Summer of Stephen
Title: Maximum Overdrive
Release Date: 1986 Length: 1 hour 37 minutes Start Date: November 27, 2018 End Date: November 27, 2018 Director: Stephen King Starring: Emilio Estevez, Laura Harrington, Pate Hingle, Yeardley Smith (Yes, Lisa Simpson is in this!) I don’t know how to break it to y’all, but this movie is terrible. And that’s not just my personal opinion. It has a 15% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 50% audience score. Even Stephen King has talked about how awful it is and decided to never direct again after this failure. It’s just so bad! If you remember my post about the short story “Trucks,” upon which this film is based, you’ll recall that my biggest complaint was the lack of explanation for why all of the vehicles suddenly became sentient beings and started running over every human in their path. Well…I take it back. The movie provides that explanation and it is, for lack of a better word, stupid. But in the movie, it’s not just vehicles that are coming to life to torture and kill humans; it’s all machines. And what has caused this? A comet. Fortunately, the movie also gives the humans trapped in the gas station a cache of weapons to use against the vehicles that are forcing them to pump gas in exchange for their survival. Even better, the movie gives the humans Emilio Estevez to figure out the comet was sent by aliens who are using the machines to wipe out the human race so they can take over Earth. (I told you it was stupid.) Spoiler alert: Emilio Estevez helps the other gas station hostages seek refuge on an island that doesn’t allow motorized vehicles. He and the other survivors hang out there for a couple days until a Soviet weather satellite shoots down the alien spaceship. I can’t say I recommend this movie. While it definitely isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever watched, it was still incredibly awful. The best part about it is the soundtrack, which is entirely made up of AC/DC songs.
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