Twister
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Movie Reviews of Twister
Movie Review: not to bad
Summary: 4 Stars
Picture quality is not all that great but a little better. Remember this film is a few years old, but for the price I got it for, well, what the heck./ I'm into Blu -Ray no more Dvd's Movie Review: twister is great on blu ray
Summary: 5 Stars
i have the standard copy of twister and the the blu ray copy
and definitely notice a difference
the bonus features are phenomenal
many added to the original release
a history channel 45 minute doc on tornadoes
and many more feautrettes
i really enjoyed it
one of my favorite movies if not my fave movie of 1996 when it came out
Movie Review: Entertaining, to say the least
Summary: 4 Stars
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First I will say, I own this movie, and I enjoy this movie. I will also so say that I am truly intrigued by the power, beauty and unpredictable wonder of natures most dangerous natural disaster. Although I enjoyed this movie for the sheer purpose of entertainment, I can certainly understand why tornado fans found this movie to be annoying, farfetched and unrealistic.
The predictable: You know from the first 15 minutes of the movie that Helen Hunts chaser team, armed with the "Human Barometer", the beat up cars and the outdated equipment would come out on top. You know from the start that Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton would kiss and make up, literally. Jamie Gertz. Her true purpose in this movie was to be someone the audience could relate to. She asked the questions that an audience who doesn't know much about tornadoes would ask. She cried and screamed and showed fear of tornadoes instead of excitement like our main characters. She also filled the holes on the back story, by asking more questions: "Who's that guy?" or "Is this your attempt to get Billy back?".
The unexpected: The final duo between the rival gangs. Too bad it didn't add anything to the plot.
The unnecessary: The rival gang really didn't add anything to the movie. They didn't make for competition, suspense, twist, anything. The trip to the aunts house to eat up all her food, still don't know that point, except maybe for the mini "moment in science" scene at the table where they tell the audience (Jaime Gertz, and all of us at home that may not know) about different tornado intensity, and how only one of the members have lived through an F5 tornado...ooooooh NOW we understand Helen Hunt's drive. The flying cow (it was just one...he did a double orbit).
The potentially annoying:
1. The clich? that the best place to be to chase 6 tornadoes in one day is Oklahoma and Kansas. In fact, you have enough time to get ahead of the super cell to a descending tornado, no matter where you are in these two states.
2. How Bill and Helen Hunt managed to literally come face to face with a tornado, I mean right in the PATH of a twister, not once, not twice, but THREE times and come out with minor bumps and bruises. First time, they hid under a bridge (big tornado safety no no) to escape the winds of the storm...when we all know that the wind is the least of anyone's concern in a tornado, it's the DEBRIS that is the number one killer....The second time, tornados strong enough to spin their car and send a cow orbiting around them, but leaves them safely on the ground and does NO DAMAGE to the car...and the third time...the dangerously F Tornado, the big finale, JUST ripped apart the barn they crouched in, but left them safe and sound, they were even able to open their eyes and look into the heavens...never once did they get clunked in the head with a wooden beam. Never mind the fact that once the tornado "tossed" the debris into the path of our heroes, it never moved it again, with the exception of the tree trunk that was sent in a perfect line to blow up the truck.
3. The hail. Nothing more than buckets of ice cubes tossed into the path of our main characters. A real hail storm is just that, a storm and the balls of ice fall at dangerous speeds with enough potential dent the hood of your car and break out a windshield or at least CRACK it...especially if you are really close to a tornado, which on every instance, they were within a 1/2 mile of the twister.
4. How Bill Paxton can look at the updraft of a tornado, and predict where it was going. He could pick up dust from the ground and let it blow from his hand, and know what longitude and latitude the next storm would hit.
5. How the tornado always managed to dissipate right after the Helen and Bill encounter...maybe THEY are the secret to stopping the dangerous storm...after all, Bill "The Extreme" Paxton got his nude body close enough to a storm to chuck a bottle of whisky in it and that stopped it from touching the ground....**TORNADO FACT** A tornado is not a cloud. It is a column of rotating air. They kick up a cloud of dirt and debris from the air and ground giving the appearance of being a cloud.
Final Thought: This is the kind of movie where, if you have knowledge about tornadoes, you have to absolutely let go of that knowledge to sit back and enjoy this movie. Although this movie is based on a real phenomenon, it really plays on the myths and fears that the average person has about tornadoes, and that's what made this movie successful. I enjoyed the action and the destruction. The plot, although predictable, still kept me engaged until the next tornado scene, and there were many in this film. Hollywood creates movies for entertainment. This movie was entertaining, to say the least. But if you are looking for a documentary of tornadoes, and the lives of real storm chasers, this may not be the movie for you.
Movie Review: PG-13 For Intense Depiction of Very Bad Weather lol
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has never looked or sounded better or clear than this remastered edition. The new featurette is a nice added touch to the extra's. This is a fun, entertaining movie. What cracks me up is on the dvd cover. Rated PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned, "Intense Depiction of Very Bad Weather". HA HA ! Yeah we all know how scary very bad weather can be to someone 13 or under lol. This "remastered" version looks and sounds excellent, much better than the previous dvd release. I watched this on a new Oppo upconverting dvd player and couldn't believe how good it looked. The sound is great, the picture is fabulous, I'd go so far as to say from the reviews I've seen this looks and sounds better than the blu-ray version. It's worth buying even if you own the previous version on dvd. Movie Review: Terrible Blu-Ray
Summary: 2 Stars
Lets see, where do I start? Color banding, poor contrast, heavy film grain, soft focus and a lackluster True HD soundtrack. Warner Brothers should have never put this out like this. I remember the original SD DVD as looking pretty darn good. Not the usual quality we expect from Warner Bros. I'm thinking they are in a hurry to rush this stuff out so keep an eye on reviews before buying. What irritates me is that this Blu-Ray release received decent reviews from trusted sources on the internet. I don't see how they could have possibly missed these serious flaws. After reading some of these reviews here, I see the consumers obviously have not missed them.