nothing triggers my "this is going to suck extremely badly" reflex harder than hearing AC/DC #monsterdon

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lol, that bank sign is pretty accurate though

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This isn't Maine

...what kinda King story is this

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Night Of The Comet was better.

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It's Dune!

Oh., no....

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If Andrew "Dice" Clay does a cameo, I'm out.

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You can't have Maximum Overdrive without Maximum Energy. We got movie sign!! #Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

That station wagon can't outrun a diesel truck, but it can drift like a king.

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This is the most awkward death scene I have ever seen in a horror movie. And I've seen some pretty bad stinkers. Like it really has to work at it.

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Wait, what? Is the tiny remote control toy going to actually kill this guy or something??? What even

What the...

Really?

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So... It's called Trucks, but it still does involve other machines rebelling against humanity too?

Or are phone lines down that somehow also affects cellphones?

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So, uh, what exactly is the plan that this truck has exactly? Like if it has a high speed collision it's probably going to flip over and then how is it going to kill all humans?

At least in Maximum Overdrive they were smart enough to go slow enough that this wouldn't happen.

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Well, watching this Trucks movie with #Monsterdon I have to say it absolutely lacks the wacky energy of Maximum Overdrive, lol.

You have to go so far into that wiki entry to find the phrase's first appearance (season 1, episode 2). But its first "chronological" appearance (season 9 episode 3) has been judged worthy of inclusion in the abstract. #monsterdon

@cascheranno "In the Beginning the Universe began, .....and this has upset an awful lot of people ever since"

#Monsterdon #HHGTTG

@CactuarJoe this is too plausible.... #Monsterdon

@klu9 @paco @ryan #monsterdon

that was frickin brilliant, Ryan...

Maximum Overdrive is perfect 80s: high budget, action-packed, drug-fueled, fun, and completely meaningless.

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🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

❤️ Thank you @Taweret for hosting this high-velocity vehicle for Yeardley Smith.

🅱️ and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! "The finger" 😆

🎪 And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: The tension between Pro and anti AC/DC, and the friction between stupid vs. dumb created a philosophical foundation for reverie during the screening.

Can't wait until next week! Pick one from the poll at random!

@SnoopJ WTF is this? It’s amazing!

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@mmezabet that's why he's a millionaire! #Monsterdon

Oh man, I knew that truck driver looked familiar - Frankie Faison, Barney from Silence of the Lambs etc.

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@Lazarou I would be on board with that

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And that, my friends, was definitely a movie. I absolutely love it because it's so… bad. Well paced, not too long, killer soundtrack, and some of the cheesiest acting in horror history.

Love you guys. That was genuinely a lot of fun. See ya' next week, unless Little Shop of Horrors wins!

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@paco #monsterdon

Fun #monsterdon! The movie didn't make a lick of sense, but it was stupid in a mostly-good way. Made for good riffing and a good hang. Thanks yall!

Guy got snuck up on by a semi truck with a massive green face on the front.

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🤣😂🤣

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I think we all learned a lot tonight: how communism saved the world and, uh, alien brooms or something #Monsterdon

"Internal logical consistency? Never heard of her!" - Steven King

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They got away from the truck stop then done shot up some more trucks then found a sailboat and effed off into the...sea I guess? ...then a UFO was blowed up by the Commies and the comet went away and...uhhhhh

THE END

This #Monsterdon made even less sense than most but it had recognisable actors and a coked up horror novelist making it so it was AWESOME of course!

Thanks for the big hot mechanical mess @Taweret !

They did not make the mistake of trusting the ice cream truck. #Monsterdon

@diazona @lytta It was a sail boat. They said that multiple times.

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Yeah that was great idk what you're all talking about #Monsterdon

Lmao the Green Goblin truck snuck up on them! Get goblin'd!!

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Oh, a diner 100 yards from the truck stop. How convenient

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The fun-to-quality ratio on this movie is high #monsterdon

anyway, thanks everyone, be safe out there and remember that LLM are not your friends!

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why is "You Shook Me All Night Long" (fucked up mix) playing over these credits

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The writing is 🤌🏾 #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #AndThenTheyWokeUp Gah! I hate those stories!

Thanks #monsterdon pals. Take care. See ya soon.

also tho. how the fuck is 'oh btw there was a UFO the whole time' something you put in the closing title card?

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UFO destroyed by a Russian weather satellite? Oh, really?

