10 Things You Didn't Know About MaximumOverdrive

[@Journey-of-1000-Miles]

Stephen king, Emilio Estevez, semi trucks, The Green Goblin, AC/DC, what is there not to love about this movie!

[@spookyryu]

Amen to this

[@pinehawk9600]

You forgot Lisa Simpson

[@RealUncleLJ]

Shut up meg

[@reptilianapplesalesman5479]

Don't forget the loads of cocaine King was on at the time

[@BigLifeWithLitlJay]

The acting. The really, really, horrible acting. That's what there is not to love. Still a fun movie, tho. Don't try to take it seriously and it's totally enjoyable.

[@michaelhowell2326]

I don't care what the critics say. I effing love this movie.

[@randyreynolds4252]

yep and was the best Stephen King ever made and always felt that, now i know why he freaking made it

[@treylyde999]

It was good, I don't get it.

[@smitjimmers144]

Samesies

[@jimmymelendez1836]

@@smitjimmers144 😒

[@mistermadmachine6311]

👍

[@Philly9758]

This movie terrified me as a kid. I grew up working for my dad’s seafood company, so I was constantly surrounded by trucks and heavy machinery. The one memory that I will never forget is when I saw a forklift “move” on its own. I had already seen “Maximum Overdrive” at the time, so it was somewhat fresh on my mind. What I didn’t see was my dad getting on the forklift and turning it on. I was little at the time, so I could barely see above the window in our office. The top portion of the forklift was the only visible thing from my viewpoint. I realized it was just my dad driving as he drove away from the office. Crisis averted!

[@RisingBeast00]

This movie used to scare me too.

[@peterkrug2327]

I always thought the idea was really cool of our own creations turning against us.

[@michalgt7203]

What do you think of the new automatic lawnmowers 🤣⚰️☠️💀⚱️

[@RID01S]

You ain’t the only one my dad was trucker in 90s and half the trucks in the yard where he used to park looked like the ones in this movie cab overs and semi’s, I was surrounded by them

[@jamesmaythearsonist]

Same but my dad was in repo.

[@jmarx3943]

Maximum Overdrive is basically "cocaine is a hell of a drug" the movie

[@Classicgamershq]

F*$% yo couch ****@!!!!

[@axeltank06]

Yes it is that kind of movie. DARKNESS!!

[@Toyotamikewa]

Funny you say that. My friend's dad and grandpa ran a military surplus place that rented the platform jeep to the movie. His dad told me while on set, King came over to the jeep, took the axe off it and just stared at it for like 10 minutes, with a weird, glassy eyed grin on his face. Fun extra lore for this video. Lol

[@johnphantom]

I don't get everybody here saying they liked the movie. I thought it was total garbage.

[@FODteam]

@@johnphantom take it for what it is. Its campy and was fiercely drug fueled.

[@Datan0de]

Back in high school, my best friend got mono and had to quarantine at home. After he was no longer infectious but still recovering, a group of us rented a bunch of movies including Maximum Overdrive and Better Off Dead from a Circle K (every convenience store rented VHS tapes back then) and surprised him with an at-home movie marathon. Good times!

[@Greydevil82]

Your a Good Man,Charlie Brown

[@mann_idonotreadreplies]

Cool story bro

[@CarlosRivera-lv3uc]

King's cameos are almost as good as Stan Lee's were. Though his role in Creepshow with "meteorite shit" was perfect.

[@peterkrug2327]

I don't think you can call Kings appearance in the first CREEPSHOW a cameo since he actually played the main role in one of the stories.

[@johnking4941]

Spoiler alert! I'm watching rose red right now king is in there too. Pizza delivery guy that enough of a spoiler have a great day too everyone 😆

[@matthewsherman1450]

His cameo in Sons of Anarchy is awesome as well.

[@TaliaIGhul]

The woman screaming "WE MADE YOU." was funny af.

[@dameinoferrall2400]

"Who made you?" AC/DC

[@DrQuagmire1]

@@dameinoferrall2400 I don't know guys, I thought the ATM Machine calling Stephen King (in his cameo) an "asshole" topped it

[@bentramer682]

This whole movie was pretty funny, i don't know if that was the point

[@christopherlewis1315]

Lol. That rant is still my favorite part of the entire movie!

