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Was this movie hyped up when it came out?

posted 12 years ago by Darwinskid
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I wasn't around in the 80's, and didn't really discover this till much later from people who said it was by Stephen King and "one of the worst movies ever made". I recently saw it for the first time on IFC and really had trouble getting through it( But I must admit that Emilio Estevez and the little boy were actually good). So I have to ask, was this movie hyped up when it came out? I mean, it was not only written but also directed by Stephen King, one of the most popular and note-worthy writers in America and also starred Emilio Estevez who was a very popular actor at the time from the successes of The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, The Outsiders, and Repo Man. If so did this movie turn people off from King for a bit? It has quite a reputation as being a bad movie, I can imagine it might've pissed a lot of people off who paid to see it...

I've got an ignore list longer than a Chinese pone book.

[–] theruiner663 12 years ago

I thought repo man was way worse. It was just talking till the last minute and a half.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Repo Man is 100,000,000 times better than Maximum Overdrive.

[–] The_Purge 12 years ago

Yes it was.

[–] sweiland75 12 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWS4tTzs60

This is the tv trailer I still remember to this day

[–] jtoth624 12 years ago

I was 17 when this movie came out and Stephen King was very popular in Rhode Island. His cousin was my English teacher in High School and I had already attended his premier of Creepshow a few towns away and met him there. To be honest It only cost me a dollar to go see this movie and given the hundreds of cheesy movies out that year, it wasn't really a letdown. Also, the theater had a rockin' sound system and the AC/DC soundtrack was a fun touch too!

[–] ThresholdDweller 12 years ago

I saw this movie when it came out (in a small town in California near the San Jose area) and the theater was pretty well packed. There were a few hoots and hollers when Stephen King made his cameo. I don't remember people thinking it was horrible back then, although those of us who read the original short story "Trucks" thought it was a bit far off the mark.

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[–] kurt7825 8 years ago

it sure was

[–] diezman (2241) 4 years ago

The first time I heard of Maximum Overdrive was a soundtrack promo by AC/DC in a rock magazine. Saw a few movie promos during Night Tracks on TBS.

I was more pumped hearing about the soundtrack. I was and still am a huge AC/DC fan.

I previously read the short story by Stephen King in his Night Shift collection and didn't think much of it.

The movie didn't do the half-assed story justice. King should have chose another story to direct.