Twister (1996)

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Wikidata Q683663, film, IMDb tt0117998, TMDB 664: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Bill Paxton as actor ('Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion); 1 more episode agrees.

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In the store as #515, Twister (1996).

The Rewatchables' awards

From ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan (2024-07-09):

Double feature

  1. pick Speed: The other Jan de Bont film makes a natural pairing.
    “It's gotta be speed, right?”
    Bill Simmons · 1:46:54
  2. pick Independence Day: Another disaster-ish blockbuster from the same summer.
    “I had, I had, I had in Penn State just because same summer.”
    unknown · 1:46:59
  3. pick Deep Impact: A disaster movie the host says feels coded like Twister.
    “Oh, no, this movie is deep impact coded to me.”
    unknown · 1:47:09

Most rewatchable scene

  1. floated Opening scene: Joe's dad holding onto the door
    “I like the opening scene.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:32:39
  2. floated Dusty and the crew meet Bill, who wants Joe's signed papers
    “Bill tries to get signed papers from Joe, meets the crew.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:34:43
  3. floated The first tornado chase, with the truck and flying cows
    “Next, next thing is the chasing the tornado.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:36:11
  4. pick The kitchen table at Aunt Meg's: steak and eggs, the crew crowding in
    “I'm just telling you, this is my rewatchable. is uh, the kitchen table, the start with the...”
    unknown · 0:38:51
  5. floated The third tornado, the hail storm (the Van Halen storm)
    “Third tornado.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:41:16
  6. pick The tornado tearing apart the drive-in screen showing The Shining
    “We get another tornado that destroys the drive-in theater.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:43:23
  7. floated Dr. Melissa dumping Bill
    “I got to put Dr. Melissa Dumping Bill.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:46:23
  8. floated Dorothy flying and the final tornado
    “Dorothy's flying, which we got Dr. Jonas dies.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:47:14
  9. pick The drive-in tornado
    “Van? Drive in close 2nd to me, Joe.”
    Van Lathan · 0:48:34
  10. runner-up The 'Me, Joe' confrontation
    “Me, Joe.”
    Van Lathan · 0:48:38

Ebert review · The hosts read Roger Ebert's review of the film.

  1. pick Twister: Rating garbled in transcript as '2 and F stars', read as two and a half stars; his verdict: works as loud, dumb, skillful escapism.
    “He said, you want loud, dumb, skillful escapist entertainment? Twister works.”
    unknown · 0:30:23

Most 1996 thing · The most 1996 thing about the movie.

  1. pick The Dodge Ram: Calls it a big-deal truck.
    “I like the I'm going to go with the Dodge Room.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:49:23
  2. pick No Oklahoma City Thunder references
    “I'm going with no OKC Thunder references.”
    unknown · 0:49:41
  3. pick Helen Hunt's hair: Says it is very era accurate.
    “I'm going to go with Helen Hunt's hair.”
    unknown · 0:49:16
  4. pick The crew of character actors: Hoffman, Ruck, Davies, Slotnick: an awesome group of guys.
    “I got the crew.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:50:31
  5. pick The world right before climate-change worry
    “You know what's age? And the worst is the world right before we were that worried about climate change, where it was like, God, that's a bad storm.”
    unknown · 0:51:05

What aged the best · What holds up best in the movie.

  1. pick Old school special effects: Feels like trees, ice and license plates really are being thrown at the actors.
    “The old school special effects.”
    unknown · 0:51:44
  2. pick Dr. Jonas, the money-over-science rival
    “First of all, that character is always going to age perfectly.”
    unknown · 0:52:37
  3. pick The all-in-one-day structure
    “Sneaky, awesome, all in one day movie.”
    unknown · 0:55:41
  4. pick The Fujita scale
    “The Fujita scale.”
    unknown · 0:56:12
  5. pick The sound
    “The sound in this movie is really good, especially with when we have better TVs and sound systems and stuff, but they did a good job with that.”
    unknown · 0:56:57
  6. pick The family forgetting the dog in the opening: A personal one for the speaker.
    “When the family's in peril and escaping somewhere, but they forget the dog.”
    unknown · 0:57:09
  7. pick Jamie Gertz as Dr. Melissa Reeves: Her later life as Atlanta Hawks co-owner.
    “Jamie Gertz hawk's owner.”
    unknown · 0:57:28
  8. pick Alan Ruck: A part in something every decade.
    “What a career for this guy.”
    unknown · 0:57:45
  9. pick Aunts who can feed 12 people in two minutes
    “Movie aunts or grandmothers who are always ready in 2 minutes to feed a group of 12.”
    unknown · 0:57:59
  10. pick The Shining
    “The shinings age the best.”
    unknown · 0:58:26
  11. pick Someone telling you you're still in love with your ex
    “Any movie where someone says you're still in love with them, aren't you?”
    unknown · 0:58:30

