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Can't afford patreon but I left suggestions in the comments. You should have heard and felt this in surround sound at the theater. And yes..a tornado roars. It sounds like a freight train coming at you.
There was a series on Discovery channel a few years back called Storm Chasers that followed 2 or 3 groups of actual tornado chasers around. One chaser designed a car that could be driven into a tornado to take measurements.
The 90's were a magical decade for natural disaster films. Twister, Dantes Peak, Volcano, Backdraft, Armageddon, Deep Impact, Volcano: Fire on the Mountain, Earthquake... as a young boy my early movie diet consisted of almost nothing else besides 90 minute by the book disaster flicks 😂
I came here to recommend Dantes Peak and Armageddon but I think you already covered the whole list of all the great disaster movies lol. Nice job. Did you work at a video store like me? Or just a movie lover?
There was a 70s movie called Earthquake. I don't remember if I saw it before or after the '88 Whittier Narrows quake. But I definitely remember being scared of feeling the real thing
I feel like this movie did increase the interest in this field. This was my brother's favourite movie when he was a child, and now he's graduated university as an atmospheric scientist
Me and my childhood friend live in az. We'd always be outside when we got crazy storms. We also act like storm chasers, watching the clouds, saying how we'd do that when we were older. Obviously not all dreams happen, it was such a nice memory.
This movie inspired entire generation of storm chasers, Reed Timmer among them. That's why when Bill Paxton passed, storm chasers gathered in Oklahoma and spelled his initials with their GPS signal beacons on radar - a tradition only among storm chasers when one of their own pass away, so by doing it - making this sole exception - they claimed Bill to be one of their own.
I saw this when it came out in the theater in Kansas. As the credits came up someone walked in and told us there was a tornado warning for our area. Every chuckled and walked outside to the sirens blaring. We jumped in the truck and headed home through rain, lightening, and hail. It was a very surreal experience.
A tornado irl sounds like a freight train. If you do not see the funnel they can literally come out of nowhere. The calm before the storm is the scariest part of it all.
Give a lot of yep like a freight train combined with a jet engine and it's even worse when you're laying in the bathtub waiting for it to go away. I probably don't have to tell you but whenever that sky turns a shade of weird green it's time to GTFO.
Seen a lot of tornado alley episodes and they all say it sounds like a train coming down on their heads. Never experienced it myself but sounds terrifying.
@@youngnastyman88 Yes. I have thankfully never experienced an actual tornado but I have experienced a tornadic system, complete with yellow-green sky and that heavy stillness. It's such a freaky feeling. The only thing I can compare it to would be when I went to see the solar eclipse a few years ago. Both are just a "something doesn't feel right" experience that you never forget.
I've heard a tornado, and that freight train sound was coming from up in the air slightly to the southwest of me. A couple of minutes later the wind got pretty dramatic. Two tress knocked over in the yard by the roots. I wondered if the sound has to do with the air currents swirling up in the funnel. Maybe mixed with a sound from the powerful upward suction? The sound was not ground level.
Thumbnail is pure gold LOL looks like you're reporting on the tornado, confused and scared out of your mind while the others are looking as dramatic as possible.
No tornadoes, but I been through three hurricane eyes. Erin 1995. Frances 2004. Jeanne 2004. Frances gave us a slow wallop for almost three days, then Jeanne plowed in 22 days later with an eye that made landfall like two miles from Frances' eye. After a summer hurricane passes over you and leaves, those next few days without power are always at least 98 degrees with 90% humidity. Fun times. President George W and the mighty Jeb himself came and passed out water and stuff. I feel like Jeb was the real winner.
As an ex-meteorologist, they generally did a pretty good job on this movie, thought some of the stuff is a bit outrageous (it's a movie anyway!). The only major flub is in the beginning (set in 1969), when someone says the tornado looks like and F5. The Fujita scale for measuring tornado strength was not created until the 1980s, so they were move than a decade early on calling it an F5.
Dr. Fujita of the University of Chicago began developing the F-scale after extensively surveying the damage left by a nighttime F5 tornado that devastated central Lubbock, TX on the evening of May 11th, 1970. It was formally debuted to the public in 1971 with the National Weather Service beginning official implementation of the scale the same year.
"This movie came out in 1996, a year before I was born..." Me: (Realizes he's younger than not just me, but also my little brother) Also me: (Withers away and crumbles into dust from old age)
I grew up in Ill. and have only encountered 2 tornadoes, neither of which rated higher than a 3 on the scale. But it literally sounds like a train is coming at the building your in. It is Terrifying.
I remember seeing this movie when I was young and it put a huge fear of tornadoes in me. To the point I said I'd never live anywhere they were a possibility. I now live in Missouri. Life has a funny sense of humor.
Out of all natural disaster phenomena I've always been extremely fascinated (and terrified) of tornados. This movie gave me a lot of enjoyment and cold sweats at the same time.
this film and 1991's Backdraft stand out in my mind as films where natural phenomena are anthropomorphized and built up to be more than just settings or events but actual characters and antagonists
@@caydeunlocked672 when Joe tells the story about how it skipped this house and that house and came after her I felt that. Like the storms were there just for me.
Loved this movie as a kid! I think because of this movie is the reason why I'll never move to a state that has tornadoes 😂 RIP Bill Paxton & Philip Seymour Hoffman!
Same here. I watched this movie too many times as a kid, but on a side note I survived my first tornado in December 2019. I didn't even know it was coming until the windows blew out.
Oklahoman here! We love this movie. I remember watching it in science class and discussing what was accurate and what was exaggerated for Hollywood in middle school. This definitely inspired a lot of people to become meteorologists; one of our local ones talks about it all the time. When Bill Paxton died a bunch of storm chasers drove around to spell his initials on GPS. Also the meteorologist in this movie Gary England was a local celebrity here and his reporting has saved a lot of lives during tornado season.
The distinctive roar of the tornado is a sound design trick. Using the familiarity of sounds we normally fear like a lions roar, it subliminally taps into your fear and gives the feeling the tornado is a living creature with intent to attack.
That being said, people who have lived through tornadoes all describe the noise as sounding like a freight train was driving through their living room. So yeah, they definitely altered it to give it a little more of a "growl," but for the most part, that deafening roar in the movie is actually pretty close to the real thing. I once watched a tornado that was roughly 6-8 miles away (and moving the opposite direction obviously), and even at that distance you could hear it.
Twister is one of my favorite movies. It did spark my interest in meteorology, not as a career, but just as learning about it. I first saw it at an Air Force base theater and with each tornado I sank further and further in my seat. It was equally terrifying and mesmerizing. I loved it so much I went to see it three days in a row.
