container storage, but I just met 'er

#Monsterdon

@nev The only honorable way to go 🫡 #Monsterdon

Nice framing of the PARKING sign to say "KING". I'll give him that one.

#monsterdon

I can't tell if the bible salesman is dead or just injured. Oh well.

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

The Toyz are indeed Happy #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe hmmm

outside there's the ac compressor, i guess that's the best i got

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

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

#monsterdon

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.)

#monsterdon

@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.

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

i like the mix of snarl and startup noise on the lawnmower

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Most expensive budget items in this movie:
1) cocaine for Stephen King
2) junker cars
3) raspberry jam

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon they killed the dog. they even killed the milf! tsk tsk

@sakhavi i want to know whether levers and pulleys are attacking people

#monsterdon

SLUG BUG

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

44004 on the plate feels like it should be a reference to something

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

I bet the hookers appreciate the leather lined interior of that rig...

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon It's such a lovely cousin to Christine, as a movie.

yo those driving stunts are fucking amazing

#Monsterdon

"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

“Curtis! Are you dead?!”

Asking all the right questions.

#Monsterdon

R D
DISEL

#monsterdon

Too much Duke3D has trained me to press action on that handprint

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

Those cars also want to get in and watch #monsterdon

Another Simpsons reference - that's Yeardley Smith!!

#monsterdon

Curses!
Goblin truck will take that sexist soon.....

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🚚 🤖 📠 🏧 😱

'Eat my shorts'! Pre-Bart Simpson! The OED is antedated!

@Lazarou

Well, it *is* North Carolina...

#Monsterdon

@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!

#monsterdon

oh fuck this guy isn't gonna be in this movie, is he?

#monsterdon

Everybody likes a good crotch shot joke.
#monsterdon

CHICK TRACTS

this movie is cursed

#monsterdon

This soundtrack fucks. It reminds me of John Carpenter a little bit.

#Monsterdon

They got the idea for the steamroller scene in Austin Powers from this film.

#monsterdon

lol, "A group of blonde children in a Monsterdon movie"

let the carnage begin!

#Monsterdon

I swear if anyone hurts Time Pilot

#monsterdon

how did it even do that?

#Monsterdon

This waitress has never cooked eggs in her life.

#Monsterdon

"Hey those eggs comin' pony express or what?"

I would like to see that.

#monsterdon

Do not drink from the gasoline pump

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

I don't give a ... ladybug

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon I can't get beef turkey on it! I don't give a ladybug!

This is King's brain on drugs. Any questions? 🍳

#monsterdon

#monsterdon bring 👏 back 👏 roadside 👏 arcades

Happy Toys, a division of Green Goblin Enterprises.

#monsterdon #maximumoverdrive

There's a reason people don't refer to Stephen King as a director

#monsterdon

That truck looks like it should be a Decepticon.

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

#Monsterdon 🚚 🤖 📠 🏧 😱

some mighty fine stuntwork tho

Hey Roger, whatta ya call the middle of a song?

#monsterdon

Motor turns on

"Music by AC/DC"

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

There were a lot of movies in the 80's where comets were responsible for weird goings on. Maximum Overdrive came out in 1986. What else was going on in 1986? Halley's Comet, that's what. Will there be another round of comet-mania films when it makes its next visit in 2061?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet

#monsterdon

Oh that's Stephen King's nostrils!

*AD/DC soundtrack starts

the 80s!

#Monsterdon

Is the Earth meant to be on back to front?

#Monsterdon

DEG logo is a blast from the past. #monsterdon

Mirror-reversed Apollo 17 image?

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

#Monsterdon it begins

Oh look. Another chase scene in which a car apparently can't outrun a diesel truck.

Or yeah, get over and brake or literally anything other than just letting it slam into their bumper over and over.

#Monsterdon

@nazokiyoubinbou

I think because the DEA had shut down the Miami pipeline by then

#Monsterdon

"Look, trucks just don't drive themselves, ok?"

"Maybe it just wanted some company?"

