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Glad you could see the legendary film many of us chasers grew up alongside with. Still have my VHS from 1996. Rip Bill Paxton, Philip Seymour, and Van Halen. All legends that made this movie what it is 28 years later. Now a sequel is coming out!
How much of this film is accurate for actual science? Honestly, I am not 100% sure. However, the Fujita scale is real. But, unlike in the movie, the degree of an F-0 to F-5 or now an EF-0 to EF-5 is determined after the tornado has struck. You can't predict the size beforehand. Ted Fujita is who invented the scale, his research into understanding Tornados has led to better construction materials and design for houses and buildings, a better warning system and has saved probably hundreds of thousands of lives compared to what we understood prior to his research. His research created the tornado warning system and even the hurricane warning system was designed because of his research. Now as instrument packs, I have no idea if that idea works or not. I know weather balloons and satellite technology have helped a lot in this area. I just couldn't say with any degree of certainty that anyone has used a pack like that. I refuse to see the sequel on just the simple grounds of the ridiculous idea that the trailer had to go all alpha male bullshit and call a tornado/storm chaser a "wrangler". As if they could throw a lasso around it and take a tornado to the ground. Just what I have heard about it and supposedly they make Dorothy able to disrupt and end a tornado, that energy doesn't go away. It just forms in new areas and could go from 1 tornado to many tornadoes. Hence why I won't watch it. Also, no Hellen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman have passed away, so there is no pass the torch moment for anyone. Even if the sequel has better science than the original, it just has a very bad look based on the trailer. I know both are fictionalized popcorn movies, but I can at least see the first one having some semblance of respect for the scientific study of storms and tornadoes. The trailer for the new one just feels like it has to be all about adrenaline junkie crazies wanting to prove how "badass" they can be. This is even before I take issues with the soundtrack which is hard for me... because it is country music. Of which sets off flashbacks and nightmares because of my PTSD.
I was puzzled at first, too! My guess is that particular editing choice was necessitated by time and/or copyright restrictions. Thankfully, I’ve seen this movie at least a dozen times and was easily able to fill the mental gap 😅 #serialrewatcher
Lots of storm chasers today can trace their fascination back to this movie. Most of the weather jargon is accurate, and the actors had scientists to help. The filmmakers actually used giant fans to blow ice chunks and debris at the actors; Bill Paxton is actually getting hit by stuff while he’s in the truck bed setting up Dorothy. Real tornadoes can cause wild damage, like ripping up asphalt and shoving straws through tree trunks. Dorothy is based on a real scientific instrument created in the 1980s called TOTO (Totable Tornado Observation).
@@blueninjaproductions7816 You need to learn as much as you can regarding storms before becoming one. I became one after learning everything I possibly could about meteorology after literally 18 years of studying severe weather. You need to learn how to forecast without using the local weatherman, learn universal storm chaser "language." You also need to be HAM radio licensed. You must be at least age 20 to even be a spotter for the NWS by their rules and they will test you on your knowledge. I'm taking it a step further and working on a degree as well. I am heavily trained by the NWS in Texas by advanced skywarn and you have to be dedicated. They will expect you to perform. The movie is somewhat accurate compared to reality. Actually seeing a tornado is something that doesn't occur frequently because you have to understand the conditions for one to even occur and figure out what storm will produce hours before it does. ~⚡️Real Storm Chaser⚡️
Phillip Seymore Hoffman played Dusty, one of my favorite characters in this. I have known people like him, and they are the best friends to have around.
There was an exhibit at universal studios that mimicked the garage scene in a wind tunnel with hydraulic powered "destruction" and chaos. And then every went back to normal and the wind turns off and the lights come on. Amazing what they were able to recreate in person. But mind you I was five or six and it was terrifying!
This is one of the best disaster movies ever made. The intensity, characters, storyline and unexpected events are what made it so good. They knocked it out of the park for sure. Awesome reaction; looking forward to Twisters.
12:49 It felt real as it was. Apart from the tornado and the farming vehicles later in the movie, almost everything else was a practical effect, as the director was right in thinking that CGI would take over modern film making and this was his one last chance to film a practical effect movie. 27:51 "Was this a miniature?" Believe it or not it was a full size house. Eight blocks of houses in the downtown area of Wakita were bought for $7,000 to $10,000 per house. They then built an additional 30 homes to be destroyed for the film. Wakita was also given the new fire truck that was purchased for the movie. Same goes for the diving through the house. There's behind-the-scenes footage of Bill Paxton showing you around the set. There's a behind-the-scenes video of Twister on UA-cam that's interesting to watch.
Speaking of tornado season, this happened pretty recently. When I was wrapping up my last college years, we had a couple of days where the wind was blowing strongly. I was walking from my class to the lunch building, the wind was so incredibly powerful, it ALMOST blew me right off my feet! Luckily I am still alive.
My understanding is most tornadoes are F0s or F1s and your house will generally survive. When you have to worry is when you get an F2 or F3, as they can do significant damage to your home, particularly the roof. And Heaven forbid if you ever deal with an F4 or F5, just get underground and pray for your life.
When this movie came out F5 tornadoes were thankfully VERY rare, sadly today they are far too common due to climate change and have caused far too much death and destruction in the Midwest.
F5’s don’t exist anymore. Since 2007, NOAA and the NWS have used the Enhanced Fujita scale, which also takes into account structural damage when assessing tornado strength, as opposed to just wind speed. With the added parameter, EF5’s are actually far less common then F5’s were
Years ago I had a friend living in Nebraska and he told me that during tornado season the alarms go off everyday so people don’t take them serious all the time
I was 4 when this came out. When I was 5 we got it on VHS. At the end when they finally got dorothy into the tornado my child brain thought "They released those lights so the tornado will go away because it destroyed too much to handle it" or something like that. Two months before my 7th birthday my house was sideswiped by the infamous 99' Moore F5. I remember going outside as the supercell was headed towards us. I asked my mom what the black thing headed towards us was. The only thing she did was grab me and ran my sister and I into the bathroom. We did not have cable or even an antenna so we did not know in advance there was a tornado on the ground. 30 seconds after that the sirens went off. I remember hearing this absolutely deafening roar at one point and my mom screaming a prayer. I did not know what was happening. After it left we went out to see our neighborhood trashed. It barely missed us. I still think about that day. Survivors can tell you stories about enduring a tornado but unless you experience it firsthand (I pray no one ever has too) you do not know the hell that it is.
