdon

OK, in the mythology of this movie it's clear that diesel is the most menacing form of fuel, with petrol coming in a distant second.

So: are two-stroke engines more terrifying than four-stroke? Where would a Wankel cycle fit in? Are aircraft engines scary? Do diesel locomotives get a chance to inflict agony or are they avoided by the murderous spirit because they cannot menace in anything but a predefined path?

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon he is not a smart man. Uh, was. Was not a smart man.

why are semi trucks the leaders of the machine cult, maybe they are just the most mobile and they are going to gather up all the cash registers which are the brains of the operation #monsterdon

This honestly feels like a really long music video. In a good way!

#Monsterdon

Wondering if poor Lisa and Curtis are going to die before they consummate their marriage #monsterdon

the newlyweds car is protected by the power of love and the indignance of yeardly smith's voice #monsterdon

Guys, I feel like if you want to destroy all humans, just plow right into the truck stop, I’m pretty sure that will do it. #Monsterdon

*all the malevolent diesel trucks in the parking lot of the truck stop jolt to some kind of terrifying un-life, horns blaring as if to announce their murderous intent*

Hmmmm sounds like Ottawa during the trucker convoy

only better organized maybe

#monsterdon

HELL YEA THIS DOOM RIFF

This soundtrack fucks

#Monsterdon

The bride is Yeardley Smith, the voice actor for Lisa Simpson

#monsterdon

Damn Decepticons!

#monsterdon

Yeardley Smith shows up just after “Eat my shorts.” #Monsterdon

THAT WOMAN TALKS LIKE LISA SIMPSON!!!!!

It's unsettling to see her human form

#Monsterdon

So… is it ALL machines? Or just electric machines?

Are we gonna see haunted pulleys??? Evil levers? Demonic inclined planes?

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon i absolutely *adore* the scene with the vending machine spitting soda cans

None of the physics in this bridge disaster scene make sense..? People are falling in the wrong direction, vehicles lack traction when they should have it and have it when they should lack it, waterlemons seem to be caroming off windshields and sunroofs as if rocket propelled..?

Loving that AC/DC soundtrack though, that part is great.

#monsterdon

Horrific melon gore #Monsterdon

#monsterdon

@apLundell it's a fool who looks for logic in the plot twists of maximum overdrive

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Gonna buy an 8 ball and rewatch.

#Monsterdon

And then the Russian "weather satellite" went back to its home planet.

Note: The Russian "weather satellite" died on the way back to its home planet. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon .....

What can I say. I'm disappointed in you. But you did shake me all night long, so I'll let it slide.

Thanks so much @Taweret and the Monsterdon crew, this was an absolute blast as always. 🧡🚛🚚🚛🚚🚛🚚

Really, the whole movie was just an excuse for Stephen King to blow up a gas station.

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

"You Shook Me All Night Long" repurposed to be about, presumably, a killer truck, is something else.

#Monsterdon

OK, look, no plot but all action. I enjoyed myself.

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @JoeWynne for the trivia, @ryan for the stream and @Cherizilla for the bingo!

See ya'll next week I hope! And avoid those electric knives, they just wreck your turkeys anyway.

#monsterdon

...Was your dad killed by a hamburger speaker? #Monsterdon

...JESUS is coming? Or, like, Truck Jesus? #Monsterdon

Should a tanker full of liquid oxygen be so adventurous?

#Monsterdon

Bunch of trucks blasting horns to bully people seemed implausible until Ottawa 2022 I guess

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So... Uhm, I've been wondering something.

Why hasn't anyone at any point just... You know. Tried getting in or something. You know, grab the wheel. Turn the key. Put it in the wrong gear so it stalls. Whatever. Do something.

#Monsterdon

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

#Monsterdon

It's pretty cool to have a stunt that is just a bunch of trucks driving on the highway, though

They really let the car department do their thing with this one.

#Monsterdon

Wanda's death is how most White Southern Americans expect to go, isn't it? Explosively, with rock music playing...

#Monsterdon

How nice that the sentient trucks speak English

#Monsterdon

miller truck exploded

and nothing of value was lost

#Monsterdon

Is that a... Rail hand cart with a machine gun on it? #Monsterdon

*a bulldozer and a four-wheeled gun platform vehicle of some kind roll up on the truck stop at sunrise*

OK how much more runtime is there in this movie again, I'm more or less getting the gist of where it's heading at this point

#monsterdon

"Is my dad okay?"

