I saw it in the theaters and it summed up everything that is bad to me about most summer blockbusters - all style, no substance, terrible script, dumbed down for the masses garbage. I do like Bill Paxton as an actor though LOL.
Bill Paxton interested in 3-D Twister sequel
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It did make great use of the helicopter camera.
If they did a sequel, I hope they focus more on the team and their interaction. Those were the best moments for me. The guys eating around aunt meg's table telling stories. The interactions between them on the radio when they are trying to catch the other team. The whole bit about the brush and the road.
I did like the Twister attraction in Florida - was it at Universal or MGM? Can't remember but it was fun.
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It did make great use of the helicopter camera.
If they did a sequel, I hope they focus more on the team and their interaction. Those were the best moments for me. The guys eating around aunt meg's table telling stories. The interactions between them on the radio when they are trying to catch the other team. The whole bit about the brush and the road.
Yeah, the special effects and the tornadoes were fun, but my favorite parts of the movie are the bits of dialogue. Two of my favorite dialogue scenes are toward the beginning, where Bill & Jo are in the truck on the way toward the first tornado:
Bill: (about Melissa) She's a... a therapist.
Jo: Oh... Yours?
Bill: Christ, you couldn't resist, could you?
Jo: What? I'm not saying you *need* therapy.
Bill: What? Wait, wait, wait, I need therapy?
Jo: I didn't say that. I didn't *say* that.
Bill: What could I possibly need a therapist for? Huh? You're the doctor, tell me!
Jo: I don't know... inability to finish things?
Bill: "Inability to finish things"?
Jo: Maybe rushing into things you can't quite commit to.
Bill: Commitment?
Jo: You asked!
And this one:
Jo: Hey, as long as you're happy...
Bill: Thank you! I AM. I am happy! I'm a happy person. I'm happy with my life. I'm happy with the way things are going in my life. I'm happy with... with...
Jo: Melissa?
Bill: I know her name! YES. I'm happy... with... Melissa!
I think what I really like about the movie is that it isn't completely mindless. There are some great lines of dialogue, some heartwarming moments, some drama, and it all works, I think, to make a better movie. You know, Twister is rather more of a talky action movie than a mindless disaster flick. Lots of great dialogue and character interaction.
That movie is rife with shit and is ludicrous beyond belief. People in Cali actually believe tornadoes "growl" at people and that we, in the Midwest, have to constantly be on the lookout for them
Please, for the love of all that DOES NOT SUCK, don't do this
^To be fair, there are some people outside of California who seem to believe that the ground actually opens up and swallows people during an earthquake.
I remember the Twister attraction at Universal Studios. That was scary stuff to me. The natural disaster that has always scared me most is tornados.
I remember the Twister attraction at Universal Studios. That was scary stuff to me. The natural disaster that has always scared me most is tornados.
Agreed, the interaction between Bill and Jo was just great. And the whole movie was well-acted, especially for what it was (a silly action flick). Paxton and Hunt had great chemistry, and Jami Gertz was very believable and endearing as Melissa. Plus the team and their interactions were funny. I liked the human drama in this more than the tornado action, though "We've got COWS" was made of win.
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That movie is rife with shit and is ludicrous beyond belief. People in Cali actually believe tornadoes "growl" at people and that we, in the Midwest, have to constantly be on the lookout for them
Please, for the love of all that DOES NOT SUCK, don't do this
Agreed! I mean, when you're making a documentary you shou-, oh, wait, it was a fiction movie? Well then they shouldn't label it as documenta-, oh, they didn't? Well, then, maybe I should just relax about the whole thing.
Yeah, "We've got Cows" is one of the best lines in the movie.
It did make great use of the helicopter camera.
If they did a sequel, I hope they focus more on the team and their interaction. Those were the best moments for me. The guys eating around aunt meg's table telling stories. The interactions between them on the radio when they are trying to catch the other team. The whole bit about the brush and the road.
Yeah, the special effects and the tornadoes were fun, but my favorite parts of the movie are the bits of dialogue. Two of my favorite dialogue scenes are toward the beginning, where Bill & Jo are in the truck on the way toward the first tornado:
Bill: (about Melissa) She's a... a therapist.
Jo: Oh... Yours?
Bill: Christ, you couldn't resist, could you?
Jo: What? I'm not saying you *need* therapy.
Bill: What? Wait, wait, wait, I need therapy?
Jo: I didn't say that. I didn't *say* that.
Bill: What could I possibly need a therapist for? Huh? You're the doctor, tell me!
Jo: I don't know... inability to finish things?
Bill: "Inability to finish things"?
Jo: Maybe rushing into things you can't quite commit to.
Bill: Commitment?
Jo: You asked!
And this one:
Jo: Hey, as long as you're happy...
Bill: Thank you! I AM. I am happy! I'm a happy person. I'm happy with my life. I'm happy with the way things are going in my life. I'm happy with... with...
Jo: Melissa?
Bill: I know her name! YES. I'm happy... with... Melissa!
I think what I really like about the movie is that it isn't completely mindless. There are some great lines of dialogue, some heartwarming moments, some drama, and it all works, I think, to make a better movie. You know, Twister is rather more of a talky action movie than a mindless disaster flick. Lots of great dialogue and character interaction.
See, when I was growing up my father was a volunteer firefighter, EMT, and was involved in an armature radio club... Watching the team in twister interact is like watching my father and his friends hanging out when I was growing up, especially the amateur radio club.