For the hail they used a trailer with a jet engine on it and thru chipped dry ice and debris thrown into the jet exhaust to blow at the truck so was actually dangerous to a point. They have bts on yt very cool
I think a lot of the movie is fairly accurate around the science of tornados. The bridge scene is questionable. Apparently there is a specific type of bridge with girders that would be semi-safe to seek refuge under. They also hadn’t created the Fujitsu scale until 1971 which is two years after the first tornado when Jo was a kid. Also, they can’t determine the scale of the tornado before the damage occurs. The device that they have is actually inspired after a real device storm researches used which was called Toto. Scientists from the national severe storm lab did help the screenwriters.
39:55 In real life, an F5 would probably tear your clothes off and possibly suck the air out of your lungs (assuming you weren’t impaled by debris first), and you definitely wouldn’t be able to open your eyes while inside of it. 😅 That said, this is likely what you would see inside of a tornado if this was at all possible. 🌪️👍
Not all tornados wind speeds are even spread, so it could be 150+ in parts of the tornado and less than 150 in other parts or debris cloud and right outside the debris cloud it could be a lot less. And tornados form , disappear, reform close by and change shapes many times.
So I lived in Kansas from age 3 to 11 and while I thankfully never saw a tornado I did experience storms that did almost as much damage. And yet I still love this movie. It truly captures the horror and the thrill of storm chasing. And nowadays some chasers actually build their own ARMORED VEHICLES to not just chase storms but to get purposely in their way, drop down some anchors, and have tornadoes run over them while pointing cameras and other meteorological equipment up the funnel. There was a show on Discovery channel over 10 years ago called Storm Chasers where 2 groups of chasers with their own armored vehicles did just that. One with an IMAX camera.
"How is that safer than the basement?" - Tim you're from canada where everyone HAS basements lol. a lot of places in the states don't, that's why they specifically build storm cellars in tornado-prone areas. thanks for this reaction!
Also there is the problem of your house becoming like Meg's.. If your house collapses into itself, you will need to wait for someone else to come and dig you out.. It is why storm cellars are typically built outside and far enough from any house or structure to keep from getting buried in. Some people have had to wait for days, even over a week to get found in their cellars because a house/barn/vehicle trapped them inside.
2:32 "How is that safer than a basement?" There is something that does make an outside shelter safer! If you're in a basement the house could fall in on you or be ripped off leaving you to be sucked out.
Rest In Peace Gioachino Rossini 1792-1868 Oscar Hammerstein 1895-1960 Richard Rodgers 1902-1979 Michael Crichton 1942-2008 Roger Ebert 1942-2013 Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967-2014 Richard Schickel 1933-2017 Bill Paxton 1955-2017 and Ennio Morricone 1928-2020, Gioachino Rossini, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers and Ennio Morricone did the music for the movie, Roger Ebert and Richard Schickel were famous film critics
This was indeed my favorite movie for years. I loved watching the tornadoes, they were truly terrifying. I also recommend Dante's Peak, Volcano, Deep Impact and Armageddon. The 90s were peak for disaster films. Also would love to see you react to Dune Part 2
Tim & Clariss Answering your questions: NOAA's Storm Prediction Center or SPC in Norman, Oklahoma did oversee the movie of accuracy. When Bill Paxton died in 2017, storm chasers did a tribute to him by their markers to spell out his initials in the states: Kansas, Oklahoma, & Texas. Town of Wakita, Oklahoma (actual town) has a museum dedicated to the movie where it was filmed in the town.
The point is not for them to be in the middle of a twister, it's to get Dorothy in the path and get out before they get hurt and/or killed. It's not what they want to be in THAT much danger. lol
Thank you Tim for reacting to one of my best friend and I's favorite films growing up in the 90s. We often quote it from time to time and it's was a big reason that contributed to our interest in tornadoes and weather in general. My favorite scene in this film is when the tornado hits the drive in movie and if it wasn't for this film, I probably would never have known about what is in my opinion the greatest horror film ever created. It's also sucks though that we lost Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Being a junkie for visual adrenaline, I found Twister (1996) to be very awesome and this is also a movie that I would definitely rewatch. It's also my favorite Jan de Bont movie, alongside Speed (1994). This is also the VERY FIRST movie to ever be released on DVD in 1997 and I own a DVD copy of the movie from that year, as well as the 2008 Blu-ray. I'm also very hyped to see the upcoming new movie Twisters (2024) in IMAX with my girlfriend, in July. That movie is definitely gonna be awesome as well, which is why it's my most anticipated movie of the summer and why I'm suggesting that movie to you & Clariss. #TwistersForTimotheeAndClariss I also enjoyed the former Twister...Ride it Out attraction at Universal Studios Florida (the spot where the ride once stood is now where they have Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon), which is why my favorite scene in this movie has to be the drive-in tornado at night. Another reason why I loved that scene is because I was also introduced to The Shining (1980) and I really enjoyed watching that movie, when I got more into horror movies as I got older. I even own The Shining (1980) on DVD in 4:3 Full-Screen format, which is the full aspect ratio of the original camera negative as Stanley Kubrick intended.
Storm chasers are willing to accept an amount of danger, as long as they have an out if needed. It doesn't seem smart, but there is a fine line between careless and stupid.
One of my first disaster movies, either this or Volcano. This movie I always classified as a horror movie when I was a kid. Came out same year I was born.
As someone living in Tornado Alley, in Tornado season. This is a horror movie for us. We are taught in school and at home how to be safe or at least as safe as you can get during a tornado. Tornados sound like freight trains coming closer and closer. A roar you never wanna hear.
Hello there Tim and Clariss I see yall are reacting to a classic movie Twister in 1996 I was 9 years old when it came out but I've never seen it so hope you will enjoy it today 0:20
Unlike the upcoming sequel that's gonna be released by Universal Studios, the original was released by Warner Bros. so I guess they switched distribution rights for the sequel I'm guessing.