What aged the worst · What holds up worst in the movie.

  1. pick Dr. Jonas's death scene: Wanted to see more of the death.
    “I wanted 11 more seconds from Dr. Jonas's death scene.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:05:49
  2. pick The map guy
    “Um, I don't know, having my what's age, the worst is probably having a map guy.”
    unknown · 1:06:26
  3. pick The drive-in movie: Notes a drive-in just closed.
    “The drive in movie, man.”
    unknown · 1:06:39
  4. pick Helen Hunt's running as Joe Harding
    “I'm just not happy with the running in this movie.”
    unknown · 1:06:57
  5. pick Helen Hunt's ponytail and haircut
    “My last one for Woodstage the worst, just, Helen Hunt, put a ponytail on during most of this movie.”
    unknown · 1:08:50
  6. pick Cutaways to the unnamed meteorological center
    “Um, they do a lot of cutaways to, I think, an unnamed meteorological center where they're like looking at the storms coming together.”
    unknown · 1:09:28
  7. pick The Spielberg-style dad trauma
    “And personally, for me, I didn't need the Steven Spielberg shit of like my my trauma with my dad.”
    unknown · 1:09:43

Great Shot Award · Best shot in the movie.

  1. pick The tornado reveal behind the drive-in screen
    “The revealed the tornado reveal, the drive-in, lightning flashes and the tornadoes behind the drive-in screen.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:59:06
  2. pick The shot in the middle of the F5 as they hang on: Calls it majestic.
    “To me, it's the shot of the middle of the F5. when they're hanging from the thing.”
    unknown · 0:59:13

Best needle drop · Best music moment.

  1. pick Humans Being (Van Halen): Also praises the soundtrack for using songs related to the movie.
    “Well, humans being, it's humans being and and I get fired up when I hear Van Halen, but...”
    Chris Ryan · 0:59:37
  2. pick Long Way Down (Goo Goo Dolls)
    “I kind of low-key thing. Long way down by Goo Goo Dolls is the better song.”
    unknown · 0:59:59
  3. pick Eric Clapton's Motherless Child video: Called the most inexplicable song.
    “The most inexplicable song is just when Dusty's watching the Eric Clapton video from Motherless Child.”
    unknown · 1:00:03

Big Kahuna Burger Award · Best food or drink.

  1. winner The gravy: Singled out from the whole food scene.
    “The gravy looked really good.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:01:14
  2. nominee Joe ordering 8 to-go coffees at 10 at night
    “My runner-up is Joe ordering 8 to go coffees at the time. at 10 at night.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:01:21
  3. nominee The steaks: Says they ended up well cooked.
    “When they 1st put the steak in the thing, the steak looked like it was going to be shitty, but by the time them steaks came out.”
    unknown · 1:01:29

Butch's Girlfriend Award · The weak link of the film.

  1. winner The weird final kiss: Thinks director never figured out the emotion of the last 30 seconds.
    “The actual last like 18 seconds of the movie with like the weird final kiss”
    Bill Simmons · 1:01:44
  2. winner Why Bill and Dr. Melissa Reeves are together: Says the relationship makes no sense as a couple.
    “Why would Bill and Dr. Melissa Reeves be together?”
    Bill Simmons · 1:02:42

Vincent Hanna / Saul Rubinek Award · Best overacting.

