heyyy, fucking off into the sea!

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Really?

REALLY???

"All along it was a UFO."

FREAKING REALLY??????

#Monsterdon

“Laser cannon”.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon They’re using a fucking engine on that boat!

"Poochie died on the way back to his home planet." #monsterdon

Can't believe you all don't love Shake Your Foundations playing while trucks ram a truck stop, no appreciation for the arts I tell ya

#monsterdon

is the twist supposed to be that this was the first stage of an alien invasion?

and also that motor boats for some reason are immune just like the married couple's car?

#monsterdon

Stephen King, director: "I know they're just shooting at it but I need this ice cream truck to get launched like it's on a fucking pogo stick"

#monsterdon

#monsterdon And they fucked off into a river?

We at least they explained it all in the end

#monsterdon
#MaximumOverdrive

None of these people have heard of motorboats.

#monsterdon

Time for some celebratory AC/DC!

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

They just destroyed the leader of the rebellion didn't they? Will that end this movie?

Please?

#Monsterdon

OK. Can we have credits? #Monsterdon. This time I did not vote to watch this. The music is good. I mean... It wasn't like, "I really wish I hadn't watched" or worse... But I can't say it was one of the better ones.

I guess I'm glad I watched. Because now I know. I'm sure it "all makes sense" if you don't miss the first half hour. Right? I mean... It didn't not make sense, but it was, "why is this an hour and a half, not 20 minutes"... But that probably can be expected.

Later, they were all killed by an electric can opener who was in the boat's hold.

#monsterdon #maximumoverdrive

#monsterdon feel like they could’ve done that 90m ago?

You know ... you could just untie the rope?

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

OK but what I want to know is did AC/DC record that psycho rip-off sting they used throughout the movie #monsterdon

Chekov's hand grenade #monsterdon

Technically we never figured out if the ice cream truck was friendly

...or at least would have been willing to share some ice cream before starting violence

#Monsterdon

Okay, one man gets to be scared too #monsterdon

That ice cream truck followed this kid for two days just for that. I almost feel bad for it. #Monsterdon

I'm awake

#monsterdon

Willem DeTruck

Is this anything

#Monsterdon

@Lazarou Yes, but not well #monsterdon

#monsterdon Humans Here. Some of them barely qualify.

Show us the aliens, don't tell us about them, movie #monsterdon

@Taweret Highest Budget per Stupid? #Monsterdon

My agoraphobic brain at a party

#monsterdon

snitches get glitches!

#monsterdon

So that was fun to watch, I guess, but WHY did the trucks self-imolate? #Monsterdon

Oh my god the plane in a school bus LMAO #monsterdon #maximumoverdrive1986

That was more of a detonation :|

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

LOX leak, rapid deflagration immanent?

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

oh yeah, casually mention the UFO now

sniff sniff

#monsterdon

no, I want this to end with a scene in the future where an elderly truck is telling this story to its truck grandchild, the story of how the truck society began

#monsterdon

This is like Spielberg's 1941, the best parts of it are footage of large structures and vehicles getting destroyed

#monsterdon

Truck vs cars, the most ancient enemies
#monsterdon

I want the end of the movie to explain what the comet has been getting out of all this nonsense #monsterdon

I do the same thing when the restaurant I'm at runs out of bacon.

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Two days into being sentient, they finally realize they can drive into the truck stop?

#monsterdon

Have you ever been bullied by a Mack truck?
Emilio Estevez has.
#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

TRUCK MOSH TRUCK MOSH
#monsterdon

Woman Who Can't Stop Talking Annoyingly Because She's a Woman is one of my least favourite fictional tropes, from Ioreth on out

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon

Bell tolling.

If it's stupid, but it works...

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

The main character's watch has appeared and disappeared between shots a few times in this movie.

Which is usually a mistake, but in *this* movie, I think it's just hopping off to do its own side quest for a few minutes.

#Monsterdon

Pumping gas is hard work.

#monsterdon

@nsmckinnon i got it :)
#monsterdon

can the trucks hear? can they see? how do they-

#monsterdon

@Taweret it's a military vehicle, so it was imprinted I guess

#monsterdon

so the gun can HEAR him?

#monsterdon

Things you would not be allowed to do today: find an old gas staiton and BLOW IT UP

#monsterdon

And here it is, the moment we've all waited for: gas pumping montage!

Does it go on for entirely too long? You bet!