In college we discussed the social phenomenon of disaster movies and how they correlate with difficult times socially...a reflection of the feeling of little control of your world.
Twister is a movie that is near and dear to my family's heart. A night we can't go to sleep it's like one or two in the morning we'll make a lumberjack breakfast and watch it as a family. Growing up in Texas we were used to twisters. So to see a movie that showed something nationally that we knew a lot about was very interesting.
I remember seeing this film in the theaters and I've had a soft spot for it ever since. Just a fun watch. And how can you not love a line like, "He really is in love with himself, I thought it was just a summer thing."
One of my all time favourite movies. It's just fun and enjoyable to watch. Loved watching it growing up. I love the relationship everyone has, you can see their backstory without having the need to go into detail on everyone of them. Great storytelling! Love Paxton. RIP to the legends, Paxton & Hoffman!
This movie scared me when I was a kid, I was like 9 when I saw it. Grew up in the Midwest so tornadoes were always a real threat. I still loved this movie though, even as a kid. When Bill Paxton died a bunch of storm chasers formed the initials "BP" by arranging themselves in a GPS map as a tribute. I'd be amazed if there's a storm chaser alive who hasn't seen this movie.
Real talk this movie (I watched in theatres when I was 8) made me want to be a storm chaser. I even went all the way to become a meteorologist, but decided to forego that dream for another. But, it's thanks to this movie and my teachers that I can look at the sky and know what the fuck is about to happen. You really do feel like Bill Paxton lookin' up at the sky and saying "Going green" which is a sign that you should take shelter cause shits about to hit the fan. R.I.P Bill and Phillip two amazing actors gone to soon.
The behind the scenes of this film is pretty awesome. The technology that they had to create to make this film and have the effects be convincing is kind of incredible. The blending of CGI and practical, the particle effects for the tornados and the destruction that they cause, the weather simulation, it’s pretty dope. I can’t remember where I saw it but I watched a video about all that they had to do to make this film look realistic and it was a lot. They were really pushing the boundary of what CGI could do at the time without looking like shit.
I was never in a tornado, but I went through hurricane Andrew as a kid, and the one thing I distinctly remember was the roar. We were huddled in a bathroom under a mattress, and it sounded like a train was running us over. A non-stop roar. Still shakes me to my core when I think of it. Great surprise reaction choice James!
I saw this multiple times at the cinema. I always felt it was a better movie than it should have been. The cast - all of them- are phenomenal and really elevate what ought to be cheesy trash.
There was a thunderstorm moving in when I first saw this in the theater in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, so at the climax you didn't know if the thunder was in the movie or outside. When everybody was walking out to the parking lot after, everybody was looking up at the sky with trepidation. lol
Watch "Into the Storm". Another fun tornado movie with pretty good effects that look a liiiiiittle bit better than Twister's. The movie follows a group making a documentary about storm chasers. There are some found footage elements (but mostly stable wide angle shots) but the rest of the movie feels a bit like a documentary as well. Trailer: ua-cam.com/video/xBH25XxM-7g/v-deo.html
@@Jigsaw407 Ehhhh. My sister and I are both amateur weather nuts (and she's actually a storm chaser photographer with certifications from SkyWarn and Spotter Network) and I remember both of us rolling our eyes at a lot of the stuff in Into the Storm like tornados dropping from a _completely still_ sky of normal cloud cover, no rotation, no wall clouds, nothing. Just PFFT, magic tornado! Honestly Into the Storm isn't even in the same stratosphere as Twister for accuracy and quality, especially for Twister coming out in 1996. And all of that is just my subjective opinion, ofc, not objective fact. I just remember both of us walking out of the theater when Into the Storm ended bitching about how ridiculous it was in direct comparison to Twister since Twister is one of our favorite movies ever. lol
Disaster movies became popular during the 70s until Airplane! (1980) parodied the genre. Twister led a resurgence in the latter half of the 90s w/ the help of improved visual effects before 9/11 slowed things down again: Independence Day, Daylight, Dante's Peak, Volcano, Titanic, Hard Rain, Deep Impact, Armageddon, etc...
In answer, to something you said- yeah, the twister was roaring. Usually one of the first signs that a twister is near is that it sounds like a train rushing along towards you at high speed. It's terrifying, man! I never want to be close to a tornado again.
As somebody that is from eastern Oklahoma this was always a very appreciated film because it represents the area but also I consider it a horror film because I’ve actually lived through tornadoes on more than one occasion. This movie reminds me of those experiences. The funny part is when we hear that there’s a tornado watch, we don’t stay up all night and worry about it. We just go to sleep with our weather radio set to alarm us.
I was like 14 when I watched this movie in the cinema, in Argentina; the begining of the film, man, I still remember how loud it was, it scared the sh*t out of me. Such a great film. Amazing how good this movie aged. Love it, great reaction!
Tornadoes are terrifying. Look up Pecos Hank if you wanna see some amazing storm chasing work. As for the roaring sound, from what I understand a near-passing tornado is often likened to the horn of a freight train. Wild stuff.
Your the first person I've seen react to this awesome classic. And one of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for doing this. Seeing twister was amazing when it came out. So fascinating seeing into the mayhem of a tornado at full strength.
Crazy thing is. I played basketball with Philip Seymour Hoffman in NYC a few days before he died. You could see His mind was off in the distance, but I had no idea what he was going through. Most of the kids that day didn't know who he was either, because he acts in more dramatic movies that kids don't watch. Every time is see him on screen I bow to his awesome talent and wish he were still around. R.I.P.
First and foremost wanna say R.I.P. to Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman. And second, this movie is just awesome and I'm glad you're reacting to it. Stay safe out there James.
This was one of my favorite movies back in the day. I used to watch it over and over. My brothers and I used to quote scenes from this movie all the time. My brother and I were in a meteorology club when we were kids, and my brother wanted to be a meteorologist when he was a kid. This movie also moved me to research and find out the best ways to survive one if you are in its path in various situations. Thanks for the reaction!!
The film was mostly shot in Oklahoma and Wakita is a real town there. It has a Twister museum now. I heard some place that the sound team took eye witness testimonials of the sound of tornados (it's like the roar of a train) and added the "growl" to make them scarier and almost animalistic.
Jan deBont was an amazing cinematographer, even after he graduated to directing. he didn't always pick the best scripts to make, but every single movie he made looked incredible. he did the cinematography for some classics like Die Hard as well.
I never comment but have to. My FAVORITE movie ever. Anytime when I'd goto grandparents house me and my cousin would watch this!!!!!!. Thanks for reaching to this
as a midwesterner who frequently has the tornado sirens go off, this movie instilled a fear in me to this day that i cannot overcome. i immediately go in the basement and take cover even if the skies are still blue.