[@DrQuagmire1]

@@christopherlewis1315 FUN FACT: Minty forgot to point out one major tidbit in the movie, that there's a scene where a kid in the baseball field gets run over by a steamroller was originally much more gorier. The scene called for the kid on his bike getting run over by the steamroller, where blood would smear the grass over and over, but the effects shot of the kid's head getting squished exploded prematurely (King himself loved that shot, but was forced to remove it to avoid an X-rating)

[@The_Bass_Stunters]

This movie was an all time favorite of mine growing up in the late 80s!! The soundtrack was and still is legendary.

[@jerichomills5162]

Someone needs to tell one of the greatest writers in the world that he made an awesome fun movie and stop selling himself so short! This machine just called me an asshole!

[@kamandi1362]

He doesn’t like Kubrick’s The Shining. He wouldn’t know a great film it it kicked him up the arse.

[@filmbuff2777]

@@kamandi1362 Damn right. He knows NOTHING about cinema. In The Outsider, he resorted to bashing Kubrick yet again, & not only did he bash The Shining, but Barry Lyndon as well. He had one character watching Paths of Glory & says its much better than The Shining & Barry Lyndon because younger directors take more risks. To even suggest either of these films as riskless is ignorant, & King is being immensely petty by continuing to bash him. Barry Lyndon is of course most famous for the candle light sequences & the 50mm F0.7 Zeiss lens from NASA that he used to shoot these scenes. Using an extremely fast lens such as this really reduces the depth of field, which leaves so many things blurry. With a lot of these candle light scenes featuring a lot of people in them, Kubrick had to have the camera & actors positioned exact to get them in focus. To say this was lazy like King claims shows how ignorant he is on filmmaking as an artistic medium. Since King claims that what Kubrick did with Barry Lyndon requried zero effort at all, then I want him to remake The Shining again, but direct it himself this time. Don't get that hack Mick Garris to do it, & since TV has much more freedom than it did when he made his awful miniseries (which he claims is better than Kubrick's film in every way), so he could get all the violence & profanity it would need. I would also want him to use this EXACT same lens for ALL low light sequences, because since King thinks it is so easy to shoot with an extremely fast lens in low light, then surely being the "great cinematic genius" that he is should be able to blow everyone away? But, he won't do it because he is all talk. I usually hate the "well see if you can do better" excuse to defend things, but since King keeps bashing Kubrick non stop, thinks he is the true authority on what is quality cinema, & his new bashing of Barry Lyndon, it just goes to show how clueless he is & that he should put his money where his mouth is or shut up. He is a great writer, but knows nothing about film & needs to stop whining about Kubrick. He doesn't hold the idiots that made The Lawnmower Man to the same standard, & he is more than happy to receive royalties off Kubrick's film & was happy to have the Dr. Sleep movie be connected to the Kubrick film. He is a hypocrite.

[@woodworkingandepoxy643]

@@filmbuff2777 king sucks. As a person and sometimes as a writer. A hypocritical pos comes to mind

[@christopherlewis1315]

@@woodworkingandepoxy643 Totally agree, he's an awful person.

[@timothyneiswander3151]

You mean rip off artist. I started my early years of reading in the old classic horror. Later I started getting into modern where I was reading a lot of King. That is when I noticed several of his stories were just re-written classics. The most glaring example (like he didn't even care if anyone noticed) was Tommyknockers. An obvious rip off of Lovecraft's "The Colour from Outerspace".

[@truthseeker3503]

This film is well shot, contains some superb action scenes and is monstrously entertaining!

[@mayssm]

Don't forget that awesome AC/DC soundtrack.

[@kingloser4198]

It also had one of Giancarlo Esposito's first performances - the guy stealing cigarettes in the arcade.

[@christopherlewis1315]

Yeah, I am surprised he left that detail out, even though he included the scene of Giancarlo getting electrocuted by the pinball machine.

[@martinprehjan9944]

Walter White would have been proud!

[@karagibson2007]

Saw this movie as a kid, and ended up with massive respect for the big trucks. I still watch this movie every chance I get. I love it.

