Talk:Maximum Overdrive

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Does anyone know how much this movie cost to make and how much it made at the box office, is making now etc.? Doovinator 06:33, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Did anyone catch the part where they relad the LAW? LAWs are designed to be thrown away after use.

Contents 1 Plot hole error 2 Movie Ending 3 Not based on. 4 Tongue-in-cheek??? 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Max overdrive poster.JPG

[edit] Plot hole error

I want to be sure I'm not the only person who noticed this before I make any changes, but the first plot hole in the plot hole section states "But the main characters escape to an island on a boat with an outboard motor." This is false, they are on a sail boat, there is no visible engine, there's a rather large sail, and there is no engine noise.--Anthonysenn 07:05, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I waited about a week, no objections, so I updated it. --Anthonysenn 04:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Movie Ending

As the movie ends, it is mentioned that a UFO was destroyed by a Soviet "weather" satellite with powerful laser cannon and Class IV nuclear weapons, which may be powerful H-Bombs. Martial Law 07:57, 8 April 2006 (UTC) :)

[edit] Not based on.

If, as the intro states, this movie is "a screenplay inspired by (but not based on) King's short story "Trucks" " then should it be in the "Films based on Stephen King's works" category? Irrevenant 07:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

The Stephen King article states, contradicting the first paragraph here, that the film is not based on "Trucks." Could somebody clarify and correct? Thanks, --Ben ^T/_C 08:24, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Stephen King loosly based this film around one of his earlier short stories, Trucks, but the differences between the film and the short story are actually slight. Both involve trucks coming alive and trapping people in the Dixie Boy Diner, demanding to be refueled or threatening to run over the patrons. I think it would be more than reasonable to put this film into the "Films based on Stephen King's works" category. Jimd 16:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tongue-in-cheek???

I gotta question the neutrality of the facts presented about this movie because, in my own personal opinion, the movie was not blatantly tongue-in-cheek. I felt it was well made for it's time, and it did its job of scaring the crap outta me when I was a kid. Upon viewing it again, I admit the acting style and characters were rather... 80's style... but saying that there was little effort put into making it a serious horror is like saying Lost Boys was a cheesy movie because of the 80's soundtrack throughout. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tfunk3780 (talk • contribs) 17:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC).

I can see how it could scare a child watching it, but for adult audiences it was/is obviously not a horror film which took itself seriously, unlike the Lost Boys (which had some decent special effects and genuine horror moments). This is nothing to do with the fact Maximum Overdrive was made in the 1980s, its just a very, very cheesy film (but still great fun in my opinion!) with hammy acting and daft FX. This is an neutral statement as Stephen King himself called it a "moron movie", and in the trailers for the film he joked about how un-serious the feel of the film is. Every review I've read about the film stated this too. Jimd 16:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Max overdrive poster.JPG

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BetacommandBot 04:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)