Talk:Maximum Overdrive

You know, I'm fairly sure that M274 is there because the script called for a tank but it was the only military vehicle they could afford / get their hands on. It does rather highlight all the logical issues with the premise to have something with a completely exposed cab show up. Along with the question of what joker loaded and cocked the machinegun for it since it's not like it can reach up and do that itself. Evil Tim 01:52, 7 May 2011 (CDT)

Well this entire film was bizarre in that it violated it's own rules. I can see 'moving machines' being possessed (even though the premise is ridiculous), but the M60 machine gun was not on a motorized mount so how could it be turned, even when under the influence of an external force which 'controls machines'. The most ridiculous scene was the quick clip of the woman who was strangled by her own phone cord. Why would a coiled CORD strangle someone? How? Even in other 'sci fi' films, forces can influence things like Computers, or printers or cars, but they don't make rope jump up off the ground and wrap around your neck. That sort of 'animation' of an inanimate object would actually require MAGIC (like the sorceror's apprentice) or mystical supernatural powers (like poltergeists or The Devil). This of course being in the 'logic' of stories as we know them. MoviePropMaster2008 02:02, 7 May 2011 (CDT)

Yeah, the main problem was an idea that works fine in "Trucks," a 16-page short story, doesn't necessarily work when you turn it into a 90-minute movie. It kinda works with the trucks because you can't see inside the cabs (after all, the idea of a truck as a monster worked very well in Duel), but once you get a trigger pulling itself, a soda machine somehow firing cans like it's a cannon and an electric knife attacking people you go from scary to silly, and raise questions like how come the guns the humans are using didn't attack them. Or for that matter why phone cords can move on their own but fuel pumps need people to operate them. Evil Tim 02:23, 7 May 2011 (CDT)

And not to mention, why wasn't the newlyweds' or the salesman's cars affected by this force? Spartan198 (talk) 21:06, 13 September 2014 (EDT)

Well, apparently, it can be explained by the fact that the aliens were not able to seize control of the machines that are under direct control of the humans at that moment. -Slon95 (talk) 10:06, 27 August 2017 (EDT)

You know, what really sves this movie is the soundtrack. The best music since "Blues Brothers" 6 years earlier, says this watcher.....

Stephen King an AC/DC fan. Who'd have thought, huh? :) Spartan198 (talk) 05:46, 17 November 2020 (EST)