I also grew up live in the Midwest. It's come to a point where I can feel the energy the air that could lead to a tornado. It's eerie, everything gets real calm, the sky turns a sick green, there's a particular smell that I can't really define, and the hair on the back of your neck stands up. Then Boom! All hell breaks loose. I was always told however that if the rain starts pouring you're usually good. Rain drains the power of the storm.
@@billhicks6449 The wildest storm and tornado I ever encountered had absolutely black clouds (like, _black_ black), but where you could see the edges of the clouds, they were a sickly whitish-green. The most bizarre thing was that the actual light, the air around you, it was distinctly orange somehow. And for a while, everything was dead calm, which was probably the scariest time of all. When the wind started picking up and the rain came, that was when you started to feel like you could breathe again. It was still a crazy storm, but you felt less like the literal hand of god might drop on your head then.
This movie gave me an unhealthy fear of Tornadoes. Which a tornado at night is still terrifying to think of. I live in West Texas were it's legit plausible and has had tornadoes. The thunderstorms are actually just as terrifying. When the sky goes green you better get your ass into a shelter.
I grew up inthe UK, and thought I must be imagining it when I saw a tornado out over the sea, but after geting smashed by sideways hail then thrown off my feet a few times while running home I was less convinced. Turns out the same day tornados were reported up the coast, ripped the roofs off a few houses too. Coolest thing I've ever seen.
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures Before seeing it, me and a mate were putting our jackets up in the air like parachutes, jumping into the wind off the steps down to the beach, then being picked up and thrown back about 10-15 feet behind where we started. Invented a new sport! Got a few grazes but totally worth it.
Holy shit this movie brings back so many memories I used to watch this on repeat when I was a kid I think this movie is pefect tbh an absolute masterpiece it's so underrated I remember it like it was yesterday when I was a kid watching this remember all the lines and I love the music and the camera shots I love this movie so much as you can tell so glad you watched this james it's one of those rare movies that I just dont think could be made today
Should really add the movie “As Good As It Gets” to your polls. 2 oscars for Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt…also with underrated Greg Kinnear and Cuba Gooding jr. Very complex storyline.
If you want another AWESOME movie set in middle America, check out "Paper Moon" from 1974. Set in Kansas during the 1930s, it was filmed all in 2 general locations in Kansas. The first part around Hays, KS in the western part of the state and the latter part of the movie filmed near St. Joseph, Missouri along the northeast Kansas border. Shows Kansas how it really looks and its a great movie.
I only started movie reactions a few months ago and I cannot believe how HYPED I get when I see you upload a childhood favorite like this. I assumed it would be all newer movies but you get in to some 90s blockbusters and you have me hooked!
This came out right before I moved to Michigan. That eerie build up is spot on. The way the sound of wind can give you butterflies in your stomach. During my time in MI I never went through a tornado but I did go through a few watches/warnings, hunkered down in the basement. Even after I moved back to AZ, for a while after, the sound of strong winds would make me nervous.
I'll always remember seeing this film in the theater. My family and I were on vacation and it rained one evening, so we went to the movies. When we got back to our hotel, my dad called our answering machine to check our messages (it was the 90's) and discovered that a heavy storm had rolled through Pittsburgh and lightning struck our lamp post in front of our house. We came home a few days later to the glass all over our front yard and the outlets on the front of the house burned.
The romance subplot was something that went way over my head when I watched this in theatres. As I grew older it might be my favourite part of the movie, but the twisters are still awesome though.
Damn I haven't seen this in like 15 years and I still remember all the plot-beats and scenes you showed during your reaction. So at the least, it's a sign that the movie was hella memorable. Love the action and effects in this; only unbelievable part is how Jo and Bill aren't absolutely cut tf up by the literal-millions of flying pieces of wood, glass, metal, brick, plaster, etc. around them, lol.
Hello, tornado geek here (I’m sure there are others in the comments, I just did not find them). Yeah, Twister definitely had an impact on the weather and storm chasing world (it surely did on me)! For instance, the “Suck Zone” is definitely a term that still floats around today among chasers. Overall, the movie is not very scientific (ex. going under a bridge to protect yourself from a tornado, strapping yourself to pipes to survive a 300 mph, debris filled, mile wide monster along with a few more things), but it still is very enjoyable even from a weather enthusiast’s perspective. Especially given the fact that the Dorothy instrument is a direct reference to a real storm chasing probe called TOTO (Dorothy’s dog in the Wizard of Oz), which for a period was used to try to study tornadoes. The twisters themselves, at least to me, still look extremely good and pretty realistic. The animal roar is probably just an hyperbole of the fact that when you hear the rumble of an incoming tornado, that gets defined as a “roar”, but it just makes them more like a living being, which I can totally get behind. If you compare it with other natural disaster/weather/tornado movies, it definitely stands out because it’s not too much out of proportion (like The Day After Tomorrow might be), it doesn’t have over the top CGI (like for example the most recent Into The Storm, which IMO, has waaay too much exaggeration on the tornadoes) and it’s not complete BS (I’m looking at you, Sharknado). Compared to many other movies of its genre, it’s pretty down to earth with just some scientific issues here and there, but it’s Hollywood, you have to twist some things around. And to end this long comment, the story is just crap. Nobody wants to hear about the divorce papers, we’re just all here to watch cows getting thrown around and Bill Paxton trying to get a can full of balls into a tornado. RIP Dusty and Bill “The Extreme”, thank you for helping making this movie what it is!
The 90's had some epic "Disaster" movies. Twister & Armageddon were the top 2. Then there was Deep Impact, Volcano, Dante's Peak. But Twister was really good. Seen it a bunch of times.
When this movie first came out to home video I was at my dad's house. His house was the place where people would kind of just come and go all weekend long randomly. We had watched it on VHS that morning when it came out...and then the cousins, friends and other family trickled in all day long that Saturday. Every time we were done with the movie, a new group of people would kind of come in and be like, "What are you guys watching? OH Twister! Sweet!" they'd grab a drink and plop down in the bedroom where we had our "massive" 24" tv and had a blast. All in all I think we must have seen that thing about 5-6 times that day lol Good times.
I was so happy when I saw that you had picked this film, because your take on this kind of thing is so refreshingly unique. I grew up watching Twister. I've probably seen it 100 or more times. I like that, even when you aren't dazzled by a movie, you don't hate on it (a far too common trend in other movie reaction channels). Thank you for respecting movies and for sharing your insight.
I just watched a program that spoke of how this movie created a huge surge of people picking up Stormchasing as a career to the point that there are now storm chaser traffic jams during storms and it has actually increased the danger of escaping tornadoes.