[@wstine79]

I live in Wilmington, where the film was shot, and I travel across that draw bridge to work everyday.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Wilmington NC? or?

[@wstine79]

@@joshuagibson2520 yes

[@bustyrandit]

They had to use the drawbridge due to the "11-8 Bridge" being unavailable at the time.

[@jackmcelroy3089]

The boat under the draw bridge if u look closely AC DC is in the boat

[@pixelagency9423]

I'm sorry.

[@stephencushing8148]

This is one of the great examples of how much better movies were in the 80s. 80s into 90s was by FAR the best era.

[@Tom_Van_Zandt]

Me: "Why hasn't Steven King directed any other movies?" Steven King: "Watch Maximum Overdrive." Me after watching Maximum Overdrive again: "Yeah, great flick! So...when are you doing the sequel?"

[@skylined5534]

Stephen King: "Cocaine"

[@crash4267]

King: when I get more Cocain

[@Kurasunoninki-sha]

"Is any Stephen King adaptation perfect?". Yes. Shawshank Redemption.

[@Lopez03Eduardo.]

Green Mile and Geralds Game are also perfect adaptations

[@EngineerRiff]

Ooh, controversy

[@skildren]

Stand By Me aka The Body.

[@cyclicmantis808]

The Shining

[@keithlestrange4249]

Or Misery

[@momolopez7071]

When my local movie store was going out of business I grabbed this movie so fast. You cannot find it anywhere.

[@joshuagibson2520]

The acdc album who made who is also getting harder to find.

[@joshuagibson2520]

It's the soundtrack to this movie.

[@bennkeeney8845]

I remember that when I was a kid I went to some DVD store I thought it was a blockbuster but it was not but anyway I remember I got pee wee playhouses on DVD cause I was a fan of that as a kid

[@FlatHamster]

I got a Stephen King 3 movie dvd boxset from a car boot sale...got Maximum Overdrive, Cats Eye and Silver Bullet on it 😁👌

[@AssMonkeyGaming]

Ebay

[@mayssm]

Best scene: when the baseball coach tries to buy the team some sodas and the soda machine kills him. Take that, dad from Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" video!

[@simplysteve68]

He played "Niedemeier", a ROTC officer that said those statements, about "a Pledge Pin, on your uniform?!" in the "Animal House" movie, as well! Which is where 'Twisted Sister' recreated his statements to the kid, in the beginning of the music video.

[@chuckhouse5179]

@@simplysteve68 "He can't do that to our recruits!" "Yeah! Only we can do that to our recruits!"

[@jasonsatterfield]

That wasn't the Dad from twisted sister. But I guess they sort of might look alike.

[@ramshackleshack751]

Finally.the greatest movie of all time. This started my love of AC/DC and two stroke Detroit diesels! Thanks minty. Some heroes don't wear capes. Just aviators.

[@kennethlewis4641]

Both of those things are wonderful, but can lead to hearing loss.

[@toniaansaldo8140]

Two-Stroke Detroit V-8,with a pneumatic (Air) starter,straight pipes,running through a 12-speed Roadranger transmission. Bang gears hard,wide open. Badass. Makes any Harley sound lame in comparison.

[@mann_idonotreadreplies]

I prefer Cummins 😛

[@ramshackleshack751]

@@toniaansaldo8140 that's a lady right there.

[@PozerAdultRacingTeam]

I love this movie,it was filmed here in North Carolina.

[@NickHey]

Is the fuel station still there?

[@FlyBoyEnterprises]

From what I read, researched, it's been long since demolished.

[@woodworkingandepoxy643]

What part of nc

[@williamholland4818]

@@NickHey no it was torn down shortly after the movie wrapped

[@williamholland4818]

I recall seeing the toy truck going to set several times it was filmed 20 minutes from my house as a child

[@FlyBoyEnterprises]

A TRULY underrated film. Brilliantly written & directed. While no OFFICIAL soundtrack, the AC/DC album became the soundtrack. While I caught it DECADES after the release on tv late at night, it introduced me to AC/DC. As for Yeardly Smith, it was her first role. Someone actually got injured during the lawnmower scene. King had a cameo as the guy at the ATM.

