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Night Flier is dope as all hell. The main character is a sleazy photo journalist who does poo poo like sabotage the graves of murder victims to make more intersting pictures. Also the vampire has two HUGE fangs, one on the upper jaw and one on the lower, instead of the more traditional looking Dracula teeth. It's easily one of the top 5 King based films.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Night Flier is dope as all hell. The main character is a sleazy photo journalist who does poo poo like sabotage the graves of murder victims to make more intersting pictures. Also the vampire has two HUGE fangs, one on the upper jaw and one on the lower, instead of the more traditional looking Dracula teeth. I've never seen Night Flier but it should have opened with a quick adaptation of the Grampy story, also from Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Night Flier is dope as all hell. The main character is a sleazy photo journalist who does poo poo like sabotage the graves of murder victims to make more intersting pictures. Also the vampire has two HUGE fangs, one on the upper jaw and one on the lower, instead of the more traditional looking Dracula teeth. yeah i'll second all of this post, Night Flier is a pro watch
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Nov 10, 2014 15:43
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:how did you feel about this scene? amused by the first one, the second one I wasn't sure about because I thought soda machines like that just let gravity pull the machine into the slot, and even if they had some way to propel the can down I doubt they'd have a way to propel the can out like that, but once again, I don't actually know, so I'm not gonna pick that nit. Getting back to the first scene you linked, I did wonder throughout the whole thing why all machines decided they hated humans. doesn't make a lot of sense. How could a machine even make a judgement call like that, what standards of behavior is a loving ATM expecting humans to live up to? But that is the central conceit of the movie, all machines become intelligent and attack all humans, so you kind of have to give it a pass there. The real issue is how do the machines even know what's going on? Cars don't have eyes. they have no sensory apparatuses, except for internal monitoring of their own selves, and I doubt they even had that back when the movie was made in the fifties or whatever. They certainly didn't have rear-view cameras back then.
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The Time Dissolver posted:Behead those who insult Maximum Overdrive You could shoot a coke can at them.
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boom boom boom posted:amused by the first one, the second one I wasn't sure about because I thought soda machines like that just let gravity pull the machine into the slot, and even if they had some way to propel the can down I doubt they'd have a way to propel the can out like that, but once again, I don't actually know, so I'm not gonna pick that nit. Is this a fake post? I can't tell any more.
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Nov 10, 2014 15:58
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boom boom boom posted:amused by the first one, the second one I wasn't sure about because I thought soda machines like that just let gravity pull the machine into the slot, and even if they had some way to propel the can down I doubt they'd have a way to propel the can out like that, but once again, I don't actually know, so I'm not gonna pick that nit. Pretend all the machines/cars are being controlled by rear end in a top hat invisible ghosts.
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I had no idea they made a Night Flier movie. I remember reading the short story when I was a kid and it was really the only one in that set of stories that I can remember, aside from one where some guy was tormented by a really, really long finger coming out of his bathroom sink or something.
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Stare-Out posted:I had no idea they made a Night Flier movie. I remember reading the short story when I was a kid and it was really the only one in that set of stories that I can remember, aside from one where some guy was tormented by a really, really long finger coming out of his bathroom sink or something. both great stories. Nightmares and Dreamscapes is a very solid collection
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Nov 10, 2014 16:34
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effectual posted:
Fixed.
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boom boom boom posted:amused by the first one, the second one I wasn't sure about because I thought soda machines like that just let gravity pull the machine into the slot, and even if they had some way to propel the can down I doubt they'd have a way to propel the can out like that, but once again, I don't actually know, so I'm not gonna pick that nit. Dude, just how young are you if you can't tell the difference between a film made in the 80's from a film made in the 50's? Also, if you're going to nitpick vehicles developing spatial awareness and homicidal misanthropy, but not ATMs and dot matrix signage manifesting knowledge of proper grammar and word usage, or soda machines having catapults built into their dispensers (I know for a fact that they don't, because there's no goddamn reason for them to), then I don't know what the hell you were expecting out of that film.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:both great stories. Nightmares and Dreamscapes is a very solid collection There was a somewhat recent attempt to make one of his short story bundles into a TV series, wasn't there? I remember one episode was based on The End Of The Whole Mess. Somehow they mostly picked the worst stories to use (the one I mentioned is a good story, but hard to translate to TV).