Have been rewatching this last year, it is such a great movie and the special effects are so well done. The sound has some extra animal roaring added though.
Fun fact: An actual Drive In movie theater somewhere in the mid-west got hit by a tornado during a screening of Twister. Not sure what scene was playing when it occurred. People might have thought the special effects were just "jumping out" of the screen.... anyway, side note: the day after I saw it in theaters back home in Kentucky, my farm was hit by a tornado as well. Nobody in my family was hurt, and I was sooo pumped to film the aftermath. It was a nightmare for my parents, but I loved it!
Twister will always hold a special place among the movies I've watched as this was the first non-"kids movie" that I got to pick when going to the cinema with my dad.
I moved to central Oklahoma about a year before this film came out. It was largely shot in this area, so the post-production was a matter of local interest. The CGI is unbelievably accurate: if you pull the camera back to a couple of miles' distance and drop the dramatic music, it looks exactly like what you see on the local news. The tornado that hits the drive-in theater is what's called "rain-wrapped". This is one of the most dangerous types, since the tornado itself isn't visible within the rainstorm . . . until it's too late. The TV weatherman seen in the opening was the actual chief meteorologist for the Channel 9 news. I used to work in an office with the girl who sold Helen Hunt ten cups of coffee in the drive-in scene.
What Melissa WAS harsh about was when she was such a complete antagonistic bitch to Jo at the diner for no reason, especially since Jo had only been nice to her up to that point. Melissa's breakup with Bill just shows that not only was she just a rebound for him, but he was also probably a rebound for her, too. It never would have lasted, just like she said. 🤷♀️
I first saw this film when i was 6 years old, have seen it over 30 times now at least. A real classic for me, such memories. Excited to watch your reaction!
One of my favorite 90s guilty pleasures. A real nostalgia trip. I live in west Alabama as well, which is one of the biggest tornado hotspots in the world, so this film hits extra hard for me. Also I love the soundtrack.
Gary England (well known meteorologist and weather technology pioneer) makes a cameo on the tv in the beginning of the movie, using old footage of him as a meteorologist back in the day. As with so many, this movie made me want to be a storm chaser when I was a little kid. My first up close experience with a tornado, when I was 10, killed that dream
I can't even describe how much I love this movie. I saw it in the cinema and was hugging myself during the tornado scenes, I was so tense. Everything about Helen Hunt's performance is perfect and the rest of the cast is superb too. The outfits and vehicles have dated but the effects really haven't, and the whole movie just has heart, every character and location feels 'real'.
I saw this in the theater when I was around 12. I remember feeling a little nervous when we went out to the parking lot after, because it was dark. It made me think of the drive-in scene when they couldn’t see the tornado until it was on top of them.
Lowkey this is like...Fast and Furious meets a weather man.
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You should have heard and felt this in surround sound at the theater. And yes..a tornado roars. It sounds like a freight train coming at you.
Fast and Furious meets a weather man?
Fast and Windy?
There was a series on Discovery channel a few years back called Storm Chasers that followed 2 or 3 groups of actual tornado chasers around. One chaser designed a car that could be driven into a tornado to take measurements.
Thank you James
You should watch Chasing the Storm: Twister Revisited ua-cam.com/video/GS4P2UlNC00/v-deo.html
RIP Paxton and Hoffman can’t believe one of my favorite movies from childhood has lost two incredible actor’s.
Also RIP Michael Crichton, the writer of the film. Amazing novelist.
Both legends. Rip.
The 90's were a magical decade for natural disaster films. Twister, Dantes Peak, Volcano, Backdraft, Armageddon, Deep Impact, Volcano: Fire on the Mountain, Earthquake... as a young boy my early movie diet consisted of almost nothing else besides 90 minute by the book disaster flicks 😂
I came here to recommend Dantes Peak and Armageddon but I think you already covered the whole list of all the great disaster movies lol. Nice job. Did you work at a video store like me? Or just a movie lover?
I'm not sure I'd categorize Backdraft in the "natural disaster" movie genre, but it's definitely a great movie.
@@nicotti You're 100% right. Just realised I mistook Backdraft for Firestorm.
@@hausofash-zf8db Just a movie lover. Though I was at the video store so often I probably should have worked there 😅
There was a 70s movie called Earthquake. I don't remember if I saw it before or after the '88 Whittier Narrows quake. But I definitely remember being scared of feeling the real thing
I feel like this movie did increase the interest in this field. This was my brother's favourite movie when he was a child, and now he's graduated university as an atmospheric scientist
I use to watch this movie on VHS religiously as a kid(and still do) and it's inspired me to become a storm chaser myself.
I loved watching this movie as a kid with my dad
Me and my childhood friend live in az. We'd always be outside when we got crazy storms. We also act like storm chasers, watching the clouds, saying how we'd do that when we were older. Obviously not all dreams happen, it was such a nice memory.
This movie inspired entire generation of storm chasers, Reed Timmer among them. That's why when Bill Paxton passed, storm chasers gathered in Oklahoma and spelled his initials with their GPS signal beacons on radar - a tradition only among storm chasers when one of their own pass away, so by doing it - making this sole exception - they claimed Bill to be one of their own.
I saw this when it came out in the theater in Kansas. As the credits came up someone walked in and told us there was a tornado warning for our area. Every chuckled and walked outside to the sirens blaring. We jumped in the truck and headed home through rain, lightening, and hail. It was a very surreal experience.
I saw it in the theatre in KS too.
A tornado irl sounds like a freight train. If you do not see the funnel they can literally come out of nowhere. The calm before the storm is the scariest part of it all.
Give a lot of yep like a freight train combined with a jet engine and it's even worse when you're laying in the bathtub waiting for it to go away. I probably don't have to tell you but whenever that sky turns a shade of weird green it's time to GTFO.
Seen a lot of tornado alley episodes and they all say it sounds like a train coming down on their heads. Never experienced it myself but sounds terrifying.
The heavy stillness in the air. Like oxygen has been replaced by something else.
@@youngnastyman88 Yes. I have thankfully never experienced an actual tornado but I have experienced a tornadic system, complete with yellow-green sky and that heavy stillness. It's such a freaky feeling. The only thing I can compare it to would be when I went to see the solar eclipse a few years ago. Both are just a "something doesn't feel right" experience that you never forget.
I've heard a tornado, and that freight train sound was coming from up in the air slightly to the southwest of me. A couple of minutes later the wind got pretty dramatic. Two tress knocked over in the yard by the roots. I wondered if the sound has to do with the air currents swirling up in the funnel. Maybe mixed with a sound from the powerful upward suction? The sound was not ground level.
