Hello and Welcome to Disaster Area.

I'm Jennifer Metterese, and this week is actually a movie break.

No disasters, or at least no real disasters, are going to be talked about tonight.

You know, this is a night for fun, and I was trying to decide what movie I wanted to kind of snark on tonight.

I was a choice between 2012 and Knowing, and two of my favorite bad disaster movies.

There are so many things I could talk about about both movies.

But I'm going to get into them in later movie breaks because this particular episode,

I decided to talk about a movie, which it turns out came out 20 years ago,

give or take a few weeks. And that would be Twister. I didn't know it had come out 20 years ago

until I saw kind of a retweet on Twitter saying, oh, you come out 20 years ago until I saw a retweet on Twitter saying,

oh, you know, 20 years ago this week, Twister came out.

And then I just kind of sat there stunned for a little bit,

because I wasn't sure if it was the fact that it had come out 20 years ago that was throwing me off

or the fact that it came out when I was 18,

um, you know, it just sort of blew my mind for a second. And, and then I re-watched it. And it's a movie that's incredibly dated. I mean, in terms of, of, of the special effects and that sort of thing, yeah. But in terms of like the technology involved and that sort of thing, you know, that, that

is where it's at in terms of dating it.

Because my god, my God, the computers, the cell phones, the literally everything in this movie, you know, the GPS,

which it turns out in this movie is not GPS so much as it is Cameron from Ferris-Buehler's Day Off.

Anyway, the movie itself.

Something you realize when you rewatch Twister nowadays is that Twister has no plot.

I mean, to be fair, most disaster movies do not have a plot.

They have a series of set pieces with extreme special effects in which

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