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davidspackage posted:There was a somewhat recent attempt to make one of his short story bundles into a TV series, wasn't there? I remember one episode was based on The End Of The Whole Mess. Somehow they mostly picked the worst stories to use (the one I mentioned is a good story, but hard to translate to TV). It was Nightmares and Dreamscapes, actually.
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It was Nightmares and Dreamscapes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481452/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2a Not all of the stories were from that book though, it also had stories from Night Shift and Everything's Eventual.
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Oh, I forgot an extra reason the gun thing bugged me. They need to get a human to work the gas pump. Why couldn't the gas pump work itself? If the car with the gun could work the gun, the pump should be able to move it's own fuel hose. By allowing one but not the other, the whole internal logic of the movie breaks down, nothing makes sense, and it's all just a waste of time.
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Nov 10, 2014 18:17
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It could work its own hose, it just prefers to have someone else do it.
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Nov 10, 2014 18:25
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Sir Kodiak posted:It could work its own hose, it just prefers to have someone else do it. Yeah sometimes it's just better if you have someone else to work your pump, cuts down on the shame afterwards
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Maybe the car and the gun were two separate machines working together. Sort of a Master Blaster situation. I mean if a car can turn itself on and steer itself, why can't a gun swivel itself around and pull its own trigger?
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boom boom boom posted:Oh, I forgot an extra reason the gun thing bugged me. They need to get a human to work the gas pump. Why couldn't the gas pump work itself? If the car with the gun could work the gun, the pump should be able to move it's own fuel hose. I agree with you, it all made no loving sense.
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i, for one, think Maximum Overdrive made perfect sense, idiot
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Guys, it's "Maximum Overdrive", not "Adequate Overdrive" or "Above Average Overdrive".
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Stop feeding the troll.
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The sequel was much better.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Okay, but Lawnmower Man really doesn't count. The story is about a dude that mows your lawn by eating the grass naked and then kills you. I mean, it's entirely unrelated except the movie is about a guy who at one point does have a lawnmower. Also King successfully got them to take his name off the movie after the theatrical release.
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Yeah, well, that's certainly a trio I didn't expect to see together soon.
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That tagline is awesome. loving LOL.
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I had no idea Adrien Brody had sunk down to John Cusack levels of straight-to-dvd movies. Dang.
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Stare-Out posted:I had no idea Adrien Brody had sunk down to John Cusack levels of straight-to-dvd movies. Dang. 
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That movie should be buried alive. Although, Brody was doing his Royce Voice(!!) from Predators, so that was...amusing? Just for a moment.
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Maximum Overdrive wasn't ghosts. The very end it says that a russian "Weather Satellite" that just happened to be carrying 100 nuclear warheads destroyed something trailing behind a comet. Then it all stopped. edit: I preferred Trucks!, the remake, where they escape on a helicopter , then the camera pans to the pilot and there isn't one 
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Yeah but I figured that was an anomaly, like Kate Winslet being in Movie 43 or whatever. Goddamnit, Adrien. Get your poo poo together.
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Erebus posted:
You know what's really weird? 
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Erebus posted:
The makers of this poster clearly have no idea what they're doing, they've put the right names above the right actors.
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Erebus posted:
Ave, canst though ken yon verbiage emanating from mine palate?
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Maximum Overdrive is a Transformers film.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Maximum Overdrive is a Transformers film. i loving wish the Transformers films were more like Maximum Overdrive.
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So who's had the worse post-Oscar career: Adrien Brody or Cuba Gooding, jr? My vote goes to Brody. At least CBj still pops up in theatrically released films.
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Vagabundo posted:So who's had the worse post-Oscar career: Adrien Brody or Cuba Gooding, jr? My vote goes to Brody. At least CBj still pops up in theatrically released films. I've seen post Oscar Brody in films that I've chosen to see, I've seen post oscar CBj on posters for films that I've chosen to avoid.
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CBJ. At least Adrien Brody does whatever he wants. He's having fun and I enjoy watching him in Giallo and Splice and Predators and whatever else. Some of the poo poo CBJ does makes me think he's a paycheck away from getting his lights shut off.
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