what did you THINK would happen when you run out of gas and all the thirsty trucks are in your gas station?????? of COURSE they are pissed #monsterdon
ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
IT TOLLS FOR DIXIE #Monsterdon
Morse code kid translation trope #monsterdon
"You killed my boss!"
You're welcome. #Monsterdon
did men actually used to post up whole galleries of pictures of naked women on their wall, is that actually a thing people did #monsterdon
KILLDOZER! Wow, this is an all-star mechanical cast! #Monsterdon
Do none of you people understand the concept of a SHOULDER-FIRED rocket? #Monsterdon
"We went out to save a filthy Christian evangelical and came back with a clean-cut American kid. You're welcome, honey." #Monsterdon
They had to go in the drains because it just wasn’t plausible the truck stop would have man-size air ducts. #Monsterdon
it's a fuckin parody of itself, surely nobody listens to AC/DC as if it were music instead of a joke about what music could sound like if you were just a bunch of washed up dads #monsterdon
#monsterdon “I like spoons!” Best line of the movie
Muahahaha. Like, did SK think this was supposed to be scary with that music playing? This is what I love about this movie. Tonally, it makes zero sense. It's a comedy. Why do they not realize it's a comedy?
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...
Love the ice cream truck playing a tinkly rendition of "King of the Road" while rolling around in search of a victim.
Kid on bike sequence. I LOVE this. Such cheese.
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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.
Hey, it's Lisa Simpson! In a horror movie!
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 AND THEY FUCKED OFF INTO THE SEA
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Y-you know that signs don't actually talk, right? Like someone talks through the interc-
Ok, we're doing this then.
"I'll bet there are spiders down there, I hate anything with more than four legs!"
*side-eyes @nev and @futurebird * them's fighting words
Connie is incredible, great performance from Yeardly Smith
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.
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
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.
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.
All bad ideas should come with a rock music soundtrack....
I don't have enough Miller Genuine Draft to process this much AC/DC
Ride of the Valkyrie #monsterdon #BattleBeyondTheStars
Bingo
#Monsterdon #maximumoverdrive
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.
I still don't know why Capitalist Pig is still alive, man bitching about money and control that much in a survival situation is sucking around for some friendly gunfire. #Monsterdon
He's doing the quiet southern man menacing whisper. Pretty soon he'll start talking about throwing 'em to the crocodiles. #Monsterdon
"before the world went into maximum overdrive"
Very convenient of the truck to pre-explode before it actually explodes
Semi-truck terrorism.
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 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!
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
The bride is Yeardley Smith, the voice actor for Lisa Simpson
Damn Decepticons!
Yeardley Smith shows up just after “Eat my shorts.” #Monsterdon
So… is it ALL machines? Or just electric machines?
Are we gonna see haunted pulleys??? Evil levers? Demonic inclined planes?
#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.
Horrific melon gore #Monsterdon
@apLundell it's a fool who looks for logic in the plot twists of maximum overdrive
Gonna buy an 8 ball and rewatch.
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.
"You Shook Me All Night Long" repurposed to be about, presumably, a killer truck, is something else.
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.
...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?
Bunch of trucks blasting horns to bully people seemed implausible until Ottawa 2022 I guess
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.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK
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.
Wanda's death is how most White Southern Americans expect to go, isn't it? Explosively, with rock music playing...
How nice that the sentient trucks speak English
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
"Is my dad okay?"
😬 😬 😬 #Monsterdon
What is with this Curtis guy and piss?
this married man will NOT let up on how much of a piss freak he is! half his lines are about loving piss! #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
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.
For Stephen King, there sure are some remarkably healthy romantic relationships in this one
I like how the truck obeyed the sign and stopped before running through the Truck Stop
"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.
[farts continue]
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!"
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.