Twister
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2015
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
By the summer of 1996, the era of high-concept movies where special effects took center stage was in full swing. It was a crowded slate, but the hype surrounding Twister was bolstered by the involvement of Jurassic Park alumni Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton. All three of us were completely blown away (rimshot!) by the film as kids, but there's a whole lot about it that doesn't make much sense now.
Topics include: the supposedly troubled production, the incredibly memorable trailer, a clumsy first act that might have benefited from dropping a few of these characters, the over-the-top sound design, whether or not the effects hold up, cell phone reception in the middle of a storm, vindictive tornadoes, the absolutely ludicrous final moments, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, just a couple of things I want to make you aware of before we get started with this look back at Twister. |
| 0:06.0 | So Halloween is coming up and depending on how long you've been listening to the show, you're probably aware that I love this time of year. |
| 0:12.6 | It's my favorite holiday. It's my favorite season. And I typically have this huge checklist of horror movies that I try to work my way through every year. |
| 0:22.2 | And that's part of the reason that there's usually a bonus episode or two in October. So we've got a couple of Halloween-themed |
| 0:28.3 | episodes on the horizon, but I've mentioned that scheduling for the three of us has been |
| 0:33.3 | trickier than usual lately. And that shows no signs of slowing down, unfortunately. So as far as |
| 0:40.1 | these next few weeks go, you might hear sort of a rotating lineup of co-hosts, just depending on |
| 0:46.2 | who's available. The good news, though, is that there is a lot of great stuff in the pipeline. In fact, |
| 0:52.1 | the next one up after this is a movie that a lot of you have |
| 0:55.8 | been requesting for a long, long time. So I'm excited that we're finally getting to it. And I think |
| 1:00.5 | you will be too when you find out what it is. And then after that, we'll have an episode that |
| 1:04.8 | drops the day before Halloween. And hopefully, time permitting, I would love to carry on the |
| 1:10.2 | tradition of a bonus episode this time of year. |
| 1:12.9 | So maybe Kristen and I can squeeze one of those in there as well. We'll see. |
| 1:17.3 | So just a heads up, that's where we're at. |
| 1:19.3 | But the main reason I wanted to jump in here is that one of the things I learned about Twister is that the marketing department almost went with the tagline, |
| 1:27.8 | it sucks. And at first I was like, there is no way that is true. And then you think about it. |
| 1:33.7 | And it's so misguided and so insane that you're like, yeah, I can see somebody thinking that was |
| 1:38.9 | a brilliant idea. Fortunately, somebody else stepped in and went, there's no way we're using that we're going to be making |
| 1:45.7 | it too easy for critics that don't like the movie for audiences that don't like the movie you can't |
| 1:50.5 | put that on a poster but anyways i went on our facebook page and i asked you guys to submit your own |
| 1:56.1 | alternate taglines for the movie and boy howdy you deliver. So let's go through some of these. |
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