When I was 9 I snuck out of bed and went downstairs to watch TV. This movie had just started and my dad came down stairs and found me. Instead of giving out and sending me to bed we sat together and watched this until like 3am - just the two of us on the couch. It's one of the best memories of my life, and as such this movie holds a very special place in my heart.
Did that with my dad with Predator, Blues Brothers, and multiple Three Stooges episodes. Each time holds a special place in my heart, it's not just about the movie, but it helps haha
Awww that's sweet I have the same thing with my dad and "still smoking" the two dogs bit near the end.... I have never seen my dad laugh that hard since.
The L.A.W. rocket launcher can only be fired once! They were preloaded in the factory. Once you fired that shot, you're done and left with useless scrap metal.
Apparently King was so high when the made this "movie" that he doesn't remember the shoot (which is a good thing, come to think of it). He has lost the right to complain about adaptations of his work because he made this. Congratulations btw.
As a trucker and a horror movie fanatic, I would sell my soul to own that Green goblin toy truck. Also, for anybody who cares, the guy who's robbing the cigarettes and change from the game room is Gustav Fring from breaking bad.
Being A) British, and B) a massive Star Wars fan, the kid with the machine gun wasn't holding a German sub-machine gun... It was a British Sterling... which incidentally is the Stormtroopers gun in Star Wars... (with a scope added)... Also, I've not long found your channel and have binge watched most of it in a week... Keep up the excellent work!
I love when I see other people comment on things that I also noticed. People my age and younger do not know enough about firearms or things in general lol
Also the guy on the left looks like he's carrying an FN FAL, which the British built under license as the L1A1 SLR. Both were in UK service for some time, and ultimately replaced by the L85
In the mid-1980s, King struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, and was later very frank with how his habitual use of cocaine, Valium, and Xanax impacted his work. He had frequent blackouts and admitted that he doesn’t really remember writing Cujo. As for Maximum Overdrive? “The problem with that film is that I was coked out of my mind all through its production, and I didn’t know what I was doing,” King said. On July 31, 1985, tragedy struck on the set of the film when a radio-controlled lawnmower that was being featured as one of the film’s sentient machines malfunctioned and struck a piece of wood that was being used as a camera support. Though cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi had wanted to remove the blades from the lawnmower before filming, King reportedly wanted it to be as realistic as possible. So when the out-of-control machine struck the wood, the wedge splintered and injured Nannuzzi so badly that he lost his right eye.
Fun Fact: the truckstop boss with the rocket launcher is Pat Hingle, who was well-known back in the day. His IMDb filmography goes on for miles, and I think he did a lot of live theater too. Always fun to watch.
@@bgva4349 TH-cam is really pushing this channel for whatever reason, but it's much appreciated and well deserved. Watching all of Jason's videos going back years...and lov'in it!!!
I was T-boned by a guy that ran a red and my car flipped forward like that. Congrats on 50!!! Boy I can't believe this movie freaked me out as a kid, loved laughing with you guys watching it!
The rocket launcher used in this movie was an M72 Light Armor Weapon (aka LAW). It can't be reloaded, it is discarded after a single shot. It also has a "backblast" that unsafe 44 yards behind the weapon when it is fired. So yeah, a bunch of people would have died.
I think he admitted he was not only on drugs when he shot it, he was on hallucinogens. He voluntarily decided not to ever make another movie after this.
If you ever need more Stephen King based insanity - make sure you watch Sleepwalkers! A film based on a screenplay that he wrote that is similarly insane!
Isn't that the movie about cat people or something? I remember watching that with my aunt back in like 91 and being freaked out by someone getting their eyes scratched out or something like that.
I saw this as a kid on The Superstation or TNT. Can’t remember the circumstance but it stuck out in my mind. I lived the film but it also terrified me. The trucks and their loud horns and engines absolutely terrified me. I remember thinking all the trucks and electronics started to come alive because a meteorite with strange energy either passed by or landed on earth. Idk why. Great flick!
One of my all time favorite movies. I alway just picture King walking on set with a briefcase full of cocaine and a short story...and this is what we got.
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid growing up in the early 90's. I used to fake sick from school every Monday when I was 10-12 and watch this every time. I still have it on DVD now, probably watched it less than 6 months ago. Tons of iconic old trucks in it if your into that. Sound track 100% by AC/DC,
That machinegun, M60, was nicknamed "The Pig" when it was used in Vietnam. That's why it makes a grunting sound. And yeah ... Stephen King was so high on cocaine he thought that's a reasonable reference to make.
We have an ice cream truck that still comes around our neighborhood. Apart from wondering if the operator is a pedo, I'll now be thinking about the explosive potential.
Seeing all of those cabover semis in Maximum Overdrive brings back memories because nowadays you don't see many of them on the roads here in the USA anymore.
