Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of Geek Verst Podcast.
I am the ant House Taylor Field and I'm joined by I'm the Stormchaser Combatser.
Yes, I judging by our nicknames. If you're familiar unfamiliar. We
are here to retro the Twister movie with Bill Paxton. It's going to be
delightful. Becus is in celebration of the Twisters movie that's going to be coming
out this week actually, and me and Kirk are going to be deep diving
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think that is it. So without further ado, Uh correctly, what's what's
your history with Twister here? Twister? Yeah, it's funny. I always
thought this movie was called Twisters for some reason my mind, and then not
until you know, now we're leaning up to Twisters the sequel, which I
imagine there'd be more than one Tornado to really make that title work. But
h yeah, it's it's it's funny. This movie. I don't know if
it was like a main rotation in my house, but I think my dad
really loved this movie. So we had it like on VHS and I've definitely
would, just because we don't have unlimited VHS, as you would tend to
rewatch some of the ones that you've actually owned. So A Twister was one
of them where I I don't know what age I saw it at, probably
pretty young. It's funny this actually came out the year I was born,
in nineteen ninety six, So nice tie there, I guess. I guess.
I think in hindsight, I saw this movie a lot more action y
than I than I than it actually is, like I think it like,
I don't think i've seen it since I've seen on VHS. Maybe it was
like a random like on TV type of s are where you catch like the
back half or something. But yeah, I remember really really loving this movie
just just for like what the Twister is, especially living in an area where
fortunately we don't really get well we don't really we definitely do not get tornadoes
here living in the valley where we're pretty safe. I always call this area
of the shire where we live in because we don't really get a lot of
natural disasters other than forest fires which usually run pretty rampant. But no,
just the idea of what it is, just like a powerful mother nature type
of event just always blew my mind as a wee young lad. And yeah,
I think I really just liked the whole cowboy type feel what this movie
is, right, Like these these people are storm chasers, are they're they're
scientists, but like they especially the way that they portray them, they're just
like thrill seekers, it seems. And uh, I really like the energy
of what these movies were. I really like the side characters. Philip Seymour
Hoffman his character, you know, rest in peace to him. But his
character in this is just such a different role then, like I've I think
I've seen him play like in anything else, really like he's he's a pretty
or sorry, he was a very what's the best way to say. Like
he had a lot of depth of an actor, Like he could do a
lot of different realms. I feel like his most memorable performances for me are
the more dramatic or maybe more villainy type roles. But to see him in
this is just such a different, like twist not intended that then I'm used
to seeing from him, And I really loved his character in this. It
was really entertaining. And you've seen along came Polly, right oh yeah,
okay, like this is the same character. Yeah, good shout out there.
That's hilarious because he's like the private investigator, right and then he like
falls in love with her or am I misrememboring? No, no, no,
that's that's the camera Diaz one Ohong came Polly Ben. Yeah, Ben
Stiller's the the insurance guy and uh yeah yeah yeah he's playing basketball and stuff,
like what a shart was a good movie. That's a good movie.
But yeah, no, Like watching this now in anticipation for Twisters, I'm
really glad that we did do this retro because I feel like it did a
couple of things where like I I I, like I had already mentioned I
remember this movie being a little bit different than what it actually is in my
mind, Like I don't know, I don't know if I remember them like
actually battling these tornadoes or like like something along those lines. I just thought
it was like a lot crazier of a plot than what it actually is.
Like it it it really is a pretty basic tale other than the fact that
these people like chase tornadoes, but like all they're really trying to do is
get this one device in this one tornado or like, yeah, it's so
like there's not much more than that. There's some character stuff between the guys
like ex wife, I guess, and and his new fiance that he's that
he like the reason why he even gets on this adventure is because he's trying
to get his his ex wife to sign these divorce papers and like that's really
it, Like he's not there to like partake in this science experiment at all.