[@brentvance3958]

Yardley Smith was in 2 movies in 1985 so her 3rd movie roll. The AC/DC album is the soundtrack. Who made Who was made just for the movie.

[@taelorwatson9822]

The movie so fueled with cocaine that the semi's had to go to rehab

[@sirgaymeerkat1994]

more went up his nose than diesel went into trucks in that movie! who says drugs are bad?! 🤣🤣🤣

[@robertarnold6076]

Wasn't the ENTIRE 80's fueled the same way?

[@sirgaymeerkat1994]

@@robertarnold6076 it wasn't a party without the white lines! 🤩🤣🤣🤣

[@Tom_Van_Zandt]

This comment is so BS...For 1, trucks can't snort cocaine and cocaine wouldn't affect them like it does people. Trucks are nonbiological. They are machines. 2, trucks would never be allowed to enter rehab. Again, they are nonliving, nonbiological machines...rehab would never admit a motor vehicle for the purpose of rehabilitation. Seriously, comments this dumb should come with a warning label that says "Warning, this comment is so dumb that we had to include this warning." I can't believe someone would say something so ridiculous on the internet. Semi's in rehab...O-KAY! O-KAY! Yeah, next thing you're gonna say is women comedians are funny...

[@Tom_Van_Zandt]

@@achilles6578 I hope you're joking...

[@jwnj9716]

My favourite Marvel movie. They should have used AC/DC songs for the trailer instead of the Halloween 3 score but hey its cool. I cant believe even King hates this "oh I didn't know what I was doing". No no no you knew exactly what you were doing, a fun popcorn film.

[@looseele]

🤣

[@Sigurther]

Bingo.

[@toniaansaldo8140]

But it's NOT a Marvel Movie. They put the Green Goblin head on the truck, that's all.

[@dvt1393]

And truck loads of cocaine.

[@amandaburnside1825]

Love your videos,Minty!! Don't know if anyone else already mentioned it, but you neglected to mention that during filming, real truckers thought that the Dixie Boy diner was an actual diner and kept trying to stop there and so the crew had to set up road signs to inform other truckers that the diner was only a movie set

[@martyburgess341]

Cheesier than a bag of Cheetos but a total kick arse movie!

[@1massboy]

Hell yeah!

[@beckster69]

One of my fav movies (and I don't have many favs) & so glad I have on dvd. I can mimic Connie pretty good when she whines to Curtis. Also helps to have AC/DC as the soundtrack.

[@blucifer87]

I liked this movie when I was a kid. I still enjoy it for different reasons, but still enjoy it nonetheless

[@thectk1000]

This is one of those concepts that actually begs for the remake treatment since machines and electronics have only been engrained in our lives more and more since then. This movie is almost great, just that some of the characters need to be toned down drastically. Mainly Hendershot and Yeardley Smith's character. Otherwise, for being directed by an author there are some impressive scenes (Like the opening bridge sequence) and you get just enough glimpses of the outside world to get the sense that it really is an apocalypse brought on by machines.

[@parisgreen4600]

If they do a remake it needs to have Danny Trejo, because he doesn't take himself too seriously. Maybe as a truckstop employee.

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

This machine just called me an asshole.

[@98755785]

The machine was right! (About King, not you)

[@christopherlewis1315]

@@98755785 LOL! So true!

[@timothyneiswander3151]

That's an opinion and opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and they usually stink. In this case, it is spot on true.

[@tonysmith4687]

Imagine if that green goblin truck was driven by William dafoe.

[@percywestbrook5114]

👏

[@waterandafter]

It wasn't?

[@harrisonallen651]

Ironic

[@Dex99SS]

Willem

[@percywestbrook5114]

@@Dex99SS da-foe

[@shanewatts9143]

I remember going to The Starlight Drive In. (Atlanta) I was eleven years old and it was like party there. Nothing but good old fashion 80s style fun. Steven King said that he was going to scare the hell out of us. Hahahah!!!!

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I would love to watch this no matter how many disliked it...in an overdrive.

[@natvan29]

I liked cause Emilio was in it I could do with Lisa that girl was annoying on movie and she annoying on as Lisa

[@natvan29]

That's supposed to be without Lisa

[@honolulublues5548]

@@natvan29 she was supposed to be annoying. That's the way King wrote it. I think it's fine with her in it, but there should have been less of her.