First of all, you're not wrong. He was high as a kite when he made this. This movie is also why he doesn't make more movies. From IMDB Trivia: When asked why he hasn't directed a movie since "Maximum Overdrive", Stephen King responded "Just watch Maximum Overdrive." Stephen King, being a former cocaine addict, later admitted that he was "coked out of my mind" the entire time he was making this picture and often didn't know what he was doing. He remarked that he'd like to try directing again someday, this time sober.
@@JasonBrant I always thought of it as 'the trucks are like wolves, and the cars are like domestic dogs' - like, the same general species, but very different breeds..? In the short story, a character describes seeing a Greyhound bus hunting down a VW Bug and ramming it off the road.
@@parisgreen4600 I think in the short story it's ONLY the trucks and not EVERY machine, and there's no aliensdidit explanation at the end. This short story (or subsequent film) also inspired (was ripped off by) a Tharg's Future Shocks episode in 2000AD called "All of them were empty".
It's interesting. From what I have heard the reason why the death scenes seem to cut away before you see anything is because the movie had to be cut back to make it a R rated movie. The original submitted cut of this was apparently given an X rating and had to be cut back to make it R. So the original was even more gory and violent and apparently crazy than what was actually released.
I remember seen a picture of the baseball guy who was hit it in the head by a can in Fangoria magazine. His forehead had a huge hematoma which was squirting blood. That wasn't in the version I saw and I was disappointed...
Some trivia: King showed george Romero an unrated version this film and when the steamroller took out the kid Romero had to look away. The DP lost an eye while making this film. The number squibs used for the M60 attack were not safe use on an older actor so Pat Hingle wasn't shown being shot.
Stephen king has disowned this movie and yes, he was blitzed out of his mind while filming it. Emilio Estevez has stated in interviews that whenever he speaks to king, he always apologizes to him for it over and over. Personally, I love this movie.
I love how the machines have the ability to articulate in ways that have no mechanical engineering like maneuvering the .50 Caliber rifle mounted on the jeep (which requires outside force to swivel), yet they can't operate the gas pumps.
Oh trust me, if someone is enough of a Stephen King adaptation fan, they've seen Maximum Overdrive. They might not admit to it, but in their shameful little hearts they know they've seen it.
Actually, Dino did say no. King actually wanted Bruce Springsteen (yes, The Boss in a movie with an AC/DC soundtrack) to play the role of Billy (Emilio Estevez was chosen by Dino allegedly).
There's a line from King's autobigoraphical book "On Writing" that really stuck with me. "Besides, if you write a stinker--it happens, as the author of 'Maximum Overdrive', I'm fully qualified to say so...."
This bastard of a flick. I rented it as VHS, the player ate the tape and so I never got to see how it ended. Then the rental firm charged me for damaging their goods. But then again, not seeing the end means that for me personally this had one of the better endings of any King movie adaptations.
This film is great lol I first saw it on VHS in the 80s. King, while indeed coked out of his mind, made a comment to Dino DeLaurentis (Italian producer who had made bunch low budget King films-Cat's Eye, Silver Bullet) that the adaptations his work were crap. deLaurentis gave King full creative control and millions to make his own film. The chance to make a King adaptation right. LMFAO The result is priceless. In interviews King metioned he was listening to AC/DC while writing the screenplay and that's when they're the music.
My parents had a spar shop with a small video rental shelf. When this came out I was 6 we received a copy and I watched it and kept it never once got rented out …. No wonder I’m deranged 😂
This was the movie that had my Dad and I get hooked on B movies in the 80's... lol I have been watching your channel like a religion the last 5 days... absolutely love your content.. thank you for all you're doing and keep it up!
When i was 12 this came on TV and my step mom saw the ACDC truck and said i shoild watch this since its got ACDC music. XD one of the best random movies ive ever watched
When I was a young autistic kid, I thought Maximum Overdrive was the most awesome movie ever, because it had the three things I loved most: trucks, guns, and explosions! As I grew older my fascination with trucks moved on to trains and finally airplanes. I retained my interest in military history and weapons and learned about the politics involved, which is where I learned critical thinking. So, yeah; from a storytelling standpoint the movie is not good but it's still fun to watch.
, was the trailer where he's red-faced, clearly either drunk or high and he's monologuing alone at the camera, threatening to, "...scare the hell out of you!" as short clips from this opus flash as he speaks. Every popular genre novelist should get the chance to write and direct a movie of his or her own work but the deal is they have to create a trailer exactly like that. Absolutely brilliant!
This was a great 50th ep! I laughed quite a bit & loved your analysis at the end. You hit on all the points, that I too consider this a "so bad its good", flick. I look forward to getting the Blu-ray & checking out the special features.
