TWISTER (1996) MOVIE REACTION - WHAT A THRILL RIDE! - First Time Watching - Review 

What a fun adventure! The tornadoes looked great and the chemistry between Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton was fantastic! Thank you so much for watching this with us. It means the world to us! If you enjoyed the video hit the like button (it's like RU-vid tipping and it helps us out a bunch) and if you're feeling extra generous subscribe so you don't miss our next reactions! If you'd like to support the channel and gain access to the full length reaction become a member of our patreon bit.ly/3ICVrJ6

I really appreciate how they didn't make Melissa the evil other woman or some rival. She's just a normal person who got caught up and realized it wasn't meant to be. I kind of feel bad for her

Bill Paxton is the reason a lot of people became storm chasers also when he passed away storm chasers on the gps radar lined up and spelled the initials BP in honor of him also Twister was the first movie to be released on DVD

Dorthy is based on TOTO, which is an actual device that had to be placed in the path. TOTO is the reason we have tornado warnings today that are longer than 10 minutes. They have saved millions of people.

The "roar" of the storm wasn't totally metaphoric; the predominate description of real tornadoes by those who survive is, "It sounded like a freight train."

When Bill died storm chasers and spotters from around the world did a virtual tribute using GPS coordinates to spell out BP. This movie brought a lot of attention to storm chasing and had created a new generation of chasers by the time Bill died.

As a southerner, hearing you call an F3 safe made me laugh.

The widest tornado was the El Reno tornado that was 2.6 miles wide. There was one in 1925 that was on the ground for 3.5 hours and covered 219 miles across 3 states!

The one and only, Philip Seymour Hoffman RIP.

I went to see the first Mission Impossible that summer, and during the famous scene where Tom Cruise goes into the clean room at Langley, known for how quiet that scene is, all we could hear was the audio from the tornadoes from this movie through the wall. I went back the next weekend to see Twister.

I like how they actually filmed this in the heart of tornado alley as the director stood his ground and insisted on it.

Y'all can't appreciate how iconic that flying cow was in the 90s. MY GOD the amount of parodies 🤣

The end of the movie as it heads to the credits has a hauntingly beautiful song called “Respect The Wind” full of amazing guitar rifts by the late Eddie Van Halen.

The guitar riffs you enjoyed so much were Van Halen's contribution to the affair ("Human's Being"). A great film with, as you say, a stellar cast!

My sister is a storm chaser photographer because of this movie, 100%. We're both weather buffs who love this movie, but she took it to the next level and got herself certified with SkyWarn and Spotter Network and she reads meteorology textbooks for fun. It's really awesome.

My climatology and meteorology professors usually started class with a joke about "weather men" - for them it's considered a step down. One in fact was pretty vicious about it and ironically when I visited home a few years ago I saw him on the local news as a weather man.

Ill never forget watcing this on VHS with my family! It literally blew us away! The tagline reads, "From The Creators/Producers of Jurassic Park And The Director Of Speed. TWISTER. The Dark Side Of Nature." Summer 1996. This was the very first film to be released on DVD, which cost 29.99. Nowadays, they cost 20.00-25.00.

I am a Dusty fanatic. I still use some of his quotes. This movie was a staple rewatch in my house growing up after we saw it in the theaters. We lived in Oklahoma for awhile so we knew all about tornado alley.

A lot of storm chasers are also first responders and WILL stop chasing a tornado to check on houses and potential victims. It's admirable. As someone in an area with tornado risk, the rule is to go to the most interior room on the lowest floor with head protection and hard-soled shoes. I store our bike helmets in our closet that would be our storm shelter with a trauma kit, a gallon of water, and some sugary snacks. When we've had a significant tornado risk, I also move essential medications, blankets, and our identifying documents into that space. Head injuries from flying debris is a leading cause of death, unfortunately. Mobile homes and cars are not safe. While a car could potentially outrun a tornado, most are rain wrapped and practically invisible so it is as likely to drive INTO the tornado as away from it.

