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[Raptomex]

It's been a while since I've seen this but I'm very excited. The Blu-ray is out today. Stephen King's directorial debut on cocaine.

Interesting tidbit.

"'I can do 10 movies for you, Dino, but I want Bruce Springsteen.' But Dino said, 'Bruce who? Bruce who?' Dino didn't know. He didn't know he was The Boss; the man who would change rock music. So Stephen King explain[ed] … 'I want to direct Bruce. This is my movie and the truck driver is Bruce Springsteen.' But Dino didn't care. He just [said], 'I'll get Emilio [Estevez], Martin [Sheen's] son.' When that moment became official—that there was no Bruce Springsteen—Stephen King couldn't give a sh*t about the movie. That's my opinion."

http://mentalfloss.com/article/83618/10-sentient-facts-about-maximum-overdrive

 

[TheUsual]

I really need to see this.

 

[Nymphae]

Always thought it was weird that the truck basically has Green Goblin on it.

 

[rbanke]

This was on prime streaming not long ago, my wife said she hadn't seen it so we watched it. Still holds up for the most part, or at least i still liked it and she thought it was entertaining.

 

[Space Runaway]

Still waiting for a release with all the cut footage restored or at least featured as an extra.

 

[Ichabod]

I wonder how long it'll be before this gets remade too.

 

[Airola]

I wonder how long it'll be before this gets remade too.

It'll be minus 21 years.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120380/

 

[888]

Awesome. Loved it. It was an AC/DC album with a really long music video.

 

[DiscoJer]

Would have been a much better movie if he had wanted Lemmy and not Bruce.

 

[Halo0629]

I love this movie when I was a kid and I still think that a tank should have been the main villain in the movie.

 

[Punished Miku]

Man, that is honestly tempting. Saw this about 100x as a kid. The soda machine killing the baseball coach got me lol.

 

[Raptomex]

Apparently Marvel gave the green light to use the Green Goblin mask. That's what I read somewhere anyway. I have to find the article.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

I was weirdly obsessed with this movie as a kid, of course it played on TNT seemingly every weekend in the 90s so that may be one reason why.

But I just loved the idea of big semi-trucks that drive themselves and run people over, to the point that I even rented the movie on VHS once, which was the first time I saw it uncut, what's weird is watching the movie years later I noticed there's a scene in a room with a bunch of nude pinups on the wall, which my innocent eyes never noticed as a kid.

I think it's a pretty good movie, a fun B movie at least, what's unique is few movies capture as legit a blue collar vibe as this one does, it doesn't feel "Hollywood" much at all.