  1. winner Cary Elwes as Dr. Jonas: Dr. Jonas, when accused of stealing Dorothy and his accent drifts.
    “He turns into foghorn Leghorns.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:12:21

Better title · A better title for the movie.

  1. pick Storm Chasers
    “Storm Chasers?”
    unknown · 1:13:21
  2. pick F5
    “F5?”
    unknown · 1:13:22
  3. pick Caucasian Storm: Transcript garbled; reply glosses it as 'Caucasian storm'.
    “Cock of storm.”
    unknown · 1:13:26

Best quote · Most memorable quote.

  1. pick Food!
    “Food.”
    unknown · 1:13:57
  2. nominee It's coming
    “Or it's coming.”
    unknown · 1:13:59
  3. nominee We're going in
    “I like when he's driving when they're driving into the house. And he goes, we're going in.”
    unknown · 1:14:00

Worst character · The weakest character.

  1. pick Joe as Joe Harding: Argues she is not the best at anything in the group.
    “Uh, Joe, good daughter, bad scientist.”
    unknown · 1:14:10

Overrated · What the hosts consider overrated.

  1. pick Speeding up tornado warnings: Says the premise is flawed since warnings are still 10 to 15 minutes.
    “Speeding up the time for tornado warnings.”
    unknown · 1:15:02

Casting what ifs · Who was almost cast, or who could have been.

  1. pick Tom Hanks as Bill: Passed but suggested Paxton.
    “Tom Hanks read for the part of Bill.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:16:53
  2. pick Mira Sorvino as Dr. Melissa Reeves: Did not want to dye her hair.
    “Mir Servino considered to play Dr. Melissa Reeves.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:17:15
  3. nominee Garth Brooks as Dr. Jonas
    “Garth Brooks for Jonas?”
    unknown · 1:17:27
  4. nominee Sally Field as Aunt Meg
    “Who was available at? Ellen Bursten? Sally Field? Coming off Forrest Gump?”
    unknown · 1:21:17
  5. nominee Shirley MacLaine as Aunt Meg
    “Shirley McLean?”
    unknown · 1:21:52
  6. winner Darlene Love as Aunt Meg: A Black Aunt Meg meets Van Lathan's approval ('That's perfect').
    “Darlene, love?”
    unknown · 1:22:35
  7. winner Tom Hanks as Bill: Hanks over Cruise; Cruise is the movie he never made in the 90s.
    “It's Hank's, but then I, I, when I imagine a scene of cruise out running a tornado in a scene, I'm like, man.”
    Craig Horlbeck · 1:33:09
  8. nominee Tom Cruise as Bill
    “I'll tell you, if you put cruise in it, number one, the women are different.”
    unknown · 1:32:53
  9. nominee Denzel Washington as Bill: Argued he is too cool to lose to a tornado.
    “What if you throw in Denzel?”
    unknown · 1:33:42

The Van Lathan Award · Did this movie need more Black people.

  1. pick Twister: Calls the lone Black character in Jonas's crew an abomination; it is a white-ass story.
    “absolutely not.”
    Van Lathan · 1:17:46

Best that guy · Best 'that guy' actor.

  1. winner Zach Grenier: Corrected from 'Raneer'/'Grenier' in transcript.
    “But the answer is Zach Raneer.”
    unknown · 1:19:12
  2. nominee Patrick Fischler
    “That guy from Mad Men who played the mean comic.”
    unknown · 1:18:33
  3. nominee Joey Slotnick
    “Joey Slatnick.”
    unknown · 1:19:06

Dion Waiters Award · Small role, big impact.

  1. winner Todd Field: Repo Man and Star Wars jokes; hosts hope it inspires him to direct more.
    “Let's give it to him because he's only made 3 movies in 21 years and we liked all of them.”
    unknown · 1:20:58
  2. nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman as Dusty: Rejected as too much screen time.
    “I had Hoffman.”
    unknown · 1:19:51
  3. nominee The golden retriever as Meg's dog
    “The golden retriever, I thought, was really good.”
    unknown · 1:19:56
  4. nominee Dr. Jonas
    “Jonas could almost be, he's, he's not that good, but he doesn't really do any.”
    unknown · 1:20:45

Announcer for the director's commentary · Which sports announcer would you want to do the movie's commentary.