This is still one of THE BEST movies ever to come out in the 90's!!!! Starring some of my favorite actors and actresses, including the late legends Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman, who are gone but never forgotten, and forever immortalized!!!!😌🙏

I've lived in Oklahoma for almost 30 years now. This place is affectionately known as Tornado Alley. I was here when both F5 tornados hit the state. One of them passed a mere 2 miles from my house next to Tinker AFB. It is the strongest tornado ever recorded and had the highest wind speeds on record surpassing 300 mph and caused a billion dollars in damage over a 38 mile area and lasted for almost 90 minutes. I remember driving past the destruction the days afterwards. Entire city blocks literally reduced to toothpicks. One of my favorite ways to impress upon people just how powerful this storm was is to recount something I saw. We were driving past the base and I came across what looked like a car impaled upon the top of telephone pole. However, as I got closer, I realized it was actually 3 cars that had been crushed together so powerfully they looked like a single object. And then lifted and dropped 30 feet in the air onto the pole. Go look up some photos of the May 3rd 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado if you're curious. :)

This movie launched the career of many meteorologists and storm chasers, myself included! Also to answer your question the largest tornado ever recorded was 2.6 miles wide in El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31, 2013.

This was the first movie that my husband and I watched together. We were using it as part of a presentation for our college science class, we started dating once it was finished. We've now been together coming up on 26yrs, married for 23. It's a movie that I'll still watch at least a few times a year.

I saw this at the theatre when I went to college. It was a surreal experience. Some of those scenes - I felt like I was being lifted right out of my seat - and hand to white knuckle my arm rest to hold on. But a fantastic movie - still love aunt Meg's kitchen scenes the best. Cheers from Canada! :)

As a kid, I was stuck out in a tornado once with my mom. It was absolutely terrifying. I remember downed power lines, down trees, hearing the sirens, and the sickening green of the sky. This movie scared me so bad after that, but now I can appreciate this movie for the masterpiece it is.

Living in Alabama, we do have coverage for tornados whereas in other parts of the world where tornados aren’t common, they’re considered acts of god and wouldn’t be covered. And yes, F5 tornados are over a mile wide. Almost all of our homes have storm shelters built in or we have the outdoor ones like the movie feature. Tornados are so devastating and fascinating at the same time but thankfully because of people like their team, we are able to get warnings way ahead of time and deaths with these storms are a fraction of what they used to be. Loved your reaction!!

Guys, this was one of the biggest movies in 1996. My mom, my sister and myself saw this 5 times in the theater 😂 We live in North Texas which is part of "tornado alley " so this is a big part of springtime here. So glad yall enjoyed it!

That tornado "growl" at the beginning was deliberate...

So cool that Denise summarises the entire movie within the first sentence she says during the opening scene. “So cool that they’re getting a tornado warning…. As a tornado happens outside”.

My favorite scene in this movie is the lunch scene. You get such a sense of history between these characters. They genuinely seem like a legit family. Not to mention the jokes are hysterical! Side note: I actually saw this movie at a drive-in theater while a thunderstorm was happening in the background. 😎

Just what I needed today❤ Love this movie so much...RIP Bill Paxton😢

"Where's my truck?" BAM!!! "AUGH!!!" "There it is."

My first movie experience without parents! I was 11 and my friends and I arrived late, entered in the theater right in the middle of the tornado that kills Jo's dad. 😮 It was memorable to say the least! It's still a great thrilling movie, that really holds up nearly 30 years later! As an adult I really appreciate how they didn't make Melissa a shrew or a typical mean other woman, she's smart and sensitive, reacts like a normal person would in those circumstances and is a great perspective character for the audience.

When this was released, they actually had warnings outside the theater about the sound level. Even said, NO... we won't turn it down... it was designed to be this loud.

