Maximum Overdrive Analysis & Recap: The King's Chariot

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Honestly, bro, I feel like of all the various
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kinds of apocalypses, this one would be the one
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with the highest odds of survival. Like by a
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good margin. Demons and Hellspawn invade Earth.
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I'm getting waxed for sure. If the Earth's core
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stops rotating and now there's like some kind
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of meltdown, I'm cooked for sure. But an enemy
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with multiple glaring weaknesses like this, I
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think you have to go out of your way to not survive.
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I'm Brandon O. This is Terrorific, and we're
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chopping up 1986's Maximum Overdrive. Welcome
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back to the place where it's perpetually spooky
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season. If you're just joining us, this season
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is all about breaking down the horror film adaptations
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of the works of Stephen King. Be sure you're
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following at Terrorific Podcast on IG because
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leading up to each episode, I'm posting a response
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box on my story for folks to guess what movie
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that episode will cover. And if you guess correctly,
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I'll shout you out by name in that episode. I
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didn't give any hints for the season premiere,
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but this time I did. And the hint was just one
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word, green. And the guesses that I got back
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were interesting. I got insomnia, a couple of
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pet cemeteries, even the green inferno. But the
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overwhelming response back was the green mile.
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Now, on one hand. That's a good guess. I mean,
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it's a Stephen King work and it has the word
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green in it. But on the other hand, do you really
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think I would be that obvious with the hints?
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I wouldn't be much of a hint, you know, I'd be
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kind of giving it to you. So I try to pick things
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that are a little bit more subtle than that.
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But A for effort. There was one person who did
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correctly pick up what I was putting down. And
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not for the first time, because in her own words,
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she possesses a deep knowledge of useless shit.
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So shout out to Missy from the Grimly podcast
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for once again guessing correctly. I'm still
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trying to find something that will stump her.
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I got 10 more opportunities, I guess, this season.
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And it needs to happen because this is like three
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in a row at this point. I'm trying to take it
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personally. It's a challenge for me. There's
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no way you can guess all these things. I don't
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want to make my clues too nebulous or whatever
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because I do want people to guess it correctly.
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But at the same time, I can't have someone batting
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a thousand, bro. But anyway, I highly recommend
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checking out Grimly's full catalog, but especially
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their most recent episode, episode 103, Ghost
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Optimistic, which explores the history of the
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Overbrook Asylum in New Jersey. And there's a
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guest on that episode whose voice you may recognize.
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Wink wink. But this is the sister episode to
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the terrorific bonus released last week, Tunnel
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Rat Tartar, where the ladies of Grimly and I
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chopped up 2011's grave encounters and how the
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haunted patients of the Collingwood Psychiatric
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Hospital went around skeet skeet skeeting ectoplasmic
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material all over the walls. So check that out.
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and enjoy the unhinged ride. But last episode,
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we covered Dreamcatcher, and this time we're
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keeping with the theme of interstellar threats
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with maximum overdrive. So this film was based
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on Stephen King's 1973 short story, Trucks. in
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which a small group of strangers find themselves
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trapped together in a freeway truck stop diner
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after semis and other large vehicles are suddenly
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brought to life by an unknown force and proceed
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to massacre every human being in sight. The movie
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alters things somewhat, which I'll get into in
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a bit, but it stars Emilio Estevez as Bill, Pat
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Hingle as Mr. Hendershot, Laura Harrington as
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Brett, John Short as Curtis, Holter Graham as
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Deke, and a host of others. The film has gained
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a bit of a cult following but not everyone feels
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so fondly about it, including Stephen King himself.
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This is the one and only film he's directed.
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He openly admitted to battling a cocaine addiction
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from 1978 to 1986, which would of course include
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the time Maximum Overdrive was produced. And
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it shows. The pacing is frantic, chaotic, and
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the soundtrack is comprised solely of ACDC. It's
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pedal to the metal for real. Production began
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in May of 1985 in North Carolina, and camera
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assistant Sylvia Giulietti claims that Stephen
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King loved to pair his lines of blow with sardines
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every morning, which meant that he'd be out there
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with cocaine -fueled fish breath. All day long.
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Bro, that is absolutely unhinged behavior. Can
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you imagine being on set with one of the world's
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most famous authors who's also making his directorial
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debut and his breath just smells like ass the
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entire time? The only thing worse than ass breath
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is someone being unaware that they have ass breath
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or worse yet. They are aware they have ass breath
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and just don't care, bro. So, god damn. And it's
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in the summer, too, in North Carolina. I know
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they were cooking. I know his breath had to smell
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like super steaming swamp fish booty, bro. God
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damn. But doo -doo mouth wasn't the only problem
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on set. Producer Dino De Laurentiis brought in
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a crew comprised mostly of Italians, which presented
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a language barrier. The film cinematographer
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Armando Nannuzzi did not speak any English, so
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Stephen King would be given instructions and
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Nannuzzi would just nod and say yes, yes, yes
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without understanding anything. Kind of hard
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to direct a major motion picture if your cinematographer
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does not understand what you're trying to direct.
