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Twister
TwisterQuote: Twister is a 1996 American disaster/thriller film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as "storm chasers" researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont. The film was based upon a script by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen. Twister was the second-highest grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 55 million tickets sold in the US.
In the film, a team of storm chasers try to perfect a data-gathering instrument, designed to be released into the funnel of a tornado, while competing with another better-funded team with a similar device during a tornado outbreak across Oklahoma. The plot is a dramatized view of research projects like VORTEX of the NOAA and the device, called Dorothy, is copied from TOTO used in the 1980s by NSSL.
Twister is notable for being both the first Hollywood feature film to be released on DVD format and the last to be released on HD DVD. Twister has since been released on Blu-ray disc. It was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound in 1997.
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Jmart
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Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:47 am Posts: 21141 Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Twister
I caught the last half on TV a few nights ago and I'd now have to put this in the guilty pleasure category. Everything that I'm about to bitch and complain about I like within the context of the film. In it's own dumb way the film works. It also helps when you have nice special and practical effects.
What I once found to be an intriguing premise, I find a few years later to be just dumb. Evil/rival stormchasers? Really, that's the best we've got? The ex-wife/fiancee storyline - doesn't work. We all know the fiancee is going to be leaving, why does she even have to be in here? Having Bill and Jo bitch and moan to one another throughout the film would've been good enough, because when all is said and done who gives a shit about them? We're here to watch the tornadoes.
And the entire ending to the film is just dumb as well. First off we have the rival stormchaser's decision to drive right next to the F5 tornado. Whether or not your focused on the money aspect to science, how dumb enough do you have to be to drive about 100 yards next to something that is about a mile wide and can suck you up? And the fact that they get speared by that flying thing (I can't think of what it's called), get sucked up and then fall to the ground only to explode, is just fantastic. But then we've got the other two geniuses driving up to the same tornado. After the first attempt went so well, these two scientists brilliant plan was to drive through a corn field, load Dorothy, set the cruise control on the truck (correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to be going over 50mph to set the cruise control?), jump from the truck and then run away from it? The brilliant part about all of this is they stare and cheer once Dorothy is deployed. They don't realize that the thing is coming right towards them. And then to be able to outrun the thing for about five minutes, hide in a barn by strapping themselves in, then actually be in the center of the tornado without getting hit by debris or to breathe although there is dirt and very little oxygen, and then live to tell about it? Well, it's all a fun time.
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zingy
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Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:40 pm Posts: 36662
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Re: Twister
This movie rocked.
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Barrabás
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Joined: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:53 pm Posts: 6129 Location: la gran casa de la esquina
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Re: Twister
It's a guilty pleasure. It's dumb, predictable and the plot is as thin as the characters, but I just love tornado destruction.
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trixster
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Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Re: Twister
It's fun and silly and dumb. For whatever reason, this is my sister's favourite movie.
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Mannyisthebest
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Joined: Wed May 10, 2006 3:53 pm Posts: 8636 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Re: Twister
Lol a real disaster movie that even today is lots of fun.
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Michael.
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Joined: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:27 am Posts: 23283
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Re: Twister
B+/A-
For what it was TWISTER is absolutely ridiculous amounts of fun. Over the top in every sense, its a ramshackle vehicle of cliches with then state of the art sfx, but I doubt you'll get a better movie about natural disasters than this.
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Tyler
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:55 pm Posts: 7578 Location: Torrington, CT
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Re: Twister
Zingaling wrote: This movie rocked. Have you seen it in the last five years? I loved it when I was a kid, seriously, but now that the flying cows are over a decade old and no longer all that compelling? It's not even ID4, which was lame anyway (alien films should have totally stopped after Aliens).
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Libs
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48626 Location: Arlington, VA
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Re: Twister
I haven't seen it in a VERRRRYYYY long time, so it's probably kind of dated about now, but it was lots of fun when it first came out. Great special effects for that time. B+
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Re: Twister
Just watched this today, still love it. The effects are actually still shockingly well, most of the scenes seem like they'd have to be completely CGI-rendered, but you can't even tell. The story serves its purpose well enough, but it should have been more about the emotion these twisters cause to people. They destorys lives and towns, and I know there could have been a better story there. It's kind of funny to see Philip Seymour Hoffman in this as well as Jeremy Davies from LOST.
B+
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Mr. Lobotomy
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Joined: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:21 am Posts: 993
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Re: Twister
It was a little too dumb for it's own good. It had a lot of potential, but most of it just went to waste.
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Jack Sparrow
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Re: Twister
This is such a breeze watch pretty much like going to a ride. Nothing else in this movie matters even though half the movie is spent of characters playing divorce.
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