"Cocaine King" How true. King was actually high/coked af when he made the movie. Oh, and bonus fun fact: It was also cut down by the MPAA (case in point, the kid getting crushed by the steamroller), and King has the (only) original uncut print, with zero plans to release it, from what I can tell.
Vibration can move a blade that's powered by electricity sir. And the part where the kid gets chased by a lawnmower, at the end of the scene where the kid is riding his bmx bike. It looked odd and cut shots after the lawn mower started, was because the mower malfunctioned and ended up hurting the kid pretty bad. So they cut the scene and kept what they could...
You guys should check out some behind the scenes stuff on this movie. The production was insane with like no safety regulations. One dude lost an eye during stunt work.
10:24 even more impressive is the fact that he reloaded an m72 which can't actually be reloaded and is basically just a useless tube once it's been fired. Also he's firing it from the hip for whatever reason.
You crazy idiot!! They put sights on the thing for commies and pussies to use so they don't risk blowing themselves up. A REAL Man who makes Love like a hero or says "God..Dammmit" doesn't NEED sights. Oh yeah, and cos cocaine.
I loved this movie as a kid, and fell in love with AC/DC because of it. As a teen and adult, I have read a lot of Steven King and he is my favorite writer. Watching this movie 20 years later, I picked it apart like they did. Still best movie soundtrack ever.
This movie was definitely a guilty pleasure movie. I still have a fondness for it. It’s not a masterpiece blockbuster but rather just a simple, fun, quirky and entertaining movie.
Im proud to say that this guys have managed to change the way i watch videos.i use to surf for something good or entertaining.now I get both plus a lots of laughter. Thanks guys
I saw this at a drive in when it came out. I was six so I didn't really understand what was going on, but I guess it had cool visuals because I remer 36 years later.
When asked if King would direct a film again, he said "just watch Maximum Overdrive." 😅 I did enjoy it and have it on DVD, as one of those, silly Sunday afternoon type films.
In the end credits, they thank Pablo Escobar. Also, this short story was made as "Trucks" starring Timothy Busfield. It's lower budget but much, much better. The ending makes me wish it got a sequel.
8:51 I've noticed in the movie that semi with the flatbed trailer was the same one with the toilet paper box trailer & it's also the same one that hit & flipped the newly wed couple's car which caused it to land upside down while the flatbed trailer was still hooked up to it. The flatbed trailer on that semi was only shown in just those 2 scenes.
17:01 - 17:05 I didn't understand this reference at first because I lived in Texas my whole life and never saw a Giant grocery store. Now that I live in Virginia, this made me laugh so hard.
Have you seen 'Sleepwalkers'? 5:00 The Nostalgia Critic had a funny remark for that scene. 😅 6:01 Bad but entertaining. 10:05 Shoulder that LAW, greenhorn! Btw, that's either an M72 LAW (66mm single-use "Light Anti-tank Weapon") or the reloadable training version, either way converted for use with theatrical pyrotechnics. Probably the training version. Too bad everyone fires it from the hip. Btw, it's a 'Nam-era thing. 12:09 Who made who? 15:19 M-60. Another 'Nam-era thing. 16:17 Napalm. Another 'Nam-era thing. 17:22 Unfold that stock, greenhorn! 17:23 More like the Czech Resistance. He's basically a young Kyle Reese at this point. 17:34 That's a Sterling L2A3. It's British. Fun fact: It's the basis for the E-11 Imperial blaster from Star Wars. 17:47 Extract that stock, greenhorn! 17:57 [[insert Killer Klowns from Outer Space reference]]
I just subscribed to your channel today, kinda of under the weather today & I've watching since this morning & been lmmfaooo ever since, I seen this when I was 16 back in 1986 in the theater, cocaine is a hell of a drug, damn now I got you guys Brandon tenold & the cinema snob to watch bat sh*t crazy ass movies to make me feel better, thanks I appreciate you & keep em coming please bro 💯✌️
Pat Hingle not being shot by the M60 makes sense. He did have some age on him and number of squids used could have injured him. I'm willing to bet guy in green shirt who did get shot multiple times may have been a stuntman.
"King himself later denounced Maximum Overdrive, calling it a “moron movie,” while admitting he was under the influence of substances during shooting. Indeed the film was a legitimate disaster for cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi, who was injured during filming of a scene involving a runaway lawn mower.Mar 31, 2021"
Per Wikipedia: Maximum Overdrive was theatrically released on July 25, 1986, to generally negative reviews from critics. It was nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Director for King and Worst Actor for Estevez in 1987, but both lost to Prince for Under the Cherry Moon. In 1988, Maximum Overdrive was nominated for "Best Film" at the International Fantasy Film Awards.[6] King disowned the film, describing it as a "moron movie", and considered the process a learning experience,[7] after which he intended never to direct again.[8
When I was 9 I snuck out of bed and went downstairs to watch TV. This movie had just started and my dad came down stairs and found me. Instead of giving out and sending me to bed we sat together and watched this until like 3am - just the two of us on the couch. It's one of the best memories of my life, and as such this movie holds a very special place in my heart.