Obviously, that is the route it goes, and by the end of
it, the like the new fiance is just completely gone and he's back with
this this ex So just like for what happens for like what's built up in
the beginning, I feel like it's pretty kind of funny how how it goes
that route. I guess maybe just along the way he finds out that they're
not super compatible. But hopefully you get to that point with your fiance,
but like without a tornado being the factor for that. But uh no,
I'm really glad that we did watch this too, because I feel like it
it'll really set my expectations going into Twisters, where now it's like, Okay,
this is just people like scientific is trying to get a device or something
like in front of these storm tracers, just just tackling these twisters, and
I nothing much more than that is really what's going on. And I'm hoping
for just some nice visuals and some fun action sequences in the new film and
like just set my bar of expectations kind of there. So I'm glad I
watched that for that reason going into the new one. But yeah, this
is still like a really solid movie for me. I think it It is
a little cheesy at certain parts, maybe some dialogue with some of the just
the crazy characters, but like this is a nineties film. I think what
they're able to do with you know, it's it's late nineties, so like
the CGI isn't that bad compared to something from like maybe the sixties seventies.
But I think they use it sparingly in enough ways to really make it feel
authentic of a threat with a big twister. And yeah, I don't know,
Like I don't think this is by any means my favorite movie. Maybe
watching it now I like it less than I would have as a kid,
but it's still still really fun, still fun time. I like the cast
that's in it, Helen Hunt, which is Bill Paxson's ex wife and this
I think she's really good. She's really just like trying to break him up,
though, Like the entire time, as as soon as Bill Paxson arrives
with his new fiance, just seems like Helen Hunt is just thirsty for the
packs man and just really trying to wedge between the new lady and him.
But yeah, I don't think I have really much more to say about that.
Like this movie is less less complicated than I remember it being in hindsight,
And it's funny you were mentioning earlier you were trying to find a night
thumbnail and like the pictures just were not good at all, and I'm looking
at like the poster for it and it's hilarious. It's just kind of like
a silhouette of a twister, Like you can't really see it at all.
It's really like fuzzy, sort of pixelated, and like the slogan is just
don't breathe, don't look back, Twister the Dark Side of Nature, Like
it feels like Darth Vader's coming to like fucking kill these people, but it's
really just a tornado. Not trying to downplay what a tornado is I know
it, you know, negatively affects tons of people every year. But yeah,
no, I really really love this. I don't know if I love
it, but I think the fact that I have nostalgia for it it definitely
increases my overall enjoyment for the film. Yeah yeah, well said I wish
I could remember the first time I saw this movie, but I remember,
uh, the ending absolutely terrifying me, when our two main characters are running
away from the big the big one, and they had to like hunker down
and just the thing went over them, and it's just, oh, it
absolutely terrified me. And then there's other scenes too where everything is calm and
they're the drive in theater playing and everything's just chill and it's just super quiet,
and it just it appears and it's just destroying. And that there's so
many different things in this movie that it frightens me. And when I give
this movie credit as a credit for being is it's just to my knowledge.
Maybe there's something before it, but this is really one of the first of
its kinds where it's like a Jaws. You know, no Shark movie,
no matter what you do, is really going to ever top that original Jaws
movie. That's just the be all, end all and anything else after that
just it lacks that certain spark to it. And I feel like we've had
Geostorm and twenty twelve and all of these different supernatural disaster films, and this
one just while the CGI was questionable at some times, it definitely just stands
on its own and it's it's a really uh iconic film. I'd say,
it's like it's a classic. And I completely went over my head that Michael
Creichton actually worked on I believe the screenplay. Is that what I read here
or it was sorry it was written actually yeah, written by Michael Crichton and
Ann Marie Martin. So Michael Crichton's Jassic Park's Jassic Park. Yeah yeah,
so very very cool stuff. And this makes sense, I feel, because
like the Twister feels like a monster for a while of the movie, so
that that doesn't make sense. Yeah, And Michael Crichton has always been good
at kind of diving into the things that humanity kind of indulges in and the
dangers of nature and science, and so this this movie is that, like
you said, it's very simple. It's them just trying to pop a little
science machine into the tornado and then they can get all these new scientific readings
and whatnot. And the fact that they just go into the tornado so many
times just blows my mind. But there's so many there's a few scenes here
I'm excited to talk about with you, but I think it's it's a it's
a really really fun movie to watch. The characters are really really interesting and
flamboyant, and there's certain settings that piece is that they get into, which
like this is just such a crazy thing, but it fits for that time
period, I guess, And there's something comforting about in old eighty nineties movie.