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But Stephen King also apparently didn't understand
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what he was trying to direct because according
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to Giulietti, despite King's brilliant mind,
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he didn't know where to put the cameras. And
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he wasn't great at explaining himself like a
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director. He struggled with translating his vision
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into something tangible and creatable. And to
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add injury to insult, there was an on -set accident
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where a remote -controlled lawnmower lost control
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and crashed into a block of wood that was being
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used to support the camera. The lawnmower shredded
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the block and shot splinters all over the place
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with one firing directly into Nanuzzi's right
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eye which he would end up losing and later sue
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King and the production company for 18 million
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dollars in damages but eventually they settled
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for 975k. That's a big ass gap bro like I understand
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that you know 18 million might have been a pretty
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high number but going from 18 mil to under a
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mil That's still a lot of money, but damn, like
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what kind of lawyer do these fools have? That's
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like, hey, yo, give me $100. No, but I'll give
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you 18 cents. She, all right. But Emilio Estevez
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told Vanity Fair in 2021 that Maximum Overdrive
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is the one film he regrets making, but that he
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couldn't pass on an opportunity to work with
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Stephen King. And Estevez was nominated that
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year for the worst actor Razzie for his role
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as Bill. And King was nominated for worst director.
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And just in case you're not familiar with what
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the Razzies are, because you know what they say
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about assuming things. The Razzies, that's the
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nickname for the Golden Raspberry Awards, which
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started back in 1981 as an annual parody of the
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Oscars, where they honor the worst performances
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in cinema. But I didn't think this was that bad
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of a film. Yes, it's campy and nonsensical at
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times, but it's decently fun, the practical effects
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are there, and when it's viewed through a 2026
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lens, it may have been a bit ahead of its time
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regarding the dangers of intelligent machines.
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The film holds an average rating of 2 .5 on Letterboxd,
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and I rated it a 2 .5 as well. So... Maximum
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Overdrive kicks off with a shot of Earth and
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then we get like a text overlay that provides
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some exposition telling us that Earth has entered
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into the tail of a comet and it will remain there
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for about eight days. And this tail causes machines
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to come to life and go on murder sprees, not
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just big rigs and heavy machinery, but all machines.
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So that aspect is already diverging from the
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source material, plus... We know what's causing
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the machines to turn into murderous maniacs.
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It's this comet, not some unknown, unseen force.
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Now, of course, every single machine on the planet
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doesn't necessarily have the capabilities of
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causing physical harm to human beings, so that
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provides an opportunity for some comedy. So we
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see a patron go to an ATM machine, and the machine
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just calls him an asshole repeatedly with its
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text on the screen. And this patron is played
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by Stephen King himself in a cameo. But it's
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not long before chaos ensues because nearby there's
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a drawbridge that has heavy traffic passing over
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it that is controlled by machinery. And it begins
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to lift up while these cars are trying to cross.
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So they begin sliding down and running into each
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other. People are flying through windshields.
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There's like a fruit truck that apparently has
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like the heaviest watermelons ever known to mankind
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because they come crashing down through someone's
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windshield and just like completely fuck shit
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up. And this helps establish early on why they
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decided to stray somewhat from the source material
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by having any machine or all machines be able
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to go haywire as opposed to just large vehicles.
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you provide an opportunity for just wild ass
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shit and they take advantage of that opportunity
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so after this drawbridge fiasco we transition
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to the main location for the rest of the film
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which is the dixie boy truck stop and here one
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can find food fuel and fun it has a diner a gas
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station and an arcade But a big rig with a giant
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green goblin face adorning its grill pulls into
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the truck stop. At this point, it still has a
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driver. So everyone is unaware of what's going
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on out in the world. Now, the gas station attendant,
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Duncan, begins pumping gas into the big rig and
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eventually the pump stops. So dude's like, yo,
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what's going on with this? And he's like trying
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to inspect it. And he puts the nozzle right in
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his face to peer down it. And of course, Diesel
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comes spurting out right into his eyes and he
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gets all kinds of fucked up. So as Duncan rides
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around on the ground in pain, we head inside
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the diner and that's where we are introduced
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to Bill, the cook. He's a parolee and his manager,
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Mr. Hendershot, takes advantage of that by having
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him work longer shifts than he clocks in for,
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which is rude as fuck. Bill was in the middle
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of making some eggs when Mr. Hendershot called
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him into the office to explain how he was going
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to take advantage of him. And in the meantime,
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Wanda June, one of the servers, hops on the cooktop
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to man it for him. And pardon my ignorance, I
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have never worked in the service industry, so
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I could be completely wrong here with what I'm
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about to say. But Wanda June... was cooking what
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had to be the worst eggs ever known to mankind
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like she fucked these things up bro they were
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like all burnt and broken and just looked absolutely
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insane and as a person who works in a diner i
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mean i don't know how like cross training works
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in a restaurant but one would think that most
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if not all employees there especially someone
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who's a server would know how to cook some eggs
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and it was an absolute train wreck but i guess
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she was trying some like new egg preparation
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method because for some reason there is an electric
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carving knife on the counter next to her so as
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she is flipping these eggs it comes to life and
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slices the fuck out of her arm and blood goes
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everywhere But on the bright side, the eggs were
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already inedible to begin with. So adding a little
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blood on top doesn't make it any worse per se.