Wow the face she made... I don't know what she was mouthing exactly, but I'm guessing it was something like "oh wow..."

I'm pretty sure I made the same face.

#Monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai @klu9 Oh yeah Gunhed is like perfect #Monsterdon material. And rife with fun useless trivia.

@diazona Why are they safe on a sailboat? If a machine gun can shoot on its own, including pivoting around a non-motorized swivel, surely a sailboat can capsize itself or trap people in its hold or something?

We just want to know the RULES!

@ramsey @lytta

#monsterdon

@Taweret It was Devil Girl #monsterdon

i just need to make sure everyone saw the trailer with Stephen King in it before the night is over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClExBOS3OnA #Monsterdon

only one thing can come after MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE

#Monsterdon

@culturednyc yes

https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/

#monsterdon #MonsterdonReplay

@CactuarJoe That would be a genuinely terrifying answer

#Monsterdon

@jonny @lytta @SnoopJ @forestine @ryan

I think so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucks_(film)

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe

soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lezuYh6bI

#monsterdon

Very wise of them to leave the completely unnecessary explanation of events for the last frames of the movie. Shit blew up, I don't care why.

#Monsterdon

@diazona "Turns out the Muggles got tired of all the Wizards and their shit and used a Space laser to kill them all, and liberate the Fairy folk or whatever the fuck they are..."

#Monsterdon

So glad I got to do #monsterdon this week.

@RamenCatholic @culturednyc absolutely

#Monsterdon

@cascheranno that oxygen stuff is just wild in whatever form, terrifying when you think about it...

#Monsterdon

@SnoopJ Who made this? Did @miru make this?

#Monsterdon

@Lazarou Harry Potter with space lasers sounds AMAZING

#Monsterdon

Not the worst movie we've ever seen but I think I have to agree it is at least on the short list for the dumbest

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Looking forward to next week, except that how can it possibly measure up to this...

#Monsterdon

@diazona those really long ones that drag on for too long....a couple of Harry Potter movies I've been subjected to come to mind

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon [confession] I've seen this movie a half dozen times in my life and I still love it. No plot at all, just evil trucks and some not-too-bright people trying to survive.

A perfect metaphor for capitalism if I ever saw one 😛

Missed #Monsterdon tonight. Should we watch it?

Stephen King talking to himself about Maximum Overdrive.

#monsterdon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2S9HrEiQ2g

This aged poorly #Monsterdon

And the moral of the story is that if a strange object appears in the sky, terminate it with extreme prejudice without asking any questions. The people back on earth will be fine if they have a stash of armament, don't worry about them #monsterdon

@ryan

Now playing - The Cars - Who's Gonna Drive you Home?

:D

#Monsterdon

I saw Maximum Overdrive on VHS back in the early 90s. I saw it, said "Welp, now I don't have to see it again."

And then I did. #monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

#monsterdon right at the 90 minute mark, 2/3's the film's budget, nice timing.

I’m so sad when I see the destruction of classic pinball machines in movies. That Tommy scene is unwatchable.

#monsterdon

Yowza—the ice cream truck! #Monsterdon

Tubi wants me to watch Trucks, which is based on the exact same King short story

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Glad we had to wait for the closing credits to explain the premise of the movie. UFO shot down by laser and nuclear armed weather satellite? Why wasn't that on screen? It could have landed just close enough to the the remote island where the survivors went.

I don’t know why everyone is badmouthing AC/DC, but they were the perfect band for that movie’s soundtrack.

#Monsterdon

@cocaine_owlbear He earned it.

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

I maintain that while this movie may have been stupid and bad, it is still not the stupidest and worst movie we have watched for #Monsterdon. Why, there wasn't even any poorly executed day-for-night.

F in chat for the cinematographer's eye.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for the bingo, @JoeWynne for trivia, @miru for the stream, and all of you for making this actually funny

a russian weather sattelite armed with laser and nuclear missiles? Isn't this the plot for "Space Cowboys"?
#monsterdon
#maximumoverdrive