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Rating:  -
Ah, this movie is such a classic. From the hilarious scene to where a character named Connie asks her boyfriend: "Curtis....are you DAY-YED!!!!", to a little league baseball team getting hit by flying soda cans (the coach takes one of 'em in the crotch - HAHA!). Also, the soundtrack is by AC/DC (which, by the way, you can buy the soundtrack on CD. It's titled "Who Made Who?"). King's only directorial film is an underrated gem. The film's plot: For a week in 1987, a mysterious comet was floating over Earth. During this week, we have truck stop customers and employees, led by Emilio Estevez (who plays a cook in this movie), trying to stay alive when automobiles and appliances come "alive" and start killing people.
Stephen King was forced to make some cuts to this film in order to avoid an X rating for violence. The scenes cut, to this day have not been reinstated in any release, thus the only version in circulation is the original theatrical cut. The scenes are reported to total around 13 seconds and include:
- Six Seconds of the Dixie Boy shoot out.
- Three seconds of the steam roller running over the boy.
- Three seconds of the salesman's face falling into his lap.
Based on Stephen King's novel "Trucks", this film will satisfy any King or horror movie fan. Check it out.
Rating:  -
Writer Stephen King jumped into the director's chair in this basically silly venture into the macabre. MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE suffers from too much of the same thing; a pretty bad cast except for the delightful Yeardley Smith as a whiny newlywed; amateurish special effects and plot holes a mile deep. To King's credit, he has some pretty outlandish sequences, including a bloodbath at a little league game. Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle and Laura Harrington are some of the actors lost in ill-conceived roles, and the suspense dies early. Aiming for schlock effects and gore, this movie is not one of King's high points and is viewed merely as a kind of "cult" classic in those cheesey B movies.
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This movie is a very good adaptation of the Stephen King story "Trucks" and King even directed this movie . It concerns the passing of a comet over the Earth which animates machines including trucks which then go on a killing spree. Trapped at the Dixie Boy Diner are a group of people including Emilio Estevez and Laura Harrington who sadly we do not see enough of in movies these days. Then you have the usual car chase, explosions, a large body count and the wholesome destruction of a roadside diner/gas station. This is the perfect Drive In Movie which is what King had in mind when he directed it. PLUS as an added bonus the Soundtrack is by the band AC/DC!!!What more could you ask for?
Rating:  -
No joke, I've heard multiple tapes of events he's spoken at (as well as attended one) and he openly states this movie bites.
Those rating 3, 4 or lm*o 5 stars are "Fan Boys".
Don't get me wrong, I like S.King's stuff (It, Misery, Pet Sematary for example) but this one is to be avoided.
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I have to honestly say, this is the best movie I've ever seen. I own three copies of it on VHS, and I plan on buying three more copies on DVD just so that the tapes don't feel lonely. Whenever I start losing faith in Hollywood's ability to make a truly great film, I just plop this little gem in my VCR and a big smile soon appears. By the time the final credits are rolling, tears of gratitude are streaming down my face.
Thank you, Hollywood.
Thank you, Stephen King.
Now, if they would just make a sequel, I could die a completely happy man.
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