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Plot:
The largest storm to hit Oklahoma in more than half a century is brewing, and it promises to drop multiple twisters into Tornado Alley. It's the storm that two rival groups of scientists--Jo Harding a...( read more
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MCT:October 8, 2008
"The Dark Side of Nature."
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.
Review
This movie was made at about the time when CGI was still impressive in and of itself in film-making. When Hollywood could shove at us eye popping visuals while ignoring plot, depth and emotion and we'd "ooh and ahhh".
And this shows in Twister.
The movie is rife with sappy clichés, sub-par acting and corny moments. The meat of this film is it's CGI created Tornadoes, which for the most part served their purpose in the context of a film of this nature.
However even a layman couldn't ignore the ridiculous moments regarding the behavior of the Tornadoes in this film. For example at one point the first tornado the storm chasers encounter gets close enough to them to suck their truck up in the air and the boards above the flimsy shelter they're hiding under, but leaves them miraculously unharmed. Several times tornadoes in the film dissipate at all too convenient moments including the last one, a monster of a tornado that they actually get stuck inside, but survive somehow strapped to drainage pipes despite the tornado being strong enough to pick up an 18 wheeler, roll a house and make huge tractors fly.
Yet for some reason this film is highly watchable. Twister achieved what it set out to achieve. It's mindless entertainment but it is indeed entertaining.
It's almost like the really embarrassing moments of this film and there are plenty of those, make the film fun to watch. There's something innocent about this film that excuses all the bad aspects of it.
Twister has been on cable a lot recently. I recommend watching it if you haven't yet. It's not award winning by any means but then again some films that have won academy awards have sucked so I leave it up to you to decide. -
MCT:June 17, 2008
I've seen this so many times, but it still freaks me out whenever I watch it!
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MCT:June 2, 2008I miss stormy weather! Don't remember much about this film aside from the tornadoes, though.
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MCT:January 8, 2008
this movie was actually really boring.
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MCT:January 4, 2008One of my all time faves. I love disaster movies. The comedy in this one makes it my fave disaster movie by far. Love the flying cow. Love the scene where the crew visits Jo's aunt. Love the girlfriend's line of work. Great movie.
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MCT:January 3, 2009
this movie makes tornados seem like weakling and if you have seen the path of disturction then you know that they are anything but.
Comments
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daughtrylover101posted 306 days ago -
Amazing graphics for the F5 tornado. Not bad for a 90s movie. And I think I saw Rob Schneider somewhere in there. Can anyone verify?
posted 319 days ago -
twister is in my top 5 all time fav movies.
ive been watching it for years, since it came out when i was 7 years old.
i watch it all the time.
i love all the actors in it.
their all good together.
near the end of the movie with the F5 is the coolest part in the entire movie.
the special effects is amazing!
they did a good job on all the twisters in the movie.
i love twister♥posted 368 days ago -
Very good movie. I first saw it when I was 5 or 6 and it used to scare me something awful but now whenever I watn to watch a movie Twister is the first pick.
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The graphics for the tornadoes were quite good, and there was quite a bit of humour in the film. Especially when the cows were flying in the twister lol!
posted 640 days ago -
this movie was interesting especially the part where the cow is in the tornado lol
posted 771 days ago -
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I love this movie, and even though they to use God's name in this movie and their ain't no acknoledgement of God or Church in this movie, I can see the God in this movie!
posted 877 days ago -
if your into watching tornado movies then this is one you gotta watch.
its super cool.posted 895 days ago