Thumbnail is pure gold LOL looks like you're reporting on the tornado, confused and scared out of your mind while the others are looking as dramatic as possible.
Hahaha glad you noticed! Also my reaction to the flying COW
I didn't even notice 😂
FIRST ONE....to not go into a tornado.
No tornadoes, but I been through three hurricane eyes.
Erin 1995.
Frances 2004.
Jeanne 2004.
Frances gave us a slow wallop for almost three days, then Jeanne plowed in 22 days later with an eye that made landfall like two miles from Frances' eye.
After a summer hurricane passes over you and leaves, those next few days without power are always at least 98 degrees with 90% humidity. Fun times.
President George W and the mighty Jeb himself came and passed out water and stuff. I feel like Jeb was the real winner.
deserves a Gold Star
"Cow."
The calm delivery of that line makes me laugh every time. Flying cows are clearly an everyday phenomenon for a storm chaser.
Melissa's line and delivery after is even better. "I gotta go, Julia, we got coooows ... ". :D
The cow scene never gets old. 😂
I remember this being a landmark for SFX, it was really incredible at the time that the tornadoes were all CG.
As an ex-meteorologist, they generally did a pretty good job on this movie, thought some of the stuff is a bit outrageous (it's a movie anyway!). The only major flub is in the beginning (set in 1969), when someone says the tornado looks like and F5. The Fujita scale for measuring tornado strength was not created until the 1980s, so they were move than a decade early on calling it an F5.
Gotcha!! Thanks for that info Curtis!!
Dr. Fujita of the University of Chicago began developing the F-scale after extensively surveying the damage left by a nighttime F5 tornado that devastated central Lubbock, TX on the evening of May 11th, 1970. It was formally debuted to the public in 1971 with the National Weather Service beginning official implementation of the scale the same year.
"This movie came out in 1996, a year before I was born..."
Me: (Realizes he's younger than not just me, but also my little brother)
Also me: (Withers away and crumbles into dust from old age)
LOL!
omg right? im fading away
A lot of these reactors make me feel like the goddamn Crypt Keeper all the time. I was born in '84. lol
Helen hunt was so huge in the 90’s she was also amazing in what women want and as good as it gets.
As Good As It Gets was great. Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson earned their Oscars for that. I liked What Women Want, also.
I grew up in Ill. and have only encountered 2 tornadoes, neither of which rated higher than a 3 on the scale. But it literally sounds like a train is coming at the building your in. It is Terrifying.
Grew up in Wisconsin. Never was in a tornado until after seeing this. That finger of God line always stuck with me.
Terrifying, awe inspiring and from a distance, strikingly beautiful hehe... depends on how close you are really lol.
@@Atropos6976 true...
This film is what my childhood was made up of
Me too.
Same though I watched this movie at least once as a kid and it stuck with me for years until I watched it again
I remember seeing this movie when I was young and it put a huge fear of tornadoes in me. To the point I said I'd never live anywhere they were a possibility.
I now live in Missouri. Life has a funny sense of humor.
Hahaha that it does doesn’t it hahaha
Funny enough this movie got me really interested in tornados as a kid and I even wanted to be a stormchaser lol
Out of all natural disaster phenomena I've always been extremely fascinated (and terrified) of tornados. This movie gave me a lot of enjoyment and cold sweats at the same time.
yeah tornados and earthquakes they just come out of nowhere. I'm used to hurricanes where you get at least like a 5 day warning
this film and 1991's Backdraft stand out in my mind as films where natural phenomena are anthropomorphized and built up to be more than just settings or events but actual characters and antagonists
Backdraft is underrated.
I couldn’t agree more. Both are my childhood movies and made me a huge fan of Kurt Russel and Bill Paxton! I’d put Vertical Limit up there too.
I love this movie. Glad it still holds up after 25 years.
movies like this made me scared to death as a kid. Every time a tornado siren went of I thought we were about to die.
Damn hahaha where’d you grow up?
Yeah, they made the tornadoes seem like monsters from a horror film
TBH this movie had the opposite effect on me and made me want to become a storm chaser. haha
@@caydeunlocked672 when Joe tells the story about how it skipped this house and that house and came after her I felt that. Like the storms were there just for me.
@@youcancallmeflower8041 same tho this movie got me obsessed with tornados and I remember really wanting to see one in real life
Loved this movie as a kid! I think because of this movie is the reason why I'll never move to a state that has tornadoes 😂
RIP Bill Paxton & Philip Seymour Hoffman!
Honestly I wouldn’t blame you! Also, I didn’t know Bill passed???
@@JamesVSCinema Yeah, I think it was maybe just last year. Could be wrong.
@@fraser-b3494 he passed away in early 2017... feels like it was last year though
Same here. I watched this movie too many times as a kid, but on a side note I survived my first tornado in December 2019. I didn't even know it was coming until the windows blew out.
@@thefilmeffect6089 Glad you got through that crazy experience safely!
Oklahoman here! We love this movie. I remember watching it in science class and discussing what was accurate and what was exaggerated for Hollywood in middle school. This definitely inspired a lot of people to become meteorologists; one of our local ones talks about it all the time. When Bill Paxton died a bunch of storm chasers drove around to spell his initials on GPS. Also the meteorologist in this movie Gary England was a local celebrity here and his reporting has saved a lot of lives during tornado season.
I always get a good belly laugh out of "My god, who are these people?!" when they try to hide in the barn at the end of the movie.
That steak scene always makes me hungry 😋
Some good food lemme tell ya!
Me too. Every single time.
haha YES! Steak, sunnyside up eggs and potatoes. Perfection...
"Food...FOOD!!....FOOOOODDDD!!!!"
FEWD
The distinctive roar of the tornado is a sound design trick. Using the familiarity of sounds we normally fear like a lions roar, it subliminally taps into your fear and gives the feeling the tornado is a living creature with intent to attack.
Gotcha!
That being said, people who have lived through tornadoes all describe the noise as sounding like a freight train was driving through their living room. So yeah, they definitely altered it to give it a little more of a "growl," but for the most part, that deafening roar in the movie is actually pretty close to the real thing. I once watched a tornado that was roughly 6-8 miles away (and moving the opposite direction obviously), and even at that distance you could hear it.
Twister is one of my favorite movies. It did spark my interest in meteorology, not as a career, but just as learning about it. I first saw it at an Air Force base theater and with each tornado I sank further and further in my seat. It was equally terrifying and mesmerizing. I loved it so much I went to see it three days in a row.
In college we discussed the social phenomenon of disaster movies and how they correlate with difficult times socially...a reflection of the feeling of little control of your world.
"IT'S THE EXTREME!" Most nostalgic reaction yet. This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I almost became a meteorologist because of it.
