Synopsis: It’s basically two hours of Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton bickering with each other in a pickup truck as they criss-cross Oklahoma during some really bad weather.
Blurb From the imdb.com: “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.”
What Did I Learn?: 1) Things go wrong. You can’t explain it, you can’t predict it. 2) The “suck zone” is the point when a twister sucks you up. 3) In a severe lightning storm, you wanna grab your ankles and stick your butt in the air.
You Might Like This Movie If: You want to understand the inspiration for a much later cinematic travesty.
Really?: 1) Hmm…. so, Bill is getting married and starting a (safe) new job fairly soon, and he somehow allows himself to sucked back (pun totally intended) into his ex’s storm-chasing insanity one last time. That sounds an awful lot like the storyline of The Front Page / Switching Channels. 2) While I'm certainly not an expert on meteorological matters, I don't think Bill and Jo would be able to survive a Category 5 tornado just by holding on really tightly to some exposed pipes.
Rating: Twister features some impressive special effects as well as several moments of genuine excitement, and that's about it. Twister isn't quite awful enough to qualify for Bad Movie status (although its plot and dialogue are terrible), but it isn't very good (or memorable), either. Speaking truthfully, the last time I attempted to watch this film in the mid-2000s, I fell asleep. Meh. 5/5/10 stars.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117998/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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