I watched it in the hotel room. When we got back from Disneyland. I was also around that age.
Did that with my dad with Predator, Blues Brothers, and multiple Three Stooges episodes. Each time holds a special place in my heart, it's not just about the movie, but it helps haha
Nice👌❤️
Thank you for sharing brother.
Awww that's sweet I have the same thing with my dad and "still smoking" the two dogs bit near the end.... I have never seen my dad laugh that hard since.
"Apparently he's not good at making movies or walking on the side of the road." Greatest. Joke. Ever.
He really caught me off guard with that one!
For grubs
LOL nasty
I loved the slow turn 😂 "what he lived!"
Hey you can't blame King for the asshole that hit him.
The L.A.W. rocket launcher can only be fired once! They were preloaded in the factory. Once you fired that shot, you're done and left with useless scrap metal.
Cocaine King disagrees.
@@JasonBrant lmao
You're not seriously talking about realistic weapon function in a movie?
@@FlyboyHelosim ofcourse not! It's supposed to shoot laser beams.
And the way he held it, the backblast would have annihilated him.
Apparently King was so high when the made this "movie" that he doesn't remember the shoot (which is a good thing, come to think of it). He has lost the right to complain about adaptations of his work because he made this. Congratulations btw.
Thanks! Wouldn't surprise me if he couldn't remember this. That would actually make me understand how the final product came out like this, haha.
@@JasonBrant It's not going to be easy to top this. I'm afraid you'll have to do a Godfrey Ho movie next.
@@wimvanderstraeten6521 We just might have one of those coming up soon...
@@wimvanderstraeten6521 I agree!!
Totally disagree. He made it for fun and it is fun.
As a trucker and a horror movie fanatic, I would sell my soul to own that Green goblin toy truck. Also, for anybody who cares, the guy who's robbing the cigarettes and change from the game room is Gustav Fring from breaking bad.
Walt should have just used a pinball machine to kill him. Way easier.
Being A) British, and B) a massive Star Wars fan, the kid with the machine gun wasn't holding a German sub-machine gun... It was a British Sterling... which incidentally is the Stormtroopers gun in Star Wars... (with a scope added)...
Also, I've not long found your channel and have binge watched most of it in a week... Keep up the excellent work!
Thanks for the info! I appreciate it.
I love when I see other people comment on things that I also noticed. People my age and younger do not know enough about firearms or things in general lol
The Sterling L2A3, basis for the E-11 Imperial blaster.
You saved me typing well done😊
Also the guy on the left looks like he's carrying an FN FAL, which the British built under license as the L1A1 SLR. Both were in UK service for some time, and ultimately replaced by the L85
The lady's "we made you" rant is one of the best acting moments in cinematic history.
You wanna see a really good rant? Watch 'Dangerous Living.'
You can tell King really thought that was the thesis of the film. She's just so passionate about screaming that, as if it makes sense.
AC/DC's "Who made Who" is on the soundtrack and I think it's a reference to that. Who made who? We made you!
"Is she old enough to be married?"
Considering the shit King does to kids in all his books, it doesn't matter lol
Who? The voice of Lisa Simpson?
Lmao, yup
The dude that gets zapped in the arcade is none other than Giancarlo Esposito.
In the mid-1980s, King struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, and was later very frank with how his habitual use of cocaine, Valium, and Xanax impacted his work. He had frequent blackouts and admitted that he doesn’t really remember writing Cujo. As for Maximum Overdrive? “The problem with that film is that I was coked out of my mind all through its production, and I didn’t know what I was doing,” King said.
On July 31, 1985, tragedy struck on the set of the film when a radio-controlled lawnmower that was being featured as one of the film’s sentient machines malfunctioned and struck a piece of wood that was being used as a camera support. Though cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi had wanted to remove the blades from the lawnmower before filming, King reportedly wanted it to be as realistic as possible. So when the out-of-control machine struck the wood, the wedge splintered and injured Nannuzzi so badly that he lost his right eye.
That eye story is nuts.
"The survivors of the Dixie Boy are still survivors" The final sentence of that narration hurts my brain 😱
Fun Fact: the truckstop boss with the rocket launcher is Pat Hingle, who was well-known back in the day. His IMDb filmography goes on for miles, and I think he did a lot of live theater too. Always fun to watch.
He is. He also has the best gotdamnit in the business.