  1. pick Doris Burke: A phenomenal read of the tornado.
    “My pick is Dorisburg.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:23:16
  2. nominee Tony Romo
    “I think Tony could work too though.”
    unknown · 1:23:44

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

  1. pick The dad's weak door lock
    “Listen, I have a couple notes for dad, not to step on picking nits, but that lock just wasn't good enough.”
    unknown · 0:32:55
  2. pick Surviving the final tornado
    “I don't think they survived the final tornado.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:47:29
  3. pick Dorothy as a dumb device: Easily knocked over; why not have many?
    “Like a dumb device.”
    unknown · 1:34:50
  4. pick Nobody gets hit by debris: The speaker's wife's biggest nitpick.
    “They never, ever really get hit by a tornado debris, which is why pretty much everyone dies in tornadoes because there's just debris everywhere.”
    unknown · 1:35:18
  5. pick Why Joe and Bill divorced: Never explained enough.
    “Why'd they get divorced?”
    unknown · 1:35:39
  6. pick Five tornadoes in one day: Would be a legendary catastrophic day.
    “I just want to point out they have 5 hurricanes in a 24 hour span.”
    unknown · 1:36:49
  7. pick Time for Meg's steak and eggs
    “There's no way Joe actually lets them take, however long it takes for Meg to make everybody's steak and eggs.”
    unknown · 1:38:26

Sequel, prequel, prestige TV · The sequel, prequel or prestige TV show they would make.

  1. pick Prequel called The Extreme: Bill Paxton's character going sideways, like Leaving Las Vegas with tornadoes.
    “No, the prequel is called The Extreme.”
    unknown · 1:38:55
  2. pick HBO show After the Storm: About Dr. Melissa Reeves's life after Twister.
    “The show is called after the after the storm.”
    unknown · 1:39:48

Oscar pick · Who should have won or been nominated.

  1. pick Special effects / VFX
    “Special effects, especially the VFX.”
    unknown · 1:41:19

Unanswered questions · Questions the movie leaves unanswered.

  1. pick Who is Joe's backup driver: Asked when Bill doesn't show up for the signature.
    “Who's driving Joe?”
    Bill Simmons · 1:41:30
  2. pick Does Joe die if Bill doesn't show up: A reply says 'I think, yes.'
    “If Bill, if Bill Pass's character doesn't show up, does Joe die?”
    unknown · 1:41:55
  3. pick What is Jonas's business model
    “What kind of money were you talking about?”
    unknown · 1:42:35
  4. pick Is the movie better if one of the inner circle dies: Answer: no.
    “Is this movie better if one of the inner circle dies?”
    Bill Simmons · 1:44:29
  5. pick Scariest movie disaster: Answers: tsunami, earthquake, tornado.
    “What is the single scariest disaster of all the possible movie disasters for you personally?”
    Bill Simmons · 1:45:11

Zihuatanejo Award (what happened the next day) · What happens to the characters after the film.

  1. pick Bill and Joe
    “I just don't think Bill and Joe last.”
    unknown · 1:47:12
  2. pick Bill becomes Rob Marciano
    “No, the extreme, he becomes Rob Marciano like way before he, you know, like he just starts to be like the hot guy who's like in...”
    unknown · 1:47:19

Memorabilia · A prop they would want to own.

  1. pick Hoffman's Oklahoma Sooners hat
    “Philip Seymour Hoffman's Oklahoma sooner's hat.”
    unknown · 1:48:16
  2. pick The Dodge Ram
    “We ruled out cars for this category, but the Dodge ram that they used would be a good one.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:48:20

Coach Finstock Award · Best life lesson.

  1. winner Stop living in the past
    “Stop living in the past and look what you got right in front of you.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:48:55

Who won the movie · Who or what won the movie.

  1. winner The tornadoes
    “The tornado.”
    unknown · 1:49:02
  2. nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman as Dusty
    “But as the years pass, Hoffman's performance is the most fascinating because he turned out to be one of the greatest actors in the last 40 years.”
    unknown · 1:49:25

Best line reading · Hoffman's exposition, as the hosts frame it.

