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.
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
@@bgva4349 RUclips 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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I was a trucker too. All you need is to own a replica. The truck was a western star, I forgot what model. But it wouldn't cost much to make a fiberglass Green Goblin shell to go over the front. There was a guy who refurbished one of the ones used in the film. Ask him, he displays it at horror conventions. With the movie ability to for its eyes to glow red. So ya, make a replica man. You could do it. I would love to see 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.
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,
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!
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.
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.
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.
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...."
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 owned one back In 2010. 1982 International 9670, with a double bunk. Logging tires, 24inch and quite a tall vehicle. You had to climb inside with a ladder, wouldn't ever be something I'd drive anyone home drunk in. They'd fall right out and their leg could get caught in the ladder, and legs being broken that way were not uncommon. It was a rebuilt Detroit Diesel, very, very low miles. Also came with a full fuel tanks with twin 150 gallons. Sad that I had to sell it, not long after 2017. I appreciate that they still make brand new cabovers in Europe to this day.
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
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
@@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".
, 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!
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.
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).
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
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'm really late to this party, but watching you watch this was hilarious to me. I probably saw this close to 10x back in the early days of pay movie channels. This was a great episode, got-dammit!
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 💯✌️
"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.
@@JasonBrant the original version of that scene well the dummy had a blood bag that was suppose to smear the roller but it burst. the story goes George Romero was invited on set to watch and almost threw up at that scene and it almost got the movie an X-rating.
I remember seeing this as a kid around the late 2000s, I still don't know I managed to be able to watch this in france, when I was 8 or so I was absolutely terrified of trucks because of that, and tbh I'm still are in a way lol
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...
What he writes and what they make it in a movie are two different things you'll find out alot of things were altered from the books..But he's still the master and be real it's the 80s what do you expect 😂
His novel Christine is much more violent involved and complicated then what John Carpenter did with it for his lukewarm movie adaptation. I understand he had to do some slimming to make it fit into a 90-minute runtime but he gutted so many important things out of the novel.
I doubt anyone is gonna read this, but: Stephen King made a comment about people making bad movies out of his work. His exact comment was "I'm gonna do it right" when he announced he was making it... But listen to the interview and you'll catch that he was trolling. He said other people make BAD movies out of his work and he's gonna do it right (make a bad movie). This movie was intentionally bad. The soundtrack was King's favorite band at the time, and again, intentionally used AC/DC instead of an actual soundtrack writer. Basically, the movie isn't supposed to be scary. It's supposed to be funny.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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 dude that gets zapped in the arcade is none other than Giancarlo Esposito.
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!
"We made you!" waitress clearly got into some of Stephen's stash.
I have been binging on dozens of your episodes. Hail the RUclips 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 RUclips 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!!!
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
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.
After years of RLM/Brandon Tenold/Fanboy Flicks/Redeye Review rewatching, its nice to find another channel with quality bad movie content to binge.
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.
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.
_"He didn't Carrie Fisher himself."_
Oh, I'm definitely using that...
"The survivors of the Dixie Boy are still survivors" The final sentence of that narration hurts my brain 😱
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.
I was a trucker too. All you need is to own a replica. The truck was a western star, I forgot what model. But it wouldn't cost much to make a fiberglass Green Goblin shell to go over the front. There was a guy who refurbished one of the ones used in the film. Ask him, he displays it at horror conventions. With the movie ability to for its eyes to glow red. So ya, make a replica man. You could do it. I would love to see 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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
“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.
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!
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...."
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.
I owned one back In 2010. 1982 International 9670, with a double bunk. Logging tires, 24inch and quite a tall vehicle. You had to climb inside with a ladder, wouldn't ever be something I'd drive anyone home drunk in. They'd fall right out and their leg could get caught in the ladder, and legs being broken that way were not uncommon. It was a rebuilt Detroit Diesel, very, very low miles. Also came with a full fuel tanks with twin 150 gallons. Sad that I had to sell it, not long after 2017. I appreciate that they still make brand new cabovers in Europe to this day.
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 🤣
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.
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
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".
, 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
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
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).
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...
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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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.
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.
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.
Congratulations guys on your 50th video.
Thanks so much!
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.
Congrats on 50! Here's to 50 more!
Thanks so much! Hopefully, the next 50 will release a lot faster.
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.
This is my new favorite channel.