I'd say even probably seventies. But for me and Madison, we've really
kind of been on this bandwagon for those older flicks or something just calm and
nostalgic about it. Even if it's chaotic and you know, tornadoes everywhere,
there's still something that's just got a good vibe to it. So this is
definitely one of my top tier Bill Paxton movies, up there with Aliens and
Predator two. So I'm just I guess Terminator. So it's nice to see
Bill Paxton back on screen and I can see that, you know, Glenn
Powell's probably got some inspiration from Paxson's character and that in that new one,
well definitely more cowboyish. I feel like the Bill Paxton that we would have
seen before this movie is what Glenn Powell is trying to portray, if that
makes sense. But he's all retired and goes retired. Yeah, it goes
to the city. But yeah, there's there's just there's good humor in this
movie, and it's just it's it's a lot of fun. Absolutely and shout
out to I never know how to say his last name, Carrie Louise,
Louis Eluise. Basically the not the Twister antagonist, but the other human antagonists,
like the other stormchaser kind of guy that like stealing his design. He
plays like a good kind of like prick, asshole type character. And it's
kind of funny. How like by the end, I really didn't remember how
it happened, like in hindsight, but like they end up kind of working
together to just you know, like I I'm pretty sure he helps him out
too. I can't remember how it goes, but basically they just like call
him and and and get some advice and information from him, and then they
kind of work together to for the better of science, right, Like it's
not even like they defeat the tornado. It's literally just to measure it because
up until this point they don't have instruments to really track the twisters, which
is funny like nowadays because we just obviously science is a lot further along than
it was twenty eight years ago when this came out, but like at the
time of this movie, I don't even know if the science was there there
yet. But according to the movie, people like these characters Bill Paxton,
this is the first time that we are actually reading a tornado to see how
it works. And it's kind of funny in hindsight on how that is.
And I'm just curious for the new movie, like how they're gonna deal with
that, right, like obviously they don't need technology to track, like like
it's not like this will be the first time that they're reading the tornadoes.
So I'm just kind of curious as to see, like what our main people
are doing as opposed to just thrill seeking and trying to just chase tornadoes.
But yeah, the technology seems to be the same from what they are showing
in the trailer for the new one to this one, like they got to
get close, this little tank will open up and all these things will go
into it into the tornado, And I kind of thought, like, are
they trying to dissipate the tornado with these things that get sucked into the tornado?
Kind of kind of an effect on being able to dissolve it, so
it wouldn't be causing damage. But yeah, the big thing in this movie
is that they want to increase the warning time from three minutes up to something
higher, and so doing this scientific experiment will kind of make that happen.
Now, Carrie's character, fuck, he's uh, he's He's an interesting antagonist
throughout this this film, but man, I was not expecting his Like,
he really fucked I guess we're getting into where the meat and potatoes out,
but he really fucks his team over. You know, if you're if you're
driving this car and you got an equivalent professional industry professional screaming into the radio
like turn this around, turning around, it's gonna turn and hit you.
Are you turning around? Are you just gonna listen to your boss? I'm
probably sure. And that guy, man, he gets a terrible I mean,
like less than a minute after that, right, Yeah, takes him
out alone. Couldn't have taken out Carrie next to him, No, it
takes out the fucking driver. That's like, maybe we should listen to a
man I don't know about this. Yeah, that's final destination level, that's
what he got. Christ Where do you where do you want to start though?
On this movie? You have a certain character, a certain scene.
I mean yeah, like the opening of the movie. I really did not
remember this at all, where it's it's Helen Hunt's character as a child,
and then uh, you know, tornado comes in really really scary for the
family. I did not understand the dad's like gold Land, just just hold
the fucking door shut, like if he's not just where his family are,
even if the door gets yanked open, Like, aren't they just fine?
Because clearly like the daughter and the mom didn't get pulled out of the door.
He's just holding I can't hold it any longer. And then what do
you he does? He keeps holding onto it and then it just takes him
and the door away, just fucking out of there, and I just I
just burst out laughing. I'm like, man, that like what an opening
to this movie? Like talk about a vendetta between I guess Helen Hunt's character
and just the tornado in general. So I guess I get the motivation for
her to wanna, you know, stop that and build some technology to prevent
that from happening. But yeah, that'd probably scar me for life. Just
see my dad slurped away by a tornado. Yeah, that scene that cracks
me up. And again I get it, like the limited warning that they
have, but even on the TV, like they're mentioning a storm is coming
in, and I just I felt like once the storm actually landed, they
took their time to get out. But again, I'm not in those scenarios.
