Maximum Overdrive vs. Any Which Way But Loose

[williamtheday]

Stephen King once remarked that his Maximum Overdrive might turn out to be as bad as the "Clint Eastwood and the monkey movies". So, which would you say is the worse movie? I tend to like Eastwood's bad movie better.

[choptop]

1 has a killer Green Goblin truck the other has a stupid monkey love scene..... MO all day.

[Jokerz79]

One has Manis as Clyde and Ruth Gordon how is this even a choice Any Which Way But Loose all day.

[Kirby101]

AWWBL was stupid fun with a great final fight. MO is just stupid.

[j9ac9k]

Well, only one of them was successful enough to get a sequel...

[choptop]

Well, only one of them was successful enough to get a sequel...

Well there's 1997s Trucks....

[Gaastra]

One was a huge hit at the box office--the other a big box office bomb.

[ChrisIII]

I've seen a lot of Clint films recently but have yet to see that one. Know that it had Sondra Locke, who had a complicated-to put it lightly-relationship with Eastwood and the public eye in general.

[choptop]

One was a huge hit at the box office--the other a big box office bomb.

That doesn't really mean anything though l can name lot's of bombs that are great movies and likewise I can name box office hit that are terrible.

[Jokerz79]

That doesn't really mean anything though l can name lot's of bombs that are great movies and likewise I can name box office hit that are terrible.

Every Which Way but Loose and its sequel Any Which Way You Can were critical bombs and in honesty aren't masterpieces or great films but they're fun and were both hits at the box office meaning the public also thought they were entertaining. Maximum Overdrive critics hated but so did the public it bombed badly. Subjectively one may like Maximum Overdrive but objectively it was a failure on every level where Every Which Way but Loose and its Sequel wasn't, so it deserves the win over Maximum Overdrive when being compared.

[Frobisher]

Left turn, Clyde!

Any Which Way But Loose is a masterpiece of the fist fight genre, and probably the holder of the “most senselessly long fight scene” title until They Live! ran away with it.

[krazijoe]

The ACDC Soundtrack is reason enough to go with MO.

[JBatmanFan05]

Normally, I'd pick the Eastwood film, but in this rare case, I enjoyed Maximum Overdrive more. MO is entertaining, amusingly over the top and has some visual style going for it. I'm somewhat biased a bit here because I'm a big horror and King guy. I'm not factoring in box office performance or anything other my subjective take. To be fair, I'm due for a rewatch of Any Which Way, so my take here may be wrong/outdated.