maximum overdrive
August 18, 2008 by Cash
A couple of years ago a friend of mine gave me a handful of VHS tapes that he’d just replaced with DVDs. They’ve basically sat on the shelf gathering dust since then. Amongst the goodies was Maximum Overdrive, a movie I’d never seen. Until yesterday.
I can’t overstate the sheer awesomeness of this movie. I haven’t laughed outloud at something so impossibly stupid in years.
Between the ridiculous premise (a comet’s tail causing machines to go berserk and start attacking humans), the absolutely retarded performances (one highlight here is the ’sobbing’ girl who turns to Emilio Estevez for comfort) to the jawdropping comedy of repeated random acts of totally senseless violence, it’s beyond a cult classic.
By the time the waitress runs outside to confront the circling posse of semi-trucks with her screams of “WE MAAAADE YOUUUUUU!” (before getting gunned down by a machine gun equipped army vehicle, I’d almost had too much. I was out of breath.
If you haven’t seen this yet, you should be punished.
I plan on making a Maximum Overdrive drinking game wherein you chug every time something stupid happens. We’ll be drunk in ten minutes, tops.
That picture looks like Large Marge from Pee-Wee.
VCR? What is that?
Even when I saw this as a kid, I thought it was ridiculous, but still fun. Ah yes. The gloriously excessive 80’s. I’ve probably seen this half a dozen times. Thanks for the flashback.
Don’t forget the way awesome soundtrack too.
For another awesome relic of the 80’s check out Beat Street. The 80’s answer to Saturday Night Fever, only this time its hip hop and breakdancing. Throw in some grafitti, early turntablism, and dance fights, and a cameo by Grand Master Flash. Quality.
YES! Beat Street was like the thinking man’s ‘breakin 2, electric boogaloo’