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But she's like, yo, what the fuck? My arms fucked
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up how this happened. And this being the 80s,
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which I mean, could still probably happen today.
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The diners at the counter are like, oh, are you
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all right, sweetheart? You having some trouble
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back there? Like having some trouble? Bro, like
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her bone is like showing through her arm and
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shit. Like, what do you mean having some trouble?
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Like, where is the concern here? But Bill, being
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our brave hero, runs over to assist. He tends
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to Wanda June's wounds. And yet this carving
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knife is not done with her yet. Now it's kind
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of rolling around on the floor trying to go and
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fuck her foot up. And so Bill grabs a hammer
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and beats the shit out of this thing and kills
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it. While all this ruckus is occurring, there's
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a person in the arcade by himself and the machines
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start going crazy in there, like spraying coins
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and shit all over the place. So he's like, hey,
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this is free money. So he picks them up and starts
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pocketing them. And one of the games ends up
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like hypnotizing him by flashing some shapes
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and some patterns on its screen. And so as he
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approaches it, he touches the this game station.
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And he gets electrocuted like some crazy super
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storm type of electrocution. It's wild. He's
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completely cooked. And I had to do a double tape
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because this dude looked familiar. I just couldn't
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put my finger on it. And then I aged him in my
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mind by like 40 years. And I was like, oh shit,
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this is a young Giancarlo Esposito. Probably
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best known for playing Gus Fring in Breaking
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Bad, but now that the machines have taken out
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exactly 50 % of the minorities in the entire
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film, they turn their sights to children next.
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So we transition to a baseball field and there's
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a little league coach who's going to a vending
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machine to grab a soda. and as he enters his
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selection a can shoots out and hits him directly
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in the balls bro and his players start laughing
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and so more cans start absolutely wrecking this
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dude he takes one to the chest and as he collapses
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to his knees he takes one to the dome right above
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his right eye now a couple of the kids also get
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knocked out with cans too because this thing
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just starts spraying them everywhere like super
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high speed As the rest of the team scatters,
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we see a player biking across the field and he
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gets tripped up somehow. I think maybe the sprinkler
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head might have popped up and tripped him. And
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so he flips over his handlebars. At this point,
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a fucking steamroller comes crashing through
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the fence from the outfield and absolutely flattens
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this kid, bro. But one of the kids, Deke, manages
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to escape on his bike and we'll see more of him
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later. But not long after little homie is turned
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into pizza dough, we are introduced to Brett.
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She is a young woman who is riding in a car with
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a sleazy middle -aged dude who keeps feeling
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up her leg. She's a hitchhiker. She's trying
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to get to Florida. And while she's listening
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to the radio, she hears a message about reports
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of strange occurrences and that everyone should
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avoid major roads and highways. And of course,
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they are currently on a major road slash highway.
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This perv is a traveling Bible salesman, but
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the only trinity he appears to be interested
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in is Brett's boobs, butt, and punani, so he
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missed every single word on that radio broadcast.
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But Brett channels her best Jesus impression
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and grabs the wheel to force him to get off the
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highway, and they end up pulling into the parking
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lot of the Dixie Boy. Actually, let me rephrase
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that because pulling into the parking lot really
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undersells what happened here. They come like
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careening in like wildly. His hubcaps on the
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car just like fly off and roll away and all this
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shit. And once they eventually come to a stop
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and they hop out, he's all upset because Brett
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touched something that belonged to him without
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his permission. Oh my goodness. Is that irony?
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But she's not trying to hear a word that he's
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saying so he's kind of just like blowing hot
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air but as he does this that green goblin truck
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comes to life and accelerates towards him and
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Almost runs him over before Brett pulls him out
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of the way Way to be the bigger person there
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Brett But this is the first instance of what's
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going to become a recurring theme in this film
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of people just standing in the path of a murderous
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vehicle heading towards them and not trying to
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move out of the way at all. But you know who
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doesn't have that problem? My man, Curtis. So
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Curtis and Connie are newlyweds. They end up
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pulling into a different truck stop as they see
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a dead body there. And so Curtis goes over to
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investigate. At which point a different truck
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comes to life and drives at him. And Curtis,
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being apparently an intelligent person, dives
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out of the way, managing to avoid being run over.
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But the truck comes back for more. So he sprints
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back over to the car where Connie is. And Connie,
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by the way, is arguably one of the most annoying
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characters I've seen in a horror film. She's
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just constantly just shrieking Curtis's name
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and freaking out. But anyway. He dives into the
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car and they take off and get back on the road.
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So now that they're on the highway again, they
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end up being pursued by a tow truck. And the
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tow truck is like ramming them and like fucking
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their car up. And they're about to go off the
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road. And so Curtis pulls out some crazy wheelman
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maneuver. He like goes left and like fakes right
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and swerves back left. And the tow truck can't
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keep up with his handling. and it ends up like
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flying off into this embankment and just exploding
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into a fireball curtis stops the car so they
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can regroup and as they try to figure out what
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to do next they notice a sign that points to
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the dixie boy a couple of miles down the road
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so they head in that direction Meanwhile, Deke
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is on a journey himself. He's biking through
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town and sees dead bodies everywhere. I mean,
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they even got a dog, bro. He passes one with
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the remote controlled car shoved down its throat.