"Stephen King wrote this!" 😂 Awesome guys and congrats to the 50th Episode.
Thank you!
And directed
"Stephen King wrote and directed this while on cocaine!" FTFY
I have been binging on dozens of your episodes. Hail the TH-cam algorithm for sending me to your channel. This channel has potential keep it up guys!
Much appreciated! We have some crazy movies coming up.
i kno bro youtube really looked out for this recommend
@@bgva4349 TH-cam is really pushing this channel for whatever reason, but it's much appreciated and well deserved. Watching all of Jason's videos going back years...and lov'in it!!!
I was T-boned by a guy that ran a red and my car flipped forward like that. Congrats on 50!!! Boy I can't believe this movie freaked me out as a kid, loved laughing with you guys watching it!
Thanks so much! The movie is nuts.
I absolutely adore this movie, it was a personal favorite of mine when I was a kid.
It's wild. Have you watched it as an adult?
@@JasonBrant lol, yes and I realize it’s awful but I love it all the same. The entire movie is a cocaine fueled disaster.
The rocket launcher used in this movie was an M72 Light Armor Weapon (aka LAW).
It can't be reloaded, it is discarded after a single shot. It also has a "backblast" that unsafe 44 yards behind the weapon when it is fired. So yeah, a bunch of people would have died.
Cocaine King strikes again!
Oh no, NONE of these films are actually GOOD. Entertaining maybe, but not good.
I think he admitted he was not only on drugs when he shot it, he was on hallucinogens. He voluntarily decided not to ever make another movie after this.
After years of RLM/Brandon Tenold/Fanboy Flicks/Redeye Review rewatching, its nice to find another channel with quality bad movie content to binge.
If you ever need more Stephen King based insanity - make sure you watch Sleepwalkers! A film based on a screenplay that he wrote that is similarly insane!
The mother/son stuff is so strange in that movie.
Seen that one too lmao
@Jason Brant right like super weird.
Isn't that the movie about cat people or something? I remember watching that with my aunt back in like 91 and being freaked out by someone getting their eyes scratched out or something like that.
@@nomadjensen8276 yes it is about cat people
I saw this as a kid on The Superstation or TNT. Can’t remember the circumstance but it stuck out in my mind. I lived the film but it also terrified me. The trucks and their loud horns and engines absolutely terrified me. I remember thinking all the trucks and electronics started to come alive because a meteorite with strange energy either passed by or landed on earth. Idk why. Great flick!
One of my all time favorite movies. I alway just picture King walking on set with a briefcase full of cocaine and a short story...and this is what we got.
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You are now on maximum overdrive after the 200th episode!
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid growing up in the early 90's. I used to fake sick from school every Monday when I was 10-12 and watch this every time. I still have it on DVD now, probably watched it less than 6 months ago. Tons of iconic old trucks in it if your into that. Sound track 100% by AC/DC,
It's a lot of fun. Killer soundtrack.
_"He didn't Carrie Fisher himself."_
Oh, I'm definitely using that...
It's funny that Stand By Me came out close to the same time and was also (based on a story) written by King. Quite the contrast.
That machinegun, M60, was nicknamed "The Pig" when it was used in Vietnam. That's why it makes a grunting sound. And yeah ... Stephen King was so high on cocaine he thought that's a reasonable reference to make.
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Cocaine is a helluva drug.
“Did you know ice cream was explosive?”…this is important life information.
We have an ice cream truck that still comes around our neighborhood. Apart from wondering if the operator is a pedo, I'll now be thinking about the explosive potential.
Seeing all of those cabover semis in Maximum Overdrive brings back memories because nowadays you don't see many of them on the roads here in the USA anymore.
I do miss seeing those.
First of all, you're not wrong. He was high as a kite when he made this.
This movie is also why he doesn't make more movies.
From IMDB Trivia:
When asked why he hasn't directed a movie since "Maximum Overdrive", Stephen King responded "Just watch Maximum Overdrive."
Stephen King, being a former cocaine addict, later admitted that he was "coked out of my mind" the entire time he was making this picture and often didn't know what he was doing. He remarked that he'd like to try directing again someday, this time sober.
This movie scared me as a kid. Plus l also had the question “why ain’t the cars coming to life”.
The rules in this don't make any sense.
@@JasonBrant I always thought of it as 'the trucks are like wolves, and the cars are like domestic dogs' - like, the same general species, but very different breeds..? In the short story, a character describes seeing a Greyhound bus hunting down a VW Bug and ramming it off the road.
@@parisgreen4600 Definitely could have used some explanation.
Also how did the electric knife pick itself up and move itself around?
@@parisgreen4600 I think in the short story it's ONLY the trucks and not EVERY machine, and there's no aliensdidit explanation at the end. This short story (or subsequent film) also inspired (was ripped off by) a Tharg's Future Shocks episode in 2000AD called "All of them were empty".
