Twister

My mom accidentally bought tickets for this instead of Glen Powell’s Twisters. It was an okay film.

10.0 - TLDR this is one of my all time favorite movies for a lot of personal reasons & one of the movies I’ve seen more than any other. It’s honestly a pretty good probably high 7s objectively, but I can’t separate my love for it.

Here’s a little different, a little more personal, & a much longer review. ⬇️

This is probably one of the top five movies that I’ve seen the most times. And it’s one of my all time favorites. I grew up right in the middle of tornado alley. My dad was very close to being a meteorologist, & took my brothers and I “storm chasing” to watch major thunderstorms roll in to our area frequently. We went outside to look at the sky when tornado sirens went off, & we spent countless nights just sitting on the front porch & watching storms for hours. The Weather Channel was the most likely thing on TV in our house outside maybe ESPN. And I watched this movie with him dozens of times. If I couldn’t be Dr. Alan Grant I wanted to be Bill Harding. One of my first crushes was Dr. Jo Harding. I wanted to name my future dog either Toby or Mose. My dad would tell me to “roll the maps”whenever I was in charge of navigating pre-GPS & I said “Tasty cow, Aunt Meg” almost any time I had steak for a decade.

But I haven’t been able to watch it in years. My dad passed away in 2017, about a month before Bill Paxton oddly enough, & something about watching a movie that I linked so closely to him that opens with a scene of one of the main characters’ dad dying was just too hard.

But today would be my dad’s 56th birthday, & Twisters releases tonight, & it feels too poetic. So I finally watched it again, before my brother, wife & I go see Twisters.

And I am so happy I did. It brought back so many good memories. It’s still fun as fuck. Tons of great quotes. That true blockbuster feel even from the small screen - not a shock when Steven Spielberg & Michael Crichton are behind the production and writing. Sure there are some wacky effects, but for 1996, they don’t feel that bad. There’s also a need to suspend a lot of belief because there’s a ton of Hollywood silliness. But if you do, it’s a blast. The supporting cast is loaded in a way I never realized until today, & both Paxton and Helen Hunt give absolute *movie star* performances. And the tension in the final act rivals 98% of thriller/horrors I’ve seen.

It may be a 3.5-4 star movie at its core but it’s easily a 5 star to me. Glen Powell, you got some big shoes to fill, my guy - no pressure.

Great movie! Felt like I was back home!

they should have died but SOMEHOW they didn't ? :/

Classic, I love how cozy and fun it feels with the group dynamic. Still exhilarating today. Love it. Also my mom has rewatched this endlessly and it's just grown on me more and more.

8/10 the only let down is the cgi hasnt aged very well still loved it