#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:
Curtis, master of smalltalk
Feels like the script's dialogue was intended to be improv based on cookie cutter, dumb bullshit, but everyone just spouts these lines with complete sincerity.
#Monsterdon
why isn't the flashlight trying to kill em?
idk man uhhh just put some AC/DC over all this #monsterdon
AC/DC really was the perfect pick for this soundtrack though.
Who made who? We made you.
HOOONK HONK HOOOOOOOONK
#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive
this is the most old white guy sound track of all time
he's something of a scientist himself, you know.
Going on record now: If anything like this ever happens I am not going to attempt a sex offender rescue.
βDonβt make me a widow on my wedding day, Curtis!β
Sheβs currently my favorite person in the movie, wardrobe and all #Monsterdon
Counterpoint: The sexist made his bed, let him lie in it
If you're a little bothered by the way women are treated in this, you might want to avoid literally everything King wrote
I cannot get over the presence of the M72 LAW in this movie
is this kid trying to get IN to shawshank??? i don't understand his plan. #monsterdon
Ah ha ha ha ha ha I got one of those "account suspension" spam posts aimed at me just now. Reported and blocked!
they have so many unnamed men to work through, they've gotta try and rescue him #monsterdon
Trucks go round. More AC/DC.
Wait no everyone. I've seen this in horror movies. It's always the bad guy faking a voice to lure them out!
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wait...
What is it with Stephen King and culverts?
Why don't the trucks just knock over the shitty building? #monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive
Evil lightbulbs, shouting obscenities in ultraviolet, not aware the frosted coating on their glass prevents anyone from seeing their rage.
i gotta start screaming "WE MADE YOU" when computers act up
@arisummerland @diazona cigarettes, diesel and sweat
THE WINCHES ON YOUR SAILBOATS WILL BE SENTIENT TOO FOR FUCKS SAKE.
@diazona it does feel filthy, and sticky....
Surely these trucks would eventually run out of gas?
@Lazarou to be fair I'm pretty sure everything in this movie is filthy
No problem? Use your head, boy, you're gonna fuck yourself to dehydration in less than forty-eight hours! #Monsterdon
that mattress is filthy...
I believe we've been here for 12 hours
The kid goes off road, on a bike, he's smart.....all the adults running off in their cars and getting slaughtered....the Old World is dying....
eeeeeeeuck #Monsterdon
AAAAND with "palm tree" I GOT MEGA CARD #BINGO!!!!
Haven't heard "Your ass is grass." since...well...the 80s.
Okay Lisa Simpson's terrified rambling is kinda funny.
#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive
At least they are holed up with a prepper dude
The machines really are hurling everything they've got at this kid...
King wrote the screenplay, based on his own short story. #monsterdon
#monsterdon Not the Wilhelm, sadly.
Evil Plane #monsterdon
he missed a great chance to say: "If I put my arm around you, would YOU go into maximum overdrive?"
NAME OF THE MOVIE!
lol, of course he has a rocket launcher, it's in the Constitution!
OSHA regulation rocket launcher
NGL. Lisa Simpson swearing is kinda hot.
Lmao at the trucks honking triumphantly
When I was little for some reason my 'crap-o-meter' for movies always rang pretty quick for films in the 85-90 min range. For some reason if it was over 100 I thought it meant it would be better. #monsterdon
Uh oh, the honeymoon's over #Monsterdon
Ooo, that truck stop's got video games...
All the trucks are driving to some place where they will mate into one giant pile of twisted, sticky steel, forming a giant contraption of evil most foul and oily.
does it turn out you have to kill the Head Truck?
Nice swerve
These trucks seem profoundly unconcerned about the blood splashed across their various body parts
You'd think that'd be uncomfortable
Think of the rust
The SK short story was called Trucks, I think. It was just big rigs that came to life. Most of it happened in a truck stop, so they kept that bit.
container storage, but I just met 'er
@nev The only honorable way to go π«‘ #Monsterdon
Nice framing of the PARKING sign to say "KING". I'll give him that one.
I can't tell if the bible salesman is dead or just injured. Oh well.
The Toyz are indeed Happy #monsterdon
@CactuarJoe hmmm
outside there's the ac compressor, i guess that's the best i got
Something tells me the mechanisms that allow all machines to try to kill all humans needs a lot less explanation now than when this movie was released. #Monsterdon
@catzilla evil ATM and evil bridge
i'm thinking of the red-fronted truck as the evil optimus prime (but not that evil optimus prime. or that one. or that other one.)
@jonny it me, I am air guitar #Monsterdon
I was originally thinking that any device having a motor magically had the ability to move any part of itself. But the walkman makes me think it's a magnetic coil? #Monsterdon
When the machines become inspirited, the old rules no longer apply. Also, the movie direction becomes kind of lame.
i like the mix of snarl and startup noise on the lawnmower
Most expensive budget items in this movie:
1) cocaine for Stephen King
2) junker cars
3) raspberry jam
#Monsterdon they killed the dog. they even killed the milf! tsk tsk
@sakhavi i want to know whether levers and pulleys are attacking people
SLUG BUG
44004 on the plate feels like it should be a reference to something
I bet the hookers appreciate the leather lined interior of that rig...
Is it just un-minded machines going vicious in this scenario? Connie and Curtis's car seems to be behaving normally, while both of those murderous diesel trucks had nobody in the cabin when they started foaming at the uhhhh radiator grill.
Does Emilio Estevez climbing into the blood-red cabin of the goblin truck render it inert, somehow?
#monsterdon It's such a lovely cousin to Christine, as a movie.
yo those driving stunts are fucking amazing
"Are you on something?"
WHO IN THIS MOVIE WASN'T?
#Monsterdon
i think i will turn evil and murderous like the rest of these machines when the inevitable in-scene AC/DC-the-band-plays-mid-machine-battle-montage happens #monsterdon
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DISEL
Too much Duke3D has trained me to press action on that handprint
My god, there's red corn syrup strewn all OVER this place! #Monsterdon
Well, they're married, so there's nothing wrong with him watching her poop
Those cars also want to get in and watch #monsterdon
Another Simpsons reference - that's Yeardley Smith!!
Curses!
Goblin truck will take that sexist soon.....
#Monsterdon π π€ π π§ π±
'Eat my shorts'! Pre-Bart Simpson! The OED is antedated!
@GramrgednAngel I am legit enjoying this movie. It's terrible in such a wonderful way. I'm kinda glad I'm watching it on Pluto, cause I use the commercial breaks to catch up on the #Monsterdon posts.
eat my shorts!
oh fuck this guy isn't gonna be in this movie, is he?
Everybody likes a good crotch shot joke.
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This soundtrack fucks. It reminds me of John Carpenter a little bit.
flat stanley!
They got the idea for the steamroller scene in Austin Powers from this film.