Twister is a movie that is near and dear to my family's heart. A night we can't go to sleep it's like one or two in the morning we'll make a lumberjack breakfast and watch it as a family. Growing up in Texas we were used to twisters. So to see a movie that showed something nationally that we knew a lot about was very interesting.
I remember seeing this film in the theaters and I've had a soft spot for it ever since. Just a fun watch. And how can you not love a line like, "He really is in love with himself, I thought it was just a summer thing."
Parents took me and a buddy to see this in the theater. 11 year old me was hyped!!!!!
What an experience!
One of my all time favourite movies. It's just fun and enjoyable to watch. Loved watching it growing up. I love the relationship everyone has, you can see their backstory without having the need to go into detail on everyone of them. Great storytelling! Love Paxton. RIP to the legends, Paxton & Hoffman!
This movie scared me when I was a kid, I was like 9 when I saw it. Grew up in the Midwest so tornadoes were always a real threat. I still loved this movie though, even as a kid.
When Bill Paxton died a bunch of storm chasers formed the initials "BP" by arranging themselves in a GPS map as a tribute. I'd be amazed if there's a storm chaser alive who hasn't seen this movie.
Real talk this movie (I watched in theatres when I was 8) made me want to be a storm chaser. I even went all the way to become a meteorologist, but decided to forego that dream for another. But, it's thanks to this movie and my teachers that I can look at the sky and know what the fuck is about to happen. You really do feel like Bill Paxton lookin' up at the sky and saying "Going green" which is a sign that you should take shelter cause shits about to hit the fan.
R.I.P Bill and Phillip two amazing actors gone to soon.
We did arrange his initials across the plains. Every storm chaser knows about him & considers Bill a legend.
Man, I haven't seen this in about 20 years.
Hahaha blast from the past
The behind the scenes of this film is pretty awesome. The technology that they had to create to make this film and have the effects be convincing is kind of incredible. The blending of CGI and practical, the particle effects for the tornados and the destruction that they cause, the weather simulation, it’s pretty dope. I can’t remember where I saw it but I watched a video about all that they had to do to make this film look realistic and it was a lot. They were really pushing the boundary of what CGI could do at the time without looking like shit.
Watching this video reminds me that Kyle Kinane was so right when he said "Tornadoes seem so much more personal than other natural disasters."
Kinane is always spot on with his analysis, no matter the topic.
Everybody but Jeff.
I was never in a tornado, but I went through hurricane Andrew as a kid, and the one thing I distinctly remember was the roar. We were huddled in a bathroom under a mattress, and it sounded like a train was running us over. A non-stop roar. Still shakes me to my core when I think of it. Great surprise reaction choice James!
This movie is a part of my sweetest times as a kid,
RIP Bill Paxton, no one could freak out like you brother.
I saw this multiple times at the cinema. I always felt it was a better movie than it should have been. The cast - all of them- are phenomenal and really elevate what ought to be cheesy trash.
There was a thunderstorm moving in when I first saw this in the theater in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, so at the climax you didn't know if the thunder was in the movie or outside. When everybody was walking out to the parking lot after, everybody was looking up at the sky with trepidation. lol
I always like to watch this movie around this time of year when the midwest gets severe weather 🌪 my mom would be outside during tornado warnings 😂
That’s wild! Being from the east coast we never had to experience that!
@@JamesVSCinema there are sirens that go off for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. We pretty much ignore them 🤣
@@JamesVSCinema and yes, tornadoes do roar. Sounds just like a freight train 😳
”Building, construction, anelyzing, reinventing..”
-Cloudy whit a chance of meatballs🤓
I seriously don't think any CGI tornado made today would look better than what they did here. That's how well they made them already here, fantastic.
Watch "Into the Storm". Another fun tornado movie with pretty good effects that look a liiiiiittle bit better than Twister's. The movie follows a group making a documentary about storm chasers. There are some found footage elements (but mostly stable wide angle shots) but the rest of the movie feels a bit like a documentary as well. Trailer: ua-cam.com/video/xBH25XxM-7g/v-deo.html
@@Jigsaw407 Ehhhh. My sister and I are both amateur weather nuts (and she's actually a storm chaser photographer with certifications from SkyWarn and Spotter Network) and I remember both of us rolling our eyes at a lot of the stuff in Into the Storm like tornados dropping from a _completely still_ sky of normal cloud cover, no rotation, no wall clouds, nothing. Just PFFT, magic tornado!
Honestly Into the Storm isn't even in the same stratosphere as Twister for accuracy and quality, especially for Twister coming out in 1996.
And all of that is just my subjective opinion, ofc, not objective fact. I just remember both of us walking out of the theater when Into the Storm ended bitching about how ridiculous it was in direct comparison to Twister since Twister is one of our favorite movies ever. lol
@@kriscynical Yeah, of course Into the Storm is pretty much a fantasy movie but it's entertaining.
I was 4 when this movie came out. It's been my favorite movie of all time along with Dantes Peak.
Love this film, it's such a classic. It's one those I come back to every 2-3 months or so. They don't make them like this anymore.
Hopefully they do! Just less CGI
Disaster movies became popular during the 70s until Airplane! (1980) parodied the genre. Twister led a resurgence in the latter half of the 90s w/ the help of improved visual effects before 9/11 slowed things down again: Independence Day, Daylight, Dante's Peak, Volcano, Titanic, Hard Rain, Deep Impact, Armageddon, etc...
In answer, to something you said- yeah, the twister was roaring. Usually one of the first signs that a twister is near is that it sounds like a train rushing along towards you at high speed. It's terrifying, man! I never want to be close to a tornado again.
Funny, I popped in the blu ray for this like 3 days ago. Thought it still holds up. Glad you just watched it. A 90s summer movie classic.
As somebody that is from eastern Oklahoma this was always a very appreciated film because it represents the area but also I consider it a horror film because I’ve actually lived through tornadoes on more than one occasion. This movie reminds me of those experiences. The funny part is when we hear that there’s a tornado watch, we don’t stay up all night and worry about it. We just go to sleep with our weather radio set to alarm us.
I was like 14 when I watched this movie in the cinema, in Argentina; the begining of the film, man, I still remember how loud it was, it scared the sh*t out of me. Such a great film. Amazing how good this movie aged. Love it, great reaction!
Tornadoes are terrifying. Look up Pecos Hank if you wanna see some amazing storm chasing work. As for the roaring sound, from what I understand a near-passing tornado is often likened to the horn of a freight train. Wild stuff.
Geez!
Pecos Hank's channel is phenomenal. Great recommendation.
