I need help identifying a movie...

slugg

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Okay so basically... all machines in every day life (appliances, trucks, etc) come "alive" and start attacking people.

What movie is this? I did the best googling I could, but all I got was epic fail.
 

Captante

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Based on a short story originally called Trucks by Stephen King ... the story was pretty good but the movie was meh.
 

MotionMan

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Originally posted by: Captante
Based on a short story originally called Trucks by Stephen King ... the story was pretty good but the movie was meh.

I joke that I do not read books because it ruins the movie. ;)

Maximum Overdrive is one of the few movies made from a book (or story) that I read. The movie did not live up to the story.

MotionMan
 

jonks

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Any Emilio Estevez movie where a soda machine kills someone is ok in my book.
 

sandorski

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I love that movie. Stephen King didn't like it, so another more close to the book version was made, but it totally sucked.
 

hanoverphist

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Originally posted by: Captante
Based on a short story originally called Trucks by Stephen King ... the story was pretty good but the movie was meh.

i liked the movie... and the sound track was good.
 

Genx87

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Maximum Overdrive is a cult classic. Estevez did some great B movies in the 1980s. Repo Man is another cult classic.
 

Dr. Detroit

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The red-neck owner was great. I loved his lines and that southern-drawl of his.

The whiny just got married biatch I could do without.


Great movie!
 

Arkaign

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Originally posted by: Genx87
Maximum Overdrive is a cult classic. Estevez did some great B movies in the 1980s. Repo Man is another cult classic.

Ooo how about Freejack? Came out in '90 or so, costarring Anthony Hopkins and Mick Jagger? Interesting film, and had a youngish Rene Russo as well I think.
 
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Originally posted by: Genx87
Maximum Overdrive is a cult classic. Estevez did some great B movies in the 1980s. Repo Man is another cult classic.

I make Repoman references all the time including on this forum and nobody ever gets them. We actually covered it in a college art class.
 

KK

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Originally posted by: MotionMan
Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
stephen king played the bus driver.

"Meteor shit!"

--- Jordy Verrill (In a different, and better, movie)

MotionMan

what was that, creep show?
 

jonks

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I like this game.

I remember an 80s movie where a comet flew too close to the earth and everyone got turned into red dust or zombies...anyone?
 

MotionMan

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Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: Genx87
Maximum Overdrive is a cult classic. Estevez did some great B movies in the 1980s. Repo Man is another cult classic.

Ooo how about Freejack? Came out in '90 or so, costarring Anthony Hopkins and Mick Jagger? Interesting film, and had a youngish Rene Russo as well I think.

Mission: Impossible (1996)
Judgment Night (1993) (with Denis Leary playing a really, REALLY bad guy)
Another Stakeout (1993)
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
The Mighty Ducks (1992)
Freejack (1992)
Men at Work (1990) ("Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy!")
Young Guns (1988)
Stakeout (1987)
Wisdom (1986) (with a very young and very hot Demi Moore, but a terrible ending)
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Repo Man (1984)

To name a few.

MotionMan