[@natvan29]

@@honolulublues5548 She is also annoying as Lisa and king didn't write that the Simpsons

[@radsk8rbigollies594]

A movie starring Bruce Springsteen with AC/DC doing the soundtrack and about goblin faced trucks killing people and has bazookas blowing shit up? Cocaine is a helluva drug

[@simplysteve68]

@Edgar Poe me neither but I bet Family Guy would have made a micro segment (the after statement clips) of him doing so and show him getting mauled. Lol

[@launchpadmcquack9305]

The Mighty Duck man himself. Emilioooooo!

[@randallechazarreta3277]

He tipped his hat like so and I swear to God it was him

[@jasonswacker6419]

Of course you was the one yelling the breakfast clubbers name.... Emiliooooooooo.

[@simplysteve68]

Emilio uses their real last name, Martin Estevez, Emilio and Carlos (Charlie).

[@smithwesson373]

"Is any Stephnen King adaptation perfect?"... I give you The Shawshank Redemption. It'st hard to fault that one.

[@1pcfred]

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[@kamandi1362]

The Shining is perfect.

[@1pcfred]

@@kamandi1362 from what I've heard King was less than pleased with The Shining. I think Kubrick deviated from the original story considerably making it? The movie itself is seminal work. As a movie it stands alone. But from the perspective of the original author in his opinion it is not what he wrote. I never read the book either so I can't say. I'm not a King fan myself. I do like me some Kubrick though.

[@djassassinuk]

When I was 16 I attended a school leavers trip to Alton Towers (a uk theme park) I convinced the bus drivers on the trip to sell me their VHS copy of Maximum Overdrive. I was well happy. Unfortunately this left me with no money to offer them to try and buy their copy of Mad Max. the reason I was so gutted not to get their copy of Mad Max is because it was the orginal U.S. release with totally different voices dubbed over the Australian cast. It sounded so strange to hear American actors in place of the Australian voices I knew so well having seen the film many times before. Certainly would have been an obscure one for the collection. At least I still came away with this little beauty!! Thanks for Another entertaining video Minty. I've seen most of the films you have covered and so I tend check out the ones I haven't seen before. Loved Night Of The Comet, or Teenage Comet Zombies as it so should have been called! I'll be checking out Sleepwlakers next, looks like a good suggestion. Thanks man :o)

[@mann_idonotreadreplies]

Cool story bro

[@richardgregg2366]

"F****D if I know bubba, f****d if I know..."

[@fabricatedego]

I have loved this movie since I was a kid in the 80s.

[@matthewgrant2785]

'Lisa Simpson really annoying' yes Minty! 🤘🤘🤘

[@SayAhh]

No worse than Nancy Scientology Cartwright

[@jeffreyklaum13]

She seems to plays the same character in The Legend of Billie Jean too.

[@notajp]

I really loved her in Herman’s Head...

[@jeffreyklaum13]

@@notajp great show

[@skylined5534]

Another little interesting snippet, the kid who escapes the baseball game and manages to find the group of survivors is a chap called Holter Graham who ended up narrating a couple of Stephen King books including Christine! He did a really good job of it too.

[@mann_idonotreadreplies]

Cool story bro

[@SkellingtonFan]

At his peak of addiction, unfortunately explains alot about this movie.

[@darrylhamlin7475]

You mean it explains why it’s so good.

[@SkellingtonFan]

@@darrylhamlin7475 each to there own. I own it, but it's not my fave.

[@toniaansaldo8140]

@@ljt47exploring64 Not really,I don't think...Stephen King just looks crazy naturally.

[@dvt1393]

@@toniaansaldo8140 I agree that he looks crazy normally, but he's also got a bad case of coke-eyes in the trailer. King was doing buckets of blow at this time. He's even talked about it.

[@SpringtrapLover2010]

Theres a rumour going around that Stephen Kings son wants to remake Maximum Overdrive.