OH yeah at the time those tornado vfx were top tier and the 'making of" was awesome back then : D

Hey y’all! This was my fav as a kid, it made me want to be a tornado chaser. Helen is SO g in this. Tough and and also vulnerable. And rocked a white tank top. And PSH was a LEGEND! And the entire crew felt lived in. Also authentic. The dialog and energy. Forever a fav ! Glad y’all watched!

The cool thing about Jo is that she is a bit representative of a lot peoples' fears in the central US. We don't grow up fearing monsters, we grow up fearing storms because we're constantly surrounded by stories of the town next door being flattened or a cousin's house being destroyed. Regardless of how few of us have been directly impacted by these storms, the fear of them is almost imprinted onto us.

When I was a little girl, there was no real warning. It was like, watch the clouds, wstch the type of storm, watch your weather on the news. When I was a teenager, it became a longer amount of warning time. Instead of minutes, you had at least 10 minutes to get to safety. When I was a college student, they put in storm sirens that were extremely loud, extremely reliable, extremely durable. We were also given almost an entirely different education about tornadoes. That's about 40 years of my memories. Also, I grew up in Kansas City, MO. I have relatives in Sedalia, and when Joplin happened...they went immediately as they heard about it happening and called us to come. That's also part of living here. You help your neighbors when a whole town almost vanishes (building-wise).

Bill Paxton is so underrated IMO. He's been in so many classics. He feels like home.

I know im a little late, but there are plenty of youtubers that are tornado chasers. Reed Timmer is a meteorologist and a storm chaser. He has a vehicle that is able to anchor itself onto the ground in the path and he has videos of moments inside of tornadoes. In 2013, the El Reno Oklahoma wedge tornado was unbelievably unpredictable and sadly a veteran storm chaser, his son, and a coworker and friend died when their vehicle was rolled by the winds of the vortex. Pecos Hank is a youtuber that films tornadoes and lighting for the beauty and admiration of them.

I saw Twister in theaters with my grandma in that year 1996 when I was 16 years old bring memories. Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton just awesome thank you guys great reaction 👍👍👍👍👍👍

The cast of this movie is perfect. One of the few movies that over the years I would always watch if I came across it while flipping channels . As always great reaction !!! 😁✌️😎❤️👍

EF stands for Enhanced Fujita. Fujita Scale is the scale of the winds of a tornado: EF0 is weakest while an EF5 is as they called, "Finger of God".

One of my favorite movies ever. Outstanding cast and performances all around. RIP to Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. 🙏❤

I was in one of the largest tornadoes in recorded history, an F5 in Xenia, Ohio on April 3, 1974. There were over 200 tornadoes in that 23 hour period. Now I'm a weather junkie, kind of like Jo in the movie (only without all the fun equipment!). Love this movie. Yes, most homeowners policies cover wind damage. FEMA can also assist. And yes, those big tornadoes can pick up semis. The one I was in hit a school bus parking lot and picked up about 20 buses and set them on top of my school. There was also a freight train coming through town and it picked the train up and set it on it's side! Train engines weigh tons. Glad you enjoyed it

A lot of basic CGI elements still in use today were developed in the making of this film. Industrial Light & Magic studied 100s of hours of tornado footage (captured by real life storm chasers btw) to create these iconic images. They studied the movements, wind velocities, different tornadic structures, and replicated true-to-life on screen storms that still hold up to this day. I believe “fractals”-the thousands of tiny bits and particles generated to create the on-screen tornadoes-were invented for this film. Fractals have been a part of movie fx ever since (think Transformers, Mummy, Avengers, you name it). Also, one guy spent like 6-8 months working on nothing but the rolling house scene, painstakingly rotating the house out onto the highway. Great reaction. Keep up the good work.