I don't know. They were trying to recreate as best they could.
I'm sure so, I mean, they got the dog in, so that
was good. But yeah, the dad's plan just they went further down into
that bay Smith's cellar, they would have all been fine, like the rest
of the family was. But yeah, he's holding on that door is absolutely
shit. Maybe he could have thrown some more stuff to kind of like fortify
it, but I guess this is like the highest category tornado. That's I
mean a lot. The next time it's scene is with Helen Hunt's character in
present day right, because I think it was like a Cat five or something
like that. They were calling it. It was it was the big one.
Yeah, I can't remember the specific number of it. And then of
course it's a bigger one like later on in the film. I think it's
bigger. It's it's equivalent if not bigger. Yeah, but yeah, wild
opening to the movie and like it's something too where I feel like, like,
correct me if I'm wrong, But I feel like we don't really like
with Helen Hunt's character. I just pulling up right now, doctor Joe hardin
that Oh yeah, so there you go. She's got the same last name
as Bill Harden, still still whole of that name, not actually divorced,
there's they're still married. I guess by the while, she doesn't really like
call back to that sequence a lot of the time, she doesn't feel like
a really like sad character. She's pretty joyful, happy, go lu like
you for the most part. So it like it especially like I don't know,
I feel like our main character is definitely Bill Paxton for for this whole
ride. It's like his technology, right, that is the one that uh,
I guess it's like prototype design. Yeah, but Dorothy, yeah,
Dorothy, there you go, and they they ended up building it and then
he was, of course super pumped on, and Helen Hunt's character just just
just saw it through floorician, whereas Bill Paxson just moved the city the tie
to like the opening, I feel like just wasn't called back to that much
for for how like show talking and visceral of an experience that would be for
her main character. But I don't know, like they're they're clearly passionate,
passionate about it, and if she's affected in that sense, it would make
sense why she would, you know, make it like her life's work to
keep going in that. But I also didn't really understand why Bill Paxton like
didn't stick with it. I guess he was just not in love with Helen
Hunt anymore, like why he moved to the city. He was just kind
of done with that life. But as soon as he comes back, he's
just in love with it again. Like he's super jacked and jazz by the
thrill. Yeah, I know he is. I think that their their relationship
is interesting, and I think the dynamic of him just being addicted to this
thrill of the Hunt is it gets you going too, because I think as
he's kind of going back and being reimmersed into it and learning like, oh,
they developed the technology. It's great for the audience because you start to
like you get hyped up with him as he's getting hyped up and like getting
back in touch with this thrill of uh tornado chasing. You said something else,
and I had a thought that I wanted to to mention, Oh,
my goodness, Paxton escaping in the city no prototype. Oh yeah, okay,
Helen her character Now you mentioned she hadn't she had a lot of trauma
at the start of the movie, but they didn't follow up or touch upon
it really throughout the rest of the film. And you're totally right with that.
The only instances I felt like we kind of got a little bit of
that is when you'd see a tornado and she'd stand there, like five feet
away from it. It's like, oh, there you are, like just
taking it in, and then she'd run away. So that's that's kind of
like the only dose of I guess, facing her free fears, confronting them
that I kind of pick up upon since I was a little kid. But
other than that, yeah, like there's there's really nothing, which is kind
of shocking considering like your dad just got fucking sucked out of this doorway when
you're a little girl. Pretty scary shit. Absolutely, uh so yeah we
we you know that happens. And then we follow Bill Paxton, and like
this was something that kind of just surprised me and I did not remember at
all. It was just like how Bill Paxton like gets on this adventure,
Like he literally is just coming with his wife to his his his ex wife
I guess, or his technically they're still married, so yeah, technically still
married, and then his fiance is with him, and then and then he's
trying to get the divorce papers written and Ellen Hunt is just like not signing
these papers at all, and like I just feel like if I'm in that
position, it's just like just fucking sign the papers and let me get the
hell out of here, and that yeah, oh no, yeah, I'll
get to it, you know, like do I gotta do it right now?
Like she's just like clearly still wanting to be married to this guy.