3:35 I was just the opposite. I was also relatively young when I first saw this movie (I believe it was the first movie I saw with regularity that had a lot of cursing in it), and my mom ALWAYS covered my eyes for this part.
I love this movie it's 28 years old and still looks incredible lol Fun fact this was the first movie to be put onto DVD lol That little girl in the beginning is Alexa Vega 6:25 "are you mad?" "I'll be mad later right now I'm trying not to kill us" lol 8:34 "where's my truck?" "There it is" lol 9:30 he's right you would most likely survive but your car may not as far as electronics go lol 10:30 there was an idea to make that cow a zebra instead to tie it into Jumanji which came out a year before this but they decided against it lol 13:45 they used blocks of ice that they grounded down and put through the jets that were used for the wind. 22:10 that was an air hose not gas 25:49 that house was done for real 28:25 you might've missed it but their fingers are all bandaged up from cutting those cans lol 31:30 they built a full size light weight semi truck and trailer, and dropped it with 1,000 gallons of gas lol 34:00 the house rolling was cgi but thr truck driving through was a real full size truck going through a house set 37:50 those are actually fence posts going into the barn and that happens in real tornados they pick up 2x4s etc and they end up embedded inside walls, I've seen a pic of one that went through a concrete curb it's insane You can see the path the tornado took at the end
Back then people who studied tornados, (I think they are called storm chasers.) relied on vehicles heavy enough to not be lifted by the strong winds, now at day the vehicles, besides being heavy, are modified to even stuck themseves to the ground with iron stakes and withstand debree flying around..
One of my favorite films is Amelie. Its a little different but heartwarming and all a visual artistic masterpiece. It's a film that is under rated and overlooked probably because of the French art on the box. I love it and its worth the view if you haven't already.
I actually survived an f4 tornado in Petersburg Virginia on Aug 6th 1993 once you see it firsthand you never see it in any other way with wind speeds of 210 mph
That was an amazing reaction! Thank you so much for watching this icon! Believe it or not, they actually interviewed 2 people who actually were in the middle of the tornado and survived. So everything Bill and Jo saw were exactly as the survivors described it. Helen Hunt has also been in these films: Quarterback Princess, based on true story about a girl being a kicker on all boys football team, and Soul Surfer, which based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton’s shark attack and overcoming her obstacles to get back in the water. If you want more natural disaster films I recommend Dante’s Peak and Volcano. 👩🏼👨🏻🌪
Twisters is not a Remake or a Sequel but just a stand lone film it doesn't have any Connections to the original Film but a stand alone Original story and this is what Google say No, the upcoming 2024 disaster movie Twisters is not a sequel to the 1996 film Twister starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton: Characters The two films don't share any characters. Twisters stars Glen Powell as Tyler Owens, a social media personality and self-proclaimed "Tornado Wrangler" who chases storms for thrills. Plot The plots are essentially standalone, with Twisters being described as "its own standalone story in the modern day which it sounds like a stupid idea I'm just saying 🙄
The only CGI in this movie was the clouds, tornados, and the barn flying apart at the end. All the special effects scenes with flying debris, hail, rain, Aunt Mays house collapsing, the drive-in movie theater destruction, flying cars and tractors, are actually real and built props with stunt drivers and stunt doubles for the actors. The city of Wakita ( Aunt Mays home town) was all props actually built only for the movie and was made to be destroyed as if the tornado was actually real. They had a few models of the 1996 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup trucks donated from Dodge / Chrysler Company to be debuted as new 1996 model year vehicles for this movie and all trucks were actually driven and some destroyed in the making of this film. Eddie Van Halen Wrote the movie theme song ' Humans Beings ' as well.
Today we have vehicles that anchor themselves to the ground and the tornado passes over them and since 2007 the Fujitsu scale is now called the Enhanced Fujita scale. Also the tornado outbreak in the movie was based off of the Super Outbreak of 1974.
This is something to set how dangerous flying metals are: An aluminum foil, of those that are set in the roofs, with enough wind to lift them can gain enough force to decapitate a person.
Yeah let's go twister my childhood movie man it's good looking back on this movie because there's going to be a recent what is it sequel? remake? Reboot? I'm just going to call a sequel man isn't it going to be fine as hell but hey let's go 4:00
Not so fun fact: in Oklahoma there's not really any public tornado shelters and because our signature red dirt has a more clay consistency it's harder to build underground ones allegedly. People either are blessed w basements or have to build their own. The metro rarely gets hit, but south okc tends to get brutalized more than we do. Couple weeks ago I think there was one 5-10 min away from my bfs house where I had just been hours prior. Oklahoma stays unhinged. 😂
Tim & Clariss I read that director of Twister; Jan de Bont wanted Helen Hunt while Warner Bros didn't want her in the movie because she wasn't well known for movies even though Helen is mostly TV actress. de Bont hired Josh Whedon on polishing the script. Josh wrote "Cow" "Another Cow" by Hunt's Jo then Paxton's Bill, "It is same cow" de Bont have seen a real photo of live cow in a tree sent by a tornado. He thought picture was fake, but tornado scientist told him photo is real.
Clariss Funny that you stated Tornado can hit Georgia too. Because I born and raised in Georgia until moving to Florida in 1972. I was visiting my grandmother when she in the hospital, tornado warning was issue in county in Northwest Georgia. I was at her house prior the warning. She didn't have not basement or storm cellar. I stand in between door area wearing a motorcycle helmet. Then my cousins showed up and pick me in the car and went to their place. Now since 1972, I went thru least 10 hurricanes or tropical storms. Those feeder bands of those storms can produce tornadoes. Florida did have major tornado outbreak called 1998's Kissimmee Tornado Outbreak. Outbreak hit the area from Feb 21 to 23 with 15 twisters with some at the rating of EF3 that killed 42 and injured 259
8:32 depending on how deep the posts of the bridge is it would hold. I’m not really sold on them not getting pulled away as the wind got closer. Neither one is strong enough to keep from getting pulled away. I used to chase storms before having a family then I had to stop. Still have fun with local storms but don’t travel. 11:42 I think since there were multiple ones and small they didn’t have the power to lift them. 13:09 the trailer to the new one looks pretty good. Wish they would’ve gone with the sequel idea and have their kid improve on their technology. 35:20 it’s like before they left for this last one he called his insurance and said “I’d like to increase my insurance to full coverage please. No reason just thought it’s a better plan for my truck”. 38:19 “Daddy can you hear me?”