Twister was btw the first Movie ever to be out on DVD I watched this movie so many times and still it amazes me to this day. I love how they gave the Tornados this kind of growl, making them like a beast you can't defeat

On the topic of the "Twister" ride and how they created the tornado at Universal: They had 35 fans. 17 of them blew wind at the audience. The remaining 18 fans (with 7 foot long blades) shot out 35 mph wind gusts arranged around the room. The concrete flooring in front of the riders was a sponge like material (painted to look like actual concrete) and they pumped in fog, steam and liquid nitrogen up through the floor. Using the mentioned fans and a giant turbine overhead (all hidden from view), the fog, steam and liquid nitrogen would start lifting and rotating and ta-da, there you have it...an indoor tornado! The largest indoor man-made created tornado when the ride opened in in the late 90's.

This was the first movie where I got to see the first showing of it on opening night; my older brother took me as a special treat since our parents always waited for cheaper weekend matinée shows when taking us to see movies. We were teenagers living in Ohio when Twister came out, but we had lived in Oklahoma during elementary school. Just a few months before we moved to Ohio, there were a couple of F1 tornadoes (granted, we had no idea of their size/power when the warnings went out) near our corner of town that forced us to run through howling wind and rain to take shelter in our neighbors’ tiny underground tornado shelter, which had a metal door that our dad and elderly neighbor held closed with a rope. When that opening scene ended, after Jo’s dad got ripped away with the door, we silently turned and looked at each other wide-eyed and understood without a word that we had both just been transported back to that moment and had seen our worst fear from that day underground (that we had never discussed with each other) play out on the screen. We had been much luckier than Jo, as the tornadoes hadn’t gone directly overhead (we thought they had in the moment, though, as baseball-sized hail had been pounding on that windowless metal door which we mistakenly thought was debris from our homes being torn apart slamming into the door… the whole town needed roof and window/car repairs from the hail but there was no tornado damage). Just a few years after we moved to Ohio, we drove past two tornadoes on a family car trip through Pennsylvania in June (not far from Gettysburg): a spindly F0 that did no damage (and so wasn’t recorded by the NWS) in an open field and an F2 that crossed the river we had just driven across on a narrow bridge and went on to damage structures and inflict injuries (a number of years before Twister was released). So, we went together to see Twister almost as a kind of odd family/sibling therapy for our childhood experiences. We walked out of the theater after the movie ended having really enjoyed it and both feeling lucky that our experiences had been so fortunate.

"I love that it sounds like a growl" If memory serves, they actually used animal growls for the sound effect mix of the tornados

When Bill Paxton passed away the storm chaser community gave him a send off by putting his initials on weather screens. A lot of them said that without this movie they wouldn't be storm chasers.

Tornadoes are absolutely beyond comprehension. Even the small ones are unearthly. Earlier this year I drove past one, about five miles off. You’re driving through a huge storm, the rain and lightning make it hard to see anything, then you hit a clear patch and you see this…thing in the distance. It defies your sense of how things should be. And that was just a little EF 1. The El Reno tornado in Oklahoma was an EF3 that was 2.6 miles wide at its biggest. If you were anywhere near it you wouldn’t even be able to understand what you were looking at, it was just too big.

This was great! Thank you for reacting to this! Okay, here's my tornado story, and it involves the movie! We'd gone to see Twister the weekend before, in the theater,😮 and loved it! So, the following weekend we were back for another movie,. Twister was still playing, and while we were sitting there, about half way through, we realized we could hear the tornado sound effects through the wall and laughed... And then the lights and power went out! They came out with flashlights, said we all had rsin check tickets, because evidently the power wasn't coming back on soon. So we made our way out, and discovered the entire grid had been knocked out... By a tornado! It wasn't Twister the movie we'd been hearing, we heard the real thing blaze through! Fortunately, there was very little damage, we were lucky!

You mentioned never seeing a tornado before- I saw a few as a child and to me it is a sight! I've wanted to see one again in person but never managed to- where I live they're not very common and the times some have popped up remotely close to me they're gone by the time I've gotten anywhere near. If you do see one, know that a tornado can throw debris from miles away- even cars have been thrown further than a mile. So get a few seconds look at it then take cover!

