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

if all the trucks were being evil i would probably want to start by taking their batteries out or whatever instead of just letting them have faces and grudges and stuff #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

oh cool, the bullets went up in the fire. that's a nice touch

#Monsterdon

This…

Movie…

Is…

Suddenly…

Moving…

So…

So…

Slowly…

#monsterdon

What is exactly the plan??? I’m lost #monsterdon

Truck, or angry cat at feeding time? #Monsterdon

more than 10 minutes left in this movie. it could do literally anything in this time.

#Monsterdon

[AC/DC instrumental continues to play]

#Monsterdon

“I got the best shit on the East Coast. Practically uncut. Got that, fuckface?”

I love Stephen King's dialogue.

#Monsterdon

"It's like Neville Chamberlain giving into the Nazis"

uh.

I would not say so.

#Monsterdon

Bit on the nose to have the truck that says "Made the American Way" blown up by, effectively, a Stinger missile.

You know, the thing that the US was at this very point sending to Afghanistan.

#Monsterdon

1h38m. That's twenty more minutes. Dig deep, #monsterdon, we can get through this.

@Violinknitter I don't know if it's funnier to imagine that the machines made this flatbed with a machine gun on it

or that the military did

#Monsterdon

there we go, machine gun finally reducing casting costs down to only named leads #monsterdon

Please never make me see Pat Hingle buttoning up his pants ever again. #Monsterdon

They asked this on How Did This Get Made and could not come up with a suitable answer, but there's more of us on Mastodon: what exactly is a "road twitch?"

#Monsterdon

Oh thank god, he's dead. Whew, I was worried there for a minute. #Monsterdon

Why does every person in this movie seem to hate every other person?? This movie is from the mid 80s, not the 70s, I thought they were over this schtick by then.

#monsterdon

You guys didn't rehearse these lines, did you? ^^;; #Monsterdon

*Morgan Freeman voice

"Well billy squeezed his way through half a mile of shit...."

#Monsterdon

...Why do the trucks need headlights? #Monsterdon

Is the Magic Comet Techno Juju triggered by anger towards tech? Every time someone yells at a piece of technology it blows up or turns off. #Monsterdon

Why do they think they're safe inside? Those trailer trucks could totally pull the building down on them if they wanted. Clearly they're just toying with their prey.

#Monsterdon

@Taweret foley artist contract rider includes being able to have creative control over any kissing noises!!!! #monsterdon

Dear god, Emilio wiping his face with that towel is the most horrific thing in the movie yet. #Monsterdon

I'm not good with identifying twin engine props, but playing Ride of the Valkyries with it flying by is A+ silliness

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Oh hey, consent asked for

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

THAT’S THE NAME OF THE MOVIE! #monsterdon

People who own modern cars may not understand that overdrive is a special gear mode on some cars which is used to save money on gas when going at highway speeds. Maximum Overdrive seems like an odd name because it's essentially "Maximum Fuel Efficiency" instead of "Maximum Power."

#monsterdon

the trucks would absolutely be able to shred that whole service station, so why are they sparing their prey? they must be waiting for the queen truck to arrive so she can eat her meal fresh #monsterdon

Curtis is like SHUT UP I'VE PLAYED FROGGER I KNOW WHAT TO DO

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

"We can call the police-"

Chief it's gone a leeeeeettle beyond the boys in blue here. #Monsterdon

All of the vehicle stuntwork is so goddamned cool.

#Monsterdon

it seems like the evil force can only make some things be proactively evil like cars and things with motor, but for stuff like radios it only knows how to make them sort of broken but isn't like "making up evil radio stations that send bad info" #monsterdon

Goblin Truck is a militant feminist

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe death by air purifier #Monsterdon

@plaidtron3000 right, hmm. what is the kind of evil force that would infect sprinklers but not bikes #monsterdon

So real quick, the appliance immediately to your left is the one that kills you. How do you die?