[@Lynchpin2010]

ugh that will be awful

[@kyleshiflet9952]

It might be good

[@bugsymalone5744]

It's good as it is

[@bentramer682]

It'd still be funny if they play it like they did in the 80's

[@leefischer5814]

There's a 1/10 chance that it will be a "meh" movie, but can't hold a candle to the OG or even to the Estevez alone!

[@natebroadus8474]

This movie did have one genuinely good acting performance: Pat Hingle as Hendershot. Even in a piss poor film, he made chicken salad out of chicken shit like a true professional. Rest in peace, Pat.😔

[@rocknrollnichole1071]

I was thinking the exact same thing! It didn’t even seem like acting. I’m sure he wasn’t a jerk in real life, but man... he was amazing!

[@footy2rock]

Hingle was a bad ass in a Fugitive episode from the 60s chase it up its good,also great in Hang em high

[@ethanaleman]

i am a long time Subscriber broski. Keep up the good work your channel is …simply stunning!

[@harrisonallen651]

“From evil trucks to mighty ducks!” - quote for the day

[@brianfinlay5817]

I'm sick of Steven King complaining about how he is disappointed by the movie adaptations of his books/screenplays. King signs the contracts turning over creative controls to the producers and directors for an agreed upon monetary amount. He then takes the check and cashes it. At any point of this he could change the provisions of the contract demanding the book's flow be maintained and he has approval of the final product. I could understand how he could cry about it with his first few books converted into movies/TV series, but that was 40 years ago. He should have learned his lesson by now. If you don't want someone who didn't write your books to butcher an adaptation, don't sign over the creative rights after the first offer of an amount is shown to you. You've raked in millions selling your stories to others, stop whining about getting burned every time it happens. The crocodile tears thing has gotten old over the decades.

[@Lynchpin2010]

He's a (was a) great writer, but he's an obnoxious blow hard.

[@filmbuff2777]

Yeah, he is a big whiner. He still hates Kubrick & his version of The Shining, yet, he was more than happy to be paid to embrace the Kubrick connections for the Dr. Sleep movie, when he could have sold the rights on the condition it connected to his miniseries instead.

[@jamalvargas6146]

10 things you Didn't know about The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave Osbourne

[@d_dizzie_druck5753]

Should just be 10 things on Super Dave.

[@creepermagoo]

Super Dave chopped off his p#@%s and used it to derail a train. Then Ed McMahon ate all the pieces. 11 facts.

[@williamjames9404]

AC/DC did make a cameo. They're killed in a van at the beginning the movie

[@dperry203]

That wasn’t the band. Just some hippies with the band name on the van.

[@williamjames9404]

@@dperry203 Oh ok. Thanks for the correction

[@tommypasquale5150]

They are on a barge in the water that is barely seen.

[@rickycarter1142]

They were in the speed boat that went under the bridge before the chaos started.

[@jackmcelroy3089]

@@rickycarter1142 correct! Speedboat

[@oldenweery7510]

I remember looking forward to watching "Trucks" when I saw it listed in "TV Guide," but it was probably the most depressing piece of roadkill I've ever seen. MO, on the other hand, is one I've watched, whole or in parts, whenever I caught it while channel-surfing. King should lighten up and possibly even bask a little in the knowledge that he created a modern cult classic! Stay safe, everyone.

[@sebastienbolduc5654]

Stephan King, "How about a story where machines come to life and start killing people." DARPA, "Hold my beer!"

[@joshuagibson2520]

DT and Sink the Pink are 2 of the best songs ever devised. And the bluesy song. Can't Rem the name. Has no words IIRC.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Ride on... it does have words.

[@user-wv5rj8lh4r]

"More movies with AC/DC soundtracks" and " who's Springsteen " i couldn't agree more

[@hopelessloser0073]

Do a ten things you didn’t know about over the top or Ten things you didn’t know about Tango and Cash

[@KnuckleDuster2004]

I remember my mom getting mad when our regular video rental store didn't have it in so we got a new membership at a different one just to rent it. Mom and dad thought it wasn't that good but to my 9 year old sensibilities it was citizen kane.

[@sim7409]

always loved this movie..& what a soundtrack!!

[@josephland8649]

The AC/DC score is legendary. I wish they had released all those blusey jams they did for this movie.