F1-light/moderate damage F2-Moderate Damage F3-Heavy Damage F4-Heavy Damage/Destruction F5-Removal from existance

I had to sub because of this reaction. I am a storm chaser partly because of this movie (plus living in Kansas) and a massive film fan. Storm chasing IRL is 98% boring road trip and 2% actually driving in bad weather. I love it. Tornadoes are like ethereal things to see in person. There are storm tours you can go on for a week or two from April-June! P.S. Jan de Bont directed this film right after doing Speed in 1994. He likes his transportation-based action. Michael Crichton, the author of “Jurassic Park,” wrote the screenplay.

I am SO happy y’all did this one! As someone from the town where they shot the movie, and a full time resident of tornado alley, some fun facts about the movie and nature: The movie was inspired by a major storm in Oklahoma in the late 80s primarily because of the destruction and like they pointed out in the movie at the time people never had a warning before it hit. Almost all of the tornadoes in the movie were inspired by a real storm and tornado (obviously some liberties were taken). While it’s possible to have a storm produce multiple twisters, they don’t usually jump in intensity like this. Almost all of the outdoor scenes and the diner etc were shot on location and pretty much everyone outside of the main cast were just local farmers or school students. The size of the twister isn’t what makes it bad! So that half-mile wide twister? A lot of times those are less deadly than the couple hundred yards wide ones. It just depends on the wind speed! And while a tornado could knock a cow over…it’s not likely to lift it like that 😂😂😂 but it is every Oklahoma farmers favorite scene. That and the dangerous barn moment. This is a seriously beloved movie amongst tornado alley residents and storm chasers, pro and amateur!

I am also a thrill ride enthusiast. Bring it on! I’ve seen this movie a bunch of times. It will be so fun to watch this with you two. You’re so cinematically intelligent.😊❤️

The tornado sounds, is actually what tornados sound like. If you hear a freight train and you're nowhere near tracks, find shelter ASAP

I live in a tiny town in TEXAS, where if you blink you’ll miss it. We have storm cellars, underground with metal doors, (extremely heavy). If you don’t have a cellar, you go to a room with no windows, usually the bathroom, get mattress to shield the kids and pray. I’m 53, I think, and it is really scary. No the government doesn’t help, better have insurance.

Twister is a fun movie :) I was 9 when this came out, and my dad took me to see it in the theater. It was an awesome experience! :) R.I.P. Bill Paxton.

I grew up on the prairie in north-central Oklahoma and saw lots of storms plus a few tornadoes, including one that took out parts of our sheds and barn, plus the shingles off our house. It was at night and rain-wrapped so nothing to see; when they say it sounds like train coming - that's a pretty good description. Some of the opening parts when they first met up were filmed just outside my hometown, with a few relatives in the background moving cattle, etc., so I'll watch it anytime it comes on. The town of Wakita let them "make a tornado" downtown with effects and CGI. The EF-5 tornado that destroyed much of Moore, Oklahoma in 2013 was just over a mile wide at its' base, wind of 210 MPH, killed 25 people and did more than $2 Billion in damage. The NWS has a collaborative presence on the campus of the University of Oklahoma with federal, state and academic research and a lot of Storm Chasers connect with them for sharing data. Thanks for a good reaction, as always.

