I saw Twisters yesterday and loved it!
I tend to love all disaster movies including the ones that are so bad they are funny but this was a good one. If you didn’t like the original, don’t bother, but if you did here is more tornado chasing excitement.
(If you want a bad disaster movie that is still fun to watch try “Christmas Twister” it’s a disaster and a Hallmark After School Special combined)
I saw The Cassandra Crossing in theaters and was totally non-plussed, especially with the SFX. When it started being shown on TV, the FX looked great — TV gave it a grainy, distant look that made the model work effective. Still, a lousy movie.
I like the original Twister. I wouldn’t call it a great movie but has a good cast and it’s a lot of fun. The surround soundtrack on the Blu-ray is really excellent.
Twister/Bill Paxton trivia: When Paxton passed away, the storm chaser community paid tribute to him via their locator app. Using their GPS locations they spelled out BP virtually across tornado alley: Storm chasers find unique way to honor “Twister” star Bill Paxton
I just saw “Twisters” and it was good fun. It managed to keep me on the edge of my seat more than I would have expected - after all, it’s a disaster movie featuring tornadoes, so you know there’s going to be a lot of wind-related mayhem. But it was surprisingly fresh, maybe because the special effects were excellent.
Like the OP, I am a sucker for disaster movies, good and bad.
I still like the original Poseidon Adventure. It was the first grownup movie I saw in a theater. I was only six at the time but I assume my parents knew I’d behave (you’d have to know my mother to get the full impact of that) and anyway, I was completely engaged. Leslie Nielsen as the captain, looking out at the oncoming giant wave and saying “oh my god” was the epitome of drama to my young self. I envied Carol Lindley’s hot pants and boots and thought young Eric Shea’s line “shove it shove shove it!” was the height of hilarity.
By far the least conventional disaster movie I’ve ever seen:
Do alien disasters count? I liked War of the Worlds, the remake with Tom Cruise.
In the “real disaster” category, The Impossible is a great movie.
I’m still trying to track down the 20-30 seconds of Reverend Scott’s climactic speech that were cut from every print after the initial release. Apparently, I could actually phone Gene Hackman and ask him — like I would ever have the cojones.
I even like The Day After Tomorrow. It’s ridiculous but I can’t stop watching. I will definitely give Twisters a try but life will probably keep me from seeing it until streaming. Twister was on TV a short time ago and I had to drop the remote like it was a fork and someone mentioned a F5. Finger of God
No matter how ridiculous you might think it is, the MST3K/Rifftrax/Cinema Sins folks will show you humor/absurdity you never dreamed of.
me, too. I also really liked The Towering Inferno.
I didn’t know about the missing parts, but then I haven’t seen it that many times since '72. All that sticks out in my mind is" …how many more lives?!!" and " then take me!". So terrifically schmaltzy 