The demon truck front end actually still exists. A guy tours it around the country and will pose it in front of your truck on a dolly device.
It's interesting. From what I have heard the reason why the death scenes seem to cut away before you see anything is because the movie had to be cut back to make it a R rated movie. The original submitted cut of this was apparently given an X rating and had to be cut back to make it R. So the original was even more gory and violent and apparently crazy than what was actually released.
Thanks for the info.
I remember seen a picture of the baseball guy who was hit it in the head by a can in Fangoria magazine. His forehead had a huge hematoma which was squirting blood. That wasn't in the version I saw and I was disappointed...
Some trivia: King showed george Romero an unrated version this film and when the steamroller took out the kid Romero had to look away. The DP lost an eye while making this film. The number squibs used for the M60 attack were not safe use on an older actor so Pat Hingle wasn't shown being shot.
Stephen king has disowned this movie and yes, he was blitzed out of his mind while filming it. Emilio Estevez has stated in interviews that whenever he speaks to king, he always apologizes to him for it over and over. Personally, I love this movie.
I love how the machines have the ability to articulate in ways that have no mechanical engineering like maneuvering the .50 Caliber rifle mounted on the jeep (which requires outside force to swivel), yet they can't operate the gas pumps.
This movie makes no goddamn sense.
It pulls its own trigger maybe its some kind of inside joke. Lmao
THAT’S where you draw the “suspension of disbelief” line with this flick? 🤣
That wasn't a .50 cal.
@Joe King Yet they couldn't "manipulate" gas pumps LOL
Oh trust me, if someone is enough of a Stephen King adaptation fan, they've seen Maximum Overdrive. They might not admit to it, but in their shameful little hearts they know they've seen it.
I'd rather admit to this one than Pet Sematary.
Maximum Overdrive to Stephen King is what a grilled cheese sandwich is to Gordon Ramsay: a disastrous effort.
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Actually, Dino did say no. King actually wanted Bruce Springsteen (yes, The Boss in a movie with an AC/DC soundtrack) to play the role of Billy (Emilio Estevez was chosen by Dino allegedly).
There's a line from King's autobigoraphical book "On Writing" that really stuck with me.
"Besides, if you write a stinker--it happens, as the author of 'Maximum Overdrive', I'm fully qualified to say so...."
This bastard of a flick. I rented it as VHS, the player ate the tape and so I never got to see how it ended. Then the rental firm charged me for damaging their goods.
But then again, not seeing the end means that for me personally this had one of the better endings of any King movie adaptations.
Haha, he finally nailed an ending for you.
This film is great lol I first saw it on VHS in the 80s. King, while indeed coked out of his mind, made a comment to Dino DeLaurentis (Italian producer who had made bunch low budget King films-Cat's Eye, Silver Bullet) that the adaptations his work were crap. deLaurentis gave King full creative control and millions to make his own film. The chance to make a King adaptation right. LMFAO The result is priceless. In interviews King metioned he was listening to AC/DC while writing the screenplay and that's when they're the music.
My parents had a spar shop with a small video rental shelf. When this came out I was 6 we received a copy and I watched it and kept it never once got rented out …. No wonder I’m deranged 😂
This was the movie that had my Dad and I get hooked on B movies in the 80's... lol I have been watching your channel like a religion the last 5 days... absolutely love your content.. thank you for all you're doing and keep it up!
Thanks so much! This is a great way to get into bad movies.
"We made you!" waitress clearly got into some of Stephen's stash.
When i was 12 this came on TV and my step mom saw the ACDC truck and said i shoild watch this since its got ACDC music. XD one of the best random movies ive ever watched
3:54 I hear that guy managed to survive the ordeal and ended up starting a successful fried chicken franchise.
When I was a young autistic kid, I thought Maximum Overdrive was the most awesome movie ever, because it had the three things I loved most: trucks, guns, and explosions! As I grew older my fascination with trucks moved on to trains and finally airplanes. I retained my interest in military history and weapons and learned about the politics involved, which is where I learned critical thinking. So, yeah; from a storytelling standpoint the movie is not good but it's still fun to watch.
, was the trailer where he's red-faced, clearly either drunk or high and he's monologuing alone at the camera, threatening to, "...scare the hell out of you!" as short clips from this opus flash as he speaks.
Every popular genre novelist should get the chance to write and direct a movie of his or her own work but the deal is they have to create a trailer exactly like that. Absolutely brilliant!
🤣 That trailer is so cringe.
King's lazy eye is distracting in that
This was a great 50th ep! I laughed quite a bit & loved your analysis at the end. You hit on all the points, that I too consider this a "so bad its good", flick. I look forward to getting the Blu-ray & checking out the special features.