  1. pick Dusty telling Joe the storm is headed for Meg's town and the F5 warning: Expository dialogue done really well.
    “I was going to say the 2 moments that are the fucking best moments are him when he realizes the storm is going for Meg's town and he has to tell Joe.”
    unknown · 1:49:45

Hottest take · A hot take.

  1. pick Philip Seymour Hoffman: Thinks he is the same goofy guy in every supporting role; Bill calls it the hottest take.
    “I personally don't have a huge relationship to Hoffman.”
    Craig Horlbeck · 1:51:51

Apex Mountain · Where something's peak sits on the mountain.

  1. pick Bill Paxton
    “Paxton, I'm going to say yes.”
    unknown · 1:27:16
  2. pick Helen Hunt
    “Helen Hunt probably winning an Oscar year later.”
    unknown · 1:27:19
  3. pick Philip Seymour Hoffman
    “Hoffman, no.”
    unknown · 1:27:21
  4. pick The Dodge Ram
    “Uh, I feel like it's had pretty sustained success.”
    unknown · 1:27:25
  5. pick The tornadoes
    “Yeah, in the movie for sure.”
    unknown · 1:28:15
  6. pick The gravy: No.
    “Fuck no.”
    unknown · 1:28:20
  7. pick Jamie Gertz: Her peak is guessed as Lost Boys or Less Than Zero.
    “Maybe it's the Lost Boys.”
    unknown · 1:28:59
  8. pick Flying cows
    “Flying cows, yes.”
    unknown · 1:29:04
  9. pick The Shining
    “The shining, no.”
    unknown · 1:29:07
  10. pick Independence Day: Apex of 90s disaster movies if invasion movies count.
    “So to me, to me, if you count Independence Day, it's definitely Independence Day.”
    unknown · 1:30:40

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Industrial Light & Magic: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (industry): Industrial Light & Magic ⇒ Twister (the host's read). The movie was built out of an ILM proof-of-concept clip of a pickup truck driving toward a tornado.
    “It was a proof of concept clip from Industrial Light Magic”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:11:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Jaws: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie.
    “The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (industry): Jurassic Park ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous.
    “coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Speed: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (industry): Speed ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Hollywood shifted after Speed; Twister marketed Paxton and others as future stars.
    “The one that changed it was speed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:54:13 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Titanic: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (industry): Twister ⇒ Titanic (the host's read). Twister started a playbook of putting not-yet-A-list leads in a spectacle, which Titanic and later Star Wars followed.
    “It became a playbook for it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Connected to

Jurassic Park: 4 lines lineage ×1 craft ×1 theme ×1 industry ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Twister → Jurassic Park. Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things.
    “I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Twisters: 4 lines contrast ×2 industry ×1 what-if ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Twister → Twisters. Twister's leads look attainably pretty while the sequel is a movie-star vehicle for the hottest guy in Hollywood.
    “now this same film is a movie star vehicle for the sexiest, hottest guy in Hollywood right now”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:05 · Van Lathan (0.60 sure it was them)

Jan de Bont: 2 lines people ×1 craft ×1

  1. people (people): Twister → Jan de Bont. De Bont is introduced as Chris's guy: DP on Die Hard, director of Speed, a hard-charging efficient director the crew hated.
    “Director of photography on Die Hard.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:26:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible: 2 lines programming ×1 people ×1

  1. programming (programming): Twister → Mission: Impossible. 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day.
    “So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Speed: 2 lines programming ×1 industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Twister → Speed. Hollywood shifted after Speed; Twister marketed Paxton and others as future stars.
    “The one that changed it was speed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:54:13 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 2 lines people ×1 what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was initially attached to direct, as he was for every movie in the 90s, before Jan de Bont took over.
    “Spielberg initially attached to direct, which I think was the case for every single movie in the 90s”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:16:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Apollo 13: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Twister → Apollo 13. The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4.
    “Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Armageddon: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → Armageddon. The panel debates whether Twister is the apex 90s disaster movie against Armageddon, Outbreak, Dante's Peak, Deep Impact, Independence Day; natural disasters only.
    “So so I consider disaster movies to be natural disaster movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:30:12 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Batman (character films): 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → Batman (character films). Joe chasing her parent's trauma by storm-chasing is likened to Batman, a Caucasian Mount Rushmore of trauma.
    “Caucasian character Mount Rushmore.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:10:15 · Van Lathan (0.50 sure it was them)