The opening scene of this movie gave me chills because 2 years before that we lived through the 1994 Lancaster TX tornado. We had just gotten back from church and my 2 sister's and I were already in bed (ages: 9, 10, 11) I remember our parents waking us up and then hearing the tornado sirens go off. We lived right across from the Lancaster Airport that had an alarm so it was so loud. We tried running outside to the storm cellar but it was to late as the winds were already to strong and a lot of debris was being blown all around. My dad put my mom and us 3 girls in the hallway closet and stood over us. The next day we saw the extent of devastation the tornado caused and we saw how close the tornado came to hitting or knocking down our house.. 3 houses on the other side of our street were completely demolished, but our house and 2 on our side of the street were ok, just a lot of debris laying around. Our elementary school as well as the downtown area were hit. I have never been so afraid. We've gone through another 5 tornadoes since then but the '94 one I will never forget.. For many months after it I slept with my shoes nearby and I would look out the window at night.. If I saw lightening or the wind picked up even a bit,, I would beg mu parents to take us to the storm cellar. To this day the sound of tornado alarms give me chills but I don't panic like I did as a child.

Yes, Denise. You are right. They mixed the sounds of bears, lions and several other animals to make the tornado roar. I grew up chasing tornados. There was a huge outbreak of tornados, like 5 or 6 of them on the same day in the same area. Yes, they do get more than 1 mile wide. It is so fun but it’s hard to bring your adrenaline levels down. You are actually fighting yourself for fight or flight. The scene when they were in Jo’s yellow truck and hit the flimsy bridge with the tractor on it would not have really happened. They filmed it on location in Oklahoma. They needed winds as high as a jet’s engine, so they went and got a jet’s engine! It was hard to film because it was shot in the middle of the summer… not good… and the jet engine was blowing its own hot air. It was hard to breathe. I think Jamie Gertz did a wonderful job. She hasn’t had many roles anymore. I was happy to see her have a strong performance. Speaking of, you gotta love Aunt Meg! Her acting style is so natural. Her face is like rubber and does an amazing job in everything I see her in. She reminds me of Geraldine Paige. You couldn’t ask for a better lead than Helen Hunt. (and her hair is so beautiful!) The sequel is being released in 2024. Looking forward to seeing it!!

I remember when this movie came out and seeing it in theaters. It was one of the first (at least that I remembet) that had THX Surround Sound so the sounds of the storms and tornadoes really felt / sounded like you were in the middle of the action. That's so normal to us in theaters now, but it was an exhilirating movie experience back then. This movie was really cutting edge and I love how well the effects and story hold up after all these years. RIP Bill Paxton.

0:17 YES, I LOVED this set ride- It closed just 2 or 3 years ago, which broke me, because it still gave just as much of a true rush the day it closed. It was just ignored by most people. I’m so glad SOMEONE else remembers it 😂. Hope you both are well, love from Brooklyn.

This is one of my favourite movies of all time. So underrated. I can watch it on repeat and never get tired of it. Couple of tornado facts seeing as you were interested: The widest tornado was in Oklahoma in 2013. It had a base 2.6 miles wide and was an F3. There have been 2 F6 tornadoes recorded in all history. One in Ohio and one in Texas. There are scientific arguments still over whether to classify them as F6 and not F5+. These arguments led to an upgrading of the F(Fujita) scaling and now other factors are considered beyond just what damage the tornado leaves behind. The new scaling is called the Enhanced Fujita (EF). Also, F3's are not 'mild'. Some of the greatest losses of human life have occurred at the hands of an F3. The deadliest tornado was in 1925 and killed 695 people across Illinois, Missouri and Indiana, giving it the name the Tri-State tornado. It was an F5 and also holds the record for longest continious path of destruction at 174 miles.

This is an outstanding movie!! The Fujita scale is online if you're interested in what each of the levels mean, F0-F5. Once you soak that in, consider the fact that there have been two recorded F6 tornadoes. Growing up in New Mexico, we could see tornadoes form out the windows of our classroom. They wouldn't send us home unless there were more than 3 and they were closer than 5 miles to the school. They really are fascinating to see. Fortunately, all the ones I saw were relatively small.

F3 isn't actually "safe." It still destroys lives and businesses. An F3 hit my old neighborhood and they are still trying to recover 3 years later. Enjoyed your reaction!

We saw this at the theater when it released in the 90's, the small screen doesn't do it justice, but still a very enjoyable film. Glad you two enjoyed it.

