Stephen King: Ranking His Films From Worst To Best
35. Maximum Overdrive
Leave it to Stephen King himself to produce one of the all-time worst adaptations of his writing. The author was very much in his all cocaine, all the time phase when he made his directorial debut loosely based on his short story Trucks, which is memorable for having an all-AC/DC soundtrack decades before Iron Man sort of made that cool. A comet passes over Earth and somehow that causes a bunch of inanimate objects to gain sentience, with the most menacing amongst them being trucks. For some reason. Emilio Estevez leads a bunch of regular people who try to avoid getting smushed by a gang of big rigs, lead by one that has a Green Goblin mask over the grill. If it weren't for the involvement of cocaine in all areas of its production, Maximum Overdrive would be totally inexplicable. Knowing it was made under the influence, however, its absolute insanity makes a crazy kind of sense. Just a shame it was the bad kind of bad, instead of good bad.
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