Deep Impact: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Twister → Deep Impact. Deep Impact, same summer, is suggested as a disaster double feature and feels coded to Twister.
    “Oh, no, this movie is deep impact coded to me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:47:09 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)

Denzel Washington: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → Denzel Washington. Denzel is too cool, like Charlton Heston as Brody in Jaws, so nobody believes he would lose to a tornado.
    “Charlton Heston wanted to be Brody.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:34:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Eric Clapton: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Twister → Eric Clapton. The most inexplicable music choice is Dusty watching an Eric Clapton video, which the speaker writes off as product placement.
    “The most inexplicable song is just when Dusty's watching the Eric Clapton video from Motherless Child.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:00:03 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Fast & Furious (series): 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → Fast & Furious (series). Craig says some movies, like Twister and the Fast and Furious films, are better when watched on a plane because turbulence heightens them.
    “I feel like all the Fast and Furious movies are like that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:51:14 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

Garth Brooks: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → Garth Brooks. Garth Brooks or Dwight Yoakam is proposed as stunt casting for Dr. Jonas.
    “Garth Brooks for Jonas?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:17:27 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Goo Goo Dolls: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Twister → Goo Goo Dolls. The soundtrack was built from songs people were asked to make for the movie; the Goo Goo Dolls track is judged the better song than Tori Amos's contribution.
    “Long way down by Goo Goo Dolls is the better song.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:59:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Goodfellas: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → Goodfellas. Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas.
    “Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)

Heat: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → Heat. A joke that Chris Ryan lost the town its treasury of cinematic knowledge when blown away, still hadn't seen Heat, which hadn't been made yet.
    “He loved heat, which had not been made yet.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:45:39 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)

Independence Day: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Twister → Independence Day. Independence Day (July 2) closes out the 1996 summer calendar that began with Twister.
    “July 2nd Independence Day.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Industrial Light & Magic: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Twister → Industrial Light & Magic. The movie was built out of an ILM proof-of-concept clip of a pickup truck driving toward a tornado.
    “It was a proof of concept clip from Industrial Light Magic”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:11:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Jack Green: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Twister → Jack Green. Despite two DPs and a crew revolt, the photography reads as one seamless look.
    “when you watch the movie, you think the same cinematographer shot the whole thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:28:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Jaws: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Twister → Jaws. Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie.
    “The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Leaving Las Vegas: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → Leaving Las Vegas. A prequel about Bill the Extreme going off the rails is pitched as Leaving Las Vegas with tornadoes.
    “It's like leaving Las Vegas with tornadoes in Oklahoma.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:39:02 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Mira Sorvino: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → Mira Sorvino. Mira Sorvino was considered for Dr. Melissa Reeves but did not want to dye her hair.
    “But did not want to dye her hair.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:17:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Roger Ebert: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Twister → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave 2.5 stars, saying loud dumb escapist entertainment works but not for thinkers; this became a running joke later.
    “you want loud, dumb, skillful escapist entertainment? Twister works.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:30:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Sally Field: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → Sally Field. Casting a bigger actress for Aunt Meg is floated with Sally Field, Ellen Burstyn, Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger.
    “Who was available at? Ellen Bursten? Sally Field? Coming off Forrest Gump?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:21:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

San Andreas: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Twister → San Andreas. Modern disaster movies fail by casting the Rock, who is never in peril, instead of normal-looking actors like Adam Driver.
    “The rock's never in peril.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:31:16 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Slap Shot: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → Slap Shot. Chris could have lived in the Twister town, like the Charleston Chiefs fan living in the Slap Shot town.
    “I could see CR living in that town.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Sleepless in Seattle: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → Sleepless in Seattle. Dr. Melissa is the stable fiance archetype that rom-coms usually give to the guy, like Bill Pullman in Sleepless in Seattle and Greg Kinnear in You've Got Mail.
    “It's like Bill Palman in Seattle and Greg Canair and you got mail.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:05:33 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