I absolutely ❤ this movie 🙂 I especially like Cary Elwes playing the part of Jonas Miller who is the antagonist in this movie. He is definitely a a very talented actor 🙂
I got to watch it on the cross country opening night at our local Drive-In and it was even better because there were storms NW of the Drive-In at the same time and could hear real thunder and see lightning in background lol
If you liked this movie. I'd highly recommend another film, Speed 1994. It just had its 30th anniversary. Done by the same director and Music director. Same sort of tense throughout.
Twister is one of my favourite Natural disaster movies ever 🌪️🌪️ its a great and interesting story, it’s got an all star cast and it’s one of those movies that keeps you at the edge off your seat the whole time. So great you guys reacted to this classic and hopefully you do more movies of this genre in the future 😊😃😁
Plus, yeah but back then when they didn’t have Google maps, they were trying to make it more like a movie where they didn’t have Google maps but like they were trying to have like where they mapped out like the entire globe and like the continent thing of like where you lived and stuff kind of that’s where they were trying to make like a 90s movie of one of those other movies I can’t think of it now, but it’s stuck in the back of my head like I know what it was called. I just can’t remember the title of it. It was called fear something. I know it was fear something, but I guess cause this has been a long time since I’ve seen that one too. But that’s OK. And I am so happy that this movie is still popular like two this day.
I mean the last time I’ve got struck by lightning and I was in a car but it was totally worth it but just for like lots of static electricity sorry I haven’t been catching up on your videos so much as well but I have cut up today and also this is why they need to like re-create this movie but like a lot better and then why they are re-creating it and calling it twisters which it should be like twister too because then I would totally understand it and it would be like OK that’s cool or like they should like say twins twisters because then I would get it or like twister twins because then I’d be like oh it’s twisters too but if they ever decide to make a third movie, they should totally make it like this classic one that you guys are watching but like totally way better and then like make it more like urban legends, and theories about like the happy meal and like different urban legends and theories plus they should add some of the other UA-camrs that they did like in that one scene of five nights at Freddy’s where they were like at the café plus they need to add like more girl UA-camrs as well not just like Preston as well again plus if they add like more UA-camrs in the third movie, I will totally be down to go see that immediately with HANNAH of course like as soon as it came out in theaters here in Lamar, Colorado
PS this is another really good movie that it makes me feel good mostly for two reasons. Why though one because now it’s making me feel a lot better and now I don’t feel so sad like I was earlier I mean, I am a little sad but not because of the movie and number two just because Like I wanted to see the second one or at least see a teaser trailer and the teaser trailer is terrible, but if they make the movie good like the second one, then I’m just gonna be shocked, but if they don’t make it as good as this one, then they should think about taking some of my ideas for the third one like I mentioned in the comment above this one 👆 PS also this is mostly just in case as well, but they should also play like more horror movies on the thing like in this movie that they did or like cool music videos like for the Jax toy but also just so it would be so cute so it would make me say aw 💜🐰🏹
Is this a storm chasing movie or a 90 minute Dodge Ram infomercial? I heard that after this movie’s release Dodge sold up to 480,000 new Ram trucks in 1996 due to it’s presence in this movie!👍
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Glad you could see the legendary film many of us chasers grew up alongside with. Still have my VHS from 1996.
Rip Bill Paxton, Philip Seymour, and Van Halen. All legends that made this movie what it is 28 years later. Now a sequel is coming out!
How much of this film is accurate for actual science?
Honestly, I am not 100% sure.
However, the Fujita scale is real. But, unlike in the movie, the degree of an F-0 to F-5 or now an EF-0 to EF-5 is determined after the tornado has struck. You can't predict the size beforehand.
Ted Fujita is who invented the scale, his research into understanding Tornados has led to better construction materials and design for houses and buildings, a better warning system and has saved probably hundreds of thousands of lives compared to what we understood prior to his research. His research created the tornado warning system and even the hurricane warning system was designed because of his research.
Now as instrument packs, I have no idea if that idea works or not. I know weather balloons and satellite technology have helped a lot in this area. I just couldn't say with any degree of certainty that anyone has used a pack like that.
I refuse to see the sequel on just the simple grounds of the ridiculous idea that the trailer had to go all alpha male bullshit and call a tornado/storm chaser a "wrangler".
As if they could throw a lasso around it and take a tornado to the ground. Just what I have heard about it and supposedly they make Dorothy able to disrupt and end a tornado, that energy doesn't go away. It just forms in new areas and could go from 1 tornado to many tornadoes. Hence why I won't watch it.
Also, no Hellen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman have passed away, so there is no pass the torch moment for anyone.
Even if the sequel has better science than the original, it just has a very bad look based on the trailer.
I know both are fictionalized popcorn movies, but I can at least see the first one having some semblance of respect for the scientific study of storms and tornadoes.
The trailer for the new one just feels like it has to be all about adrenaline junkie crazies wanting to prove how "badass" they can be.
This is even before I take issues with the soundtrack which is hard for me... because it is country music. Of which sets off flashbacks and nightmares because of my PTSD.
R.I.P Bill Paxton (1955-2017) & Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014)
Disaster movies were so much fun and entertaining in mid-late 1990s, and Twister is no exception!
So was it good or bad?🤔
It was good for its time. Reboot with no names doesn’t look too well.
@@theonewhoknows2 oh they did a reboot?🤔😮
It took me a second to realize we cut out the entire lead-up and character intros.
I thought I’d sat on my remote…
Was the same for me o.o I was very confused to what happened after the beginning and the dad death. Why did they skipped it??
I was puzzled at first, too! My guess is that particular editing choice was necessitated by time and/or copyright restrictions. Thankfully, I’ve seen this movie at least a dozen times and was easily able to fill the mental gap 😅 #serialrewatcher
Lunch at Meg's was also cut out.