Me I get brained by a controller. #Monsterdon

Creation to Fall is in the first 2 pages

#monsterdon

Do you have a bible with the summoning spells? Or at least a bunch of fun apocrypha?

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

An evil icecream truck is completely on brand for King

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

✅ SLUGBUG!

#Monsterdon

“Here comes another load” 😏
“…of joy” ah ok

#monsterdon

[18-wheeler rebooting noises]

#Monsterdon

@Violinknitter I can only assume this is the same logic as homeopathy (so I've heard) where diluting something makes it stronger

So assuming the existence of any substance that makes machines come to life and kill nearby humans, diluting it so far that there is none of it leads to this

LOGIC FTW

#Monsterdon

wow her voice is just actually lisa simpson all the time, what a life #monsterdon

Yup, all clown-based toys (including jack in the box) are horrible. Steven King is right.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon "Curtis? Are you dead?" how's he gonna say "yes" girl

So many Chick tracts! #Monsterdon

Possessed arcade, is he going to get transported to Tron? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon my grandpa had that same electric knife for carving the turkey!

it sparked out dramatically one year

My parents had that same electric knife when I was a kid and it freaked me out!

#Monsterdon

Stephen King loves his yokels.

#Monsterdon

Falling trucks, watermelons, what am I watching? #monsterdon

I can’t even imagine how many extremely cheap pens and razors that truck is hauling. #Monsterdon

in 2025 you'd just have the Aliens hack our computers to turn everything against us, but it's the 80s so we have a magical force controlling mechanical devices.

Props to the stunt guy who fell into the river just there

#Monsterdon

Oh god, AC/DC

I'm opening my beer

#monsterdon

✅ Stephen King Cameo

WHOOOO

#Monsterdon

Dino De Laurentiis ... a film by Steven King ... absolutely zero warning signs so far!

#Monsterdon

So, I missed the beginning, but I guess the idea in this movie is, instead of "btw aliens did it" it's "chemical spill makes truck become self-aware and very very angry for some reason"? Like... why is it so angry? Who hurt this truck so bad?

#Monsterdon

I read a lot of Stephen King when I was in my teens and 20s. I was drunk and/or on drugs. After I got clean & sober, I never read another thing by him.

#monsterdon

@SnoopJ @GeoffWozniak This is always part of my Sunday routine

#Monsterdon

@jonny @SnoopJ @ryan that little tom cochrane harmonica overlay killed me #Monsterdon #cancon

@davesdogmaggie they could never top that. Perfect

#Monsterdon

Technically that was a movie.
It's not the worst we have seen. It maybe has the best soundtrack? Preferences for dad rock may vary.
Anyway thanks @Taweret and gang it was a ride.
#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

@diazona I wish more movies ended with a space laser..... really unexpectedly.

#Monsterdon

@ryan YO WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE THIS ROCKS #monsterdon

How are we all watching without commercials? I still have around 10 horrible minutes to go.

#monsterdon

America, where 13 year old boys know how to work a submachine gun

#monsterdon

I think that means the Soviets saved the world

#Monsterdon

"The Soviet Union saved the Earth"

The End

#Monsterdon

small arms laying down suppressing fire as Emiliano Estevez fires the M72 LAW one last time

"Adios, motherfucker!"

#Monsterdon

Can't be a horror movie without some idiot just standing still while something comes to hurt them and they could literally just move slightly left or slightly right and not die.

#Monsterdon

This movie is worth it for the stunts alone.

#Monsterdon

Ignominious end to the best monster they had, quite frankly. The ice cream truck was way more menacing than the green goblin truck. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon i scream for you scream

That feels like it could have happened quite some time ago

#Monsterdon

🥱 Okay, Mr. K. This has been fun, but let's wrap it up.

#Monsterdon

@LGS There are lot of things here that aren't as good as the ACDC. #monsterdon

@jivens #monsterdon

there are several Kraftwerk songs that woulda fit in too.