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Twister

An iconic film of 1996, at the height of the Disaster Movie revival. Twister tells the story of a Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits who chase tornadoes for a living. The main duo are scientist Dr. Jo Harding (Helen Hunt) and her former husband Bill Harding (Bill Paxton). Among the many others is Dr. Melissa Reeves (Jami Gertz), Harding's current fiancée, providing a Love Triangle of sorts. Also a tale of vengeance against the tornadoes that deprived a little girl of her father. Also a villainous evil team of tornado chasers that seek to beat Our Heroes to the punch at a scientific breakthrough.

Twister was popular not because of its groundbreaking or interesting plot. The love-story is hackneyed and loaded with instant characterization and tornadoes do not work that way. The real draw of Twister was its ground-breaking special effects featuring some of the most realistic and thrilling images of tornadoes ever created for film. This isn't The Wizard of Oz (though the film does feature a "Dorothy" in it...)

The film went on to become the number-two top grossing film of 1996 and its special effects won it numerous awards. While remembered these days with less fondness due to the lack of an interesting plot, it is credited for spawning a whole new generation of tornado chasers. Twister was also the first film ever released on DVD AND the last film put out on HD DVD in the U.S. (though the very last HD DVD worldwide was a German release of Death Proof).

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Tropes:

• Anachronism Stew: The first scene is set in 1969 and contains numerous errors of the time period.
• Black Van: The corporate storm-chasers drive a fleet of black vehicles, presumably to show they're the bad guys.
• Blond Guys Are Evil: Jonas.
• Butt Monkey: Melissa
• Car Meets House: In the final tornado chase sequence, Bill and Jo drive their truck through a house that had been torn off its foundations and rolled onto the road in front of them.
• Casual Danger Dialog
  Jo: Can I drive?
  Bill: No!
  Jo: Then would you?
  Bill [noticing truck has drifted off the road and is about to run into a parked combine harvester]: Whoa!
  • And of course, "We've got cows!"
• Comedy of Remarriage: The main drama of the film is about how long it will take before Bill and Jo get back together - Bill arrives at the start of the film to deliver the divorce papers and brings his fiance with him.
• Cool Old Lady: Jo's Aunt Meg. Artist, inspiration to Jo, awesome cook, beef farmer, and has just enough Bad Ass in her that she insists she'll drive herself to the hospital after a twister completely devastates her house and puts her car in a tree.
• Dan Browned: Tornadoes do not work that way!
• The Danza: Bill Paxton as Bill Harding.
• Developing Doomed Characters: While the film opens with a tornado destroying a farm, much of the film is filler with the "kooky" team and the relationship drama instead of tornadoes destroying things. Hey, they only have so much money to spend on the effects.
• Did Not Do the Research: One character says that the National Severe Storms Laboratory is predicting an F5. Tornadoes are not given a rating until the damage (if any) has been studied. You'd think a professional storm chaser would know that, but noooooo...
  • And this could have been avoided if they had included a comment saying that wind speeds associated with a certain category of tornado had been picked up in the various tornadoes that they mentioned the ranking of. While the wind speed isn't included as a factor in determining the tornado's classification, there are ranges of wind speed commonly associated with each category.
  • Somewhat averted with the interior of the funnel. There exist some accounts of people managing to see that interior of a tornado. Only "somewhat" averted in that the interior has been described as having an eerie glow with intense lightning providing the illumination. The movie's depiction only has occasional flashes of lightning.
  • The first scene in 1969 mentions that the storm might be a F5 which is amazing given that the Fujita Scale wasn't invented until 1971.
• Disposable Fiancé: Melissa.
• Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: One of the most notorious offenders.
  • Though there are descriptions of the inflow jets, using layman's terms. The depictions, however, are still lacking.
  • Jonas' truck does get picked up, circles, and then gets hurled without ever actually touching the funnel cloud itself.
• Drive-In Theater: The twister attacks one.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Jonas
• Everything's Better With Cows: The iconic scene was so popular that the real-world NOAA named their cafeteria the Flying Cow Cafe after the film.
• Fake American: The very British Cary Elwes as the very southern Jonas, though he's supposed to be from the Midwest and his accent is hard to place.
• Foe Yay: Jo and Jonas both have blond hair, and Jo can be a diminutive of Jonas. Let's face it, the fact Bill and Jo finally get back together after Jonas's death is no coincidence; he was more of a threat to their relationship than Melissa ever was. The only thing left to wonder is if the powers-that-be consciously realised what they were doing or not.
• Foot Dragging Divorcee: Bill Harding is only there in tornado-alley at the time because he came there to badger his wife Jo into finally signing the divorce papers. Subverted in that they wind up back together and never do get the papers signed.
• Gilligan Cut:
  • After one of the team points out to Jo they're near her Aunt Meg's house.
    The team: We crave sustenance. Food. Food. Fooood! [chanting]
    Jo: No. We are absolutely not going.
    [next shot has them pulling up in front of Aunt Meg's house]
  • After Jo's truck ends up totalled on its roof after the first chase.
    Jo: It's a very pretty truck [about Bill's brand-spanking-new Dodge Ram]
    Melissa: [oblivious] Thankyou!
    Bill: Don't even think about it. [nods] No way.
    [cut to Bill's truck with Dorothy installed in the back]
• Hate Sink: You can't really boo a series of tornadoes, so that's what Jonas is there for, the smug idea-stealing corporate-funded bastard.
  • Jo tries, though. She feels that she's seen tornadoes "miss this house, and miss that house, and come after [people]!"
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