Yeah I couldn't figure it out either, a bit jarring
Lots of storm chasers today can trace their fascination back to this movie. Most of the weather jargon is accurate, and the actors had scientists to help. The filmmakers actually used giant fans to blow ice chunks and debris at the actors; Bill Paxton is actually getting hit by stuff while he’s in the truck bed setting up Dorothy. Real tornadoes can cause wild damage, like ripping up asphalt and shoving straws through tree trunks. Dorothy is based on a real scientific instrument created in the 1980s called TOTO (Totable Tornado Observation).
This movie and Storm chasers tv show are the reason why I want to be a storm spotter.
@@blueninjaproductions7816 You need to learn as much as you can regarding storms before becoming one. I became one after learning everything I possibly could about meteorology after literally 18 years of studying severe weather. You need to learn how to forecast without using the local weatherman, learn universal storm chaser "language." You also need to be HAM radio licensed. You must be at least age 20 to even be a spotter for the NWS by their rules and they will test you on your knowledge. I'm taking it a step further and working on a degree as well.
I am heavily trained by the NWS in Texas by advanced skywarn and you have to be dedicated. They will expect you to perform.
The movie is somewhat accurate compared to reality. Actually seeing a tornado is something that doesn't occur frequently because you have to understand the conditions for one to even occur and figure out what storm will produce hours before it does.
~⚡️Real Storm Chaser⚡️
Phillip Seymore Hoffman played Dusty, one of my favorite characters in this. I have known people like him, and they are the best friends to have around.
Truth! ❤
There was an exhibit at universal studios that mimicked the garage scene in a wind tunnel with hydraulic powered "destruction" and chaos. And then every went back to normal and the wind turns off and the lights come on. Amazing what they were able to recreate in person. But mind you I was five or six and it was terrifying!
This is one of the best disaster movies ever made. The intensity, characters, storyline and unexpected events are what made it so good. They knocked it out of the park for sure. Awesome reaction; looking forward to Twisters.
12:49 It felt real as it was. Apart from the tornado and the farming vehicles later in the movie, almost everything else was a practical effect, as the director was right in thinking that CGI would take over modern film making and this was his one last chance to film a practical effect movie.
27:51 "Was this a miniature?"
Believe it or not it was a full size house. Eight blocks of houses in the downtown area of Wakita were bought for $7,000 to $10,000 per house. They then built an additional 30 homes to be destroyed for the film. Wakita was also given the new fire truck that was purchased for the movie. Same goes for the diving through the house. There's behind-the-scenes footage of Bill Paxton showing you around the set.
There's a behind-the-scenes video of Twister on UA-cam that's interesting to watch.
Speaking of tornado season, this happened pretty recently. When I was wrapping up my last college years, we had a couple of days where the wind was blowing strongly. I was walking from my class to the lunch building, the wind was so incredibly powerful, it ALMOST blew me right off my feet! Luckily I am still alive.
My understanding is most tornadoes are F0s or F1s and your house will generally survive. When you have to worry is when you get an F2 or F3, as they can do significant damage to your home, particularly the roof. And Heaven forbid if you ever deal with an F4 or F5, just get underground and pray for your life.
I do remember the ride at Universal Orlando. It was called Twister:Ride it out. It was a pretty cool ride
Yeah I really liked it
@@katlynnbos1790 Yeah. Hopefully twisters will be good enough to bring the ride back
When did it get replaced? I went with my husband and my family back in 2015 and it was still there. @morganghostbusters-egonfan
@@aerialcrowley Around 2017 I think
When this movie came out F5 tornadoes were thankfully VERY rare, sadly today they are far too common due to climate change and have caused far too much death and destruction in the Midwest.
Not true, they're actually less common now. There hasn't been an EF5 tornado in over 10 years.
F5’s don’t exist anymore. Since 2007, NOAA and the NWS have used the Enhanced Fujita scale, which also takes into account structural damage when assessing tornado strength, as opposed to just wind speed. With the added parameter, EF5’s are actually far less common then F5’s were
Years ago I had a friend living in Nebraska and he told me that during tornado season the alarms go off everyday so people don’t take them serious all the time
I was 4 when this came out. When I was 5 we got it on VHS. At the end when they finally got dorothy into the tornado my child brain thought "They released those lights so the tornado will go away because it destroyed too much to handle it" or something like that. Two months before my 7th birthday my house was sideswiped by the infamous 99' Moore F5. I remember going outside as the supercell was headed towards us. I asked my mom what the black thing headed towards us was. The only thing she did was grab me and ran my sister and I into the bathroom. We did not have cable or even an antenna so we did not know in advance there was a tornado on the ground. 30 seconds after that the sirens went off. I remember hearing this absolutely deafening roar at one point and my mom screaming a prayer. I did not know what was happening. After it left we went out to see our neighborhood trashed. It barely missed us. I still think about that day. Survivors can tell you stories about enduring a tornado but unless you experience it firsthand (I pray no one ever has too) you do not know the hell that it is.
Fun fact: in the central US and Canada there's a location called Tornado Alley where tornadoes happen mainly in that area
Yep, Missouri and Oklahoma are two of those states.
Call me crazy but over the last few years tornado alley may have shifted eastward little by little
For the hail they used a trailer with a jet engine on it and thru chipped dry ice and debris thrown into the jet exhaust to blow at the truck so was actually dangerous to a point. They have bts on yt very cool
"Daddy? Is that you?" ZOMG that was so dark 💀🤣
I can't get over how absolutely adorable you two are together 💘💞
We pay about 140 a month for insurance, if a tornado takes it away we're covered for 300k.
I think a lot of the movie is fairly accurate around the science of tornados. The bridge scene is questionable. Apparently there is a specific type of bridge with girders that would be semi-safe to seek refuge under. They also hadn’t created the Fujitsu scale until 1971 which is two years after the first tornado when Jo was a kid. Also, they can’t determine the scale of the tornado before the damage occurs. The device that they have is actually inspired after a real device storm researches used which was called Toto. Scientists from the national severe storm lab did help the screenwriters.