Thanks so much! Merry Christmas!
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
How did i not see this channel before today, this is great.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
I'm really late to this party, but watching you watch this was hilarious to me. I probably saw this close to 10x back in the early days of pay movie channels. This was a great episode, got-dammit!
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
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 💯✌️
"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
Just started watching the channel and I'm addicted, love you guys, please keep making content, you guys make my day.❤️
Thanks so much! Merry Christmas!
@@JasonBrant Merry Christmas to you my friend, thanks for all the awesome content man, I'm now a huge Steven segal fan because of you! ❤️
I watched this movie 100 times growing up. Still laugh at all the ridiculous stuff.
Bless the algorithm for bringing me to this channel. This is top tier stuff!
Welcome aboard!
I like this movie, it's 80s cheesy and stars Emelioooooooo, killer soundtrack too. I would say it's easily the best movie Stephen King ever directed.
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Emilio!!!
My new favorite channel. The Seagal stuff alone is awesome.
I was waiting for your reaction to the kid getting squashed by the steamroller and it didn't dissapoint
That was so insane.
@@JasonBrant the original version of that scene well the dummy had a blood bag that was suppose to smear the roller but it burst. the story goes George Romero was invited on set to watch and almost threw up at that scene and it almost got the movie an X-rating.
That would have been amazing!
If you freeze frame it just right there’s a single frame of his head popping still in the movie.
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Guys that was awesome thank you for that. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Will do!
Brian has some of the best movie reaction faces EVER.....
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@@JasonBrant I took one of the best screen caps of his face in another video but since you can't add a pic to a comment .... @#%@%^@
Jason: Erin's never said that to me.
Brian: yeah, me neither
I remember seeing this as a kid around the late 2000s, I still don't know I managed to be able to watch this in france, when I was 8 or so
I was absolutely terrified of trucks because of that, and tbh I'm still are in a way lol
Those pesky sentient trucks driving around are scary.
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...
Don't stop making these 😢
You got it.
"If he had cut back on the blow, we wouldn't have had MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE." -- Jay Bauman, Red Letter Media
I saw this in the theater and had a blast!
What he writes and what they make it in a movie are two different things you'll find out alot of things were altered from the books..But he's still the master and be real it's the 80s what do you expect 😂
Well, it's Stephen King, so I expected the writing not to be moronic, haha. I'm glad it was though, because it made the movie so much fun!
His novel Christine is much more violent involved and complicated then what John Carpenter did with it for his lukewarm movie adaptation. I understand he had to do some slimming to make it fit into a 90-minute runtime but he gutted so many important things out of the novel.
He made this movie, it wasn't anybody else lol
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.
I doubt anyone is gonna read this, but:
Stephen King made a comment about people making bad movies out of his work. His exact comment was "I'm gonna do it right" when he announced he was making it... But listen to the interview and you'll catch that he was trolling. He said other people make BAD movies out of his work and he's gonna do it right (make a bad movie). This movie was intentionally bad.
The soundtrack was King's favorite band at the time, and again, intentionally used AC/DC instead of an actual soundtrack writer.
Basically, the movie isn't supposed to be scary. It's supposed to be funny.
You are now on maximum overdrive after the 200th episode!
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.
That lisa simpson woman said Stephen King almost got everyone killed by being so high for the majority of the movie
3:54 I hear that guy managed to survive the ordeal and ended up starting a successful fried chicken franchise.
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.
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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.
Everybody remembers Wilford Brimly going on an axe rampage, but nobody remembers Pat Hingle with a rocket launcher.😅
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.
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.
@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 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.
That “Gotdammit” guy plays Parker Williams step dad in “In The Heat Of The Night”. Talks the same way 🤣
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
Stephen king wrote this movie in the middle of the night after doing a mound of cocaine his words
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.
That vending machine hitting that guy in the nuts with a flying pop can automatically makes this movie good
I have a real fond memory of this movie and looking to buy it again.
Something about certain movies that find their ways into your hearts.
This movie is a lot of fun!
The essence of this movie-shooting antitank rockets at semis.
Like how the toilet rolls all fly out of the truck like they were stacked in singles.
PS - you should do Night of the Comet.
Is that the one with the radio station?
@@JasonBrant Yes, radio station and zombies
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!
"The survivors of the Dixie Boy are still survivors." LMAO