Twister (1996)

Who knew you could make a story about wind interesting. I wonder, if after the filming was done, Paxton was overheard saying, "Storm over, man. Storm over." Twister has a good cast, great eye candy, very nice FX AND if you can't laugh at flying livestock, I don't want to know you.This is a good flick and a must see for all us Helen Hunt fans. I can watch this every 5 - 7 years.

If there is one thing I've noticed about this film is that there was much negativity from reviewers when it was released and frankly I don't understand what they were expecting, it's a movie about storm chasers in a tornado outbreak trying to launch a probe into a tornado, if you wanted something more like the meaning of life you're not going to get it here. When you make a movie revolving around a natural disaster (like The Day After Tomorrow or Into the Storm) expect the action to muffle the plot, it's a challenge to make a disaster movie with adequate character development and have it not be panned by reviewers.The film is good since the plot and stunning visuals keeps you watching from start to finish and you want to sympathize with the main characters while they try to succeed with their goal while going through a major conflict.

Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes. It's funny how back in the 1990's there were so many great Natural Disaster Films and now there's only like 1 or 2 of course i'm talking about the movie "Twister" starring Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt and Philip Seymour Hoffman and it does have a very simple premise and story that fans won't be disappointed plus the special effects for a 1996 movie were actually pretty enjoyable and the performances by the 2 leading actors were very good it's for sure not the movie that you would expect to be nominated for 2 Oscars but it's still an enjoyable action flick that will definitely keep you relaxed.

Twister is a classic storm-related movie that is known for its special effects depicting the intensity and power of tornadoes. The main characters in the movie, Jo and Bill, are having your typical pre-divorce drama throughout the film. The cliché twist of this 1996 film is that the disasters they experience throughout the movie actually mend their relationship. Their passion for storm-chasing reunites them and Bill doesn't take long to forget about his less intense fiancée Melissa. The main goal of the characters in the film is to use their invention DOROTHY to release thousands of small sensors into a tornado passing by. The sensors will hopefully provide Bill and Jo and the rest of the world with much-needed information on these sudden natural disasters that can help with the creation of better storm warning systems. After much trial and error, the two finally successfully use DOROTHY and the movie comes to a close. This movie successfully allows us to take a glimpse into the lives of storm chasers by providing us with an accurate-enough view of monitoring equipment that news stations attach to vans to read pressure, temperature, wind speed, etc. The coolest part of the film is that the main instrument DOROTHY is actually based off the real- world instrument TOTO, which stands for Totable Tornado Observatory. TOTO is a barrel-shaped instrument similar to the copy in the film that was created in 1979 with the hopes that it would record valuable data on a tornado's structure. Unlike the movie, there was never a successful deployment of this device as it was knocked down by even the weakest tornados. The device was also used more successfully in measuring wind fronts from thunderstorms until its retirement in 1987. Safety issues deploying such a large device near active storms made the device illogical to use. The movie had some other faults that shouldn't be recreated in real life. It mentions that a green sky always indicates a tornado, but this isn't exactly the case. The two phenomena just go together often since green skies occur when light scatters through raindrops during extremely heavy storm events. The film also had quite a lot of tornados throughout, with each one the characters came across being bigger than the last. Tornado event don't typically occur like that, but instead happen all of a sudden and then tire out just as quickly after their path of destruction comes to an end. Overall, the film is mostly fun with a little true science here and there.