@@RideAcrossTheRiver - Eddie, we need a song for a movie. - Mmm, ok. What is the movie about? - Well, it's called "Twister", and Bill Paxton is a tornado hunter, and... - HOLD UP, HOLD UP, LET ME COOK IT!
I always appreciated that they didn't make Melissa a villain; she's generally interested in what is going on and tries to understand, but she recognizes that this life is not for her.
Also that she and Jo are not enemies, per se. They are at odds but that's a natural side effect of their situation (Melissa being completely out of her depth and Jo being obsessed; also because they both want/love Bill). Melissa does (rightly) call Jo crazy at one point but otherwise the two are not deliberately antagonistic toward each other.
The actor who played “Dusty” was Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He became a major actor in his own right. I truly enjoyed the soundtrack. Very good songs were chosen.
Fun Fact: Steven Speilberg originally wanted Tom Hanks to play the part of Bill and Hanks read for it, but he turned it down because he felt he wasn't right for the part. After working with Bill Paxton in Apollo 13, Hanks looked at Paxton as the perfect guy for the part in Twister and Hanks helped Paxton get the part in Twister.
That was heartwarming to remember him by. Back in late 2000s-early 2010s, Paxton actually wanted to direct a sequel to Twister with the technology of the time.
I only learned about this wonderful, heartwarming display of remembrance the other day, and was checking so see if anyone's mentioned it. If not, I'd have mentioned it, but you beat me to it, so.
I'll never forget when I got Twister on VHS at Christmas that year: I tore the wrapping off, and the plastic was off of it. My dad told me he couldn't wait for me to open it, so he watched it before my mom could wrap it. He never even bothered to rewind the tape.
"Nothing I hate worse than a gay tornado. Can rip a 16 penny nail out of a 2x4 but can't rip a tank top off of Helen Hunt." - Some comedian told this joke and it stuck with me all this time.
I was in college when this came out, took a friend from Scotland to see this. She was very quiet on the way home, then said, "Do you get that sort of storm around here?"
I remember watching this on VHS when i was 5 years old and my dad looking out the window yelling “oh shit a tornado is coming!!” It was perfect because it was actually storming at the time. 😂😂😂
To answer your Scottish friend, yes. Some areas are much more prone to tornadoes than others, but the entirety of the Lower 48 has seen its fair share of tornadoes. Most commonly, tornadoes tend to strike the Midwest and deep south in two zones known as Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley. Canada also sees a share of tornadoes, especially in the Midwestern provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
This movie taught me about tornadoes, and one year later, a giant F5 hit Jarrell, Texas, where I used to teach. Ripped the foundations right out of the ground, and it was like nothing had ever been there.
@@JenniLeigh81 Ripped asphalt out of the ground. To this day I believe Jarrell Tx tornado may have been stronger than the Moore Oklahoma 1999 F5. Just never were able to prove Windspeed was greater.
The number of college students who sought a meteorological degree after this film came out increased by 10% over the late 90s. Universal Studios also funded a grant to University of Oklahoma to develop a mobile radar. This film had a great impact on the lives of many people who are notable storm chasers on RUclips who urge their audiences to "not be scared, be prepared" in the face of severe weather.
yah I remember stormchasers seemed to increase and increase and increase every year and they were all really competitive they'd build tanks and some would try to stream from inside the storm and others got grants and had big projects. it seems like almost overnight our weather tech and forecasting got able to see down to street level and give minute by minute accurate instructions.
Not just that. Paxton, when he died in 2017, inspired around 200 storm chasers to spell out "BP" with GPS coordinates in the heart of Tornado Alley. There's images on Google of folks gathered in Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas that were picked up for it in 2017. www.google.com/search?q=bill+paxton+bp+map&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=9455935907258573&udm=2&biw=1278&bih=1273&sxsrf=ADLYWIIVpMXcpQ6UKnPPxe6EYdlgOjsNmA%3A1716996777649&ei=qUpXZuOkJ9-HptQPndaugAs&ved=0ahUKEwijnYy4l7OGAxXfg4kEHR2rC7AQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=bill+paxton+bp+map&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEmJpbGwgcGF4dG9uIGJwIG1hcEixG1CvB1jvGXABeACQAQCYAcUBoAHfA6oBAzUuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAaACPcICBRAAGIAEmAMAiAYBkgcBMaAHoQc&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#vhid=0IojIEUL2phtOM&vssid=mosaic
I used to work with a guy who was one of those interested in a meteorology degree. Upon visiting the potential school, the department head’s first words to him were “It’s not like Twister. If that’s what you’re looking for, go somewhere else.”
OMG that's like the Scully Effect! A lot of girls and women wanted to go into STEM after The X Files came out in the 90s. I can see the 90s was a big decade for introducing different careers to all sorts of people, cause I bet paleontology was the same with Jurassic Park coming out in 1993.
Helen Hunt played the female lead. She had started acting early in her life. Her career took off when she played in the hit TV show Mad About You. She won best female comedian for 4 straight years. Twister was the #2 in film box office. She then won the female academy award for best actress for As Good as It gets playing opposite Jack Nicholson. She was in many popular films & is still active as an actress, as a screenwriter & as a director.
My 8 year old daughter discovered Twister this weekend. We were camping and the weather was terrible, so I fired up the generator and we hunkered down in the trailer watching movies and eating snacks. It’s one of the few DVD’s I still have from the old days of diving in the $5 bins at Walmart 20 years ago. When I tell you this kid was GLUED to the TV; it was like somebody welded her ass to the couch and her eyes to the screen.
Hey Ashleigh, IRL storm chaser here: NSSL is real - now colocated with the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK. In a storm that hit a year after Twister in Jarrell, TX; forensic experts spent days trying to separate animal and human parts. Soundtrack going hard: one of the last Van Halen efforts with Sammy Hagar. Love the closing song over the credits. DOROTHY was built from a real project called TOTO, from 55 gallon drum designed to be dropped in the path. Both are in the main hallway of NWS Headquarters in Maryland. Been chased by killer tornados that were wrapped in rain.
Oklahoma girl here... was looking for a Norman Oklahoma reference. Next life I hope to be a storm chaser. I love storms so much they electrify me. Gary England... I love you so I wish you had not retired. I love Jed Castles too.... but he is not Gary, no offense Jed... we love you. Rain-wrapped tornados are the worst.
Chaser irl here, yes alot of animals and people die, even experienced storm chaser. Back building is called cycling in the storm chasing community. While I'm not a meteorologist I have reviewed, read, and studied tons of material from the NWS National Weather Service. If you have questions find your local NWS and set up a visit. Alot of info they can bring. Plus, if you know a person that works in a news station they probably have a meteorologist on hand.
@@SeaventhI’ve lived in Norman since I moved here in’95 for meteorology. Gary came to a couple of my classes back in the day. I also had classes with Michael Armstrong (we sat in the back, heh). Gary was super fun. He has a much fouler mouth in person, or at least he did back then, heh. I used to chase until gas prices went nuts and I had kids. We actually went through Wakita where Aunt Meg lived on a couple chases. They actually have a plaque set up in the lot where her house was, or at least they used to.
On May 23,1953 in Port Huron, Michigan an F4 tonado destroyed my birth mothers house, the family took refuge and that's the night I was conceived, that's the story they told my adopted mother. Feb. 23,1954 would be 9 months and I was born March 6,1954 9 months and 12 days after the tornado. So I'm one person who can say a tornado created my life, l was always fascinated with storm's as a child.😂 Peace✌️ and Love❤️ Gary😊 Love your reactions 😮
Food Food FOOD!!!! we all love aunt meg!!!! by the way the guy that died Jonas who was the weather guy @ 13:08 was also Robin Hood in Robin hood men in tights
I live in Iowa where we had 44 tornadoes last month alone. One sideswiped our town three weeks ago and knocked down one of our trees. They have leveled entire towns in my state. This is one of my favorite movies. I have yet to meet a Midwesterner who doesn't love this movie. I screamed when I saw the notification in my inbox this morning. My mom is happy because I rented it, and so now she can watch it on her tablet. SO much joy in this household today.
My parents used to live in Greenfield-where my sister was born. They kept in touch with a neighbor who is now 97 and was able to get to her basement while her house was completely destroyed. She made it through with no injuries!
I gotta write it every time; I don't eat thick-cut steaks or sunnyside-up eggs, but I want a full plate everytime I watch this movie. Potatoes and gravy as well.
This movie was huge in Oklahoma when it came out, partially because the movie was mostly filmed on location in Oklahoma and partially because the tornado experience is the reality for those of us here. To show how much our local meteorologists are celebrities, Twister had one from each of the three OKC major TV channels in a role in the movie. Most notably, the one that appears on TV in the 1969 sequence is Gary England, the most notable weather personality in Oklahoma history. Three years after this movie, the F5 tornado with the strongest winds ever recorded on the face of the planet struck my high school. My family was in a closet listening to the radio, and right before the power went out, the radio recorded the street intersection just SW of our house. The actual intersection was two miles south. (119th St vs 149th St) One of the scariest moments of my life. In 2013, an EF5 tornado passed through a similar area, including less than a mile from the house where my brother lived at the time (and directly over the house where I currently live, though not at the time).
Yup, growing up in Oklahoma and the weather gets bad, turn to channel 9 to see what Gary has to say about it. Did you ever get to see the show that he used to tour the state showing? It was called Those Terrible Twisters. He explained the what and how's of a tornado and he had great pictures and videos that he's received over the years. A couple of the videos are down right funny. 😂
This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I am glad you saw it! 1. Alan Ruck plays Rabbit the map guy, and he looked familiar to you because he was Cameron, Ferris Bueller's best friend. 2. The film was co-written by Michael Crichton, the same guy who wrote the book Jurassic Park, which is why this is a _thrilling_ film. 3. When you asked about the cows I was like "you'll see" :D
Small bit of trivia - The gas tanker that exploded was labelled as belonging to 'Benthic Petroleum'. This was the company that built and ran the deep sae oil rig in 'The Abyss'. placing both films in the same universe - a universe that also includes 'Terminator 2' (Benthic Petroleum ran the gas station they hid out in after rescuing Sarah Conner).
So there is a chance the punk Bill Paxton played in The Terminator changed his direction in life after that encounter and went on to pursue a life in meteorology.
