Twister [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Twister [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Love it
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, I never seen the movie before and I bite my fingers for that. It is an amazing movie that will hold you breath until the last moment.Movie Review: Twister
Summary: 4 Stars
Blu-ray is the best ... this movie is pack with great sound and wonderful reprodution .... recommended itMovie Review: Not twisted enough
Summary: 3 Stars
Twister is a good example of a film made purely to showcase special effects with a very simple plot concocted to hold it all together. I wouldn't have minded had it not been pure soap opera nonsense. I expect more from Michael Crichton.
I first (and last) saw Twister at a preview screening on a sunny Saturday night on July 20th 1996 (exactly 14 years ago today). It was one of those lovely screenings where the movie just starts right away and you're not bothered by long ads or trailers. After such brilliant teaser trailers I was initially let down by the mechanical and pedestrian nature of the story.
The story outside of the twisters ain't nothing new. A man and his estranged wife get back together amid the chaos. Wow! As if that wasn't done in Die Hard, The Abyss and ID4 already. Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt are good (as is her fondness for going without a bra in a white vest with lots of rain pouring down) but the rest of the cast are just scenery. Jamie Gertz is the perfunctory "in" for the audience. And why Cary Elwes attempted to do a Texas accent when he is clearly incapable is beyond me. And don't get me started on Philip Seymore Hoffman! I wanted one of the twisters to drop a silo on his head. All the storm chaser team do is go "yeah", "let's do this" and "rock 'n' roll". Usually in movies a cast this large is killed off one by one, but no such luck here. Not only are they mostly useless to the story progression but they are deeply annoying.
Where the film does succeed is delivering spectacle. The effects may be well over a decade old now but they still look good and the sound design is quite brilliant. If you go to Twister looking for anything else you'll be sorely disappointed.
Still, as modern disaster movies go, it's towards the top of the pile.
Movie Review: Are they releasing Michael Crichton films on to Blu-Ray backwards based on appeal?
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm a huge Michael Crichton fan. But, I've noticed that the best of Micheal Crichton is still unavailable on Blu-ray. Even though I'm not particularly fond of Jurassic Park, it is considered his most famous story and film, and yet not available on Blu-Ray.
"Twister" is Okay. It's not Michael Crichton's best story writing film effort. Far from it. And the other known Micheal Crichton film currently available on Blu-Ray is "Sphere". It's had mediocre reviews, but yet it too, has been made available on Blu-Ray.
I'm not particularly fond of "The Andromeda Strain", but I'd appreciate it over "Twister" and "Sphere", as I'm sure many people do. But, these are the Micheal Crichton films that I am sure MANY people are anxious to see remastered in High Definition on to Blu-ray. Prepare to get a hard-on when you see all these great movies suggested all in one sentence:
"Westworld", "Coma", "The Great Train Robbery", "Runaway", "Looker", "The 13th Warrior", "Rising Sun", "Congo", and "Disclosure."
These are the one's that we are waiting for on Blu-Ray. Perhaps we could get a box set put together like they did for Stanley Kubrick since he's dead now, too. One less person they'll have to pay royalties to.
Movie Review: Good, but not as good as other Blu-Ray movies
Summary: 3 Stars
I have this in regular DVD as well as Blu-Ray. It is one of the movies that is light and lively and enjoyable to watch from time to time. I looked forward to the production in Blu-Ray but was disappointed. The Blu-Ray product was not much better than the regular DVD when played in my Blu-Ray player which like other Blu-Ray players has the upconvert feature. While I enjoy the superior quality of most of the Blu-Ray movies that I have bought, this movie, while good, did not make the leap in superior picture quality that it could have when being converted to Blu-Ray.