To do the Wakita scene, they actually bought an entire street in a small town-- someone else will have to say what the name of the town was, I have forgotten -- and filmed the coming into town scenes there. Then they destroyed everything to make it look like an actual tornado damage scene. It's all practical effects. The writer of this was Michael Crighton, who also wrote Jurassic Park.

Bill Paxton Philip Hoffman Eddie Van Halen rest in peace

Maaaaan!! I can't believe you guys are watching Twister!!! So awesome, I saw this movie in the cinema when I was a kid and has always been my favorite disaster movie. I'm so excited for 'Twisters' Can't believe after 30 years we're getting a sequel. I love that you guys pick 'old school' movies to react to, you can tell you guys know what you're doing instead of just doing what Fight club copies of a copy do on YT😜😜 love your commentary as always!! SHINE ON!! 🎶

A few things: Two great songs you heard are Child in Time by Deep Purple and Humans Being by Van Halen. youll love both! Secondly the backing soundtrack is by Mark Mancina another gem. Third, the largest tornado was 2.6 miles wide in El Reno which had winds over 300 mph and killed the first and only 4 storm chasers documented thus far. There now are stormchasers such as Reed Timmer who design tornado intercept vehicles with probes designed to drive right into the path of a tornado and endure it and get measurements. Also the tornadoes depicted in the movie reay do look and behave like that except running from an F5 on foot is obviously a deathwish. Lastly, the warning time is much much better now with ample warnings 15-30 minutes ahead of a likely tornado. Radar can very accurately spot large ones and and sign of strong rotation is also marked.

They really did a good job showing how powerful and massive a twister is. In 1983, my retail shop was hit by a tornado, and I along with an employee of mine were still in the shop at the time.. We were not taking the warnings on the radio seriously at first because we lived in " tornado alley" and were used to hearing tornado watches and warnings. But things changed quickly when we started hearing a train like noise and could see my huge plate glass windows in the front of the shop start to pulsate . We got in the back of the shop just in time and put pillows over our heads and were not hurt. The front of my shop was destroyed. Before it hit, we were outside the front of the shop joking around saying we were going to strap our selves to the support post that was at least 10 inches thick. After the tornado hit we evacuated the shop through the front door and we couldnt help but notice that massive support beam was totally gone!

This movie was a core memory growing up. I grew up in sw mo, my Grandma and aunts and uncles are all in ne Texas and this is the movie that made my mind click from "these storms are so scary" to "there is SO MUCH COOL SCIENCE HAPPENING IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW!" Seeing you post this reaction made me click so fast.

Again, watching a fun & cool movie with a fun & funny couple...you two rock. I live where we used to have tornadoe warnings and sightings every Spring/Sumner on a regular, not so much lately but imagine driving 15-20 miles home from work in daylight while it's getting dark by the minute, raining so hard you can't see the roads, sirens blasting and the radio is telling you to take cover. All you can do is pray to God and hope your heart don't give out on you. So, kudos to his girl friend. The fear is real. Something, I'll never get use to nor would I want to. Facts.

This is one of my favorites! So happy to see y’all react to it!❤️

In all honesty, seeing one in RL is beautiful and terrifying. I’ve lived through at least 2 F5 (now EF5) twisters and a few varying degrees of lower ones. That’s why every Saturday here (in Oklahoma) they test the tornado sirens at noon across the state to make sure they are in good working order. And funnily enough, we have a tornado season which runs from March 15 to June 15, but some years we may get an outbreak, others, hardly a one. My first F5 was 3 years after this came out, May 3, 1999. The easiest way to tell if it’s gonna happen, is if the temperature goes from, let’s say 85 to 64 in the span of a minute. A sudden drop in temperature is the biggest indicator if the clouds look light grey.