I've lived through an F-5 tornado back when I drove tractor trailers or a living. I was delivering a load to Moore OK back on May 20 2013 it was absolutely terrifying. I lost my truck but I made it through
Ashley says, "where do the cows go? ... we never see any dead cows." In this 2013, Moore-S OKC tornado outbreak, Orr Family Farm, a thoroughbred horse training facility with 80-100 horses in stalls, was hit by the F5. Dozens of horses were killed. When first responders arrived, many mortally injured horses were scattered over the area. The police had to, well, you know. Moore and S OKC got slapped multiple times by large tornadoes around this time, starting with the 1999 F5. As I said in another post, in Oklahoma we've had 95 tornadoes so far this year.
@@bonkyb8587 My dad, when he was a teen in the late 40's, in Michigan said hus parents woke him and his sibs up to get to the root celler. They lived about 30 miles from Lake Huron. The tornado pick up the livestock from arouns the area. Later people were finding cows out in Lake Huron. Nature will always win.
I’m so glad I was old enough to see this in theaters. I was 11 when it came out, and I still remember how much fun it was. My dad took me the first time. It was a super hot day, the AC in the theater was ice cold, and when we came outside, thunderstorms were approaching. Pretty sure my dad drove a little crazy on the way home. Saw the movie like 4 more times before it left the theater. I hope it comes back to the big screen before the sequel comes out.
My father lived Lubbock, TX when the 1970 Tornado hit. I believe it was the original basis for the Fujita scale 5. However, my grandparents were virtually the first people to have their electricity restored. My uncle worked for the electric company. He worked in a 2 person team and would climb the electric pole to fix it. They went over to my grandparent's neighborhood and fixed it there. They then went to the other guy's parents' house and fixed it. Only then did they go where the company wanted.
My first job was working at a movie theater (would recommend) and Twister was the first summer blockbuster I worked. I will never forget the line to buy tickets wrapped around the edge of the building. We also internally screened movies the night before opening day to ensure that there weren't any issues with how we spliced the print together before showing it to the public. For Twister we cranked the audio up and the tornado scenes were deafening! It shook the building, and I would have sworn an actual tornado was right outside the theater.
I remember when this movie was out, you could always hear the sound effects from whatever theatre was playing twister in the next theater. It vibrated through the walls and you could hear the growls of the tornado everywhere. Lol.
I went to see this in the theater as well, and lo and behold if we did not have a massive thunderstorm with very high straight line winds while the movie was showing. Came out of the theater to see downed power lines and trees, and a couple of roofs gone from buildings.
@@Hattrick00 Yes! Endless popcorn! I remember for our staff screening of Tales from the Crypt Bordello of Blood, we brought in lunch meat, cheese, and a loaf of bread from the Albertsons around the corner and made ourselves sandwiches. We kicked our feet up on the seats in front of us and it really felt like it was our own private theater! Good times.
Love her aunt! "Did you see my cows in the yard?" And this movie was my introduction to kinetic art. I would adore having any of the art pieces she has in her yard. I'm always in awe of Philip Seymour Hoffman's talent. He was so good and gone far too soon. It's unfortunate the Hollywood machine and Helen Hunt didn't work out. She is so talented and beautiful. Ashley, do yourself a favor and watch her in the series Mad About You. Her comedic timing is perfect!
I LOVED that show. My favorite scene was when Helen's character came out of the bathroom to instruct Paul Reiser's character on how to hang toilet paper! That scene has been played out in every household in America, maybe even the world.
@touchstoneaf I watched that movie for her. It was the first time I disliked Mel Gibson in a role. There just seemed to be something not right coming from him and this was before his well-known crash dive.
My Mum and I were really big on natural disaster films when I was a kid. We saw Twister together, and it was the best experience in cinema, surround sound, it was so awesome. Still my favourite disaster film.
Ashleigh, I am so happy you watched this. It’s so funny and amazing to see your reactions! My husband and I are Oklahoma based storm chasers and were inspired by this movie when we were little. This movie is a huge part of ours and every chaser’s life.
Bill Paxton died due to complications from surgery in 2017. He is sadly missed. I fear that the CGI in the the new film will turn out to be inferior by comparison to what you just watched.
The new director sounds like he has his heart in the right place, but without a heavy-hitter like Crichton on script-writing duty and as skilled an action choreographer as Bont, I'm not sure how it can be near as good. So long as they get the science in there though and actually work through tornado history to pull out some interesting dilemmas in the story, and have charismatic actors who don't rely on annoying quips, I'll be a happy viewer. Wait and see I guess!
I have seen the trailers in the new one and it doesn't have the same feel at all. It looks like the characters are just reading memorized lines and just trying to act cool instead of the real way they did in the original one.
@@candicelitrenta8890 That's my suspicion. If it's full of quips I'll walk out depressed, if it's actually got somewhat rounded believable characters I'll be super happy. My main dread is it'll be full of bearded stormchasers shouting "BRO!" a lot an7d bellowing in an inarticulate fashion in an ear-hurting way. You know, like approximately half of the real ones I watch on the internet.
Rodney Dangerfield also died during surgery. Before it, someone asked how long he would be in the hospital. He answered, "If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half."
In honor of the upcoming Twisters, I’m giving you free life advice. NEVER EVER EVER hide underneath an overpass during a storm. That is the worst place to hide and it has killed people. (Also don’t drive with your hazard lights either. If visibility is so bad you need them, pull over or exit the road until it is safe) Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
THANK YOU. I've heard and seen way too many people believe that's a legitimately gold star protection method. It literally becomes a vacuum paint for debris and uh cars. And also maybe tying yourself to a grounded pipe with a belt isn't an effective way to survive being in the eye of an F5.
GOD YES THIS. Almost threw my phone when I saw that in the trailer. Like we've known this for 25 years. People are going to die because of that nonsense (unless they get hurt under it).
A couple of years ago I saw one from my front porch, at about 9 AM. Sounded like a military jet taking off. I thought to my self, "That's not what I think it is, is it?" Yep. We had another just this last week, but it was at night. Completely different.
In Texas rn and the tornados the other week blew the windows out of the buildings downtown and there was glass all over the street it’s terrifying to think that a tornado with glass basically becomes a blender
In the spring of 1997, when I was in the 6h grade, I was playing in a recreational baseball league. There were only 4 teams (it wasn't a big town, like 4k people). There was an equivalent number of girls' softball teams. The whole league of boys and girls was out there playing games one weekend with a big crowd of spectators. I remember getting hailed on very briefly while playing, and the skies were definitely dark, but it wasn't raining, storming, or big winds. My sister went to the car on her own after my game while me, my dad, and my mom watched the next game. We only stayed for another 20 minutes or so and then went back to the car. My sister was just balling her eyes out in the car, and my mom asked what was wrong, and just then, over the radio, the announcers said there was a tornado coming down right on top of our heads, and anyone at the park (not gonna name it) needed to seek shelter immediately. My family was the only one in the parking lot. There were hundreds of people still in the park. My dad ran back to warn everyone, and my sister started screaming, "We have to save ourselves!" She was pissed at my dad. I remember clearly one of my friend's faces as she jogged past our car with her own family as she looked in to my hysterical sister (she was terrified of storms to begin with, always had been). It was just a look of pure fear and anxiety. I can still picture it clearly. My dad warned everyone, and everyone left. Despite being the first family in the parking lot, we were among the last to actually leave (my dad was a Lt. Col. in the Marine Corps at the time, so he definitely viewed it as his duty to make sure people were safe (he was on leave with us in his hometown, so it wasn't near a Marine Corps Base, and he was actually stationed in Saudi Arabia at the time)). The tornado never came down on the park. In fact, it came down further away out of town... on the highway we would have been on at the time we would have been on it if my dad had decided to abandon all those other people and "save ourselves."
42:12 the lead Actress is Helen Hunt…was a successful actress in the 90s winning 4 Emmy’s for her sitcom “Mad About You” and an Oscar for one of her movies (holding back name of movie on purpose so NO SPOILERS!)
Yeah, I don't get how the title can be a spoiler, and if so, how she can even know what movie to watch then to not be spoiled. So she can't watch the movie if she doesn't know what movie, and therefore doesn't need to worry about spoilers if she's not going to watch it, and if she does watch it, then she would already be spoiled as soon as she knows what movie it is????
@@Logan_Baron a lot of the time she wants to go in blind to the movies…she barely looks up posters anymore. It is more fun for her to try to connect the dots and see if she pick out the actors…or be surprised when she sees the name in the opening credits.
18:15 F5s definitely exist. In fact like 90% of F5s happen in the US. There's actually some great youtube videos about tornados that talk about notable ones. Very interesting stuff.
My wife and I saw this in the theater when it came out. It was even more terrifying due to the sound system. The seats were vibrating with the roar of the tornadoes and hearing the wind nod shift from left to right/front to back with the movement of the tornado was incredible. I didn't know if the new one will be any good, but it should be experienced in the theater (though I acknowledge that goes against the nature of your channel).
I watched it day one, and bought a ticket to watch it again as soon as it was over. It was crazy because a storm was actually rolling through Norman, OK while I was watching, so you could hear it in the background during the movie.
Great movie with some amazing effects that hold up really well. I saw it on a BIG screen in the theatre and it was scary AF. :) I also like that the "new" woman isn't some horrible shrew but a normal nice person who in the end just isn't a good match, and realises it.
Yeah, it's little things like that which make a movie memorable. Too many scriptwriters reach for a grab-bag of cliches, I really liked that she was a likable person.
@@Johnny_Socko Exactly, and Melissa despite the reason for being there got genuinely interested in the science that was going on. She was educated, curious, polite. I think the best part is that at NO POINT were Jo and Melissa ever the slightest bit mean to each other. Very classy.
When Bill said it too light, he ment that Dorothy was not heavy enough to release the sensors into the tornado. Thats why they left it in the truck, while they jumped of the it when it was heading to the tornado.
Went to see this in the theatre with friends when I was thirteen and it’s intense on the big screen and I look over and one of my friends was fast asleep. That girl could sleep through anything
It's always a bit weird for me to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman in his younger days, considering how huge his career became. And also, Alan Ruck, who played Cameron Fry in Ferris Bueller's Day off is in this too, which I forget. I don't forget Cary Elwes, "the Princess Bride guy" is in this, but he does look pretty different. His face filled out some (as they do.), and it took me a LONG time to realize it was him in the first "Saw" movie. He's still a good looking man, but Wesley was HOT, cheekbones for DAYS! 💙
I saw this movie at the movie theatre when it first came out. I was living in Kansas at the time. When we got out of the movie theatre and got in the car and turned on the radio we realized we were under a tornado warning! I'm not from Kansas, so of course having just watched that movie, it totally freaked me out! Didn't get a tornado, thanks goodnesses, but it sure got my adrenaline going!
Last year, a tornado destroyed the apartment complex across the street from mine, hopped over my complex, came back down on the other side and kept going. It was horrendous. I felt the pressure as it passed over. Unless you've experienced it, you can't even imagine.
Truly great react Ashleigh! When I was a teen (some 50 years ago) my family tent camped. I recall having trouble finding a campsite until past dusk once, and settling for a campground next to a old cemetery, just as it started to rain. Our family worked together to set upthe tent quickly before the wind and rain got extreme, only to have the tent bow and bulge in strange contortions before unzipping the windows slightly to equalize the pressure and wind flow. Then we heard a roar and the sound of stone slabs hitting others. After a night of pure terror, our tent floor completely flooded, we went out in the morning, to find the damage of a tornado that just missed us, but not the cemetery. Lucky for us, the damaged stone markers and other debris seemed to be thrown away from our flimsy canvas tent. Now, even all these years later, as a retried old guy, I don't mind rainstorms, but if the wind even starts to howl... I just feel a bit of fear sneak in.
Anytime this comes on I watch it, but I'm also terrified of tornadoes and live in Middle Tennessee as well girl. We had a tornado come through the day you mentioned the other day. It was awfully terrifying. I hope you stay safe.
This movie was one of my favorites as a kid, but also simultaneously it scared the absolute shit out of me. I would say I had an abnormal fear of tornadoes as a child living in New Hampshire lol. My grandparents assured me tho that we have too many mountains lol. That said we’ve had a few, but nothing crazy like this, and it never affected us. No OKC level events. Edit: Philip Seymour Hoffman was my favorite in this movie.
@@levans71 she did almost 4 years ago…plus with the 9 years between the filming of the movies it is understandable she did not connect the dots on that.
There is a museum in Wakita, OK dedicated to this film. Lots of memorabilia, including one of the "Dorothy" machines. The owners are a couple of storm chasers who actually do chasing tours. Ironically, I am having my coffee in my "The Suck Zone" mug which I got at the museum!
Man. I went through Wakita on a couple storm chases back in the day, but only ever saw Aunt Meg’s lot. I wish we had had the time to look around more. I suppose I could still drive up there, but I don’t remember the last time I’ve been to that part of the state not that my chase days are done.
My hubby is a weather nerd… he’s signed up with our nearest National Weather Service office as a weather spotter and everything. Thankfully we live in WA, so we don’t see any real tornadoes. But I don’t love when my 6’5” hubby finds the nice tall, open hill to stand on, with his tripod and equipment, to photograph massive lightning storms. Tallest thing out in the open and all. 🙄 He filmed weather and breaking news for several news stations in his early career, and would drop everything to go search out wildfires, happenings at the nearby nuclear power plant, and all sorts of events that made me nervous. If major weather happens somewhere on a weekend, he will stay up late into the night listening to various scanners and watching storm chaser live streams. I don’t get it, but he finds it all fascinating.
You might be interested to know that the filmmakers actually interviewed two people who had been in the center of a tornado that way, and they tried to make it as realistic as possible, so yes, that's pretty much what it looks like inside a tornado.
I saw this in the theater. I tell you what, it was so f-ing intense on the big screen. I didn't realize until recently that the Preacher character (bearded/glasses) was played by one of the suck-up Cop recruits in the first Police Academy movie. I also agree not having Melissa be a problem character, bringing lots of drama, was a great call. She was a professional therapist and handled herself as such. She recognized Bill was still needing to be with Jo and Jo needed him. She did her job, even if it interfered with her own relationship.
Omg this movie TRAUMATIZED me as a kid. When i was young, i had an obsession with tornados and hurricanes just because of the wind and the feeling of being in the wind. When i heard of this movie, i was excited to hear there was a movie about tornados, and I was excited to watch it. That opening scene, though... that freaked me out so much that i had nightmares for weeks about my family being swept up by a tornado. Needless to say, i kind of stopped being less fascinated by tornados/windstorms for a long while.
Jami Gertz, Bill Paxton’s fiance in this, is now one of the richest women in American. First time I saw her was as Muffy Tupperman on the short-lived series “Square Pegs,” which starred Sarah Jessica Parker. She went on to numerous supporting/guest star roles on tv & some major films like “Lost Boys” & "Sixteen Candles." Her & her husband are co-owners of the Milwaukee Brewers as well as the owners of the Atlanta Hawks. Her husband is a billionaire. I first saw Helen Hunt in the tv movie "Quarterback Princess" based on the story of Tami Maida who was a junior varsity quarterback on an Oregon football team but also homecoming princess. She continued on tv & slowly transitioned to films. She co-starred with Mel Gibson in "What Women Want," but also co-starred with Jack Nicholson in "As Good as It Gets" with Jack Nicholson....both won the Oscar for it. His character is a bigoted OCD romance author & she's a waitress at the restaurant where he loves to Also eat, mainly because of her. Also has Greg Kinnear & Cuba Gooding Jr. who play the gay artisti & his agent. Oh, & don't worry about animals, especially pets, as they usually don't kill them off...the audience hates that.
My wife was in the same intersection with the 21 folks that died in the 1989 Huntsville, AL tornado. All she could think as she saw the cone coming was she had to get home to the dog as the topper waggled the truck around as she stomped on the gas. She saw it hit those behind her. I don’t know about now but back then out in Madison county about every 3rd farmhouse had a storm cellar away from the house. You never know. RIP Bill Paxton.
Ahh, I haven't heard about this movie in so long! It was one of my childhood favorites, together with jurassic park and the day after tomorrow. I was very normal.
I swear Twister is my OG classic fav movie so clicked right away love this but damn Ashleigh your reacts and phases throughout this vid are so funny 😂 both scary and funny
The number of classic 80s actors in this warms my heart. Bill Paxton (Weird Science), Helen Hunt (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun), Cary Elwes (Princess Bride), Jami Gertz (Lost Boys, Square Pegs), Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller) and then the introduction to Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The soundtrack was absolutely stellar. Watching this in the theaters with all my friends was amazing. THX sound just came out and it was intense!
My daughter and granddaughter live in Greenfield Iowa. They were incredibly lucky, and still have a home to live in. She got home to her girl, spent some time with a friend pulling survivors from the wreckage, and a few bodies. Once the firemen and ambulances arrived, she and my granddaughter packed up and went to a motel because power to the town was out for a few days. Always love ❤️ your reactions. Have a good day.
Meg watching a Judy Garland movie was another subtle nod to Wizard of Oz. I remember coming out of the theatre after seeing this and looking up at the dark, cloudy sky checking for tornadoes. Lol
The night we went to see it in Denver, we had golfball sized hail, a few funnels, and 1 tornado touchdown NE of the city. One of the most intense lightning displays I can remember. It stayed out in corn fields and no one died thankfully.
My cousin lived in Norm Oklahoma, right behind that school were the kids died. His entire family was able to escape but one of their dogs ran off. With no time to go after the dog, their road escape was already blocked off, he was forced to drive over the back fence into the schoolyard and escaped that way. His house (and the school) were both hit directly by the F-5 and he lost almost everything. After the storm someone created a web site for all the missing pets people were looking after, and my cousin found his dog on the web site. So it turned out his entire family was safe. When my grandfather was a kid a huge F5 tore through several states including Southern Illinois. He helped with the clean rescue and he saw things like bits of straw driven into fences and tries like they were nails but the weirdest thing was a chicken with all its feathers torn out and its beak in a tree.
Horizontal rain: Rain that falls sideways instead of down because the winds are so strong. I have only witnessed it once in my life. That was during a massive thunderstorm in the open plains of south central Wyoming. No trees for miles, nothing but grass, nothing to stop the wind.
Microburst of 3 monsoon’s coming together 7/21/21 in old town Scottsdale gave me horizontal rain, killed my grapefruit tree & made Hurricane Gloria seem like a drizzle.
I watched this on the big screen when it came out, and it was *terrifying* but absolutely amazing. Surround sound, the theater shaking, the deep tension...what an experience. So glad you watched this one, because it's such a classic. You know, a lot of people either forget or don't know about Dixie Alley, but if you live there, you know it can be a wild ride.
It's funny Twister was directed by Jan De Bont, who also directed "Speed", and the sequel Speed 2, staring Jason Patric who played Michael in "The Lost Boys", and going back to the first Speed movie, that movie stars Keanu Reeves, who of course was also in the Bill and Ted movies with Alex Winter who played Marco in..."The Lost Boys" (not sure if there was a point to any of this but I thought it was interesting)
@@tonyschannel7438 also Keanu was in a TV movie called "Brotherhood of Justice" with Kiefer Sutherland, who was David in Lost Boys 😅 but the Alex Winter connection makes more sense.
@@awkwardashleigh Mrs doubtfire is Robin Williams wearing a rubber prosthetic face that looks like a Glen close enough to be her because he wanted to see his family and kids .check it out .
This is one of my favorite movies. I saw this in theater 5 times. Helen Hunt is so beautiful. You should watch As good as it gets. She and Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for their roles
The severe weather you described Ashleigh is what's been going on here in good 'ol Frisco, McKinney Texas...and I also have a genuine fear of Tornadoes, and I have suffered from numerous nightmares because of them😢🥺I thank my lucky STARS our house is still standing and we are alive even to this day Edit: Ashleigh, oh how I genuinely wish I actually could've been inside that room watching the movie with you so we could have comforted each-other because I have Astraphobia-(Which is the fear of storms) and when I first watched this movie a few years ago-(At NIGHT, no less!), there was honest to God above a real Thunderstorm outside! The sequel might be skipped from me...oh, and I also have High-Functioning Autism but I love your movie reactions and Beans🐱🐈❤️
Howdy from Frisco!! I moved from Oklahoma and the tornados have followed and I am not a happy camper. Empathizing with your fears; I have a reoccurring nightmare where I'm standing on a porch watching a twister in the distance and it's scary quiet and just errie. Living through a handful of them, it's just too scary.
My father hates this movie because he designed a lot of the components for the NEXRAD precision radar launched in the 80’s. He always flips out when they say, “ we had no idea it was coming! We had no notice!” Then he’d say, “you know when weathermen cut in and say there’s a tornado watch? There’s your FIRST warning. Then, a little later, when the weatherman comes back and says there’s a tornado warning? There’s your SECOND warning! Finally, when the weatherman says to get cover? THIRD WARNING!!!” …my dad gets very passionate about the stuff lol.
Yeah, tornados used the Fujita Scale back then, which used estimated wind speed to judge the strength of a tornado. It went from F-0 to F-13. In 2007 they decommissioned its use, and replaced it with the Enhanced Fujita Scale which goes from EF-0 to EF-5. The Enhanced Fujita scale more accurately rates the intensity of tornadoes. FYI. And a bit of trivia, Helen Hunt along with Bill Paxton did the stunt of jumping out of the moving pickup in the cornfield. Helen got knocked out doing it.
In 1997 an F5 tornado ripped through Jarrell TX about 30 miles from me. It took out entire neighborhoods, down to the dirt. No trees, , concrete, pavement, nothing was left. Not a trace a house once sat there.
The raw power of an F5 is legitimately terrifying. Yeah hurricanes are huge and the flooding, but for sheer destructive force... a big tornado is unmatched. Not to mention our lack of predictability still. We get 10 days with hurricanes. With a tornado, you get minutes. And it can change so rapidly.
"Twister" and "The Abyss" both had the male and female leads in the midst of marital trouble. Just like a lot of Bruce Willis movies have him at odds with his wife.
I saw Twister in the theater when it was released. I remember how petrified my boyfriend was. When it was released on VHS... many months later, my mother watched it, and she was petrified. It did make people more aware. I love this movie. It's on my go-to list when nothing is good on TV. Fantastic reaction. We also live in the Nashville area. I was in the 1998 downtown Nashville tornado. The fear was real.
This was the first wide spread exposure for the "New" Dodge Ram trucks. Before this they were square and boxy. They were designed after big rigs and really shook up the industry. Ford and Chevy changed their designs right after this. It was a VERY polarizing design but gave Dodge a huge boost. Glad you liked the movie!
I remember being in second grade, and mom and i were at my granny's house, painting the kitchen, about 5 pm. We looked out the window and saw the trees in the neighbors yard being bent over sideways and touching the ground. It was about 1969, so no warnings. A tornado had gone right through the middle of town. My uncle came in a few minutes later. He had been driving south down main street and his truck had been picked up and turned around so he was then headed north. The top floor of our school was severely damaged. There were kids in the school, as we had something called split sessions. The 5th and 6th graders were split into those who lived outside the city limits, and those who lived inside. The "country" kids went to school from 7 am to 1 pm. The city kids went from 1 pm to 7 pm. My brother was in that school when the tornado hit. This was not the first time I remember a tornado. There was one that hit the south end of town and picked up the Laundromat and sent it to the other side of town. Daddy was mowing and walked the mower right through the hedges while watching the building fly over head. I live in Kentucky, and we had some pretty rough ones hit just this weekend.
This film was very well done, and it worries me about the sequel and how I do think CGI today is less effective, and is more for show. But am hoping the story is well. Loving this film!
Best part is that it doesn't try to play it serious. It knows exactly what it is, and it delivers precisely on that. Which takes it beyond a horrible camp bad movie, to the kind that is so bad it becomes awesome again.
I love the OST to Twister too. It's so underappreciated. Also the CGI work on those tornadoes still look stunning for 1996. Your joke about the Dad taking readings from inside the tornado was comedy gold. That was so funny. A little bit trivia. What Jo and Bill see in the twister at the end is based on the description by two people who survived being inside a tornado. PS: Poor Eddie didn't deserve to die like that. I always thought that was too brutal. Maybe if Eddie followed his own instincts instead of blindly following Jonas' orders, they would have made it.
I miss this era of filmmaking, where they still just threw trucks around and had sparks flying everywhere even as they got into using CGI. Was much more tactile.
I love how Ashleigh's accent gets more and more Southern as she gets more and more nervous and scared LOL!!
The Tennessee definitely came out in her.
I've heard the same said about me when I'm angry. I'm a northerner with roots in Kentucky.
I lived in Texas for a few years when I was around 5-7. I'm now 33. I STILL drop into my Texas Drawl when I'm worked up about something 😂
Or mellinials pretending they didnt grow up watching these same movies we did.... .😮😮😮😮😂😂😂
My accent get really thick when I'm upset or angry lol.
In loving memory of Eddie Van Halen, Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour-Hoffman.
That closing track is crazy good.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver
- Eddie, we need a song for a movie.
- Mmm, ok. What is the movie about?
- Well, it's called "Twister", and Bill Paxton is a tornado hunter, and...
- HOLD UP, HOLD UP, LET ME COOK IT!
@@guilhermearoeira8900 Just Eddie and Alex one afternoon at 5150!
Respect the Wind. What a masterclass.
I was just wondering if she knew that Bill Paxton was gone
I always appreciated that they didn't make Melissa a villain; she's generally interested in what is going on and tries to understand, but she recognizes that this life is not for her.
Also that she and Jo are not enemies, per se. They are at odds but that's a natural side effect of their situation (Melissa being completely out of her depth and Jo being obsessed; also because they both want/love Bill). Melissa does (rightly) call Jo crazy at one point but otherwise the two are not deliberately antagonistic toward each other.
she's too sexy to be a villain. No one is going to be scared of those curves.
Nuance. This is what movies today are sorely lacking.
I'm glad they didnt make Jaimie the villain since she did it so much as a teen ( or just playing teens) actress.
I feel like their split up is probably how most of Crichton’s spits ups were like.
When Ashleigh asks about what happens to the cows….we’re all like…”just wait a few minutes.”
The actor who played “Dusty” was Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He became a major actor in his own right. I truly enjoyed the soundtrack. Very good songs were chosen.
Mark Mancina and Van Halen really cooked well
A couple of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's best roles were in "Scent of a Woman" and (superbly) "Charlie Wilson's War".
@@RealTechZen agreed
Fun Fact: Steven Speilberg originally wanted Tom Hanks to play the part of Bill and Hanks read for it, but he turned it down because he felt he wasn't right for the part. After working with Bill Paxton in Apollo 13, Hanks looked at Paxton as the perfect guy for the part in Twister and Hanks helped Paxton get the part in Twister.
That’s nice 😊
It’s good to have friends who look out for you.
I love this. Actors pointing to other actors to nail a role.
Tom Hanks is awesome like that! And in many other ways!💙
Tom Hanks sure was a great friend because Twister was the peak of Bill Paxton's career.
Ashleigh: "You know what..."
Me: "Bill Paxton could get it?"
Ashleigh: "Bill Paxton could get it."
Me: "Fuckin A, he could."
Bahahaha!!! Speaking from the other sex, Helen Hunt was pretty doggone hot in this!!
as long as he says Game Over at the end otherwise what the hell are we doin'?
Bill Paxton ❤ Storm chasers spelled out his initials with GPS when he passed away.
Are you serious?? Omg, that’s so sweet. ❤ Such a nice tribute to an actor who deserved to lead a blockbuster all on his own.
That was heartwarming to remember him by.
Back in late 2000s-early 2010s, Paxton actually wanted to direct a sequel to Twister with the technology of the time.
They spelled out BP on the map.
I was gonna post if anyone else remembered that!! That was awesome when I saw that!!
I only learned about this wonderful, heartwarming display of remembrance the other day, and was checking so see if anyone's mentioned it. If not, I'd have mentioned it, but you beat me to it, so.
This soundtrack slaps hard, but my favorite part is when all trucks in the convoy are playing their own songs and it merges into a musical mass.
I'll never forget when I got Twister on VHS at Christmas that year:
I tore the wrapping off, and the plastic was off of it. My dad told me he couldn't wait for me to open it, so he watched it before my mom could wrap it. He never even bothered to rewind the tape.
You shoulda charged him $2
Peak 90s dad energy right there.
Lol
No time left when youre on a wrapping bender. 😂
Couldn’t rewind. What a jerk lmao
The fact that you made a joke about the cows BEFORE the most iconic scene of these movie showed up it's PERFECT to me lol
I absolutely laughed out loud when she asked about the cows. "give it a minute..."
The dark-haired woman is Jami Gertz, who played Star in The Lost Boys.
And Jami Gertz has a net worth of $8 billion dollars.
@@bridge1701mostly her husband. Don't know if she signed a prenuptial agreement or not. They're still going strong though
It took seeing her name in the credits for me to remember her name. Initially, Ally Sheedy came to mind, but I was sure that that wasn't correct.
Wow mind blown! Learned something new today!
First saw her in "Square Pegs".
The joke about her Dad taking readings from inside the tornado caught me off guard but I loved it 😆
I was drinking and blasted tea everywhere.
lol
His favorite movie was Gone with the Wind.
I was crying when she said that. It was sooo funny. And definitely not too soon this movie came out in the 90s.
lol.
"Nothing I hate worse than a gay tornado. Can rip a 16 penny nail out of a 2x4 but can't rip a tank top off of Helen Hunt." - Some comedian told this joke and it stuck with me all this time.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The comedians name Tim Wilson from Columbus Georgia. And I was just telling my wife how Tim had ruined this movie for me for all time with that joke.
I was in college when this came out, took a friend from Scotland to see this. She was very quiet on the way home, then said, "Do you get that sort of storm around here?"
I remember watching this on VHS when i was 5 years old and my dad looking out the window yelling “oh shit a tornado is coming!!” It was perfect because it was actually storming at the time. 😂😂😂
To answer your Scottish friend, yes. Some areas are much more prone to tornadoes than others, but the entirety of the Lower 48 has seen its fair share of tornadoes. Most commonly, tornadoes tend to strike the Midwest and deep south in two zones known as Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley. Canada also sees a share of tornadoes, especially in the Midwestern provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
@@scratchpad7954 I'm in Michigan, and while we do get them, it is not often and they are less powerful than the storms in the plains.
@@Cerridwen7777 Indeed. It's the same way for me in Utah. The strongest tornado in recent memory was an F2 in 1999.
"The Finger of God", eighteen years later and that line still hits like an F5.
28 years:) came out in 96'.
@@StormChaserMaci. Now I really feel old. I did the math in my head and thought ...that sounds too long ago....
This movie taught me about tornadoes, and one year later, a giant F5 hit Jarrell, Texas, where I used to teach. Ripped the foundations right out of the ground, and it was like nothing had ever been there.
@@JenniLeigh81 Ripped asphalt out of the ground. To this day I believe Jarrell Tx tornado may have been stronger than the Moore Oklahoma 1999 F5. Just never were able to prove Windspeed was greater.
The number of college students who sought a meteorological degree after this film came out increased by 10% over the late 90s. Universal Studios also funded a grant to University of Oklahoma to develop a mobile radar.
This film had a great impact on the lives of many people who are notable storm chasers on RUclips who urge their audiences to "not be scared, be prepared" in the face of severe weather.
yah I remember stormchasers seemed to increase and increase and increase every year and they were all really competitive they'd build tanks and some would try to stream from inside the storm and others got grants and had big projects. it seems like almost overnight our weather tech and forecasting got able to see down to street level and give minute by minute accurate instructions.
Not just that. Paxton, when he died in 2017, inspired around 200 storm chasers to spell out "BP" with GPS coordinates in the heart of Tornado Alley.
There's images on Google of folks gathered in Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas that were picked up for it in 2017.
www.google.com/search?q=bill+paxton+bp+map&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=9455935907258573&udm=2&biw=1278&bih=1273&sxsrf=ADLYWIIVpMXcpQ6UKnPPxe6EYdlgOjsNmA%3A1716996777649&ei=qUpXZuOkJ9-HptQPndaugAs&ved=0ahUKEwijnYy4l7OGAxXfg4kEHR2rC7AQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=bill+paxton+bp+map&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEmJpbGwgcGF4dG9uIGJwIG1hcEixG1CvB1jvGXABeACQAQCYAcUBoAHfA6oBAzUuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAaACPcICBRAAGIAEmAMAiAYBkgcBMaAHoQc&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#vhid=0IojIEUL2phtOM&vssid=mosaic
And that Twister attraction at Universal was awesome.
I used to work with a guy who was one of those interested in a meteorology degree. Upon visiting the potential school, the department head’s first words to him were “It’s not like Twister. If that’s what you’re looking for, go somewhere else.”
OMG that's like the Scully Effect! A lot of girls and women wanted to go into STEM after The X Files came out in the 90s. I can see the 90s was a big decade for introducing different careers to all sorts of people, cause I bet paleontology was the same with Jurassic Park coming out in 1993.
"It isn't THAT the wind is blowin... it's WHAT the wind is blowin." - Ron White
"If you get hit by a Volvo, doesn't really matter how many push ups you did that morning."
When I watched that bit, this movie is what I thought of.
Tator Salad is a wise man
If you have a VOLVO in your spleen, it won't matter how many sit-ups you did that morning. 😂😂😂😂
Ha I read this in his voice :P
"You're dad couldn't do that?" ASHLEIGH 😂😂😂😂
Too good.
BRUH
Helen Hunt played the female lead. She had started acting early in her life. Her career took off when she played in the hit TV show Mad About You. She won best female comedian for 4 straight years. Twister was the #2 in film box office. She then won the female academy award for best actress for As Good as It gets playing opposite Jack Nicholson. She was in many popular films & is still active as an actress, as a screenwriter & as a director.
Wasn't she the original face of angeldust?
@@brownstarslots Don’t know
@@alexius23 it's a reference to a role she played as a teenager in an anti-drug PSA.
@@brownstarslots ah, thank you!
Love her. Only saw her in one scene of Mad About You but she was hilarious in it!
My 8 year old daughter discovered Twister this weekend. We were camping and the weather was terrible, so I fired up the generator and we hunkered down in the trailer watching movies and eating snacks. It’s one of the few DVD’s I still have from the old days of diving in the $5 bins at Walmart 20 years ago.
When I tell you this kid was GLUED to the TV; it was like somebody welded her ass to the couch and her eyes to the screen.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe Twister was actually the very first movie ever released on DVD.
@@amwfan88 It was in the States. But Blade Runner and The Fugitive were released with DVD players in Japan before they ever made it to the US.
Well, at least if a tornado had gone through, the kid would’ve been anchored
Hey Ashleigh, IRL storm chaser here:
NSSL is real - now colocated with the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK.
In a storm that hit a year after Twister in Jarrell, TX; forensic experts spent days trying to separate animal and human parts.
Soundtrack going hard: one of the last Van Halen efforts with Sammy Hagar. Love the closing song over the credits.
DOROTHY was built from a real project called TOTO, from 55 gallon drum designed to be dropped in the path. Both are in the main hallway of NWS Headquarters in Maryland.
Been chased by killer tornados that were wrapped in rain.
Oklahoma girl here... was looking for a Norman Oklahoma reference. Next life I hope to be a storm chaser. I love storms so much they electrify me. Gary England... I love you so I wish you had not retired. I love Jed Castles too.... but he is not Gary, no offense Jed... we love you. Rain-wrapped tornados are the worst.
@Seaventh There's something in the water - I was born in Nebraska, but raised in Maryland. Still wound up chasing.
This is amazing information! Be safe out there!
Chaser irl here, yes alot of animals and people die, even experienced storm chaser. Back building is called cycling in the storm chasing community. While I'm not a meteorologist I have reviewed, read, and studied tons of material from the NWS National Weather Service. If you have questions find your local NWS and set up a visit. Alot of info they can bring. Plus, if you know a person that works in a news station they probably have a meteorologist on hand.
@@SeaventhI’ve lived in Norman since I moved here in’95 for meteorology. Gary came to a couple of my classes back in the day. I also had classes with Michael Armstrong (we sat in the back, heh). Gary was super fun. He has a much fouler mouth in person, or at least he did back then, heh. I used to chase until gas prices went nuts and I had kids. We actually went through Wakita where Aunt Meg lived on a couple chases. They actually have a plaque set up in the lot where her house was, or at least they used to.
In case you didn't notice, the map guy is Alan Ruck. He was Cameron on Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the tourist on Speed.
And Connor Roy!
@@dwilborn1257 Idk who's Conner Roy is.
Alan Ruck is also the annoying tourist on the bus in Speed, the directorial debut of Jan de Bont. Twister was only the 2nd movie he directed.
Captain of the Enterprise B.
And Hendry French in Young Guns 2
On May 23,1953 in Port Huron, Michigan an F4 tonado destroyed my birth mothers house, the family took refuge and that's the night I was conceived, that's the story they told my adopted mother. Feb. 23,1954 would be 9 months and I was born March 6,1954 9 months and 12 days after the tornado. So I'm one person who can say a tornado created my life, l was always fascinated with storm's as a child.😂 Peace✌️ and Love❤️ Gary😊 Love your reactions 😮
Food Food FOOD!!!! we all love aunt meg!!!! by the way the guy that died Jonas who was the weather guy @ 13:08 was also Robin Hood in Robin hood men in tights
The "couldn't the dad have done that" joke would have made me spit coffee had I been drinking it.
I live in Iowa where we had 44 tornadoes last month alone. One sideswiped our town three weeks ago and knocked down one of our trees. They have leveled entire towns in my state. This is one of my favorite movies. I have yet to meet a Midwesterner who doesn't love this movie. I screamed when I saw the notification in my inbox this morning. My mom is happy because I rented it, and so now she can watch it on her tablet. SO much joy in this household today.
I LOVE TO HEAR IT!
I too live in Iowa and it can get pretty crazy but I love it!
Your hair looks amazing today Mrs. Burton ❤
Hello from central Oklahoma. We've had 95 tornadoes for 2024.
I'm an Okie, 57, and only had a few close calls. Fangers x'd.
My parents used to live in Greenfield-where my sister was born. They kept in touch with a neighbor who is now 97 and was able to get to her basement while her house was completely destroyed. She made it through with no injuries!
I gotta write it every time; I don't eat thick-cut steaks or sunnyside-up eggs, but I want a full plate everytime I watch this movie. Potatoes and gravy as well.
Same!!!!!
Definitely check Babish’s episode on Meg’s breakfast. He goes hard making her gravy.
SAME!!!!!
@@Lieutenant_Dude I'm going to check it out right now.
You’re missing out
34:47
"I WANNA GO HOME"
[ house appears ]
"THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT!!!"
This movie was huge in Oklahoma when it came out, partially because the movie was mostly filmed on location in Oklahoma and partially because the tornado experience is the reality for those of us here. To show how much our local meteorologists are celebrities, Twister had one from each of the three OKC major TV channels in a role in the movie. Most notably, the one that appears on TV in the 1969 sequence is Gary England, the most notable weather personality in Oklahoma history.
Three years after this movie, the F5 tornado with the strongest winds ever recorded on the face of the planet struck my high school. My family was in a closet listening to the radio, and right before the power went out, the radio recorded the street intersection just SW of our house. The actual intersection was two miles south. (119th St vs 149th St) One of the scariest moments of my life.
In 2013, an EF5 tornado passed through a similar area, including less than a mile from the house where my brother lived at the time (and directly over the house where I currently live, though not at the time).
Yup, growing up in Oklahoma and the weather gets bad, turn to channel 9 to see what Gary has to say about it. Did you ever get to see the show that he used to tour the state showing? It was called Those Terrible Twisters. He explained the what and how's of a tornado and he had great pictures and videos that he's received over the years. A couple of the videos are down right funny. 😂
This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I am glad you saw it!
1. Alan Ruck plays Rabbit the map guy, and he looked familiar to you because he was Cameron, Ferris Bueller's best friend.
2. The film was co-written by Michael Crichton, the same guy who wrote the book Jurassic Park, which is why this is a _thrilling_ film.
3. When you asked about the cows I was like "you'll see" :D
#3 YES LOL!!
Alan Ruck was also in Speed (1994), main actors Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.
#2 ahhh okay this all now makes perfect sense, lol
Small bit of trivia - The gas tanker that exploded was labelled as belonging to 'Benthic Petroleum'. This was the company that built and ran the deep sae oil rig in 'The Abyss'. placing both films in the same universe - a universe that also includes 'Terminator 2' (Benthic Petroleum ran the gas station they hid out in after rescuing Sarah Conner).
they should have totally put a terminator warping into view in one of the shots lol
I love how Tarantino does this explicitly by having red apple cigarettes in his movies.
The Cameron Cinematic Universe, if you will!
All these years and I never connected those things. Thanks for that bit of information
So there is a chance the punk Bill Paxton played in The Terminator changed his direction in life after that encounter and went on to pursue a life in meteorology.
I've lived through an F-5 tornado back when I drove tractor trailers or a living. I was delivering a load to Moore OK back on May 20 2013 it was absolutely terrifying. I lost my truck but I made it through
Bless you. Glad you made it.
Ashley says, "where do the cows go? ... we never see any dead cows."
In this 2013, Moore-S OKC tornado outbreak, Orr Family Farm, a thoroughbred horse training facility with 80-100 horses in stalls, was hit by the F5. Dozens of horses were killed. When first responders arrived, many mortally injured horses were scattered over the area. The police had to, well, you know.
Moore and S OKC got slapped multiple times by large tornadoes around this time, starting with the 1999 F5.
As I said in another post, in Oklahoma we've had 95 tornadoes so far this year.
Damn. Glad you made it out. I've seen some of the video and heard stories from Moore...at least you only lost the truck.
@@bonkyb8587 My dad, when he was a teen in the late 40's, in Michigan said hus parents woke him and his sibs up to get to the root celler. They lived about 30 miles from Lake Huron. The tornado pick up the livestock from arouns the area. Later people were finding cows out in Lake Huron. Nature will always win.
Oof, that must have been a nightmare. I'll be really happy if Moore is never troubled by a violent tornado again.
I’m so glad I was old enough to see this in theaters. I was 11 when it came out, and I still remember how much fun it was. My dad took me the first time. It was a super hot day, the AC in the theater was ice cold, and when we came outside, thunderstorms were approaching. Pretty sure my dad drove a little crazy on the way home.
Saw the movie like 4 more times before it left the theater. I hope it comes back to the big screen before the sequel comes out.
My father lived Lubbock, TX when the 1970 Tornado hit. I believe it was the original basis for the Fujita scale 5. However, my grandparents were virtually the first people to have their electricity restored. My uncle worked for the electric company. He worked in a 2 person team and would climb the electric pole to fix it. They went over to my grandparent's neighborhood and fixed it there. They then went to the other guy's parents' house and fixed it. Only then did they go where the company wanted.
My first job was working at a movie theater (would recommend) and Twister was the first summer blockbuster I worked. I will never forget the line to buy tickets wrapped around the edge of the building.
We also internally screened movies the night before opening day to ensure that there weren't any issues with how we spliced the print together before showing it to the public. For Twister we cranked the audio up and the tornado scenes were deafening! It shook the building, and I would have sworn an actual tornado was right outside the theater.
Loved staff screening. All the popcorn you could have. And I was the cutter for the films, and I did some edits of my own.
I remember when this movie was out, you could always hear the sound effects from whatever theatre was playing twister in the next theater. It vibrated through the walls and you could hear the growls of the tornado everywhere. Lol.
I went to see this in the theater as well, and lo and behold if we did not have a massive thunderstorm with very high straight line winds while the movie was showing. Came out of the theater to see downed power lines and trees, and a couple of roofs gone from buildings.
@@Hattrick00 Yes! Endless popcorn! I remember for our staff screening of Tales from the Crypt Bordello of Blood, we brought in lunch meat, cheese, and a loaf of bread from the Albertsons around the corner and made ourselves sandwiches. We kicked our feet up on the seats in front of us and it really felt like it was our own private theater! Good times.
Am officially jealous of your experience. You picked a good decade to be working at a movie theatre.
Love her aunt! "Did you see my cows in the yard?" And this movie was my introduction to kinetic art. I would adore having any of the art pieces she has in her yard.
I'm always in awe of Philip Seymour Hoffman's talent. He was so good and gone far too soon.
It's unfortunate the Hollywood machine and Helen Hunt didn't work out. She is so talented and beautiful. Ashley, do yourself a favor and watch her in the series Mad About You. Her comedic timing is perfect!
I LOVED that show. My favorite scene was when Helen's character came out of the bathroom to instruct Paul Reiser's character on how to hang toilet paper! That scene has been played out in every household in America, maybe even the world.
"No."
"Oh. Oh!"
Aunt Meg was fantastic.
She was brilliant in As Good as it Gets, though her character is not far removed from this one.
She's great in What Women Want as well
@touchstoneaf I watched that movie for her. It was the first time I disliked Mel Gibson in a role. There just seemed to be something not right coming from him and this was before his well-known crash dive.
“Your dad couldn’t do that?” Priceless! And that is what makes your reactions so special.
made me spit my milk
Was gonna say the exact same thing.
My Mum and I were really big on natural disaster films when I was a kid. We saw Twister together, and it was the best experience in cinema, surround sound, it was so awesome.
Still my favourite disaster film.
Ashleigh, I am so happy you watched this. It’s so funny and amazing to see your reactions!
My husband and I are Oklahoma based storm chasers and were inspired by this movie when we were little. This movie is a huge part of ours and every chaser’s life.
Bill Paxton died due to complications from surgery in 2017. He is sadly missed. I fear that the CGI in the the new film will turn out to be inferior by comparison to what you just watched.
The new director sounds like he has his heart in the right place, but without a heavy-hitter like Crichton on script-writing duty and as skilled an action choreographer as Bont, I'm not sure how it can be near as good. So long as they get the science in there though and actually work through tornado history to pull out some interesting dilemmas in the story, and have charismatic actors who don't rely on annoying quips, I'll be a happy viewer. Wait and see I guess!
It's like the first film was taken seriously.
But the next one is more fun.
More like a B-movie.
I have seen the trailers in the new one and it doesn't have the same feel at all. It looks like the characters are just reading memorized lines and just trying to act cool instead of the real way they did in the original one.
@@candicelitrenta8890 That's my suspicion. If it's full of quips I'll walk out depressed, if it's actually got somewhat rounded believable characters I'll be super happy. My main dread is it'll be full of bearded stormchasers shouting "BRO!" a lot an7d bellowing in an inarticulate fashion in an ear-hurting way. You know, like approximately half of the real ones I watch on the internet.
Rodney Dangerfield also died during surgery.
Before it, someone asked how long he would be in the hospital. He answered, "If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half."
We got Bill Paxton vs The Dread Pirate Roberts to see who can map a Tornado first
Dr. Miller: "Tornados of unusual size? I don't think the exist."
Chet. My name is Chet. And I didn't think it was a whale's dick, honey.
He had not, in fact, built up an immunity to tornadoes.
... I'm cheering for a member of HYDRA and against my Beloved Westley. What is this sorcery?
@@Bookq36 Nah, it's the older brother Chet from Weird Science vs Robin Hood, a Man in Tights (TIGHT tights!)
In honor of the upcoming Twisters, I’m giving you free life advice.
NEVER EVER EVER hide underneath an overpass during a storm. That is the worst place to hide and it has killed people. (Also don’t drive with your hazard lights either. If visibility is so bad you need them, pull over or exit the road until it is safe)
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
yep, the rocks and debris in the underpass make deadly weapons when the wind picks them up.
THANK YOU. I've heard and seen way too many people believe that's a legitimately gold star protection method. It literally becomes a vacuum paint for debris and uh cars.
And also maybe tying yourself to a grounded pipe with a belt isn't an effective way to survive being in the eye of an F5.
GOD YES THIS. Almost threw my phone when I saw that in the trailer. Like we've known this for 25 years. People are going to die because of that nonsense (unless they get hurt under it).
A couple of years ago I saw one from my front porch, at about 9 AM. Sounded like a military jet taking off. I thought to my self, "That's not what I think it is, is it?" Yep. We had another just this last week, but it was at night. Completely different.
In Texas rn and the tornados the other week blew the windows out of the buildings downtown and there was glass all over the street it’s terrifying to think that a tornado with glass basically becomes a blender
having jack torrence's face projected ONTO the tornado was such an excellent touch, communicated so much
In the spring of 1997, when I was in the 6h grade, I was playing in a recreational baseball league. There were only 4 teams (it wasn't a big town, like 4k people). There was an equivalent number of girls' softball teams. The whole league of boys and girls was out there playing games one weekend with a big crowd of spectators.
I remember getting hailed on very briefly while playing, and the skies were definitely dark, but it wasn't raining, storming, or big winds. My sister went to the car on her own after my game while me, my dad, and my mom watched the next game. We only stayed for another 20 minutes or so and then went back to the car.
My sister was just balling her eyes out in the car, and my mom asked what was wrong, and just then, over the radio, the announcers said there was a tornado coming down right on top of our heads, and anyone at the park (not gonna name it) needed to seek shelter immediately.
My family was the only one in the parking lot. There were hundreds of people still in the park.
My dad ran back to warn everyone, and my sister started screaming, "We have to save ourselves!" She was pissed at my dad. I remember clearly one of my friend's faces as she jogged past our car with her own family as she looked in to my hysterical sister (she was terrified of storms to begin with, always had been). It was just a look of pure fear and anxiety. I can still picture it clearly.
My dad warned everyone, and everyone left. Despite being the first family in the parking lot, we were among the last to actually leave (my dad was a Lt. Col. in the Marine Corps at the time, so he definitely viewed it as his duty to make sure people were safe (he was on leave with us in his hometown, so it wasn't near a Marine Corps Base, and he was actually stationed in Saudi Arabia at the time)).
The tornado never came down on the park. In fact, it came down further away out of town... on the highway we would have been on at the time we would have been on it if my dad had decided to abandon all those other people and "save ourselves."
Whoa.... 😳
Respect to your father, a truly dutiful Marine. 🫡
42:12 the lead Actress is Helen Hunt…was a successful actress in the 90s winning 4 Emmy’s for her sitcom “Mad About You” and an Oscar for one of her movies (holding back name of movie on purpose so NO SPOILERS!)
She also had the female lead in Trancers, which is an underrated Scifi B-movie IMO.
Ashleigh needs to watch THAT movie which will remain anonymous.
Why hold back the title ?
Yeah, I don't get how the title can be a spoiler, and if so, how she can even know what movie to watch then to not be spoiled. So she can't watch the movie if she doesn't know what movie, and therefore doesn't need to worry about spoilers if she's not going to watch it, and if she does watch it, then she would already be spoiled as soon as she knows what movie it is????
@@Logan_Baron a lot of the time she wants to go in blind to the movies…she barely looks up posters anymore. It is more fun for her to try to connect the dots and see if she pick out the actors…or be surprised when she sees the name in the opening credits.
18:15 F5s definitely exist. In fact like 90% of F5s happen in the US. There's actually some great youtube videos about tornados that talk about notable ones. Very interesting stuff.
My mother drove through a 5 in Edmonton Alberta in 1987
Tennessee: It's tornado season... we had A tornado!
Oklahoma: We had 22 the other night.
I thinks it's in the 90's now this spring. 😬
She's a therapist.......
Yours?
Is top top level banter 😂
My wife and I saw this in the theater when it came out. It was even more terrifying due to the sound system. The seats were vibrating with the roar of the tornadoes and hearing the wind nod shift from left to right/front to back with the movement of the tornado was incredible. I didn't know if the new one will be any good, but it should be experienced in the theater (though I acknowledge that goes against the nature of your channel).
I watched it day one, and bought a ticket to watch it again as soon as it was over. It was crazy because a storm was actually rolling through Norman, OK while I was watching, so you could hear it in the background during the movie.
Great movie with some amazing effects that hold up really well. I saw it on a BIG screen in the theatre and it was scary AF. :)
I also like that the "new" woman isn't some horrible shrew but a normal nice person who in the end just isn't a good match, and realises it.
I've loved Jami Gertz forever and it started with her role in the TV show Square Pegs.
Yeah, they could’ve played her differently, as some kind of snobbish shrew, but she wasn’t and I liked that.
Yeah, it's little things like that which make a movie memorable. Too many scriptwriters reach for a grab-bag of cliches, I really liked that she was a likable person.
Jami Gertz really gave that character her dignity, you want Melissa to be OK even though she is not right for Bill.
@@Johnny_Socko Exactly, and Melissa despite the reason for being there got genuinely interested in the science that was going on. She was educated, curious, polite. I think the best part is that at NO POINT were Jo and Melissa ever the slightest bit mean to each other. Very classy.
When Bill said it too light, he ment that Dorothy was not heavy enough to release the sensors into the tornado. Thats why they left it in the truck, while they jumped of the it when it was heading to the tornado.
Went to see this in the theatre with friends when I was thirteen and it’s intense on the big screen and I look over and one of my friends was fast asleep. That girl could sleep through anything
"Your Dad couldn't do that?" Lol!
Fucking savage lol
Too soon? oop!
I did a “spit take” when she said that! lolz
Brutal and I loved it 😆
She has become one of us. Ruthless, savage, and cruel. I am so proud.
It's always a bit weird for me to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman in his younger days, considering how huge his career became. And also, Alan Ruck, who played Cameron Fry in Ferris Bueller's Day off is in this too, which I forget. I don't forget Cary Elwes, "the Princess Bride guy" is in this, but he does look pretty different. His face filled out some (as they do.), and it took me a LONG time to realize it was him in the first "Saw" movie. He's still a good looking man, but Wesley was HOT, cheekbones for DAYS! 💙
Also Todd Field who has had several Oscar nominations for best director and film (In the Bedroom and Tar).
@@mcgilj1 I don't think I know him. But cool! 💙
@@DravenGal he was the piano player, friend of Tom Cruise, in "Eyes Wide Shut" as an actor.
@@mcgilj1 I can't recall if I've seen that. 💙
You recognized _the Princess Bride Guy_ !!! ❤
It's inconceivable that others miss him.
But did she recognize Cameron from Ferris Bueller?
@@stevemielke nope, don’t think she did lol
But not Philip Seymour Hoffman. Another great who left us too soon, like Bill.
And could name The Shining. She's making progress from where she used to be.
I saw this movie at the movie theatre when it first came out. I was living in Kansas at the time. When we got out of the movie theatre and got in the car and turned on the radio we realized we were under a tornado warning! I'm not from Kansas, so of course having just watched that movie, it totally freaked me out! Didn't get a tornado, thanks goodnesses, but it sure got my adrenaline going!
🤣🤣🤣 5:44 "Your dad couldn't do that?" ASH!!!! REALLY???? LOL Made me spit soda out my nose!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Dusty is the late great Phillip Seymour Hoffman. RIP
Last year, a tornado destroyed the apartment complex across the street from mine, hopped over my complex, came back down on the other side and kept going. It was horrendous. I felt the pressure as it passed over. Unless you've experienced it, you can't even imagine.
Truly great react Ashleigh!
When I was a teen (some 50 years ago) my family tent camped. I recall having trouble finding a campsite until past dusk once, and settling for a campground next to a old cemetery, just as it started to rain. Our family worked together to set upthe tent quickly before the wind and rain got extreme, only to have the tent bow and bulge in strange contortions before unzipping the windows slightly to equalize the pressure and wind flow. Then we heard a roar and the sound of stone slabs hitting others. After a night of pure terror, our tent floor completely flooded, we went out in the morning, to find the damage of a tornado that just missed us, but not the cemetery. Lucky for us, the damaged stone markers and other debris seemed to be thrown away from our flimsy canvas tent. Now, even all these years later, as a retried old guy, I don't mind rainstorms, but if the wind even starts to howl... I just feel a bit of fear sneak in.
Anytime this comes on I watch it, but I'm also terrified of tornadoes and live in Middle Tennessee as well girl. We had a tornado come through the day you mentioned the other day. It was awfully terrifying. I hope you stay safe.
This movie was one of my favorites as a kid, but also simultaneously it scared the absolute shit out of me. I would say I had an abnormal fear of tornadoes as a child living in New Hampshire lol. My grandparents assured me tho that we have too many mountains lol. That said we’ve had a few, but nothing crazy like this, and it never affected us. No OKC level events.
Edit: Philip Seymour Hoffman was my favorite in this movie.
24:39 She may be a “Great Value Holly Hunter” but Jami Gertz’s husband is literally a billionaire.
Owns a basketball team that they seem to be at the games a lot
She's co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks. He's the principal owner of the Hawks, and minority owner of the Milwaukee Brewers.
I could be wrong, but I swear Ashleigh has seen The Lost Boys.. and she didn't recognize Star? 😆
@@levans71i can understand that, she's got very different vibes in this film.
@@levans71 she did almost 4 years ago…plus with the 9 years between the filming of the movies it is understandable she did not connect the dots on that.
There is a museum in Wakita, OK dedicated to this film. Lots of memorabilia, including one of the "Dorothy" machines. The owners are a couple of storm chasers who actually do chasing tours. Ironically, I am having my coffee in my "The Suck Zone" mug which I got at the museum!
Man. I went through Wakita on a couple storm chases back in the day, but only ever saw Aunt Meg’s lot. I wish we had had the time to look around more. I suppose I could still drive up there, but I don’t remember the last time I’ve been to that part of the state not that my chase days are done.
Damn
My hubby is a weather nerd… he’s signed up with our nearest National Weather Service office as a weather spotter and everything. Thankfully we live in WA, so we don’t see any real tornadoes. But I don’t love when my 6’5” hubby finds the nice tall, open hill to stand on, with his tripod and equipment, to photograph massive lightning storms. Tallest thing out in the open and all. 🙄 He filmed weather and breaking news for several news stations in his early career, and would drop everything to go search out wildfires, happenings at the nearby nuclear power plant, and all sorts of events that made me nervous. If major weather happens somewhere on a weekend, he will stay up late into the night listening to various scanners and watching storm chaser live streams. I don’t get it, but he finds it all fascinating.
You might be interested to know that the filmmakers actually interviewed two people who had been in the center of a tornado that way, and they tried to make it as realistic as possible, so yes, that's pretty much what it looks like inside a tornado.
I’ve wondered how they made the design decisions for the inside of the tornado.
I saw this in the theater. I tell you what, it was so f-ing intense on the big screen.
I didn't realize until recently that the Preacher character (bearded/glasses) was played by one of the suck-up Cop recruits in the first Police Academy movie.
I also agree not having Melissa be a problem character, bringing lots of drama, was a great call. She was a professional therapist and handled herself as such. She recognized Bill was still needing to be with Jo and Jo needed him. She did her job, even if it interfered with her own relationship.
Omg this movie TRAUMATIZED me as a kid. When i was young, i had an obsession with tornados and hurricanes just because of the wind and the feeling of being in the wind. When i heard of this movie, i was excited to hear there was a movie about tornados, and I was excited to watch it. That opening scene, though... that freaked me out so much that i had nightmares for weeks about my family being swept up by a tornado. Needless to say, i kind of stopped being less fascinated by tornados/windstorms for a long while.
I still get nightmares because of this movie, total mood! The opening scene haunts me, even though I know it’s not real. 😂
Jami Gertz, Bill Paxton’s fiance in this, is now one of the richest women in American. First time I saw her was as Muffy Tupperman on the short-lived series “Square Pegs,” which starred Sarah Jessica Parker. She went on to numerous supporting/guest star roles on tv & some major films like “Lost Boys” & "Sixteen Candles." Her & her husband are co-owners of the Milwaukee Brewers as well as the owners of the Atlanta Hawks. Her husband is a billionaire. I first saw Helen Hunt in the tv movie "Quarterback Princess" based on the story of Tami Maida who was a junior varsity quarterback on an Oregon football team but also homecoming princess. She continued on tv & slowly transitioned to films. She co-starred with Mel Gibson in "What Women Want," but also co-starred with Jack Nicholson in "As Good as It Gets" with Jack Nicholson....both won the Oscar for it. His character is a bigoted OCD romance author & she's a waitress at the restaurant where he loves to Also eat, mainly because of her. Also has Greg Kinnear & Cuba Gooding Jr. who play the gay artisti & his agent. Oh, & don't worry about animals, especially pets, as they usually don't kill them off...the audience hates that.
My wife was in the same intersection with the 21 folks that died in the 1989 Huntsville, AL tornado. All she could think as she saw the cone coming was she had to get home to the dog as the topper waggled the truck around as she stomped on the gas. She saw it hit those behind her. I don’t know about now but back then out in Madison county about every 3rd farmhouse had a storm cellar away from the house. You never know. RIP Bill Paxton.
Ahh, I haven't heard about this movie in so long! It was one of my childhood favorites, together with jurassic park and the day after tomorrow. I was very normal.
Lol sounds like a normal and awesome childhood to me! I loved this film as a kid and have seen it many times.
I swear Twister is my OG classic fav movie so clicked right away love this but damn Ashleigh your reacts and phases throughout this vid are so funny 😂 both scary and funny
The number of classic 80s actors in this warms my heart. Bill Paxton (Weird Science), Helen Hunt (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun), Cary Elwes (Princess Bride), Jami Gertz (Lost Boys, Square Pegs), Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller) and then the introduction to Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The soundtrack was absolutely stellar. Watching this in the theaters with all my friends was amazing. THX sound just came out and it was intense!
My daughter and granddaughter live in Greenfield Iowa. They were incredibly lucky, and still have a home to live in. She got home to her girl, spent some time with a friend pulling survivors from the wreckage, and a few bodies. Once the firemen and ambulances arrived, she and my granddaughter packed up and went to a motel because power to the town was out for a few days. Always love ❤️ your reactions. Have a good day.
Meg watching a Judy Garland movie was another subtle nod to Wizard of Oz. I remember coming out of the theatre after seeing this and looking up at the dark, cloudy sky checking for tornadoes. Lol
I did the same thing for weeks that summer, and I lived in Oregon where we didn't get much severe weather lol
The night we went to see it in Denver, we had golfball sized hail, a few funnels, and 1 tornado touchdown NE of the city. One of the most intense lightning displays I can remember. It stayed out in corn fields and no one died thankfully.
My cousin lived in Norm Oklahoma, right behind that school were the kids died. His entire family was able to escape but one of their dogs ran off. With no time to go after the dog, their road escape was already blocked off, he was forced to drive over the back fence into the schoolyard and escaped that way.
His house (and the school) were both hit directly by the F-5 and he lost almost everything.
After the storm someone created a web site for all the missing pets people were looking after, and my cousin found his dog on the web site. So it turned out his entire family was safe.
When my grandfather was a kid a huge F5 tore through several states including Southern Illinois. He helped with the clean rescue and he saw things like bits of straw driven into fences and tries like they were nails but the weirdest thing was a chicken with all its feathers torn out and its beak in a tree.
Yay! The dog survived 🥹
The chicken…yikes 😰
There is a twister museum in wakita Oklahoma that I ordered replica of those sensors. Love them so much!
Horizontal rain: Rain that falls sideways instead of down because the winds are so strong.
I have only witnessed it once in my life.
That was during a massive thunderstorm in the open plains of south central Wyoming.
No trees for miles, nothing but grass, nothing to stop the wind.
I saw it once in Brisbane city centre. It was not only horizontal, it made a 90° turn at the intersection.
Microburst of 3 monsoon’s coming together 7/21/21 in old town Scottsdale gave me horizontal rain, killed my grapefruit tree & made Hurricane Gloria seem like a drizzle.
I've seen it multiple times in Iowa, during heavy tornadoes as well as the three really powerful derecho that have hit the state in my lifetime.
@@valashar5313 I grew up in SW Iowa.
I lived in Iowa until about 12 years ago when I moved to Florida.
Forrest experienced it in Vietnam
Twister did for tornadoes like The Abyss did for underwater.
Good call.
Bringing estranged couples back together!
@@FramedHamProductions yep, that too 😄
I watched this on the big screen when it came out, and it was *terrifying* but absolutely amazing. Surround sound, the theater shaking, the deep tension...what an experience. So glad you watched this one, because it's such a classic. You know, a lot of people either forget or don't know about Dixie Alley, but if you live there, you know it can be a wild ride.
OK, let me just say the "funnel dad" joke was a comedy beauty! 🤣😂🤣😂
Hard to believe that Melissa is Star from the Lost Boys... she is very versatile. Great reaction. Thank you. 😊
Your "Great Value Holly Hunter" is Jamie Gertz, who played Star in "The Lost Boys". 😅
well I stand by my comment
It's funny Twister was directed by Jan De Bont, who also directed "Speed", and the sequel Speed 2, staring Jason Patric who played Michael in "The Lost Boys", and going back to the first Speed movie, that movie stars Keanu Reeves, who of course was also in the Bill and Ted movies with Alex Winter who played Marco in..."The Lost Boys" (not sure if there was a point to any of this but I thought it was interesting)
@@tonyschannel7438 also Keanu was in a TV movie called "Brotherhood of Justice" with Kiefer Sutherland, who was David in Lost Boys 😅 but the Alex Winter connection makes more sense.
That's not her real accent tho.
@@awkwardashleigh Mrs doubtfire is Robin Williams wearing a rubber prosthetic face that looks like a Glen close enough to be her because he wanted to see his family and kids .check it out .
This is one of my favorite movies. I saw this in theater 5 times. Helen Hunt is so beautiful. You should watch As good as it gets. She and Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for their roles
The severe weather you described Ashleigh is what's been going on here in good 'ol Frisco, McKinney Texas...and I also have a genuine fear of Tornadoes, and I have suffered from numerous nightmares because of them😢🥺I thank my lucky STARS our house is still standing and we are alive even to this day
Edit: Ashleigh, oh how I genuinely wish I actually could've been inside that room watching the movie with you so we could have comforted each-other because I have Astraphobia-(Which is the fear of storms) and when I first watched this movie a few years ago-(At NIGHT, no less!), there was honest to God above a real Thunderstorm outside! The sequel might be skipped from me...oh, and I also have High-Functioning Autism but I love your movie reactions and Beans🐱🐈❤️
I love beans too, refried, baked,and ranch-styled beans
Howdy from Frisco!! I moved from Oklahoma and the tornados have followed and I am not a happy camper.
Empathizing with your fears; I have a reoccurring nightmare where I'm standing on a porch watching a twister in the distance and it's scary quiet and just errie. Living through a handful of them, it's just too scary.
I live with high functioning autism as well to a point many wouldn't know, but am a trained storm spotter for the NWS. In Texas. Your not alone:) ❤
My favorite scene in this whole movie is the conversation between Meg, Dusty, and Rabbit about Meg having so much beef.
My father hates this movie because he designed a lot of the components for the NEXRAD precision radar launched in the 80’s. He always flips out when they say, “ we had no idea it was coming! We had no notice!”
Then he’d say, “you know when weathermen cut in and say there’s a tornado watch? There’s your FIRST warning. Then, a little later, when the weatherman comes back and says there’s a tornado warning? There’s your SECOND warning! Finally, when the weatherman says to get cover? THIRD WARNING!!!”
…my dad gets very passionate about the stuff lol.
Yeah, tornados used the Fujita Scale back then, which used estimated wind speed to judge the strength of a tornado. It went from F-0 to F-13. In 2007 they decommissioned its use, and replaced it with the Enhanced Fujita Scale which goes from EF-0 to EF-5. The Enhanced Fujita scale more accurately rates the intensity of tornadoes. FYI. And a bit of trivia, Helen Hunt along with Bill Paxton did the stunt of jumping out of the moving pickup in the cornfield. Helen got knocked out doing it.
In 1997 an F5 tornado ripped through Jarrell TX about 30 miles from me. It took out entire neighborhoods, down to the dirt. No trees, , concrete, pavement, nothing was left. Not a trace a house once sat there.
The raw power of an F5 is legitimately terrifying. Yeah hurricanes are huge and the flooding, but for sheer destructive force... a big tornado is unmatched. Not to mention our lack of predictability still. We get 10 days with hurricanes. With a tornado, you get minutes. And it can change so rapidly.
The Dead Man Walking photo from that tornado is still freaky.
There are still visible scars in that subdivision, to this day.
"Twister" and "The Abyss" both had the male and female leads in the midst of marital trouble.
Just like a lot of Bruce Willis movies have him at odds with his wife.
The abyss is great.
I saw Twister in the theater when it was released. I remember how petrified my boyfriend was. When it was released on VHS... many months later, my mother watched it, and she was petrified. It did make people more aware. I love this movie. It's on my go-to list when nothing is good on TV. Fantastic reaction. We also live in the Nashville area. I was in the 1998 downtown Nashville tornado. The fear was real.
This was the first wide spread exposure for the "New" Dodge Ram trucks. Before this they were square and boxy. They were designed after big rigs and really shook up the industry. Ford and Chevy changed their designs right after this. It was a VERY polarizing design but gave Dodge a huge boost.
Glad you liked the movie!
I remember being in second grade, and mom and i were at my granny's house, painting the kitchen, about 5 pm. We looked out the window and saw the trees in the neighbors yard being bent over sideways and touching the ground. It was about 1969, so no warnings. A tornado had gone right through the middle of town. My uncle came in a few minutes later. He had been driving south down main street and his truck had been picked up and turned around so he was then headed north. The top floor of our school was severely damaged. There were kids in the school, as we had something called split sessions. The 5th and 6th graders were split into those who lived outside the city limits, and those who lived inside. The "country" kids went to school from 7 am to 1 pm. The city kids went from 1 pm to 7 pm. My brother was in that school when the tornado hit. This was not the first time I remember a tornado. There was one that hit the south end of town and picked up the Laundromat and sent it to the other side of town. Daddy was mowing and walked the mower right through the hedges while watching the building fly over head. I live in Kentucky, and we had some pretty rough ones hit just this weekend.
This film was very well done, and it worries me about the sequel and how I do think CGI today is less effective, and is more for show. But am hoping the story is well. Loving this film!
I’m looking forward to seeing it
You should watch Sharknado. It's exactly what the title promises.
Best part is that it doesn't try to play it serious. It knows exactly what it is, and it delivers precisely on that. Which takes it beyond a horrible camp bad movie, to the kind that is so bad it becomes awesome again.
I love the OST to Twister too. It's so underappreciated. Also the CGI work on those tornadoes still look stunning for 1996.
Your joke about the Dad taking readings from inside the tornado was comedy gold. That was so funny.
A little bit trivia. What Jo and Bill see in the twister at the end is based on the description by two people who survived being inside a tornado.
PS: Poor Eddie didn't deserve to die like that. I always thought that was too brutal. Maybe if Eddie followed his own instincts instead of blindly following Jonas' orders, they would have made it.
I miss this era of filmmaking, where they still just threw trucks around and had sparks flying everywhere even as they got into using CGI. Was much more tactile.