And I think that was something that wasn't really easy for me to buy and
and and go along with it. Like Bill Paxson is just like he's just
over this life and and her and and like maybe like the pairing with Melissa
was her name like his his his now his new fiance, Like what why
he would have chosen her over that? Like it just it just seemed like,
Okay, this is the situation and that's the start of the movie,
and then we're just gonna go with that, and it's just kind of weak,
like the actual explanation of what was going on there for me at least.
And Melissa was kind of a funny character to have on these adventures because
she's just so out of her elements. She's getting really shook up on all
these events, like when I think they have like a near miss with one
of the tornadoes and like they're all like super jacked up and pumped, and
she's like, I gotta get out of here. I'm so done. She's
just like totally freaking out how I would be if I was in that situation,
Like gosh, you could die at any moment if that tornado gets too
close to you. But it was just kind of a funny variable to have
with them. And then I mean by the end of the movie, which
how long is this like a couple of days. If that's it's at least
it's gotta be. They will go through like two nights, three nights,
so it's a it's at least a long weekend. Yeah. And then by
the end of that he's back with his his ex wife and just well I
guess they're married. So he's just back with his wife now they're they're married
still. And then his his fiance who I imagine they were like living together
in the city. Like, does he go back to collect his stuff and
it's really weird, or like does he just never go back he just finds
wipes his hands clean. Yeah, Like it's just all of that logistics I
just found pretty funny. But and then yeah, she's like a therapist I
think is her role. Yes, but uh yeah, I don't know,
it's maybe a little bit of a weaker part of the movie overall. It's
like, I think I would have been totally okay if like they didn't have
that complexity of the relationships. Maybe maybe it's just a very able to throw
into there, because this movie is pretty basic with so a bit of a
factor there, and Melissa keeps getting paired up with Dusty Philip Seymour Hoffman's character,
and uh, yeah, he's just he's just uh, he's just a
good time every time he's on screen. I'm again of my thoughts after this
that break and I'm back, so uh, I couldn't agree more. I
think that this is definitely probably the weaker thing, and I think that it's
kind of shoehorned in there just for the sake of we need a romantic dynamic.
You you can probably I don't want to say this because this comes off
as negative. You can probably only do so much with the thrill of the
chase, and in between all these tornado sequences, you need to have some
other kind of dilemma with our characters, something kind of moving the story forward.
And so I feel like, Okay, we'll do a weird love triangle
and just kind of see how this unfolds. And yeah, Melissa, I
think it was funny seeing Melissa with with Hoffman's character and just seeing her thrown
into the situation that's just life and death. Like the first time that Bill
pass Helen hud go into that first tornado and Alan Hunt's truck just gets fucking
nuked and they're hiding under the wooden Bridge and the thing passes and like Melissa
runs at them like, oh my god, are you okay? And there's
like yeah, we're fine, we're cool. Let's go follow it again or
something like that, like just super nonchalant about it. That made me laugh.
But I think the fact that their relationship was not this strong. He
clearly didn't like being a weather man. He took offense to that when Carrie
el was would insult him. So yeah, I think that not a strong
relationship. But yeah, he's back with his wife. So there you go,
Joe Harding, there you go. The other thing that kind of surprised
like a lot of side characters with our almost like a band of misfits,
like all like the crew members and everything, and I feel like, yeah,
like we mentioned Philip Seymour Hoffman, there's a lot of people in this
crew that, like I wouldn't like I recognized them. Like one of them
was Alan Ruck from Ferris Beeler's Day Off. He was, oh, yeah,
you're right. Yeah, Like there was just like a couple of names
that I that I've seen places, not like a lot. The one character
Jeremy Davis who he played Lawrence in it, like I think I've only seen
that guy and Lost, so it was kind of funny to see him like
pop up in here. And I guess that would have been around that time.
I think Lost is like late nineties, maybe early two thousands, So
it was just kind of funny seeing these familiar faces pop up, even though
they're not like big main lead stars, but you know, recognizable enough to
kind of fill the the merry band of misfits here. And yeah, it
was a fun gang like when they were at the aunt's house, just just
eating up there, her food and just the whole vibe of what the aunt
was. She seemed like a really nice lady. That food just looks so
freaking good. I'd love to eat there. But Melissa wasn't having it.
She didn't look impressed. No, no, and I wouldn't be either.
I'd been like, just fucking sign these papers and let's go back to the
city. I'm so done with this ship. We're about to die. Every
two minutes, your your fiance is showering in this fucking random lady's house.