😬 😬 😬 #Monsterdon

What is with this Curtis guy and piss?

#Monsterdon

"Help me or I'll kill you!"

And he calls himself a salesman...

#Monsterdon

"You can't get there from here"

Billy's got a good head on his shoulders. I can't help but love that good-hearted rogue, and Estevez is a hell of a pick for casting that

#Monsterdon

My spoon is too big! My spoon is too big!

I AM A BANANA!

Yeah, the lines in this movie make about as much sense.

#monsterdon

For Stephen King, there sure are some remarkably healthy romantic relationships in this one

#Monsterdon

I like how the truck obeyed the sign and stopped before running through the Truck Stop

#Monsterdon

"I'll tell you one thing, you sure make love like a hero."

!?

!!?!?!?

Actually, you know what? Sure, whatever, why not. Have fun, you crazy kids. Stay safe.

#monsterdon

"You sure make love like a hero"

yea, that's the cocaine talking again

#Monsterdon

[farts continue]

#Monsterdon

Flight of the Valkyries, huh?

That's the cocaine talking, for sure.

#Monsterdon

fade-in and fade-out is implying ride of the valkyries is diegetic, played by speakers in the airplane. so evil force CAN manipulate the radio waves, and thus all the radio information is not to be trusted #monsterdon

"I love the smell of sheer fucking incomprehensibility in the morning!"

#Monsterdon

So my memory of a car with a murderous will of its own definitely was from Maximum Overdrive. #Monsterdon

The wage-stealing truckstop owner happening to have a rocket launcher just lying around is the least implausible part of this film so far.

#monsterdon

You can tell that this is the 80s instead of the 50s because they're using an M-72 law instead of a bazooka

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Genie: "We can send you back in time to an era before cell phones, AI, and Web 3.0"

"Do it!"

Genie: "There *are* sentient Mack Trucks that will attempt to kill you. Also Coke machines, pinball games, and---"

"Look, I'll take my chances."

#Monsterdon

@healyn holy shit I was like :unsure_fry: wow that guy looks like a young giancarlo esposito

but it actually was a young giancarlo esposito #monsterdon

Bobby got FLATTENED, this movie doesn’t waste any time! #monsterdon

oh damn they got Polybius in this arcade

#Monsterdon

you can tell that this movie was directed by a novel writer because he thinks there needs to be a lengthy introduction sequence of unrelated events to set the aura of the movie instead of "having things and people happen" #monsterdon

YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE #monsterdon

@lytta @SnoopJ @forestine @ryan hang on are we just watching regular version of Trucks (1998) now #monsterdon

People who watched Maximum Overdrive, good job surviving the first Machine Apocalypse. You won't survive the second, and the soundtrack won't be as awesome.

I really love this film, it's just every obsession of King's in one place, even more than Tommyknockers (which is a much worse book & film). Sober King is probably a lot healthier but he's less fun.

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

@lytta @SnoopJ @forestine @ryan i'm studying this like i'm in church and this is the bible #monsterdon

Okay wtf? And this mean... what now? Are the comet ghosts gone or what?
#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

@nazokiyoubinbou
Or, you know, this car could have just slammed on the brakes. The truck would go zooming by and they could turn around. There is no reason to keep going forward.
#monsterdon

Update: WTF idea, WTF execution, WTF "where are they now" card

#Monsterdon

"And everything was fine, offscreen, because I said so!" THE END

Haha. You have survived Maximum Overdrive. Congratulations.

#Monsterdon

Ah, 'Chekov's Liquid Oxygen Tanker'

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon found the plane

So they have bazookas and grenades at a gas station and a truck with liquid oxygen.

I would have exploded everything a long time ago but you do you #monsterdon

1) my subtitles made sure to capitalize the pronoun in "Jesus is coming and He is pissed"

2) gonna start saying that

#Monsterdon

(Bulldozer drives over sedan) Truly this was a war of brother against brother

#Monsterdon

I still don't understand how the guns aren't sentient at this stage. #Monsterdon