[@DaDawgMannie]

This movie was good tho. I prefer this over Trucks idc I said what I said lol

[@RobertThompson1985]

As I just stated myself trucks is a poorly made imitation of a cheap prototype. Though I still really enjoy Maximum Overdrive and wish they would make a actual honest-to-god remake

[@mrfoameruk]

I think maximum overdrive is one of his better movies. watched it loads of times with the kids.

[@michaelstanford3224]

I was wondering when minty...... My all-time favorite... Mick from U. K.

[@fox-jake8784]

Honestly, I like Maximum Overdrive for the same reason I like other 80's movies like Tango & Cash, Road House, or Showdown in Little Tokyo. It's just an enjoyably fun, tongue and cheek B movie that deserves a lot more love. Screw the critics! Plus I wonder how Stephen King would feel now that Maximum Overdrive has achieved cult status and has a fan base. Also I think King had something to do with getting the Ramones to write a song for Pet Sematary too.

[@dragonweyr44]

The part I don't understand with this movie is how the M60 machine gun could fire on its own It doesn't have an engine, it doesn't have a motor, all of the other machines that come to life do It has to be loaded with either a 100 or 250 round belt, cocked and the trigger has to be pulled back and it has no way to do that on its own It would be as if a screwdriver tried to kill you

[@nimblehealer199]

Horror movie logic.

[@1pcfred]

One word, nanobots.

[@sergeantmarcusstackerM1903]

Key word: MACHINE gun

[@1pcfred]

@@sergeantmarcusstackerM1903 by the strict definition of what a machine is all firearms are machine guns. A machine is a device that constrains motion to perform a desired task. That describes the basic functionality of any projectile firing device. Even David's sling was a machine gun!

[@dianes.3718]

Minty you have made my day! I don't give a damn what anyone says about this film, I freaking love love love it! I want to kiss you for covering this movie!

[@GoeboyPromo]

This was a classic just took me back to my childhood

[@lifeofanautismmama5894]

We are our own worst critic. I love this movie!😁

[@mlang28]

M.O is a freaking classic..

[@michaeljohnston243]

I just watched the yesterday on a network called Comet (ironically🤣)

[@goatwhoreminion]

Thank you for doing this one! One of my favorite films of all time!

[@Joeybagofdonuts76]

I've always loved this movie. I love it more now that I am a truck driver. Especially with the air driven starters.

[@setokaiba5364]

And I Was Like, EMILIOOOOOOOO!!!- Steve Butabi

[@ottobaron6392]

The Goblin face on the truck survived, and although the truck was destroyed, the goblin face has been restored, and has shown up at oddities shows. I saw it at a show, along with the creepy truck from "Jeepers Creepers".

[@dwk7375]

The White Western Star had a wore out 6-71 Detroit with a dead cylinder,

[@Ferg13]

Great job Minty. Keep it up. Fascinating.

[@smashertron]

I vaguely remember seeing this movie over 20ish years ago and it felt like a fever dream because I could only remember the Goblin truck and nothing else.

[@darenmaples3038]

Love this movie but I’ve always laughed at the re-loading of the rocket launcher, which wasn’t possible as it’s a single missal firing weapon, and the M-60 which has absolutely no electronic element to it but fires anyways. Still enjoyable tho

[@Camthur1]

I really like Maximum Overdrive. Steven King may consider it awful, but it's a fun movie to watch and the storyline is impressively coherent considering the subject matter, his inexperience and his mental state at the time. There are serious movie makers who make confusing and boring trash compared to that goofy killer machines movie he hates. Also, the soundtrack freaking rocks and we wouldn't have Who Made Who without that movie.

[@ericfenton2917]

In case no one mentioned it yet, I believe a tv movie called Duel is (a 1971 American action thriller film written by Richard Matheson, which is based on his own 1971 short story) helped inspire King's story/movie.

[@rick9977015]

I freaking love this movie! I had Child's Play, Batman and this movie recorded on a Vhs tape. We drove my uncle mad with these movies, we played them non-stop one summer while he was staying with us. Now a days we remind him of that time and he always curses at Chucky and the truck movie and says he can recite the Batman movie from start to finish. HE DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH! Lmao

[@wstine79]

"WE MADE YOU!" "YOU HAVE NO RIGHT!"