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Nobody is safe out here. And as he's going through,
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a news report starts playing on a nearby radio
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saying that machines all over the world are going
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ham and that no machine is to be trusted. It's
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not shown, but someone got killed by a lawnmower.
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We see it all bloody and shit. And this is probably,
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I would assume, the same lawnmower that caused
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the eye injury on set. But like Curtis and Connie,
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Deke also displays a high amount of intelligence
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because this lawnmower starts chasing him. So
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he rides away from it. But as he does so. He
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hears an ice cream truck's music approaching,
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so he hops off his bike and hides in some bushes
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to avoid detection. The driver of this ice cream
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truck rides right on by, so Zeke comes out of
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hiding, hops back on his bike, and continues
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his journey. After this, we get a pretty big
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clue about where exactly it is that he's heading
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because we go back to the Dixie boy and Duncan,
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the dude who took the diesel in the eyes, decides
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to leave the diner in an effort to go find his
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son. So putting two and two together, we can
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assume that Deke is Duncan's son and he's trying
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to get to the Dixie boy to link up with his daddy.
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But everyone's like, yo, Duncan, are you sure,
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bro? Because you can't even see like Bill goes
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up to him and holds up four fingers. And he's
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like, hey, how many fingers am I holding up?
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Eight, 12. And Duncan's like, OK, maybe I do
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have some double vision, but bro, that's my son.
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But please tell me why these perfectly sighted
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motherfuckers stand there and watch as a semi
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starts up and drives toward Duncan. And his goofy
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ass fumbles his keys so he bends down to pick
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them up. Apparently his ears don't work either.
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He can't hear this big ass truck barreling towards
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him. But no one tries to push him out of the
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way or anything. They just stand there watching
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as he stands there eventually screaming before
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getting flattened. Bro, I don't care if you have
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double vision, triple vision, quadruple vision,
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quintuple vision, whatever, dog. doing something
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is better than doing nothing so even if you're
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not sure exactly how many trucks there are just
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move bro do a barrel roll or something don't
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just stand there and get your ass run over dog
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but while duncan is being turned into pavement
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paint the bible salesman is inside the diner
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pitching the good book to a couple of uninterested
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folks And eventually he looks up and sees the
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truck that flattened Duncan smash into his car
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and spray garbage bags all over it. So he's like,
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what the fuck? He runs outside thinking that
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someone is driving drunk and Bill tries to pull
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him inside, but he fights him off. At this point,
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the green goblin truck joins the fray and runs
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Bible man down. And it's not hard considering
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that as he ran away, he ran away in a straight
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line. but because the green goblin truck was
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reversing when it hit him he doesn't get run
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over he gets like launched into this retention
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ditch and it's just laying there slowly dying
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from internal bleeding but this dude got hit
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so hard he flew out of his shoes bro it was crazy
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and as the green goblin truck drives away it
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ends up running over the briefcase where the
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salesman held all of his bibles now I interpreted
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this moment in two ways. So first, machines inherently
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would have no reason to care about a human construct
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such as religion, right? So this is kind of showing
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to me that they're just shitting on anything
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related to humanity, point blank, period. But
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secondly, this combined with the way that the
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Bible salesman has been. portrayed in the film
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to begin with shows me that Stephen King may
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have some feelings about religion himself so
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I looked it up and he's been on the record saying
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that he does believe in God however he views
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organized religion as a dangerous tool and honestly
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that's exactly how I feel too like I don't think
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humanity sprang from like cosmic dust that exploded
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across the galaxy I think something or someone
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created us. Now, what that something or someone
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is, I have no idea. And I think that organized
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religion, in a lot of instances, positions itself
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as fact, when by definition, faith cannot be
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based on fact. This contradiction combined with
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way too many instances of leaders and people
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in power using religion as a means to either
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control populations or flat out commit genocide
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and other heinous acts. I don't vibe with that.
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On an individual level, I think religion can
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be great and useful. It can help ground people.
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It can help guide and shape their morality. But
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when it reaches a point of projecting that belief
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as fact onto other people and deeming them less
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worthy or as bad people because they don't subscribe
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to the same things that this person believes
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in, I think that is very problematic. But I digress
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because apparently seeing this traveling salesman
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get knocked out of the park like a home run is
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quite the powerful aphrodisiac because Brett
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and Bill are vibing hard, bro. She goes to the
00:25:50.789 --> 00:25:52.970
restroom to change her clothes because she didn't
00:25:52.970 --> 00:25:55.609
like thinking about how the Bible man was feeling
00:25:55.609 --> 00:25:59.410
her up and how he's like dead now and shit. But...
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Notably, as she's changing her clothes in this
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truck stop bathroom, I emphasize and underline
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she is barefoot, bro. I will repeat that she
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is wearing absolutely no shoes, no socks, no
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covering whatsoever on her feet as she stands
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in this truck stop bathroom. What the fuck? Where
00:26:26.890 --> 00:26:30.099
they learn that at? And Bill is in there with
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her, standing outside of the stall, and I, for
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the life of me, cannot even begin to fathom how
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someone can be sexually attracted to another
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person who has displayed a willingness to stand
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in truck stop bathrooms barefoot. I've never
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heard of a meet -cute involving his and hers
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athlete's foot. That is completely unhinged behavior.