@@JamesVSCinema here you go! car designed to go into a small tornado and what it looks like when it does! ua-cam.com/video/v075d9Vfqcg/v-deo.html
@@JamesVSCinema heres a good video of the el reno tornado chase teams. ua-cam.com/video/MxgU1QcFMJM/v-deo.html
As someone who’s been ~50 yards from a tornado, can confirm the accuracy of look and sound
Your the first person I've seen react to this awesome classic. And one of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for doing this.
Seeing twister was amazing when it came out. So fascinating seeing into the mayhem of a tornado at full strength.
Crazy thing is. I played basketball with Philip Seymour Hoffman in NYC a few days before he died. You could see His mind was off in the distance, but I had no idea what he was going through. Most of the kids that day didn't know who he was either, because he acts in more dramatic movies that kids don't watch.
Every time is see him on screen I bow to his awesome talent and wish he were still around. R.I.P.
First and foremost wanna say R.I.P. to Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman. And second, this movie is just awesome and I'm glad you're reacting to it. Stay safe out there James.
You do the same my friend! 🙏🏽
I can't believe your reacting to this! This movie was my childhood, I've watched it well over 100 times
This was one of my favorite movies back in the day. I used to watch it over and over. My brothers and I used to quote scenes from this movie all the time. My brother and I were in a meteorology club when we were kids, and my brother wanted to be a meteorologist when he was a kid. This movie also moved me to research and find out the best ways to survive one if you are in its path in various situations. Thanks for the reaction!!
The film was mostly shot in Oklahoma and Wakita is a real town there. It has a Twister museum now.
I heard some place that the sound team took eye witness testimonials of the sound of tornados (it's like the roar of a train) and added the "growl" to make them scarier and almost animalistic.
Jan deBont was an amazing cinematographer, even after he graduated to directing. he didn't always pick the best scripts to make, but every single movie he made looked incredible. he did the cinematography for some classics like Die Hard as well.
I never comment but have to. My FAVORITE movie ever. Anytime when I'd goto grandparents house me and my cousin would watch this!!!!!!.
Thanks for reaching to this
I used to love this movie as a kid, watched it all the time when I was sick at home from school, wrapped up in a warm blanket. Nostalgia at work
twister and jurassic park WERE my childhood.
one of the best blockbusters from the 90's, made me obsessed with stormchasers as a kid. RIP PAXTON AND HOFFMAN THO
Saw this in the theater, it was the perfect summer movie
The ride at universal studios was fun too! I remember it when I was kid
as a midwesterner who frequently has the tornado sirens go off, this movie instilled a fear in me to this day that i cannot overcome. i immediately go in the basement and take cover even if the skies are still blue.
Wow, yeah that’s a part of life the coast line don’t have a clue about really!
I also grew up live in the Midwest. It's come to a point where I can feel the energy the air that could lead to a tornado. It's eerie, everything gets real calm, the sky turns a sick green, there's a particular smell that I can't really define, and the hair on the back of your neck stands up. Then Boom! All hell breaks loose.
I was always told however that if the rain starts pouring you're usually good. Rain drains the power of the storm.
@@billhicks6449 The wildest storm and tornado I ever encountered had absolutely black clouds (like, _black_ black), but where you could see the edges of the clouds, they were a sickly whitish-green. The most bizarre thing was that the actual light, the air around you, it was distinctly orange somehow. And for a while, everything was dead calm, which was probably the scariest time of all. When the wind started picking up and the rain came, that was when you started to feel like you could breathe again. It was still a crazy storm, but you felt less like the literal hand of god might drop on your head then.
This movie gave me an unhealthy fear of Tornadoes. Which a tornado at night is still terrifying to think of. I live in West Texas were it's legit plausible and has had tornadoes. The thunderstorms are actually just as terrifying. When the sky goes green you better get your ass into a shelter.
I grew up inthe UK, and thought I must be imagining it when I saw a tornado out over the sea, but after geting smashed by sideways hail then thrown off my feet a few times while running home I was less convinced. Turns out the same day tornados were reported up the coast, ripped the roofs off a few houses too. Coolest thing I've ever seen.
Fellow Brit tornado-obsessed here, jealous as hell!
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures Before seeing it, me and a mate were putting our jackets up in the air like parachutes, jumping into the wind off the steps down to the beach, then being picked up and thrown back about 10-15 feet behind where we started. Invented a new sport! Got a few grazes but totally worth it.
Fun fact. The widest tornado ever recorded was in Oklahoma in 2013 at its widest point it was 2.6 miles wide. It's crazy to think about
I miss these type of movies from the 90s and early 00s. Popcorn movies where you don't feel bad about life when you walk out of the theater.
Holy shit this movie brings back so many memories I used to watch this on repeat when I was a kid I think this movie is pefect tbh an absolute masterpiece it's so underrated I remember it like it was yesterday when I was a kid watching this remember all the lines and I love the music and the camera shots I love this movie so much as you can tell so glad you watched this james it's one of those rare movies that I just dont think could be made today
Should really add the movie “As Good As It Gets” to your polls. 2 oscars for Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt…also with underrated Greg Kinnear and Cuba Gooding jr. Very complex storyline.
Agree 100%. Great film and great performances. Easily one of my favorites. James L. Brooks is such a great writer and director.
If you want another AWESOME movie set in middle America, check out "Paper Moon" from 1974. Set in Kansas during the 1930s, it was filmed all in 2 general locations in Kansas. The first part around Hays, KS in the western part of the state and the latter part of the movie filmed near St. Joseph, Missouri along the northeast Kansas border. Shows Kansas how it really looks and its a great movie.
I only started movie reactions a few months ago and I cannot believe how HYPED I get when I see you upload a childhood favorite like this. I assumed it would be all newer movies but you get in to some 90s blockbusters and you have me hooked!
So glad you watched this movie. This has been one of my all time favourite since childhood. So good!
I always salivate so much at that crowded home cooking part of the movie :P
Binging with Babish, who does movie and tv-themed recipes, did an episode on that breakfast.
This came out right before I moved to Michigan. That eerie build up is spot on. The way the sound of wind can give you butterflies in your stomach. During my time in MI I never went through a tornado but I did go through a few watches/warnings, hunkered down in the basement. Even after I moved back to AZ, for a while after, the sound of strong winds would make me nervous.
I'll always remember seeing this film in the theater. My family and I were on vacation and it rained one evening, so we went to the movies. When we got back to our hotel, my dad called our answering machine to check our messages (it was the 90's) and discovered that a heavy storm had rolled through Pittsburgh and lightning struck our lamp post in front of our house. We came home a few days later to the glass all over our front yard and the outlets on the front of the house burned.
Well, it's nice to know that Twister has aged wonderfully. RIP Paxton & Hoffman.