I remember being absolutely addicted to this movie when I was a little kid. I grew up in southeast Missouri so tornadoes were incredibly common and my mother thought I was messed up for being so obsessed with it.

The teddy bear bouncing off the windshield is just *chef's kiss*

This is a criminally underrated film - the song you were headbanging to in the second act was “humans being” by Van Halen (haggar)

AHHH! Im sooo happy you dedided to react to this movie! Its been one of my favorite movies growing up and still watch it these days as my comfort movie. The cast, characters, practical effects, sound design and music really make this movie.Its so amazing!!!

"The cone of silence" reference was from an old TV show that was a spoof of James Bond called "Get Smart". It was a high tech item that never worked right when they lowered it over the table the spies were sitting at for confidential discussions. Another running joke was his phone was in his shoe.

21:15 - "F3 we know is still kind of safe" well, an F3 tornado has wind speeds between 158 and 206 mph, enough to overturn trains. So, yeah, sure, relatively safe lol

It's cool that the director fought with the studio and won for filming in the heart of tornado alley.

*** Movie Trivia *** Twister was the very first film to be released on DVD. Up until then there was only VHS Tapes.

This was a great reaction! Your energy and enthusiasm was contagious. Thank you!

I always thought the moment they look up inside the cyclone and they should have had a close up of Helen Hunt's face remembering her father... Like the storm allowed her to see what no one else had...so she made her peace with her trauma ...

I remember the story of the kid who was on his way home from high school graduation who was sucked out of the sunroof of his car. They found his body in a pond miles away. And there's plenty of footage of the Joplin, Missouri tornado. It ripped a baby from a mother's arms and knocked the hospital off its foundation.

This movie to this day, still gives me goosebumps. I could hear a certain score from the movie and guess the exact scene, that’s how may times I’ve watched this. Was also the reason why i initially studied General Geography concentrating in Meteorology. Wanted to be a storm chaser! I still have a fascination with how weather and storm systems form hurricanes and tornadoes

Hey Knights! Thanks for this nostalgic reaction. RIP Bill

Legit reaction:) i cant wait for more. Also i hope you guys are enjoying your weekend so far^^

No, an f-3 isn't kinda safe, LOL. An f-3 is devastatingly unsafe and deadly, and can obliterate a house in less than 5 seconds. But it's fun listening to you guys. You have a great sense of humor.

She is ABSOLUTELY right! You do not say no to Helen Hunt!!! 😄😄😄

The largest or widest Tornado ever is 2.6 miles wide is the El Reno Tornado in 2013 which unusually killed 4 storm chasers and a good documentary to watch for this particular tornando is a national geographic one called "inside the mega twister ". Great reaction guys definitely giving u a sub and like 👍.

To answer your question about the size of tornados, they can be as narrow as 100 feet, or up to and over 2 miles wide. In 2013, a tornado in El Reno, OK grew to 2.6 miles wide and had gusts approaching 300 mph. Sadly, several chasers lost their lives in that one as its size increased at an extremely rapid rate and once they realized that, they were already in it. Bear in mind, a tornado’s wind field extends hundreds of yards beyond the visible condensation funnel, hence why they weren’t aware that they were too close.

Interesting fact about the guy that plays Beltzer, the guy on Jo’s crew in the jean jacket and quoted Star Wars. That’s Todd Field, highly acclaimed filmmaker of the films In the Bedroom, Little Children, and most recently Tar. Little Children is one of my favorites.

“Even as the seasons change, nature moves within itself. Its colossal power and its delicate beauty in perfect harmony… perfectly, cosmically sane. Though, periodically, nature will… in a kind of psychotic fit… go completely, randomly mad.”

When I was a kid, I had a crippling fear of tornadoes To the point where I would break down and cry whenever we had a tornado watch on the news. But ironically TWISTER Was one of my favorite movies. And still is I would watch it all the time. I guess in a twisted way I was feeding my own fear. Today I no longer have a few tornadoes But a very healthy respect for them