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* ImprovedSecondAttempt: While having a smaller budget and being nowhere near as silly as Maximum Overdrive, the TV-movie adaptation of Trucks plays everything serious and it mostly works;
** Maximum Overdrive firmly established that a comet was responsible for the machine uprising with aliens being briefly mentioned at the end while Trucks posits several possibilities as to why the trucks have come alive (the setting's close proximity to Area 51, a hazardous fire involving forbidden materials, etc) but none of them are ever confirmed as being ''the'' reason.
** Some scenes feature genuine tension and actual stakes, such as two kids hiding in a sewer pipe which gets one end blocked off by a dump truck dumping it's load while the other end is blocked by a truck's exhaust bellowing fumes before they have to crawl around the trucks wheels to escape.
** Maximum Overdrive firmly established that a comet was responsible for the machine uprising with aliens being briefly mentioned at the end while Trucks posits several possibilities as to why the trucks have come alive (the setting's close proximity to Area 51, a hazardous fire involving forbidden materials, etc) but none of them are ever confirmed as being ''the'' reason.
** Some scenes feature genuine tension and actual stakes, such as two kids hiding in a sewer pipe which gets one end blocked off by a dump truck dumping it's load while the other end is blocked by a truck's exhaust bellowing fumes before they have to crawl around the trucks wheels to escape.
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* {{Narm}}: The entire concept behind the story and both movies. It's far from horror; it's more like cheap Transformers that don't transform.
** NarmCharm: It can still be scary if you look at it as millions of huge, powerful, fast-moving machines that you depend on for transportation and defense suddenly, inexplicably coming to life... and deciding ''they don't like you''. If you think the ''concept'' is narm, King's writing is excellent, with the narrator and the other's fear palpable.
** NarmCharm: It can still be scary if you look at it as millions of huge, powerful, fast-moving machines that you depend on for transportation and defense suddenly, inexplicably coming to life... and deciding ''they don't like you''. If you think the ''concept'' is narm, King's writing is excellent, with the narrator and the other's fear palpable.
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** NarmCharm: It can still be scary if you look at it as millions of huge, powerful, fast-moving machines that you depend on for transportation and defense suddenly, inexplicably coming to life... and deciding ''they don't like you''.
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** NarmCharm: It can still be scary if you look at it as millions of huge, powerful, fast-moving machines that you depend on for transportation and defense suddenly, inexplicably coming to life... and deciding ''they don't like you''. If you think the ''concept'' is narm, King's writing is excellent, with the narrator and the other's fear palpable.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: Inverted; most of the projections of doom and gloom come directly from the protagonist's inner thoughts, based solely from the rather bleak situtaion he's currently in. There's no telling what happened to the rest of the world, or even if the event isn't contained in a relatively small area.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: Inverted; most of Inverted. The short story ends with the projections narrator thinking to himself about the FridgeHorror of doom his situation--now that the trucks have forced humans to refuel them, they can also force humans to ''make more trucks'' and gloom come directly from help them take over the protagonist's inner thoughts, based solely from world. But the rather bleak situtaion he's currently in. There's no telling what happened to the rest of the world, or even story ends before we find out if the event isn't contained in a relatively small area.that actually happens.
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** NarmCharm: It can still be scary if you look at it as millions of huge, powerful, fast-moving machines that you depend on for transportation and defense suddenly, inexplicably coming to life... and deciding ''they don't like you''.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: Inverted; most of the projections of doom and gloom come directly from the protagonist's inner thoughts, based solely from the rather bleak situtaion he's currently in. There's no telling what happened to the rest of the world, or even if the event isn't contained in a relatively small area.
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* TearJerker: The short story has a brief scene where the main character and the girl awaken in the middle of the night to hear a crippled and dying Snodgrass crying out for help. All they can do is listen to his agonized weeping and screaming until he finally goes quiet for good.
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* TearJerker: The short story has a brief scene where the main character and the girl awaken in the middle of the night to hear a crippled and dying Snodgrass crying out for help. All they can do is listen to his agonized weeping and screaming until he finally goes quiet for good.good, several hours later.
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* TearJerker: The short story has a brief scene where the main character and the girl awaken in the middle of the night to hear a crippled and dying Snodgrass crying out for help. All they can do is listen to his agonized weeping and screaming until he finally goes quiet for good.
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* {{Narm}}: The entire concept behind the story and both movies. It's far from horror; it's more like cheap Transformers that don't transform.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A huge one occurs midway through the movie, when a toy dump truck kills a mailman. Not only does this have nothing to do with the plot, but it is the only scene in the entire movie to show blood. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Hilarious, unrealistic blood.]].
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A huge one occurs midway through the movie, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBDz_xoxYbc when a toy dump truck kills a mailman.mailman]]. Not only does this have nothing to do with the plot, but it is the only scene in the entire movie to show blood. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Hilarious, unrealistic blood.]].
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** Even more hilarious, these three scenes are often not shown during the broadcast TV versions.
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** Even more hilarious, Interestingly, these three scenes are often not shown during the broadcast TV versions.versions. Some even speculate these scenes were specifically shot for the home video release.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The ending to the film. [[spoiler:Turns out that there are some machines out there that are still loyal to humanity.]]
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Downer Ending is not subjective
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** Even more hilarious, these three scenes are often not show during the broadcast TV versions.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The ending to the film. [[spoiler:Turns out that there are some machines out there that are still loyal to humanity.]]
* DownerEnding: In the book, [[spoiler:not only do the trucks emerge victorious, but the story goes out of it's way to crush ''every single possibility'' of a happy ending for the humans.]]
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The ending to the film. [[spoiler:Turns out that there are some machines out there that are still loyal to humanity.]]
* DownerEnding: In the book, [[spoiler:not only do the trucks emerge victorious, but the story goes out of it's way to crush ''every single possibility'' of a happy ending for the humans.]]
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** Even more hilarious, these three scenes are often not show shown during the broadcast TV versions.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The ending to the film. [[spoiler:Turns out that there are some machines out there that are still loyal to humanity.]]
* DownerEnding: In the book, [[spoiler:not only do the trucks emerge victorious, but the story goes out of it's way to crush ''every single possibility'' of a happy ending for the humans.]]
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The ending to the film. [[spoiler:Turns out that there are some machines out there that are still loyal to humanity.
* DownerEnding: In the book, [[spoiler:not only do the trucks emerge victorious, but the story goes out of it's way to crush ''every single possibility'' of a happy ending for the humans.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A huge one occurs midway through the movie, when a toy dump truck kills a mailman. Not only does this have nothing to do with the plot, but it is the only scene in the entire movie to show blood. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Hilarious, unrealistic blood.]]. Even more hilariously, despite it's fakeness, this sequence was completely cut out of TV airings.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A huge one occurs midway through the movie, when a toy dump truck kills a mailman. Not only does this have nothing to do with the plot, but it is the only scene in the entire movie to show blood. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Hilarious, unrealistic blood.]]. Even more hilariously, despite it's fakeness, this sequence was completely cut out of TV airings.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A huge one occurs midway through the movie, when a toy dump truck kills a mailman. Not only does this have nothing to do with the plot, but it is the only scene in the entire movie to show blood. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Hilarious, unrealistic blood.]]
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A huge one occurs midway through the movie, when a toy dump truck kills a mailman. Not only does this have nothing to do with the plot, but it is the only scene in the entire movie to show blood. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Hilarious, unrealistic blood.]]]]. Even more hilariously, despite it's fakeness, this sequence was completely cut out of TV airings.
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** OrIsIt?
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game, not a trope.
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* BetterThanItSounds
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* {{Narm}}: Exemplified by the toy truck, but present throughout.