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In real life, an F5 would probably tear your clothes off and possibly suck the air out of your lungs (assuming you weren’t impaled by debris first), and you definitely wouldn’t be able to open your eyes while inside of it.
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That said, this is likely what you would see inside of a tornado if this was at all possible.
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Not all tornados wind speeds are even spread, so it could be 150+ in parts of the tornado and less than 150 in other parts or debris cloud and right outside the debris cloud it could be a lot less. And tornados form , disappear, reform close by and change shapes many times.
So I lived in Kansas from age 3 to 11 and while I thankfully never saw a tornado I did experience storms that did almost as much damage. And yet I still love this movie. It truly captures the horror and the thrill of storm chasing. And nowadays some chasers actually build their own ARMORED VEHICLES to not just chase storms but to get purposely in their way, drop down some anchors, and have tornadoes run over them while pointing cameras and other meteorological equipment up the funnel.
There was a show on Discovery channel over 10 years ago called Storm Chasers where 2 groups of chasers with their own armored vehicles did just that. One with an IMAX camera.
"How is that safer than the basement?" - Tim you're from canada where everyone HAS basements lol. a lot of places in the states don't, that's why they specifically build storm cellars in tornado-prone areas. thanks for this reaction!
Also there is the problem of your house becoming like Meg's..
If your house collapses into itself, you will need to wait for someone else to come and dig you out..
It is why storm cellars are typically built outside and far enough from any house or structure to keep from getting buried in.
Some people have had to wait for days, even over a week to get found in their cellars because a house/barn/vehicle trapped them inside.
2:32 "How is that safer than a basement?" There is something that does make an outside shelter safer! If you're in a basement the house could fall in on you or be ripped off leaving you to be sucked out.
Flooding is the main concern regarding underground shelters, because of the insane amounts of rain some tornadic storms can produce.
Apparently, this was the first movie to be released on DVD, as supposed to VHS tape.
Rest In Peace
Gioachino Rossini 1792-1868
Oscar Hammerstein 1895-1960
Richard Rodgers 1902-1979
Michael Crichton 1942-2008
Roger Ebert 1942-2013
Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967-2014
Richard Schickel 1933-2017
Bill Paxton 1955-2017
and Ennio Morricone 1928-2020, Gioachino Rossini, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers and Ennio Morricone did the music for the movie, Roger Ebert and Richard Schickel were famous film critics
The music was actually composed by Mark Mancina.
This was indeed my favorite movie for years. I loved watching the tornadoes, they were truly terrifying. I also recommend Dante's Peak, Volcano, Deep Impact and Armageddon. The 90s were peak for disaster films.
Also would love to see you react to Dune Part 2
I am writing this to help out Tim and Clariss and this video and this channel with the algorithm 🥰
Twister is hands down the best disaster movie ever made or until Twisters comes out next month.
Tim & Clariss
Answering your questions: NOAA's Storm Prediction Center or SPC in Norman, Oklahoma did oversee the movie of accuracy. When Bill Paxton died in 2017, storm chasers did a tribute to him by their markers to spell out his initials in the states: Kansas, Oklahoma, & Texas. Town of Wakita, Oklahoma (actual town) has a museum dedicated to the movie where it was filmed in the town.
This was my reaction when I watched Cary Elwes and Zach Grenier at the end 🤯
The point is not for them to be in the middle of a twister, it's to get Dorothy in the path and get out before they get hurt and/or killed. It's not what they want to be in THAT much danger. lol
If you want to watch behind the scenes, watch videos of the attraction at universal Orlando. It does show some behind the scenes stuff.
It appears that twisters 🌪️ is going to be a reboot this July.
Time now to see the sequel Twisters in theaters now.
Thank you Tim for reacting to one of my best friend and I's favorite films growing up in the 90s. We often quote it from time to time and it's was a big reason that contributed to our interest in tornadoes and weather in general. My favorite scene in this film is when the tornado hits the drive in movie and if it wasn't for this film, I probably would never have known about what is in my opinion the greatest horror film ever created. It's also sucks though that we lost Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Being a junkie for visual adrenaline, I found Twister (1996) to be very awesome and this is also a movie that I would definitely rewatch. It's also my favorite Jan de Bont movie, alongside Speed (1994). This is also the VERY FIRST movie to ever be released on DVD in 1997 and I own a DVD copy of the movie from that year, as well as the 2008 Blu-ray. I'm also very hyped to see the upcoming new movie Twisters (2024) in IMAX with my girlfriend, in July. That movie is definitely gonna be awesome as well, which is why it's my most anticipated movie of the summer and why I'm suggesting that movie to you & Clariss. #TwistersForTimotheeAndClariss I also enjoyed the former Twister...Ride it Out attraction at Universal Studios Florida (the spot where the ride once stood is now where they have Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon), which is why my favorite scene in this movie has to be the drive-in tornado at night. Another reason why I loved that scene is because I was also introduced to The Shining (1980) and I really enjoyed watching that movie, when I got more into horror movies as I got older. I even own The Shining (1980) on DVD in 4:3 Full-Screen format, which is the full aspect ratio of the original camera negative as Stanley Kubrick intended.
Storm chasers are willing to accept an amount of danger, as long as they have an out if needed. It doesn't seem smart, but there is a fine line between careless and stupid.
Wakita was practically do e a 3 block area and the aunt Megs house and the house they drove thru were all practically done that why it looks so good
One of my first disaster movies, either this or Volcano. This movie I always classified as a horror movie when I was a kid. Came out same year I was born.
I’ve never seen Volcano
As someone living in Tornado Alley, in Tornado season. This is a horror movie for us.
We are taught in school and at home how to be safe or at least as safe as you can get during a tornado.
Tornados sound like freight trains coming closer and closer. A roar you never wanna hear.
Hello there Tim and Clariss I see yall are reacting to a classic movie Twister in 1996 I was 9 years old when it came out but I've never seen it so hope you will enjoy it today 0:20
JEFF was HERE 🌪️
The scene of driving through the house was refenced in the LEGO Movie. Almost at the beginning.