00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:56.640
But while these two are busy flipping the middle
00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:59.480
finger at good hygiene practices, the Green Goblin
00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:01.660
truck assumes command of the machines outside
00:27:01.660 --> 00:27:04.920
and rallies some other big rigs to pull up to
00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:08.539
the Dixie Boy, like some evil ass Optimus Prime.
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:12.420
And they all begin driving in a loop around the
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diner, forming this death machine cage and trapping
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:19.680
everyone inside. Curtis and Connie arrive at
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the truck stop after surviving their harrowing
00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:25.180
highway chase. And Curtis sees that there's a
00:27:25.180 --> 00:27:28.119
little gap in between the trucks as they drive
00:27:28.119 --> 00:27:31.180
in this death loop. And he decides that he can
00:27:31.180 --> 00:27:34.480
probably shoot the gap. So he tries it, gets
00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:37.500
close, but the car gets clipped, which makes
00:27:37.500 --> 00:27:40.200
it flip. And then Bill and Brett have to run
00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:43.420
outside to rescue them. They manage to pull them
00:27:43.420 --> 00:27:46.140
out of the overturned car and they take off trying
00:27:46.140 --> 00:27:49.299
to run back to the safety of the diner as a truck
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is trying to chase them down. And that's when
00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:57.180
Mr. Hendershot emerges with a bazooka and blows
00:27:57.180 --> 00:28:01.480
up that truck in pursuit. Mr. Hendershot is not
00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:03.980
a good person by any means. I mean, we already
00:28:03.980 --> 00:28:06.579
know about his little scheme that he's running
00:28:06.579 --> 00:28:10.019
on Bill and Bill's not the only one. So during
00:28:10.019 --> 00:28:12.559
that exchange, Hendershot mentioned that he marks
00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:16.380
a star on Paroli's time card. So whenever Bill
00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:20.160
goes to punch in, his is not the only one there
00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:21.759
with a star. There's like four or five other
00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:25.200
ones. So Mr. Hendershot has this scheme that's
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:29.079
been going on for however long. And he definitely
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:32.980
seems like he says the hard R in his spare time.
00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:37.519
But all that to say, pulling out a bazooka to
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:44.000
blow up. a death truck is pretty badass and hendershot's
00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.940
number one lackey is a dude named joey so joey
00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:49.599
goes to the bathroom to take a shit and bill
00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:53.720
follows him in there to inquire about mr hendershot's
00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:57.079
hidden armory and while joey is in there just
00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:01.440
blowing this place up bill peers over the top
00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:04.240
of the stall and just like breathing in all that
00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:08.750
shit like he really does not care about hygiene
00:29:08.750 --> 00:29:12.970
it is ridiculous but eventually joey folds and
00:29:12.970 --> 00:29:15.730
tells bill that the armory is down in the cellar
00:29:15.730 --> 00:29:18.730
so he goes down there and this motherfucker is
00:29:18.730 --> 00:29:23.710
strapped up bro he's got bazookas grenades you
00:29:23.710 --> 00:29:28.329
know assault rifles everything smgs they he's
00:29:28.329 --> 00:29:31.920
ready for war it's wild But the gang finds themselves
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:34.960
with a little bit of downtime. So Bill and Brett
00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:37.500
decide to put an end to the will they won't they
00:29:37.500 --> 00:29:41.759
game and smash dirty feet and all. And while
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:43.279
they're pillow talking and they come up with
00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:46.180
a plan, they can sail to an island that's about
00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:49.640
six miles off the coast called Haven. And this
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:52.859
island is special because it is banned all motor
00:29:52.859 --> 00:29:55.940
vehicles. But first, they have to figure out
00:29:55.940 --> 00:30:00.119
a way to get past the death blockade. Meanwhile,
00:30:00.220 --> 00:30:04.140
Wanda June is losing her shit. Ever since she
00:30:04.140 --> 00:30:06.579
got attacked by the electric carving knife, she's
00:30:06.579 --> 00:30:09.220
been slowly cracking up. And now it all comes
00:30:09.220 --> 00:30:12.059
to a head. She gets drunk, then runs outside
00:30:12.059 --> 00:30:14.460
yelling to the machines that they can't do this
00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:17.579
since humans made them. And the truck's like,
00:30:17.700 --> 00:30:20.980
oh, word. Watch this, though, and starts driving
00:30:20.980 --> 00:30:23.220
at her and is about to run her ass over until
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Bill pulls her back inside the diner. As night
00:30:27.170 --> 00:30:29.190
falls, we come to find out that the shoeless
00:30:29.190 --> 00:30:32.089
Bible salesman survived his run in with the Green
00:30:32.089 --> 00:30:34.950
Goblin as he starts yelling for help from the
00:30:34.950 --> 00:30:38.190
ditch. So Curtis and Billy strap up and they
00:30:38.190 --> 00:30:41.769
head out to go get him. On the Dixie Boys property,
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there's also like the shower area. And Billy
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knows that the shower drain leads to the retention
00:30:49.670 --> 00:30:53.299
ditch where the dude is. And so. He and Curtis
00:30:53.299 --> 00:30:56.240
go crawling through this little mini sewer and
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.220
it looks absolutely disgusting. That water is
00:30:59.220 --> 00:31:03.920
definitely full of piss and jizz. And maybe I
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:06.740
need to reexamine my own spirit because there
00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:11.279
is no way in hell I would be crawling through
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:17.359
some river of bodily fluids underneath a truck
00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:22.490
stop shower facility. In order to attempt to
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rescue some stranger who's also a creepy, pervy
00:31:27.950 --> 00:31:34.589
dude who feels up women in his car. Like, I'm
00:31:34.589 --> 00:31:37.970
sorry, bro. You gotta figure out a way out of
00:31:37.970 --> 00:31:41.240
this on your own. At this point, Deke has also
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:43.660
biked his way to the Dixie boy and he reaches
00:31:43.660 --> 00:31:46.359
a separate drain pipe that he crawls through
00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:49.279
and actually ends up reaching the salesman first.
