Seriously guys, lets face it this movie is worse than anything Uwe Boll has ever done. Failure in directing, acting and
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Moondrop_C — 11 years ago(September 26, 2014 05:30 AM)
It's cheesy and lots of adaptations of Stephen King's work are baaaad, but worse than Uwe Boll? Not hardly, IMO. Plus, as you said, even King admits this movie's not good. And, bonus, he's never felt the need to challenge a reviewer who didn't like his work to a boxing match to try and prove how macho he is.
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jakkfrost — 11 years ago(January 03, 2015 03:07 PM)
Is the movie bad? Well duh, no brainer, even King himself vowed to never attempt to direct again after this, sticking instead with the Hitchcock-esque cameos in movies based on his work. But this movie qualifies under the "so bad it's good" exception to the rule.
And what differentiates this movie from Uwe's "work" is that at least King
tried
to make it good, and from what I recall, even with the bad dialogue, he got actual performances out of his actors.
Uwe Boll on the other hand was primarily interested in the tax breaks. He may have honestly thought he was making good films along the way, but I doubt it. He seemed to subscribe to Ed Wood's philosophy on scene takes, "one and done". On top of that, it seemed he could rarely get more than a wooden, phoned in performance from even some of his big name stars, like they couldn't care less about the movie and were in it for tax breaks too, or had no idea of the dialogue's context so didn't know how to deliver it.
Sure there were some good performances as well, but I put that down to the actor caring more than the director.If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
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goldpink23 — 10 years ago(July 08, 2015 12:39 PM)
@Stormtrooper.I remember hearing this movie being labeled as horrible but I wanted to check it out myself.I watched this movie last week and I couldn't believe how bad it was.I wanted to cut it off so much but I don't like doing that.Even if a movie is trash,I try to finish it.I wasn't entertain by any of it.I didn't like any of the characters and the acting was also horrible.Yet, I'm still not surprised people on IMDb gave it a 5.3.In my OPINION Maximum Overdrive is trash and not even entertaining trash.Apparently other people like it,which will probably explain the 5.3 rating.I just noticed this movie now has a 5.4 rating.This movie that even the DIRECTOR thinks is horrible probably won't be long before it has a 8.0 or even a 9.0 rating.
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jgrayson_au — 10 years ago(July 24, 2015 03:52 PM)
You know what, I disagree. I don't think it's that bad at all. Sure it's got flaws and a few annoyances here and there, but overall I don't think it's that bad at all, actually.
Here's a few things that I think it does well.- The action. I'm so sick of modern action scenes where you can't tell a damn thing what's happening, what with unsteady cam and rapid cuts. The old school style of action in this is a blessing compared to modern movies. Dated perhaps, but it's still good.
- The soundtrack. It's AC/DC for crying out loud.
- Some of the humour. Even Yeardly Smith, who was god awful annoying, was MEANT to be god awful annoying (a fact a lot of people seem to miss). Some of the cliche humour works quite well I think. Heck even the final "Russian weather satellite with a nuke" joke.
- The bridge scene. Putting aside this movie, that scene could be copy and pasted into basically any other movie and work pretty well. Shot well, done on a budget.
It's no perfect movie, but people seem to trash this when they clearly haven't seen actual trash movies.