Are there gags, that don't land? 'Course!

But, hey, the music's great. Just ask Tony Stark!

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

#monsterdon I am hearing so much about brooms right now, and I am perplexed

Dude, gas stations sell gloves. You didn’t have to get manly blisters of manliness #Monsterdon

@kamikat Not sure if it was also a book, but Stephen King did write and direct this...

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Anyone behind the gun car could simply grab the gun #MaximumOverdrive #monsterdon

This soundtrack rules I don't care what any of you haters say

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon pretty sure they just couldn’t afford a tank

As a Class A CDL holder, I do know that there's something else you have to do when filling from a truck or the whole trailer will implode. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon King missed a real opportunity to include Cars by Gary Numan in this thing.

I can't tell if communicating with the machines with Morse code makes this movie smarter or even dumber now.
#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Well ... ACDC seemed like a good choice at the time....

#monsterdon #maximumoverdrive1986

#monsterdon The real horror : What if we had to do our jobs without getting paid!?!?

Apparently the crazy energy gave the trucks telepathy also? So they could call all their truck friends for miles around?
#monsterdon

If I didn’t know this was a Steven King movie, I’d swear this was a fever dream some trucker had midway across Nebraska after eating a very bad truck station cheeseburger

#Monsterdon

i do believe we just saw a non-electric simple machine act under its own agency again

(the gas pump wheel)

#monsterdon

So, I guess the headlights are eyes? #monsterdon

Awe - it wants him to pull a thorn out of its tire

#monsterdon
#MaximumOverdrive

I just really didn’t expect them to communicate with the murderous machines #monsterdon

there have been movies where I was surprised by how much I liked the soundtrack, like Blacula, but not this movie

not this movie

#monsterdon

lol so much AC/DC love here #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Everyone's comments have got me overthinking this thing. The plot of this movie is *snort* *snort*

The bulldozer honking out a message in Morse code begging humans for fuel service reveals that the killer machines..:

1. understand written English
2. possess a theory of mind about the humans they're killing
3. are willing to reprioritize their objectives when circumstances change...
4. ...but lacked the foresight to anticipate their fuel running out beforehand..?

Serious question, how simultaneously smart and foolish are these antagonists supposed to be, exactly?

#monsterdon

One CW missing before the film: that everyone here would be slagging off AC/DC

*sniff*

#Monsterdon

👈 SHOWERS
be neat...
this mean's You

#monsterdon

So it basically took the trucks 24 hours to realize they need humans to fuel them?

When are they gonna figure out where the refineries are? #Monsterdon

i dunno folks, any time AC/DC is playing i'm like, yeah this movie is awesome #Monsterdon

This crappy music is giving me flashbacks of playing SNES Doom and feeling cool about it

#monsterdon

There's Gobby, where's Spidertank?

#Monsterdon

The machinegun was okay

#monsterdon

Heavy "The Happening" vibes. Like, everyone on set had to know that this is a dumb movie

#monsterdon

So the reason they kept so many actors around in the truck stop was for the machine gun scene #Monsterdon

@MatthewTitus88

I watched Cocaine Shark, beats Cocaine Overdrive hands down for worst

#Monsterdon

I've no idea why anybody would mount an M-60 in the middle of a four-wheeled like 6x8 platform, what would be the point

#monsterdon

They needed a military vehicle to do Morse code.

#Monsterdon

this is a good scene lmao

#monsterdon

They should have typed back, in Morse code, "Sorry, we don't speak English"

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Lol, Humans working for Machines, the Capitalist endgame...

#Monsterdon

like this is a sketch comedy premise, not a feature film premise

#monsterdon

Morse code? Uh, what?

Also I think most people decode by writing out the dots/dashes and then working it out, can anyone actually keep up with hearing it fast enough to decode it by ear?

Maybe the ham radio folks I guess? Old school telegraph operators?

#Monsterdon

I am utterly delighted that the machines are talking to them with Morse code #monsterdon

Thank god, the kid is re-writing the script.

#Monsterdon

Miller Beer will deflagrate when hit with a rocket

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

@Lazarou in a flood of Miller

#Monsterdon

Once again the Kid proves he is the Survivor and everyone else is baggage

#Monsterdon

A Caterpillar is fine, too.
Step right up, Bubba!
#Monsterdon

Oh geez, it really is.

#Monsterdon

I suddenly remember where I've seen this kid. He's in Fly Away Home.

#monsterdon