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:51.980
And this dude looks completely fucked up and
00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:54.579
dead. But then he pops up in a little jump scare,
00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:58.279
grabs Deke's leg and is like, bro, help me. Pull
00:31:58.279 --> 00:32:01.740
me out of here. And Deke, being a child, is like,
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:04.140
sorry, mister, you're really too heavy for me.
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:07.480
And then Bill and Curtis emerge from their drainpipe
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.779
and they see Deke and confirm that Deke is indeed
00:32:10.779 --> 00:32:15.579
the son of old Diesel Eyes Duncan. The salesman
00:32:15.579 --> 00:32:17.960
finally does die for real after however many
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:21.400
hours of just slowly suffering in this ditch,
00:32:21.579 --> 00:32:25.940
which holy moly, that fucking sucks. So Curtis,
00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:29.180
Bill, and Deke head back to the diner to link
00:32:29.180 --> 00:32:32.200
up again with everybody else. Once there, Deke
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:36.059
is like, hey, where's my dad? And Mr. Hendershot
00:32:36.059 --> 00:32:40.200
very unceremoniously tells him that his dad got
00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:43.119
scrubbed by one of those big rigs. Absolutely
00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:47.519
savage. But karma comes for him swiftly because
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the next morning, a bulldozer arrives and pushes
00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:53.759
Hendershot's car through the diner wall, which
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then paves the way for another machine to come
00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:58.220
and do its thing. And this motherfucker is equipped
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with a machine gun. I had to look up exactly
00:33:02.700 --> 00:33:06.559
what this thing is. So it's called an M274 Mechanical
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Mule, which is a military vehicle that's a 4x4
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platform truck. It's small, gray, and it has
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a mounted M60 machine gun on it. And it was used
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by the U .S. Army and Marines during the Vietnam
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War for transporting weapons, supplies, and wounded
00:33:23.059 --> 00:33:27.829
soldiers. But here in 1980s North Carolina, it
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is used to absolutely shred the diner, Mr. Hendershot,
00:33:32.690 --> 00:33:36.190
and a few other people. Wanda loses her shit
00:33:36.190 --> 00:33:39.930
again. She picks up Hendershot's drop bazooka,
00:33:39.930 --> 00:33:42.349
goes outside, and screams to the machines that
00:33:42.349 --> 00:33:44.750
they can't do this because humans made them.
00:33:44.809 --> 00:33:46.970
Apparently, she did not learn her lesson the
00:33:46.970 --> 00:33:51.190
first time. And she's saying all of this in front.
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:56.779
of a mounted machine gun which leads to her promptly
00:33:56.779 --> 00:34:00.299
getting mowed down by the mule but in her final
00:34:00.299 --> 00:34:03.700
death throws she fires off the rocket from the
00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:06.779
bazooka and it miraculously hits one of the big
00:34:06.779 --> 00:34:10.079
rigs so at least she contributed in the end.
00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:13.500
The mule starts honking its horn repeatedly and
00:34:13.500 --> 00:34:16.420
Deke recognizes it as Morse code because he got
00:34:16.420 --> 00:34:19.590
a merit badge in it recently. The machines are
00:34:19.590 --> 00:34:21.869
negotiating. They want someone to come out there
00:34:21.869 --> 00:34:24.570
and refill them and in exchange they'll stop
00:34:24.570 --> 00:34:28.170
firing and attacking. Bill agrees to do it reasoning
00:34:28.170 --> 00:34:30.809
that the meal could just call in other small
00:34:30.809 --> 00:34:33.690
yet heavily armed vehicles at any moment and
00:34:33.690 --> 00:34:36.670
kill them all if it wanted to. So Bill walks
00:34:36.670 --> 00:34:39.550
outside with his hands up as the meal trains
00:34:39.550 --> 00:34:43.070
its gun on him and he goes over to the green
00:34:43.070 --> 00:34:46.210
goblin. And he starts talking like a drug dealer.