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We're talking eminent rue-age!
We're talking eminent rue-age!
I love the conversation about how they met Bill...naked and chucking a Jack Daniels bottle into the twister.
And then the story about the "evil" Bill that Bill killed.
For a mindless action film, it really does have some great characters and moments, and thats why I would love to see a sequel.
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He'll rue the day he went against the Extreme!
We're talking eminent rue-age!
I love the conversation about how they met Bill...naked and chucking a Jack Daniels bottle into the twister.
And then the story about the "evil" Bill that Bill killed.
For a mindless action film, it really does have some great characters and moments, and thats why I would love to see a sequel.
Oh yeah, as mentioned before, the table scene was (for me at least) one of the best parts of the movie. I know Data Holmes feels the same way. It felt like these people were good friends, had known each other for years, were comfortable with one another. At the very least, the acting was good enough that I believed it. I don't get that from most action movies. I actually cared about these characters.
Indeed. It really felt like these people had been a team for years. That we stepped into them telling a story they've told countless times over and over again never growing tired of them. It's that presence which really drives this movie, not the effects.
And it isn't just a case of one or three scenes which show this either, it permeates the whole movie. From the opening exchanges in the field, to the first twister chase, to the whole segment involving aunt megs (Food... Food!) through the table scene, to the catch other team sequence (Where's the road man. Rabbit is good, Rabbit is wise... Oh god, Jesus Christ!
) to the segment on the hill, to the twister hitting the drive in, to the second aunt meg segment, to the last sequence after the last twister. That is the heart of the movie, what it really is about, and the reunion of the two "heads" of the team. It started fractured and was restored to whole at the end of the film, the family restored. You could literally cut 90% of the effects out of the movie and it would still be great.
I think it's a fantastic idea. But they shouldn't do it just for the sake of doing it.
If they can't get a decent script and most of the main cast, it wouldn't be worth it. And not just Paxton and Hunt, PSH, Ruck, and Elwes should all be mandatory. Of course, that would be a bit of an accomplishment.
About the dialogue: I've never been clear on Whedon's involvement. There's a lot of conflicting information. The dinner scene at Jo's aunt's is very Whedonesque, but the rest of it, while good, isn't.
On the other hand, I've read pretty much every Crichton book and have always found his dialouge to pretty much be by-the-numbers.
If they can't get a decent script and most of the main cast, it wouldn't be worth it. And not just Paxton and Hunt, PSH, Ruck, and Elwes should all be mandatory. Of course, that would be a bit of an accomplishment.
About the dialogue: I've never been clear on Whedon's involvement. There's a lot of conflicting information. The dinner scene at Jo's aunt's is very Whedonesque, but the rest of it, while good, isn't.
On the other hand, I've read pretty much every Crichton book and have always found his dialouge to pretty much be by-the-numbers.
Should such a craptacular movie be once again filmed in Oklahoma, I will say that Helen Hunt will NOT be welcomed back. Reports from the locals where the original was filmed stated everyone in the cast was very friendly and personable; however, she was a snobby bitch. Which is a shame as I really liked her as in Mad About You.
Umm... Elwes died in the first movie. Unless you want him to come back as a zombie.
Zombies vs. Twister!
I'm surprised so many are singing praise about Twister in here, I thought it had grown a rep as a much maligned movie that was not much more than effects and nonsense.
I'm glad to hear this as Twister is one of my more favorite movies and one a friend and I raved over in highschool as we both wanted to do storm-chasing. (Our parents wouldn't let us.
)
I'd probably put it in my top 25 movies, though it'd be fairly low on that list. It has many problems mostly in plot contrivances (every tornado in the movie dispitates when it encounters our main characters) and some of the melodrama (Look at what's right in front of you,. It's me, Jo!) That all said the movie is a fun ride and I agree the comraderie between the storm chasers is well played and you get a good feel for the group.
The acting in the movie is decent enough for what it is but who would've seen Philip Seymour Hoffman would've gone on to what he has following this movie, huh? I also think the woman who played Meg was a bit of an over-actor.
"Billy! Just the other day I was telling Jo how much I miss you!" Ugh, the reading on the line is terrible.
But, all and all, Twister is a decent action, SFX movie (there's only a couple of scenes where the FX are bad and a few scenes where the FX don't seem to match what is going on) but as a severe-weather lover living in Tornado Alley, Twister is a good movie.
I'm glad to hear this as Twister is one of my more favorite movies and one a friend and I raved over in highschool as we both wanted to do storm-chasing. (Our parents wouldn't let us.
)I'd probably put it in my top 25 movies, though it'd be fairly low on that list. It has many problems mostly in plot contrivances (every tornado in the movie dispitates when it encounters our main characters) and some of the melodrama (Look at what's right in front of you,. It's me, Jo!) That all said the movie is a fun ride and I agree the comraderie between the storm chasers is well played and you get a good feel for the group.
The acting in the movie is decent enough for what it is but who would've seen Philip Seymour Hoffman would've gone on to what he has following this movie, huh?
I also think the woman who played Meg was a bit of an over-actor."Billy! Just the other day I was telling Jo how much I miss you!" Ugh, the reading on the line is terrible.
But, all and all, Twister is a decent action, SFX movie (there's only a couple of scenes where the FX are bad and a few scenes where the FX don't seem to match what is going on) but as a severe-weather lover living in Tornado Alley, Twister is a good movie.
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