Unlike the upcoming sequel that's gonna be released by Universal Studios, the original was released by Warner Bros. so I guess they switched distribution rights for the sequel I'm guessing.
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I was just the opposite. I was also relatively young when I first saw this movie (I believe it was the first movie I saw with regularity that had a lot of cursing in it), and my mom ALWAYS covered my eyes for this part.
I love this movie it's 28 years old and still looks incredible lol
Fun fact this was the first movie to be put onto DVD lol
That little girl in the beginning is Alexa Vega
6:25 "are you mad?" "I'll be mad later right now I'm trying not to kill us" lol
8:34 "where's my truck?" "There it is" lol
9:30 he's right you would most likely survive but your car may not as far as electronics go lol
10:30 there was an idea to make that cow a zebra instead to tie it into Jumanji which came out a year before this but they decided against it lol
13:45 they used blocks of ice that they grounded down and put through the jets that were used for the wind.
22:10 that was an air hose not gas
25:49 that house was done for real
28:25 you might've missed it but their fingers are all bandaged up from cutting those cans lol
31:30 they built a full size light weight semi truck and trailer, and dropped it with 1,000 gallons of gas lol
34:00 the house rolling was cgi but thr truck driving through was a real full size truck going through a house set
37:50 those are actually fence posts going into the barn and that happens in real tornados they pick up 2x4s etc and they end up embedded inside walls, I've seen a pic of one that went through a concrete curb it's insane
You can see the path the tornado took at the end
Back then people who studied tornados, (I think they are called storm chasers.) relied on vehicles heavy enough to not be lifted by the strong winds, now at day the vehicles, besides being heavy, are modified to even stuck themseves to the ground with iron stakes and withstand debree flying around..
Another one of my favorite disaster movies, that is about as old as I am. 😅
It actually isnt the tires that protect a car. It is the outside shell. Pretty much the same reason planes are ok.
One of my favorite films is Amelie. Its a little different but heartwarming and all a visual artistic masterpiece. It's a film that is under rated and overlooked probably because of the French art on the box. I love it and its worth the view if you haven't already.
Theres a new twister movie coming out this year. It’s not a sequel but a reimagining of this movie. I’m intrigued to go see it next month.
I actually survived an f4 tornado in Petersburg Virginia on Aug 6th 1993 once you see it firsthand you never see it in any other way with wind speeds of 210 mph
IDEA!!! WATCH THE BEHIND THE SCENE and react to it. Nobody else has. That'd be cool
18:43 Aaaaawwww. This is why I like it best when yall react together. It’s adorable 🥰
My grandparents drove through a light tornado once coming home from church
That was an amazing reaction! Thank you so much for watching this icon! Believe it or not, they actually interviewed 2 people who actually were in the middle of the tornado and survived. So everything Bill and Jo saw were exactly as the survivors described it. Helen Hunt has also been in these films: Quarterback Princess, based on true story about a girl being a kicker on all boys football team, and Soul Surfer, which based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton’s shark attack and overcoming her obstacles to get back in the water. If you want more natural disaster films I recommend Dante’s Peak and Volcano. 👩🏼👨🏻🌪
Hey, I watched this movie and chemistry class for our last unit on whether what a coincidence!😮😊❤😂😅🎉😄
Twisters is not a Remake or a Sequel but just a stand lone film it doesn't have any Connections to the original Film but a stand alone Original story and this is what Google say
No, the upcoming 2024 disaster movie Twisters is not a sequel to the 1996 film Twister starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton:
Characters
The two films don't share any characters. Twisters stars Glen Powell as Tyler Owens, a social media personality and self-proclaimed "Tornado Wrangler" who chases storms for thrills.
Plot
The plots are essentially standalone, with Twisters being described as "its own standalone story in the modern day which it sounds like a stupid idea I'm just saying 🙄
The only CGI in this movie was the clouds, tornados, and the barn flying apart at the end.
All the special effects scenes with flying debris, hail, rain, Aunt Mays house collapsing, the drive-in movie theater destruction, flying cars and tractors, are actually real and built props with stunt drivers and stunt doubles for the actors.
The city of Wakita ( Aunt Mays home town) was all props actually built only for the movie and was made to be destroyed as if the tornado was actually real.
They had a few models of the 1996 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup trucks donated from Dodge / Chrysler Company to be debuted as new 1996 model year vehicles for this movie and all trucks were actually driven and some destroyed in the making of this film.
Eddie Van Halen Wrote the movie theme song ' Humans Beings ' as well.
Today we have vehicles that anchor themselves to the ground and the tornado passes over them and since 2007 the Fujitsu scale is now called the Enhanced Fujita scale. Also the tornado outbreak in the movie was based off of the Super Outbreak of 1974.
This is something to set how dangerous flying metals are: An aluminum foil, of those that are set in the roofs, with enough wind to lift them can gain enough force to decapitate a person.
No way! I didn’t know you were from Georgia, Clariss! So am I!
Yeah let's go twister my childhood movie man it's good looking back on this movie because there's going to be a recent what is it sequel? remake? Reboot? I'm just going to call a sequel man isn't it going to be fine as hell but hey let's go 4:00
Not so fun fact: in Oklahoma there's not really any public tornado shelters and because our signature red dirt has a more clay consistency it's harder to build underground ones allegedly. People either are blessed w basements or have to build their own. The metro rarely gets hit, but south okc tends to get brutalized more than we do. Couple weeks ago I think there was one 5-10 min away from my bfs house where I had just been hours prior. Oklahoma stays unhinged. 😂
Oklahoma’s still the south 😂
Jonas doesn't deserve to live. Eddie, yes.
Tim & Clariss
I read that director of Twister; Jan de Bont wanted Helen Hunt while Warner Bros didn't want her in the movie because she wasn't well known for movies even though Helen is mostly TV actress. de Bont hired Josh Whedon on polishing the script. Josh wrote "Cow" "Another Cow" by Hunt's Jo then Paxton's Bill, "It is same cow" de Bont have seen a real photo of live cow in a tree sent by a tornado. He thought picture was fake, but tornado scientist told him photo is real.