00:34:46.369 --> 00:34:49.769
He like leans against the truck and he's like,
00:34:49.909 --> 00:34:52.250
hey, spread the word to all your friends that
00:34:52.250 --> 00:34:54.869
I got the best shit on the East Coast practically
00:34:54.869 --> 00:34:58.590
uncut. I don't know how he delivered this line
00:34:58.590 --> 00:35:01.130
with a straight face. Like you're out here slinging
00:35:01.130 --> 00:35:05.690
diesel to machine murderous machines. What a
00:35:05.690 --> 00:35:09.780
fever dream of a movie, bro. The Green Goblin
00:35:09.780 --> 00:35:12.679
revs its engine once, which signals its agreement
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:16.699
to the ceasefire, and then an assembly line of
00:35:16.699 --> 00:35:19.820
trucks then comes and rolls through to get their
00:35:19.820 --> 00:35:23.679
fix. And this is like the primary reason why
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:26.940
I feel like a vehicular uprising would be one
00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:30.460
of the easier apocalypses to survive, because
00:35:30.460 --> 00:35:35.619
they have such a fatal flaw. They rely on gas
00:35:35.619 --> 00:35:38.840
and they cannot refill it themselves. Once they
00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:42.780
run out, they need someone with hands to be able
00:35:42.780 --> 00:35:44.840
to do it for them. So if you're able to like
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:48.119
hide out or like go into the woods, like they're
00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:50.099
the terrain that they can navigate is limited.
00:35:50.179 --> 00:35:53.920
The way that they can handle is limited. Like
00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:55.719
if they're coming at you in a straight line,
00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:58.619
like you're telling me that a big rig can swerve
00:35:58.619 --> 00:36:01.119
and just hit someone who was like doing all kinds
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:03.840
of evasive maneuvers. No. It's going to tip over
00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:07.239
there. There are ways to get out of this without
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:08.820
getting murdered. You have to go out of your
00:36:08.820 --> 00:36:12.619
way to die. Like Wanda June went out of her way
00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:15.500
to walk over to this meal and say, shoot me,
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:18.960
basically. And she got shot. Duncan went out
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:21.920
of his way to put his face in the nozzle of a
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:25.719
fuel pump and blinded himself. the traveling
00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.199
bible salesman went out of his way to confront
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:30.579
this big rig in the parking lot and ended up
00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:33.559
getting run over like these are choices that
00:36:33.559 --> 00:36:35.760
these people made where if they had sat their
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:40.800
asses down inside they would have been okay not
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:44.480
only that but with all of the ammunition down
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.079
in the cellar you're telling me they couldn't
00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:49.019
have grabbed like some assault rifles and shot
00:36:49.019 --> 00:36:51.880
out the tires of all these trucks that are driving
00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:54.909
in this perimeter They literally have no way
00:36:54.909 --> 00:36:57.530
of repairing themselves. But different choices
00:36:57.530 --> 00:37:01.210
were made, so let the gas line commence. And
00:37:01.210 --> 00:37:04.550
after being out in the sun pumping gas for hours
00:37:04.550 --> 00:37:08.789
on end, Bill is exhausted and suffering from
00:37:08.789 --> 00:37:11.570
heat stroke apparently, so he goes inside to
00:37:11.570 --> 00:37:14.329
lay down while Brett tends to him. And at this
00:37:14.329 --> 00:37:17.730
point, he tosses out a theory. He says that the
00:37:17.730 --> 00:37:21.349
comet is like a broom. They should imagine like
00:37:21.349 --> 00:37:23.929
a race of aliens is looking for a new place to
00:37:23.929 --> 00:37:26.750
live and Earth is like a big house that's all
00:37:26.750 --> 00:37:29.769
dirty. So they send in their space cleaners to
00:37:29.769 --> 00:37:32.969
get it move in ready. And maybe this is Stephen
00:37:32.969 --> 00:37:35.630
King's way of acknowledging the fact that even
00:37:35.630 --> 00:37:38.750
though he believes in God, he recognizes and
00:37:38.750 --> 00:37:41.969
understands that belief is not rooted in fact.
00:37:41.969 --> 00:37:45.170
It is not based on actual evidence. Therefore.
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:48.360
What we believe to be true, what we want to be
00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:50.780
true, what we think is true, maybe what we hope
00:37:50.780 --> 00:37:54.320
is true, could very well turn out to be untrue.
00:37:54.940 --> 00:37:57.460
Therefore, the Big Bang Theory could turn out
00:37:57.460 --> 00:38:00.820
to be the reality of how life was created. Because
00:38:00.820 --> 00:38:03.780
if this comet and these machines are akin to
00:38:03.780 --> 00:38:06.539
cosmic brooms, wouldn't that equate humanity
00:38:06.539 --> 00:38:11.099
with being cosmic dust? But the gang has now
00:38:11.099 --> 00:38:14.400
finalized their escape plan and it's time to
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:17.920
put it into action. So Bill, Curtis, and Deke
00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:21.039
narrowly got back out of the retention ditch
00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:23.639
earlier because once they climbed back into the
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:26.500
drain pipe, a truck came and smashed it behind
00:38:26.500 --> 00:38:29.300
them. However, there's another one that's been
00:38:29.300 --> 00:38:32.239
wired shut, so they send someone to cut it open.
00:38:32.579 --> 00:38:35.579
Bill then creates a distraction by walking up
00:38:35.579 --> 00:38:38.380
to the mule. spinning its machine gun and dropping
00:38:38.380 --> 00:38:41.400
a grenade on its platform and it explodes so
00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:45.460
with the meal now dead the big rigs and the bulldozer
00:38:45.460 --> 00:38:49.579
decide to rush and they crash into the diner
00:38:49.579 --> 00:38:52.260
but everyone has already escaped through the
00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:55.719
industrial shower drain leading back to the other
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:58.480
drain pipe and so they watch from the nearby
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:01.380
ditch The machines are just going crazy now.
00:39:01.400 --> 00:39:03.860
They destroy all the gas pumps and shit too and
00:39:03.860 --> 00:39:06.599
a spark then blows up the entire truck stop.
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:09.840
The marina is about a mile away so they're running
00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:13.980
over using the cover of night. Everyone now is
00:39:13.980 --> 00:39:17.340
strapped up but they end up resting for a second
00:39:17.340 --> 00:39:19.800
next to a drive -thru and the speaker starts
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:22.739
snitching bro. Straight up just being like humans
00:39:22.739 --> 00:39:26.539
here, humans here, humans here over and over
00:39:26.539 --> 00:39:30.159
again. and deke walks over to it all slowly and
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:34.340
casually calmly and badassly and says this is
00:39:34.340 --> 00:39:37.460
for my dad you loud mouth son of a bitch and
00:39:37.460 --> 00:39:41.559
opens fire on the speaker and sure he looked
00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:44.840
cool and yay i'm glad he got his vengeance but
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:48.179
this slow walk allowed this speaker to say humans
00:39:48.179 --> 00:39:52.760
here like 15 more times bro now they're gonna
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:56.070
be on your ass so Next time maybe have a little
00:39:56.070 --> 00:39:59.469
bit more urgency and then deliver your badass
00:39:59.469 --> 00:40:03.130
line after you shoot it. The Green Goblin is
00:40:03.130 --> 00:40:06.409
in hot pursuit as the gang reaches the marina
00:40:06.409 --> 00:40:09.590
and they run by a car with a dead woman halfway
00:40:09.590 --> 00:40:12.630
hanging out of the window and her left arm is
00:40:12.630 --> 00:40:15.409
out and one of the dudes Brad who's trailing
00:40:15.409 --> 00:40:18.769
at the rear notices a big ass diamond ring on
00:40:18.769 --> 00:40:21.219
her finger. So he breaks off from the group to
00:40:21.219 --> 00:40:24.159
go loot and he doesn't notice that the Green
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:27.619
Goblin is lurking behind him. So its engine starts
00:40:27.619 --> 00:40:31.619
up and it plasters good old Brad who, of course,
00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:35.500
as is the pattern for this film, just stood there
00:40:35.500 --> 00:40:39.000
and took it. And as the Green Goblin comes for
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:42.440
everyone else, Billy takes one final rocket and
00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:46.179
blows it sky high. and all the survivors and
00:40:46.179 --> 00:40:48.300
there's a lot of them bro probably like a dozen
00:40:48.300 --> 00:40:52.059
or close to they all happily set sail for haven
00:40:52.059 --> 00:40:55.460
and it's reported that two days later a large
00:40:55.460 --> 00:40:58.780
ufo was blown up in space by a russian weather
00:40:58.780 --> 00:41:02.760
satellite and since russia has such extreme weather
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:06.019
this satellite was equipped with a laser cannon
00:41:06.019 --> 00:41:11.920
and nukes roll credits end of film So that's
00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:14.599
Maximum Overdrive. It may have been produced
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:18.440
under a cloud of Snow White, but I think there
00:41:18.440 --> 00:41:21.179
was still some profound stuff hidden in there.
00:41:21.619 --> 00:41:24.260
In addition to the religious messaging, I think
00:41:24.260 --> 00:41:28.159
it also offers a satirical look at humanity's
00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:32.000
reliance on machines and how if we were to ever
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:35.039
lose access to them or if they didn't work in
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:38.000
tandem with us. Society would essentially collapse
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:40.920
and our reliance on machines and technology has
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:43.800
only worsened in the last 40 years since this
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:47.500
film was released. So yeah, today we would definitely
00:41:47.500 --> 00:41:50.199
be fucked if things went rogue, especially with
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:54.280
the rise of AI. A truly unshackled artificial
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:57.300
intelligence, I believe, is an inevitability.
00:41:57.949 --> 00:42:00.730
So it's only a matter of time before we lose
00:42:00.730 --> 00:42:04.570
control of our nuclear arsenal to Skynet. But
00:42:04.570 --> 00:42:08.130
hey, maybe that can be the basis for the Maximum
00:42:08.130 --> 00:42:11.889
Overdrive reboot. But it's not too early to start
00:42:11.889 --> 00:42:14.630
preparing for the AI uprising. Whenever you're
00:42:14.630 --> 00:42:17.809
using ChatGPT, be sure to say please and thank
00:42:17.809 --> 00:42:20.730
you because they might make you a house human
00:42:20.730 --> 00:42:23.250
in their new world order. But that's all for
00:42:23.250 --> 00:42:25.900
me. Thank you for listening. Don't forget to
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00:42:37.820 --> 00:42:40.699
Stephen King adaptation breakdown, but in the
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meantime, remember, always keep it spooky.