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“A LARGE UFO WAS DESTROYED IN SPACE” fucking incredible #monsterdon

Don't worry Steve we can just add the ending in post when you come down

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Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #MaximumOverdrive , from 1986, is kind of like Pixar's Cars movie, except it was made by Stephen King, and fueled by cocaine. Alongside the mechanical mayhem, we also had,

It's pretty dark he calls that knife 'Mothers helpers'

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Yeah, they had to bring the green goblin back just to blow it up, I guess. Kinda lame, it wasn't even the main villain. The platform truck got more kills. #Monsterdon

...killed by a power window? I think that was a fear of mine as a kid

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Ah yes, before CGI they actually crashed trucks into real diners! #monsterdon

Who gave the kid a submachine gun!?

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

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nice landing

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I'm trying to think of jokes Andy Daly didn't already do, and do better, but I also have to wonder why that bulldozer hates that car so damn much

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That was definitely a one take only explosion. #monsterdon

It's fun watching machines destroy stuff, it's not Art but it's fun.

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Actually given the donkey thing, I think Truck Jesus would probably be a Ford Focus with a bad muffler. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Vehicle on vehicle crime..

that ice cream truck blowing up and flipping over was a GREAT shot

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Oh Dixie Boy,
The Trucks
The Trucks
are calling

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i just remembered that movie that was a single sentient killer tire (Rubber, 2010). We should watch that next #Monsterdon

Turning Humanity's machines against us so we're easier to colonise is a pretty smart plan tbh.

Smarter still would be leaving us alone and fixing up Mars, not because we Humans are courageous but because hopefully Earth would pull a War Of The Worlds on the Invaders

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Pretty sure that station would've run out of gas by now

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Ok, look. I've worked a long, crap shift and been dead tired, in pain, etc etc. I mean I get it.

It didn't like... What the heck is even wrong with him? It's like he's wounded and dying or something.

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Be neat… This mean’s you. #Monsterdon

Didn't there used to be a person of color in this?

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hey @cheribaker does gas count as a macguffin here? because if it does...

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more honking than Untitled Goose Game

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I wish Megaweapon was in this movie too. Or Trull the Inhuman!
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[angry truck noises]

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How dare they edge me the entire movie and then off both Bubba AND Wanda like that. I -needed- that waitress!Rambo rampage.
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Good thing the kid just happens to know Morse code

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Cars can't even pump their own gas? They must have filmed this in New Jersey #Monsterdon

#monsterdon This could literally be Isntreal talking about Palestine. SMH. 🥺

Wait, Trevor Hoffman's coming into this movie?

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They've got an arsenal in the basement. They could've blown up all these trucks by now

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Wait wait wait. I have a plan!

Put gasoline in the diesel vehicles and diesel in the gasoline vehicles! It's so obv-

Ok, just pump correctly for them all day instead.

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Did the truck driver install those red eye lights, or did the truck figure out how to emit red light #monsterdon

[truck growls]

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"practically uncut"

holy shit

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The machine gun thing is just cheating in my opinion #monsterdon

Is she.... high on diesel fumes???

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@SordidAmok lol, such a cruel fate....

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...Honey, that thing's empty. #Monsterdon

"You're like a junkie trying to run down your connection"

"Emilio, you say the sweetest things!"

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In retrospect, not aiming the rocket launcher at the machine gun may have been a poor opening gambit

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Evil proto-Mars Rover #monsterdon

I like how that man slept with his burger, for comfort perhaps...

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Ah Bulldozer, tool of the Coloniser....

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Ok ok. I'm catching on to something. Ok.

Diesel engine vehicles rebel. That's one rule. Gasoline engine vehicles do not. That's another. By which it means any diesel engine vehicle apparently.

Wait, no, the lawnmower was part of the rebellion too. Uhm... So two-cycle engines also joined the rebellion.

WHAT ARE THE RULES???

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Bad news: I can't fall asleep.
Good news: I am awake for Maximum Overdrive with #monsterdon

So far, I would summarize this movie as "WTF execution of a WTF idea"

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who else up coping with their grief by blowing bubbles

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That's the best slap you've got, girl? Put some English on it! Get a windup for chrissakes, you're slapping the least likeable man in a KING plot! #Monsterdon

I have always wanted to fire one of those things, it's a guilty wish I know but they solve so many problems in Games...

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@cargot_robbie Oh yes! The toilet paper explosion alone qualifies.

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[truck screams]

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There's no problem that more 'splosions can't solve, I suppose

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Did he just shoot the liquid oxygen truck?

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#monsterdon 40 minutes in, maybe this is why I kept conflating this one with "Duel", very similar style of semi involved in terrorizing a sedan: