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Summary: DVD: Nice picture, Great Sound, Horrible story
Review: A good rent & watch once just for the DVD sound (assuming you have a good reciever & subwoofer), but the story is insipid and unrealistic. END
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Summary: It's as unrealistic as the critics say
Review: I waited for "Twister" to come out on video because the critics said it was unrealistic (twisters coming down in specific, predictable spots). I just had to see it because everyone recommended it highly. But upon seeing, I realized the critics were right. Not only are the actions of the twister unrealistic, but so are the villain's actions--a monotous roaming band of motorcars. Hunt's character, driven by the death of her parents at the hands of a twister, seems unrealistic and too one-track minded for an actress of her caliber to portray. Paxton didn't seem to add much as the leading male. His best performance to date I think is HBO's "A Bright Shining Lie"--I was extremely impressed with his performance there. Paxton's quirky tinkerings in the movie give it some redemptive value humor-wise, but they are unbelievable as well. I don't even think the special effects by themselves are worth seeing this movie for--it just insults my intelligence too much. Twisters just aren't that predictable. END
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Summary: IT WAS GREAT!!
Review: The occational humor mixed with the drama makes this worth watching again and again. It's almost worth watching the 70 times I've seen Jurassic Park. END
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Summary: THIS MOVIE IS EXCELLENT !!!!!!
Review: THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT I'VE NEVER WATCHED A BETTER MOVIE THAN THIS! I LIKE THE PART WHEN HELEN HUNT AND PAXTON ARE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD AND THE TORNADO SPLITS IN TWO AND REVOLVES AROUND THE TRUCK END
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Summary: I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!
Review: Paxton and Hunt did a great job acting in this movie! It was very well written, Crichton and whatserface should get tons of reviews and the green stuff for this movie. (The green stuff = moola, moola= money) END
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Summary: Great movie
Review: For the people who don't like the plot or the acting, I must imagine you have never been a storm chaser, or anything remotely like it. Been there, done that, these actors got the personalities down to a T. If you like special effects, a little adventure, camaraderie, and a feeling of pursuing what you believe in, and can overlook some of the stupidity (that real life people have) of walking into a tornado, it's a great movie.
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Summary: the suck zone II
Review: In the movie, the twister destroys a drive-in while The Shining is showing on the screen. One could only imagine that this amounted to a review of The Shining. I don't agree with this review. The Shining is a very good movie.
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Summary: Special-Effects Star
Review: The special effects are amazing, the plot is wafer thin, the characterization almost non-existance and the love-triangle laughable. Still, "Twister" is a DVD worth watching. The special effects do kick butt. For those of us who don't live in Twister Country, you get a feeling for the awesome destructive power and sudden danger posed by twisters. The supporting cast is funny and engaging. Helen Hunts gung-ho staff are particularly good, though a little insight as to why they follow the 2 suicidal lead characters would have been nice. 'Westley' from "Princess Bride" is great as the despicable villian who is as clueless as he is heartless even with the most advanced twister-tracking gadgets(and again, showing WHY he is the way he is would only have added to the story). The extra "Making of Twister" is also a real treat, but make sure you watch the movie first. In all, I enjoyed "Twister", despite its flaws. There is a great recreation of the 'drive-in' scene from the movie at Universal Studios Florida that I highly recommend.
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Summary: The tornadoes alone save this movie.
Review: I have had interest in the concept of severe weather for my entire life and had high expectations for the movie "Twister" and the result cuts boths ways for me. The movie is of a married meteoroligist couple who are in the midst of getting a divorce, and have not gotten along for a very long time and they make a new invention that they believe will help them see what it looks like, inside a full blown tornado. They have ambition to deploy this new technology to disperse 'lighter than air' radio transmitters into a twister and record the signals to see what it may look like inside a tornado. The special effects when the tornadoes strike are absolutely awesome not to mention the chase scenes especially towards the ending when the couple speed away from a tornado drive right through a house that was thrown onto the countryside road by a tornado (Impossible in real life) and the other of when a drive-in movie screen showing a snippet of the movie "The Shining" being ripped apart by a F5 tornado in the middle of the night. "Twister" though suffers from several things and I can sometimes see where some of the detractors are coming from when regarding this movie. While the action scenes and special effects are amazing, the movie's plot lacks a good flow and the film drags on and on in several places and one scene which is just like a boring day at home would've been better left out altogether. Plus the characters are very unconvincing and lack personality. Even for me who doesn't mind ocassional deviation from the laws of physics in movies, some of the tornadoe scenes are completely unrealistic. For example as I said earlier in a review, there is no way a twister could fling a whole house across a countryside road or even roll the whole intact house across the countryside because most houses are built on foundations and strong tornadoes in real life would shed houses into tiny pieces or otherwise reduce them to ruin. An F5 tornado would leave nothing of a house behind and can even rip the pavement off a road if the conditions warrant. \ This movie is nonetheless worth watching just for the tornadoes alone but this movie could have been a lot better than it turned out to be. While having it's share of flaws Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" is far superior on many levels and corrects a lot of the flaws of "Twister" in my opinion.
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Summary: Home Theater Demonstration DVD!
Review: This is the first disc I bought since I got the home theater set up and this one you won't believe! Ok, I'll admit the story here is a little weak, but this isn't supposed to be a "Raging Bull" type of character study. This is a very entertaining, state of the arts effects, fun film. The sound from this DTS version is extraordinary. The separation of the 5.1 is incredible. The twister sequences will blow you away. You feel the sound and the fury! The only other disc that compares is the Saving Private Ryan one. For you home theater fanatics, this is your film.. you'll see it, hear it, and feel it. This disc also has some great extras like director commentary and a cool documentary of how it was made. All in all, it's not one of the finest 100 or 200 movies ever made, but you may find yourself watching it over and over for the experience of it! You'll love it! The movie itself is about a 3, but the DVD DTS is about a 5!
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