I need to check out the special features too. Gotta be interesting. And thanks!
"Cocaine King"
How true. King was actually high/coked af when he made the movie.
Oh, and bonus fun fact: It was also cut down by the MPAA (case in point, the kid getting crushed by the steamroller), and King has the (only) original uncut print, with zero plans to release it, from what I can tell.
I wonder why he hasn't released it, assuming he has it. Would be a fun watch, just like this was.
@@JasonBrant He has preeeeetty much disowned it. (Remember, it was the 80's: Coked as all hell!)
@@miraculousismyguiltypleasu9372 #ReleaseTheCocaineKingCut
Vibration can move a blade that's powered by electricity sir.
And the part where the kid gets chased by a lawnmower, at the end of the scene where the kid is riding his bmx bike. It looked odd and cut shots after the lawn mower started, was because the mower malfunctioned and ended up hurting the kid pretty bad. So they cut the scene and kept what they could...
You guys should check out some behind the scenes stuff on this movie. The production was insane with like no safety regulations. One dude lost an eye during stunt work.
Someone lost an eye? Jesus.
10:24 even more impressive is the fact that he reloaded an m72 which can't actually be reloaded and is basically just a useless tube once it's been fired. Also he's firing it from the hip for whatever reason.
Because cocaine.
You crazy idiot!! They put sights on the thing for commies and pussies to use so they don't risk blowing themselves up. A REAL Man who makes Love like a hero or says "God..Dammmit" doesn't NEED sights. Oh yeah, and cos cocaine.
I loved this movie as a kid, and fell in love with AC/DC because of it. As a teen and adult, I have read a lot of Steven King and he is my favorite writer. Watching this movie 20 years later, I picked it apart like they did. Still best movie soundtrack ever.
Awesome soundtrack.
But King was coked out of his mind when he made it. I saw an interview where he admitted it.
I unironically love this movie. I don't think it's neccessarily 'bad', it's more just a riff on old drive-in monster flicks.
I liked it too when I was young. It's entertaining in the 80's excess type of way and it's quite original.
This movie was definitely a guilty pleasure movie. I still have a fondness for it. It’s not a masterpiece blockbuster but rather just a simple, fun, quirky and entertaining movie.
Im proud to say that this guys have managed to change the way i watch videos.i use to surf for something good or entertaining.now I get both plus a lots of laughter. Thanks guys
I appreciate that! Thanks 🤣
When I was younger and I saw this movie, I genuinely avoided semi trucks that were idling when I was crossing the street for like a month.
That “Gotdammit” guy plays Parker Williams step dad in “In The Heat Of The Night”. Talks the same way 🤣
That fully grown WOMAN who you thought looked like some 12 yr old is actually the person who voices Lisa Simpson's character on The Simpsons.
That lisa simpson woman said Stephen King almost got everyone killed by being so high for the majority of the movie
Jason: Erin's never said that to me.
Brian: yeah, me neither
@7:41 That's how you converted a payphone to a mobile phone in the 80s.
Stephen King was drunk while writing most of his stuff, makes sense 8)
I saw this at a drive in when it came out. I was six so I didn't really understand what was going on, but I guess it had cool visuals because I remer 36 years later.
This is such a cool “drive in” type movie.
Love it. An underrated classic.
A great drive-in movie!
@@JasonBrant have you guys seen the ridiculously underrated Night Flier?
That is a great but barely known King adaptation.
@@cantsay8894 I saw it when it came out. I remember liking it, particularly the ending.
When asked if King would direct a film again, he said "just watch Maximum Overdrive." 😅 I did enjoy it and have it on DVD, as one of those, silly Sunday afternoon type films.
I watched this movie 100 times growing up. Still laugh at all the ridiculous stuff.
This movie is pure 80's guilty pleasure.
I thought everyone had seen this movie that is over 35 years old. Its one of those movies that was on TV all the time when I was a youngster.
I like at the beginning the facial expressions of “Jesus, do you know how to relax and have fun” from the guy on the left…lol
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You can stop watching after the steamroller scene and get just about everything you need from it. I saw this as a kid and that's all I remember.
How did i not see this channel before today, this is great.
That vending machine hitting that guy in the nuts with a flying pop can automatically makes this movie good
This is my Son's favorite Movie. He's 13, and he's loved it since he was like 6. Of course he saw me watching it, and that's how he began to love it.
Raising him right!
@@JasonBrant I'm trying
I’m guessing Stephen King is more than a little bit relieved that he can’t remember making this movie.
In the end credits, they thank Pablo Escobar.
Also, this short story was made as "Trucks" starring Timothy Busfield. It's lower budget but much, much better. The ending makes me wish it got a sequel.
