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Stars: Bill
Paxton, Helen Hunt
Rated:
PG-13
My Rating: 1
1/2 I'd rather go to see "Cats."
Plot: A
group of people track tornados.
Review: What an absolute waist. My mother says she can tell you this whole movie in one sentence: "Wooosh...There's a cow. Oh no! Woosh there's a house. Oh no!." My mother isn't that far off. This movie might have been worth it as a 3-d imax. As a normal film, it is not very exciting. It has some suspense, but not enough to overtake a supremely uninteresting plot. There's a whole ex wife/husband/fiancee thing going on that is thoroughly stupid. I advise everyone strongly to AVOID THIS MOVIE!
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Dear Noah,
I had the misfortune of reading your review of Twister on your
otherwise very lovely homepage. Let me start by saying that your other
reviews are simply misguided and lack a general taste in film. But these
are shortcomings that can be corrected with years of training, patience,
and skill. However, your "review" of Twister (I'm not sure if you saw the
same film I did) is a total denial of the cinematic brilliance which has
propelled this film to be the top grossing picture of the year so far! I
agree with your mother that the flying cows and houses seem to sum up the
destructive nature of the tornado. Yet you seem to miss the fact that the
tornado actually takes on a character of its own which Bill Paxton and
Helen Hunt must battle and overcome using both their scientific skills
(That flying rust bucket filled with millions of weather sensors) and
their shared passion for this weather phenomenon and each other.
This film isn't just about fighting some tornado. If it was, I would
have to say it belongs in the annuls of cult classics with other films
like Godzilla or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. On the way to the trilling
climax of this film the audience experiences a rending of garments with
the confused love triangle between Paxton, Hunt, and Paxton's new marriage
councellor fiance, rivalry with fellow scientist Cary Elwes, and the
impending disaster at the home of Hunt's aunt. These plot elements add to
the complexity of the main theme of the film.
Well, that's all I have to say for now. Keep watching those films.
Nate Fishkin
The bottup line to this movies is that it was boring. Even at the few movments that I was on the edge of my seat, I was still bored. Besides being overstated, Nate's statement that this movie reached "cinematic brilliance" is just plain wrong. This was one of the problems with the movie, there was no real climax. Unless you considder a cow blowing by a car to be climactic. Secondly, as Nate should well realize, how good a movie is has nothing to do with it being "the top grossing picture of the year so far." Grossing is all a function of advertising, not of how good a movie is. The thought of a tornado having a mind of its own was not really explored, and I don't think would have added much to the movie. Perhaps nate is reffering to Paxton's remarkable ability to predict where a tornado will go. But so what. This still makes this a movie about some people runnign after tornados. I have a better word for that: STUPIDITY! Also, I am confused by Nate's enthusiasm with this "rending of the garments confused love triangel." This had very little to do with the whole subject from which it detracted. This was almost as stupid as The Rock having Nicholas Cage's fiancee at FBI headquarders. It was just another stupid detail in a waste of a movie I disagree with Nate all the time about movies. But I don't think I've ever disagreed more. At elast in "Leaving Las Vegas," which I was totally bored through and Nate loved, I could understand that there was artistic quality (if not entertaining quality). I found Twister to have no redeeming qualities.
I ask all who read this to send me your thoughts about this movie, and please send any hate mail to Nate Fishking.
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