Twister

And just whatever happened to Helen Hunt? I always liked her, even when she was a child actress. It's like her career died after Mad About You when she broke up with Hank Azaria.

She plays a scientist that chases storms in Twister, and her ex does the same. He brings his new fiance with him to meet up with Hunt in order to get her to sign the divorce papers. He's delighted to see the old storm chasing team there, as they're getting ready to launch a device that will help them gather data on the storms. A tornado picks up, and everyone chases after it, including Hunt's husband and his girlfriend, as he just can't resist doing it again.

It's a great action film and brings up the fun and excitement of storm chasing while also making you question why people would do such a thing. It's like watching those home videos of tornados. Why are people out in the middle of the storm filming? This has that same effect, making you wonder why, yet at the same time, something about it seems really thrilling to where you start to wonder if you could do it too.

Tornado Alley, wow that would be a great name for a punk rock band. Twister is a good movie for those who are in the mood for a little action and a great sub-plot of ending/recovering relationships. Plus there are cows getting toosed about by CGI tornados, really as someone who lives in a town with a huge feedlot there isn't anything much better.

Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton have great on screen chemistry as a couple in the process of divorce. The writing and dialogue is a bit dry at times. Many of the jokes seemed to be puns on the fact that this flick is about a group of storm chasers hunting down tornados. I think this movie is a great Saturday afternoon watch. Great movie to kill some time with and you won't be too upset if you fall asleep on the couch during it. Twister is a solid B.

This is such a great movie if you like special effects and were once an overachieving academic-type who lost your marriage to your job; you'll be able to entirely relate to the main character, played by Helen Hunt. Her about to be ex-husband (Bill Paxton) and she had once been the two motivating forces behind the creation of "Dorothy," a device intended to be sucked up inside a twister, that will then set off hundreds of sensors designed to relay data back to the scientists who study the dynamic forces of tornadic activity, as you will come to refer to a tornado after you've seen this movie.

The events of the two days the warring couple spend together, chasing down twister after twister, is a metaphor for their destructive marriage. Jo (Hunt) wants to reunite with her ex, who is extremely reluctant to even see her again, and in fact has dragged along his fiancee while he gets Jo to sign divorce papers . So there is the drama of the weather, and the special effects of watching these twisters do their damage is fascinating, and sobering, cause this stuff happens in real life. Then there is the emotional drama going on in this triangle relationship, while we watch Jo and Bill connect, fall apart, and reconnect, as they figure out how to save this marriage. Meanwhile, we get to watch the fiancee, played with heart and irony by Jamie Gertz, never a terribly well-known actress, but very expressive nonetheless, do a complete meltdown as the threat of each twister gets closer and closer, and she gets closer and closer to losing Bill.

It's one of those movies that's kind of like reading "People" magazine, in that it's awfully intimate at the same time that it's fascinating on so many levels. It's a lot of fun watching this movie with someone you're in the process of divorcing or splitting up from. There are so many psychological truths about destructive and difficult relationships in this movie, that you can't help but learn a lot about your own inability to communicate as you simultaneously learn a lot about tornadoes. Very educational.

Great for special effects. Depressing as hell for relationships, but with a twist. Ooh, was that a pun?

I like this movie a lot and find that the topic of tornado chasing interesting and exciting, and I like the cheesy subplot of two people involved in a relationship that is on the rocks and through hard times becomes good again.

The graphics were neat and the enormity of the tornado scenes really made you get in to the action.

As far as acting, I loved Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his earliest roles here. He played such a good science and weather geek. I'm not really a huge Bill Paxton fan, but he was well cast here and looks good in jeans. :)

Ever since I saw The Wizard of Oz years ago, I have been fascinated by twisters and the weather that causes them. When Twister was first announced, I begged my mom to take me to the theater to see it. She caved, and shortly thereafter I had one of greatest theater experiences of my life. Twister is definitely the type of movie you need to see in a theater, any other way just doesn't give the effect you would expect from this kind of film. Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt were great together in this film and the special effects were amazing. I've seen a lot of real life footage of tornadoes and the twisters from the movie didn't look all that different from a real one other than the fact that amateur footage is vastly different than movie quality footage. The film was somewhat unrealistic in its outcome though. I mean really, whose going to survive an F5 tornado just strapped to a couple of water pipes? All in all though, its a great film and it really brings to light what storm chasers do and the danger and destruction they face every day.