Really? Escobar?
You should see the movie trailer. King actually talks to the camera and says that he directed this because no filmmaker can get his vision right.
That trailer is pure coke.
8:51 I've noticed in the movie that semi with the flatbed trailer was the same one with the toilet paper box trailer & it's also the same one that hit & flipped the newly wed couple's car which caused it to land upside down while the flatbed trailer was still hooked up to it. The flatbed trailer on that semi was only shown in just those 2 scenes.
Damn, good catch.
The promo on TV back when it came out had a bearded King madly looking at the camera saying, "Im gonna scare the Hell out of you!"
That trailer is so insane.
So I found the channel last night cause of that Segal video but y'all were so funny in that one I've been binge watching the back catalog
Thanks! Enjoy that terrible ride.
The scene where the soda machine starts pelting everybody used to make me laugh my ass off
"The survivors of the Dixie Boy are still survivors." LMAO
17:01 - 17:05
I didn't understand this reference at first because I lived in Texas my whole life and never saw a Giant grocery store. Now that I live in Virginia, this made me laugh so hard.
Green Goblin on front, Pennywise on the back of the Happy Toyz truck.
5:05 I love Bryan's reaction... Priceless.
Blew his mind.
@@JasonBrant BTW, Congratulations on the 50th episode. Hope to see a Lot of wtf movies this october, like Halloween 3 or Killer Workout.
Halloween 3 is a great movie. Gonna pretend I didn't just read that, haha. We have some really fun horror movies coming over the next two weeks.
@@JasonBrant You'll deliver, I know it XD
Have you seen 'Sleepwalkers'?
5:00 The Nostalgia Critic had a funny remark for that scene. 😅
6:01 Bad but entertaining.
10:05 Shoulder that LAW, greenhorn! Btw, that's either an M72 LAW (66mm single-use "Light Anti-tank Weapon") or the reloadable training version, either way converted for use with theatrical pyrotechnics. Probably the training version. Too bad everyone fires it from the hip. Btw, it's a 'Nam-era thing.
12:09 Who made who?
15:19 M-60. Another 'Nam-era thing.
16:17 Napalm. Another 'Nam-era thing.
17:22 Unfold that stock, greenhorn!
17:23 More like the Czech Resistance. He's basically a young Kyle Reese at this point.
17:34 That's a Sterling L2A3. It's British. Fun fact: It's the basis for the E-11 Imperial blaster from Star Wars.
17:47 Extract that stock, greenhorn!
17:57 [[insert Killer Klowns from Outer Space reference]]
Seen it both sober, not sober and we'd have to say that the later is the preferred way to view this one. Great vid.
I just subscribed to your channel today, kinda of under the weather today & I've watching since this morning & been lmmfaooo ever since, I seen this when I was 16 back in 1986 in the theater, cocaine is a hell of a drug, damn now I got you guys Brandon tenold & the cinema snob to watch bat sh*t crazy ass movies to make me feel better, thanks I appreciate you & keep em coming please bro 💯✌️
Pat Hingle not being shot by the M60 makes sense. He did have some age on him and number of squids used could have injured him. I'm willing to bet guy in green shirt who did get shot multiple times may have been a stuntman.
Congratulations guys on your 50th video.
Thanks so much!
"King himself later denounced Maximum Overdrive, calling it a “moron movie,” while admitting he was under the influence of substances during shooting. Indeed the film was a legitimate disaster for cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi, who was injured during filming of a scene involving a runaway lawn mower.Mar 31, 2021"
This was a kick ass movie when you were 12 years old and getting into metal in the 80’s. I can see where you guys are coming from though, haha!
I remember seeing the kid get run over with the steam roller when I was a child. Crazy scene you'd never see today.
I remember watching this movie 100,000 times as a kid in the mid 90s on TBS Superstation
When I read the video title, I knew only one thing: The answer to the question "How did Stephen King make this?" is "Cocaine."
Per Wikipedia: Maximum Overdrive was theatrically released on July 25, 1986, to generally negative reviews from critics. It was nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Director for King and Worst Actor for Estevez in 1987, but both lost to Prince for Under the Cherry Moon. In 1988, Maximum Overdrive was nominated for "Best Film" at the International Fantasy Film Awards.[6] King disowned the film, describing it as a "moron movie", and considered the process a learning experience,[7] after which he intended never to direct again.[8
"How did Stephen King make this?" Drunk and blitzed out of his mind on coke.
Congrats on 50! Here's to 50 more!
Thanks so much! Hopefully, the next 50 will release a lot faster.
At 15:17, I just noticed that the bullet wounds paint out a happy face. Good ol Stephen CoKing!
I happen to like this movie. And I still think of the scene where the bridge opens up when the cars are going over it whenever I go over a bridge.