Yeah, and like every bump that he has with Helen Hunt, it's just
like, oh like like like they're reigniting the spark like if I'm yeah,
if I'm Melissa, like I'm just like this, like, let's get the
fuck out of here. This is so awful. I'm losing my man every
two minutes. And by the end of it too, she she was a
told shamp She's like, yeah, no, you you be with her.
This is your life, Like no, that's great, and she's like not
mad at all. It's just like this, this is this is the hill
yourself and fucking go ahead. Peez uh. I was quite surprised when they
did this, this curve, all of the Ant's house being destroyed. But
the set piece, I don't know if you've seen, like the set that
they built for it's pretty cool how they built this no storted house and they
had like it's like sideway stairs and like Bill Paxton, he just has to
run down these sideway stairs that they built and everything is pretty pretty cool set
piece. But I'm glad that they answervived. I'm glad that the dog survived.
But it was that's just one of the most terrifying moments of the movie.
When it's like I said, quiet, it hits the drive in theater
and then they find out, Oh my god, it hit the little town
community and they go there and like it's all just ravaged. Yeah, that
sequence when I think it's at the movie theater, when it's like all like
pitch black, and then like I can't remember, it's like lightning or something
lights up the sky, something happens and then you just kind of see it.
And that is probably like the most memorable, the most memorable visual that
I have from this movie. Like I remember seeing that as a young kid,
and just like I don't know, it's like a monster movie type sequence
where it's just like pure quiet, and I don't know how quiet a tornado
really is. Again, like I've never really been. I mean, I'm
fortunate enough to not have I've been running from a tornado. But I imagine
they'd be pretty loud. It's like wind is fucking loud. Let alone when
they're whipping giant you know, house pieces and cars and cows and fucking Ellen
Hunt's dad around in the sky. Like I imagine they get pretty damn loud.
But I just love them, like looking out and then all of a
sudden it's lit up and like it's just massive, like it's so huge,
and like it looks so close because it is just so huge and yeah,
just a really really well done scene and definitely the most memorable one that I
that I had as a kid, even even more so than like the cow
sequence when they're driving another cow. I think it's the same one. Yeah,
what else do we have? We had that oil tanker scene too,
right, they're just like whipped out of the They're like, oh my god,
and you see this oil tanker, this big semi tar out of the
tornado and they're like, oh, guys, did you see that explosion?
Like, yeah, yeah, we did. It's funny because it's like how
much crazy you're gonna twister? Get right? Like it's it's really just I
guess the objects that it's that it's swinging around and what other? Yeah,
yeah, exactly Sharknado. So that's another thing, like going into the second
one, like how are they going to step up right like that? What's
already been done? Other than we'll get into it and then got to start
shooting. You can kind a flow invisible tornado. Yeah, that would be
the winner. Probably. I can't see it it all, but yeah,
I kind of lost my train thought there. I don't know where that's okay,
just how they like amp it up right, I guess, like yeah,
exactly, mm hmmmm. It's funny because it is just such an eat
like a simple idea of a movie. I feel like I don't have too
much to really break down more than like a certain sequences. Like it seems
like there's a lot of times where hell and Hunt is like she's like,
especially in the early stages. I think there's two moments where she's willing to
like, yeah, we just got like we need like ten more seconds and
then we'll we'll like we'll be fine, like like we'll literally be mission accomplished.
And then Bill Paxson's like it's not worth it, and it feels like
they fuck around for the same amount of time that it would have taken if
he had just let her like do what she was trying to do, and
then they just like completely lose the vehicle or whatever the object is that they're
trying to do, and I, you know, like it's reasonable for him
to be worried and like it like it's not worth it. It's definitely not
worth it, like your life for the science, but it seems like by
the end they end up kind of risking it anyways, for the science.
So uh yeah, I think the first No, probably I think the second
instance, when they like park the car and she's and it's like coming towards
them, that's when they hide. I think behind the bridge or sorry,
underneath the bridge when the tornado comes through. Is that the first one because
they were in like a cornfield. Maybe that was the last one. Okay,
Yeah, it's it's been a week now since I've seen this movie,
so it's, uh, it's plenty together. Plus I've been watching a lot
right now. But yeah, I think you're right. I think it's the
first time, and I don't know, I felt like she she could have
got it. It is definitely stressful if that thing's coming right for you and
you know you're like trying to do it perfect and you're all shaky because it's
your life's on the line there. But I felt like in that moment,
like, oh man, just let her do it. She's so close.