The romance subplot was something that went way over my head when I watched this in theatres. As I grew older it might be my favourite part of the movie, but the twisters are still awesome though.
Damn I haven't seen this in like 15 years and I still remember all the plot-beats and scenes you showed during your reaction.
So at the least, it's a sign that the movie was hella memorable.
Love the action and effects in this; only unbelievable part is how Jo and Bill aren't absolutely cut tf up by the literal-millions of flying pieces of wood, glass, metal, brick, plaster, etc. around them, lol.
I was obsessed with this movie as a little kid
i can still vividly remember watching this with my dad as a child. Nostalgia is a powerful drug
Hello, tornado geek here (I’m sure there are others in the comments, I just did not find them). Yeah, Twister definitely had an impact on the weather and storm chasing world (it surely did on me)! For instance, the “Suck Zone” is definitely a term that still floats around today among chasers.
Overall, the movie is not very scientific (ex. going under a bridge to protect yourself from a tornado, strapping yourself to pipes to survive a 300 mph, debris filled, mile wide monster along with a few more things), but it still is very enjoyable even from a weather enthusiast’s perspective. Especially given the fact that the Dorothy instrument is a direct reference to a real storm chasing probe called TOTO (Dorothy’s dog in the Wizard of Oz), which for a period was used to try to study tornadoes. The twisters themselves, at least to me, still look extremely good and pretty realistic. The animal roar is probably just an hyperbole of the fact that when you hear the rumble of an incoming tornado, that gets defined as a “roar”, but it just makes them more like a living being, which I can totally get behind.
If you compare it with other natural disaster/weather/tornado movies, it definitely stands out because it’s not too much out of proportion (like The Day After Tomorrow might be), it doesn’t have over the top CGI (like for example the most recent Into The Storm, which IMO, has waaay too much exaggeration on the tornadoes) and it’s not complete BS (I’m looking at you, Sharknado). Compared to many other movies of its genre, it’s pretty down to earth with just some scientific issues here and there, but it’s Hollywood, you have to twist some things around.
And to end this long comment, the story is just crap. Nobody wants to hear about the divorce papers, we’re just all here to watch cows getting thrown around and Bill Paxton trying to get a can full of balls into a tornado. RIP Dusty and Bill “The Extreme”, thank you for helping making this movie what it is!
The 90's had some epic "Disaster" movies. Twister & Armageddon were the top 2. Then there was Deep Impact, Volcano, Dante's Peak. But Twister was really good. Seen it a bunch of times.
When this movie first came out to home video I was at my dad's house. His house was the place where people would kind of just come and go all weekend long randomly. We had watched it on VHS that morning when it came out...and then the cousins, friends and other family trickled in all day long that Saturday. Every time we were done with the movie, a new group of people would kind of come in and be like, "What are you guys watching? OH Twister! Sweet!" they'd grab a drink and plop down in the bedroom where we had our "massive" 24" tv and had a blast. All in all I think we must have seen that thing about 5-6 times that day lol Good times.
I was so happy when I saw that you had picked this film, because your take on this kind of thing is so refreshingly unique. I grew up watching Twister. I've probably seen it 100 or more times. I like that, even when you aren't dazzled by a movie, you don't hate on it (a far too common trend in other movie reaction channels). Thank you for respecting movies and for sharing your insight.
I just watched a program that spoke of how this movie created a huge surge of people picking up Stormchasing as a career to the point that there are now storm chaser traffic jams during storms and it has actually increased the danger of escaping tornadoes.
Also in my hometown a twister hit the drive in while Twister was playing. So a few people got a nice interactive experience. No one hurt.
Have been rewatching this last year, it is such a great movie and the special effects are so well done. The sound has some extra animal roaring added though.
Forgot how much fun this movie is. Time for a rewatch.
I forgot about how awesome that tanker truck explosion was!
Fun fact: An actual Drive In movie theater somewhere in the mid-west got hit by a tornado during a screening of Twister. Not sure what scene was playing when it occurred. People might have thought the special effects were just "jumping out" of the screen.... anyway, side note: the day after I saw it in theaters back home in Kentucky, my farm was hit by a tornado as well. Nobody in my family was hurt, and I was sooo pumped to film the aftermath. It was a nightmare for my parents, but I loved it!
Twister will always hold a special place among the movies I've watched as this was the first non-"kids movie" that I got to pick when going to the cinema with my dad.
I moved to central Oklahoma about a year before this film came out. It was largely shot in this area, so the post-production was a matter of local interest. The CGI is unbelievably accurate: if you pull the camera back to a couple of miles' distance and drop the dramatic music, it looks exactly like what you see on the local news. The tornado that hits the drive-in theater is what's called "rain-wrapped". This is one of the most dangerous types, since the tornado itself isn't visible within the rainstorm . . . until it's too late.
The TV weatherman seen in the opening was the actual chief meteorologist for the Channel 9 news. I used to work in an office with the girl who sold Helen Hunt ten cups of coffee in the drive-in scene.
The fiance wasn't being harsh. She let him go knowing he was in love with the former girlfriend. It was nice of her!
I feel like she said it in a way to give them both closure.
What Melissa WAS harsh about was when she was such a complete antagonistic bitch to Jo at the diner for no reason, especially since Jo had only been nice to her up to that point.
Melissa's breakup with Bill just shows that not only was she just a rebound for him, but he was also probably a rebound for her, too. It never would have lasted, just like she said. 🤷♀️
I first saw this film when i was 6 years old, have seen it over 30 times now at least. A real classic for me, such memories. Excited to watch your reaction!
One of my favorite 90s guilty pleasures. A real nostalgia trip. I live in west Alabama as well, which is one of the biggest tornado hotspots in the world, so this film hits extra hard for me.
Also I love the soundtrack.
Gary England (well known meteorologist and weather technology pioneer) makes a cameo on the tv in the beginning of the movie, using old footage of him as a meteorologist back in the day.
As with so many, this movie made me want to be a storm chaser when I was a little kid. My first up close experience with a tornado, when I was 10, killed that dream
I can't even describe how much I love this movie. I saw it in the cinema and was hugging myself during the tornado scenes, I was so tense. Everything about Helen Hunt's performance is perfect and the rest of the cast is superb too. The outfits and vehicles have dated but the effects really haven't, and the whole movie just has heart, every character and location feels 'real'.
I saw this in the theater when I was around 12. I remember feeling a little nervous when we went out to the parking lot after, because it was dark. It made me think of the drive-in scene when they couldn’t see the tornado until it was on top of them.
I love when you exclaim "Oh my goodness!"
The Van Halen song, "Respect the wind", at the end of the film, incredible
Same with Humans Being