[@joshuagibson2520]

You don't own meeeeee!

[@razif6916]

Reminds me of the Car

[@bfkc111]

By the way, I wonder if you have mentioned it, but the premise is of course not limited to trucks, but encompasses all machines, as an effect of a comet's dust tail. That explains for example the beginning with the ATM... But trucks are chosen as the ultimate machines, sort of, and are of course the reason for this whole idea.

[@matttackett4799]

Recorded this movie off TBS in the late eighties and watched it constantly. My favorite movie growing up.

[@jacktribble5253]

I just watched the movie to be entertained, and I was. I thought it was a lot of fun. Oddly, I could put up with the sentient vehicles, but the way Estevez fired that LAW bugged the crap out of me.

[@Sweet68Camaro]

That bugged me too. They all fired the LAW from the hip. 🤦‍♂️

[@roninakamai6325]

In southern Ohio, USA,, a movie buff museum owner,, has and refurbished the Green Goblin face

[@FZappaFan1]

What museum? I'm the next state away. I may go see this.

[@roninakamai6325]

FZappaFan1. Check out,, Tim Shocky,, Hollywood Prop collector,, On facebook,, Piketon Ohio

[@Peoplearefood]

I watched it again two weeks ago and it's still my favorite SK movie. Emilio estevez being in it is a huge plus.

[@dameinoferrall2400]

King was coked out of his gourd while directing this.

[@jamesordwayultralightpilot]

I kinda feel like you need to be on coke to direct a movie. So much shit going on at once and everyone looking at you to make it all work.

[@kamandi1362]

You can tell looking at him in the trailer.

[@bennkeeney8845]

do a top 10 things about pink floyd the wall

[@cjamthepatricianakabilldoo7852]

That would be cool

[@DoubleDguitar]

Oh yes, that would rule.

[@chadhicky7394]

that whould be great.

[@teardrop3647]

yes as long that it not like the "review" nostalgia critic did.

[@bammatthews9092]

When I was kid I used to watch that movie over and over. I just watched it 2 weeks ago. I still love it.

[@DENVERRIOGRANDEMAN21]

Same

[@rejectedjeepers7317]

I love this movie. Especially when we are so close to robot controlled big rigs in near future. Imagine hackers in that scenerio?

[@Darksidedoom]

loved this movie growing up. Hope to get the clown as a tattoo one day

[@SkellingtonFan]

Which one and what's his name? I know the answer but you said the clown so I wanna make sure your a fan.

[@Darksidedoom]

My bad. It's not a clown it's the green goblin. Growing up I thought it was a clown. Didn't know it was green goblin till this video

[@SkellingtonFan]

@@Darksidedoom fair enough 😁👍

[@Milkybetrayal]

There is a clown on the back of the truck, which is far better tattooing material than greenie

[@Darksidedoom]

@@Milkybetrayal that is definitely a go for me

[@jopiaspieder1184]

I love this damn movie

[@NikateeN]

This is one of my all time favorite movies!

[@thegatorgar6730]

Thank you for your service, Minty.

[@unitsixteen7835]

OMG I'M NUMBER ONE! I LOVE YOU MINTY! STAY FRESH!

[@axelstone3131]

Lol I read this as maximum overdose

[@bfsproductionsytp]

How fitting 😂

[@robertarnold6076]

One of my all-time fav movies from my childhood. I'm SO thankfull my parents didn't censor the movies I watched because it left me with fond memories of movies like this, Nightmare on Elm Street and Return of the Living Dead as examples

[@jaybarney1]

One of my favorite movies. Thank You

[@chrismccloud3983]

Well put Minty “once glorious now tired”........simpsons!!

[@GraveyardTricks]

Every AC/DC song is exactly the same

[@bustyrandit]

Yeah !! Ain t it great !!😁

[@edsmtbadventures2214]

Shut up untill u can do any better

[@BigMateo24]

1 Thing I Did Know: this movie is fucking awesome.

[@annoyedlemon]

loved this movie

[@ceverett68]

love this movie. one of my all time favorites. no it isn't perfect, but tbh that doesn't make it any less awesome. and King should've done some more of his own movie adaptions