She's gonna get it. But she probably would have flew in like her dad
did. Oh yeah, I went out like him. That whole scene of
them, that that first encounter, they just drove into that narrow ditch.
I guess it was like a dried up river and that's when they I guess
they hit the bridge right, so they couldn't go any further. They couldn't
even drive out. Yeah, why would you get yourself in that situation?
Why would you commit to a narrow corner yoursel? Yeah, exactly so,
But that definitely sets the tone where they're hiding underneath that bridge and the tornado
passes over them, and I mean the last one is only in ten times
infinitely bigger, but just as scary though, But you're right, there's there's
there's not much really to necessarily continue and expand on a breakdown because it is
it's at its core, it's a very simple movie, but it's it's a
good time. And the characters they're all quirky and wacky, and the story
is just, uh yeah, let's chase the tornado before the other team does
that. Copyed our designs and pop in the the technology and we're good to
go. They went through I think three Dorothy's and the fourth one was the
last one they had, and the kicker, that's the one that successfully worked.
Yeah, and what was I gonna say? The uh yeah, I
think what you said there where it's like this movie is just like a good
time with the energy and like the cast and crew about it, and you
know, like it's it's it's not the most complex story with like a super
in depth antagonist, Like the antagonist is just now natural mother nature event,
and uh I think that, like it's it's important to set your expectations somewhere
around that bar going into Twisters, because like when when I first heard Twisters
was coming out, it's like, ah, I don't know, I don't
know if I have to see that again, Like I like, I have
the nostalgia of the first movie, but there's not enough. Uh Like like
yeah, I have nostalgia for the movie, but it was no means like
my favorite movie as a kid. So I thought it was kind of weird
that they were doing another one until I saw the trailer and then of course
seeing this again, it's just like, yeah, this is just gonna be
a good time movie with some some good fun sequences, some some fun characters
on screen, and uh yeah, that's what I'm hoping to get out of
it. And I definitely think it'll it'll meet there because it because it isn't
too complicated. I think it's kind of a hard one. To fuck up.
Maybe if they try to do too much. They you know that the
tornadoes can camouflage. They're cloning tornadoes, starting to do some drastic world things.
They have a counch. Yeah, they're breeding, They're fuck. Uh
Well, let's see. You got anything else to add? What what would
you rate this movie? I don't have anything else to add, And am
I reading for this movie. I think I'm gonna give it a good eight
out of ten. I think I think that's that's pretty gam solid. It's
nothing too too out there in the negative or positive direction. It's just a
good time. Maybe I was thinking like a seven and seven and a half.
But the nostalgia for it, especially like that sequence of of like the
nighttime when when it lights up and then you see the tornado there is just
it's a really really great visual and just showing like how vulnerable really people are
and just powerless, like like if that thing's there, it doesn't matter if
you have Dorothy or Dorothy and her cousin, like like you were fucked.
There's no way that you're able to get out of that. Right. So
yeah, I'm I'm happy I don't live in an area that uh that gets
Tornado. I know probably a lot of our listeners are so stay safe out
there, Stay safe. I could not agree more. I'm gonna give it
an eight out ten as well. I think that's a really really well rounded
off score for this kind of a movie. It's it's just such a it's
a good time, and this is one that I could easily see myself rewatching,
not three times a year, but oh once a year, maybe twice.
It's just it's a lot of fun and it has me super stoked on
what this new one is going to bring to the table. And just the
CGI alone being so much more improved, and seeing just some crazy, crazy
stuff that that pops off in this film. It's just gonna be a good
time. I look forward to it and the cast as well, getting to
know what kind of tie ins and connections we have to this universe and our
old Twister group as well. I'm sure we'll get some references and some names
Joe Harding, Bill Harding and all that kind of stuff. But yeah,
Ibe, her dad will land by the time of Twist. Oh yeah,
still in there. Still Lady Lands with his door, Still hold on with
his door. Yeah, he'll be looking like this after that the wind blew
his hair right, all yeah, all right, Well, ladies and gentlemen,
thank you for tuning into this episode of Keeepers Podcast. We'll be back,
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