Clariss
Funny that you stated Tornado can hit Georgia too. Because I born and raised in Georgia until moving to Florida in 1972. I was visiting my grandmother when she in the hospital, tornado warning was issue in county in Northwest Georgia. I was at her house prior the warning. She didn't have not basement or storm cellar. I stand in between door area wearing a motorcycle helmet. Then my cousins showed up and pick me in the car and went to their place. Now since 1972, I went thru least 10 hurricanes or tropical storms. Those feeder bands of those storms can produce tornadoes. Florida did have major tornado outbreak called 1998's Kissimmee Tornado Outbreak. Outbreak hit the area from Feb 21 to 23 with 15 twisters with some at the rating of EF3 that killed 42 and injured 259
My childhood classic movie!!!
The beginning traumatized me as a kid.
8:32 depending on how deep the posts of the bridge is it would hold. I’m not really sold on them not getting pulled away as the wind got closer. Neither one is strong enough to keep from getting pulled away. I used to chase storms before having a family then I had to stop. Still have fun with local storms but don’t travel. 11:42 I think since there were multiple ones and small they didn’t have the power to lift them. 13:09 the trailer to the new one looks pretty good. Wish they would’ve gone with the sequel idea and have their kid improve on their technology. 35:20 it’s like before they left for this last one he called his insurance and said “I’d like to increase my insurance to full coverage please. No reason just thought it’s a better plan for my truck”. 38:19 “Daddy can you hear me?”
I absolutely ❤ this movie 🙂 I especially like Cary Elwes playing the part of Jonas Miller who is the antagonist in this movie. He is definitely a a very talented actor 🙂
I got to watch it on the cross country opening night at our local Drive-In and it was even better because there were storms NW of the Drive-In at the same time and could hear real thunder and see lightning in background lol
The whole lingo is pretty accurate to real life this whole movie traumatized ne as a kid to
Can’t wait to see the new one next month
I love this movie but honestly believe that they would have been torn to ribbons by debris for most of those scenes lol in reality.
yay my favorite couple is back my day is now complete 🥰
I think you two would love Dante's Peak. The effects hold up really well, and they kept the Hollywood BS to a minimum. It's a fantastic disaster film.
can you do Volcano? with Tommy lee jones se tin my town Los Angeles?? its so underrated of natural disaster movies
I used to go to church down the road from Wakita, where they filmed this.
If the new one is a sequel then I hope Glen Powell is playing Rabbit's son, they look like they could be related.
It’s a stand alone sequel
Whoooooo! This is a classic underrated film! Can't wait for a remake movie for Twisters when it comes out in theaters!
As of June 2024, the average cost of home insurance in Oklahoma is between $2,278 and $6,325 per year, which is higher than the national average.
Tell me about it.
Tornadoes attack on the surface so storm shelters are some of your best bets unless you are in a proofed building.
If you liked this movie. I'd highly recommend another film, Speed 1994. It just had its 30th anniversary. Done by the same director and Music director. Same sort of tense throughout.
Twister is one of my favourite Natural disaster movies ever 🌪️🌪️ its a great and interesting story, it’s got an all star cast and it’s one of those movies that keeps you at the edge off your seat the whole time. So great you guys reacted to this classic and hopefully you do more movies of this genre in the future 😊😃😁
What a thrill ride! Loved this movie as a kid! Can't wait to see the 2nd one!
Can’t wait for twisters July 2024🌪️
I also recommend The Abyss (1989)
One of the most epic scale disaster movies of 90's. Dope movie.
Plus, yeah but back then when they didn’t have Google maps, they were trying to make it more like a movie where they didn’t have Google maps but like they were trying to have like where they mapped out like the entire globe and like the continent thing of like where you lived and stuff kind of that’s where they were trying to make like a 90s movie of one of those other movies I can’t think of it now, but it’s stuck in the back of my head like I know what it was called. I just can’t remember the title of it. It was called fear something. I know it was fear something, but I guess cause this has been a long time since I’ve seen that one too. But that’s OK. And I am so happy that this movie is still popular like two this day.
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I mean the last time I’ve got struck by lightning and I was in a car but it was totally worth it but just for like lots of static electricity sorry I haven’t been catching up on your videos so much as well but I have cut up today and also this is why they need to like re-create this movie but like a lot better and then why they are re-creating it and calling it twisters which it should be like twister too because then I would totally understand it and it would be like OK that’s cool or like they should like say twins twisters because then I would get it or like twister twins because then I’d be like oh it’s twisters too but if they ever decide to make a third movie, they should totally make it like this classic one that you guys are watching but like totally way better and then like make it more like urban legends, and theories about like the happy meal and like different urban legends and theories plus they should add some of the other UA-camrs that they did like in that one scene of five nights at Freddy’s where they were like at the café plus they need to add like more girl UA-camrs as well not just like Preston as well again plus if they add like more UA-camrs in the third movie, I will totally be down to go see that immediately with HANNAH of course like as soon as it came out in theaters here in Lamar, Colorado
PS this is another really good movie that it makes me feel good mostly for two reasons. Why though one because now it’s making me feel a lot better and now I don’t feel so sad like I was earlier I mean, I am a little sad but not because of the movie and number two just because Like I wanted to see the second one or at least see a teaser trailer and the teaser trailer is terrible, but if they make the movie good like the second one, then I’m just gonna be shocked, but if they don’t make it as good as this one, then they should think about taking some of my ideas for the third one like I mentioned in the comment above this one 👆 PS also this is mostly just in case as well, but they should also play like more horror movies on the thing like in this movie that they did or like cool music videos like for the Jax toy but also just so it would be so cute so it would make me say aw 💜🐰🏹
Hey Tim could you imagine you and Clariss as Bill and Jo in the movie
Pour one out for the MVP of the film...
1995 Dodge 3500 Longbed.
Game over man!
Can't got wrong with a little Bill Paxton.
If you can’t Dodge it Ram it lol 34:35
This is actually one of my Top 5 best disaster movies to be honest.
Is this a storm chasing movie or a 90 minute Dodge Ram infomercial? I heard that after this movie’s release Dodge sold up to 480,000 new Ram trucks in 1996 due to it’s presence in this movie!👍