The Amityville Horror: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → The Amityville Horror. Going back for the dog in the opening scene echoes Amityville Horror, which Bill says has the best version of the leave-the-dog trope.
    “Amityville horror has the best.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:57:21 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)

The Cable Guy: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Twister → The Cable Guy. Chris pushes back that The Cable Guy, a notorious failure, still made 104 million, and Twister made 495 million.
    “I mean, Twister made 495.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Poseidon Adventure: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Twister → The Poseidon Adventure. Disaster movies had two golden runs, the 70s (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno) and the 90s, and Twister belongs to the second.
    “The 70s, we had this awesome run, Poseidon adventure and all those movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:30:51 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

The Rock: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Twister → The Rock. Craig calls Twister the ice cold beer of movies: tight, simple, one storyline, perfect CGI-practical blend.
    “the ice cold beer of movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:50:35 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

The Shining: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → The Shining. The drive-in tornado scene works because a tornado tears the screen while the audience watches The Shining, a frightening movie with a real threat behind it.
    “there's something coming behind that that's actually fucking frightening and it just starts ripping.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:43:59 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Titanic: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Twister → Titanic. Twister started a playbook of putting not-yet-A-list leads in a spectacle, which Titanic and later Star Wars followed.
    “It became a playbook for it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Tom Hanks: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → Tom Hanks. Hanks is the right lead over Cruise, who is too good-looking; the group argues Hanks vs Cruise vs Denzel.
    “This is this is a perfect Hanks movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:32:24 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Van Halen: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Twister → Van Halen. The hail tornado is dubbed the Van Halen storm for its needle drop, a song that works in the movie but would not make a Van Halen playlist.
    “I refer to this as the Van Halen storm.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:41:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

War of the Worlds: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → War of the Worlds. A Tom Cruise Twister would be the grounded 90s movie he never made, until War of the Worlds years later.
    “It's the movie Cruise never made in the 90s that he should have made.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:33:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

White Squall: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → White Squall. A joke title for Twister, Caucasian Storm, leads to White Squall as another white-people-in-nature movie.
    “Have you ever seen White Squall?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:13:35 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Twister → Twisters. The new film shows how much better-looking the leads are now than the ordinary-looking cast of the original.
    “This movie and Twister, the old movie, it shows you the difference in things.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:04:47 · Van Lathan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Twister → Twisters. Twister's leads look attainably pretty while the sequel is a movie-star vehicle for the hottest guy in Hollywood.
    “now this same film is a movie star vehicle for the sexiest, hottest guy in Hollywood right now”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:05 · Van Lathan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Twister → San Andreas. Modern disaster movies fail by casting the Rock, who is never in peril, instead of normal-looking actors like Adam Driver.
    “The rock's never in peril.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:31:16 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (6)

  1. craft (craft): Twister → Jack Green. Despite two DPs and a crew revolt, the photography reads as one seamless look.
    “when you watch the movie, you think the same cinematographer shot the whole thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:28:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Twister → Van Halen. The hail tornado is dubbed the Van Halen storm for its needle drop, a song that works in the movie but would not make a Van Halen playlist.
    “I refer to this as the Van Halen storm.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:41:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Twister → Jurassic Park. The drive-in tornado reveal is ranked alongside the T-Rex in Jurassic Park though not as iconic.
    “I think this one's up there in subways with like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:43:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Jan de Bont → Twister. De Bont saw CGI coming and did Twister as one of his last chances to do practical effects.
    “one of the reasons he did Twister was he thought it would be one of his last chances to do practical.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:52:02 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Twister → Goo Goo Dolls. The soundtrack was built from songs people were asked to make for the movie; the Goo Goo Dolls track is judged the better song than Tori Amos's contribution.
    “Long way down by Goo Goo Dolls is the better song.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:59:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Twister → Eric Clapton. The most inexplicable music choice is Dusty watching an Eric Clapton video, which the speaker writes off as product placement.
    “The most inexplicable song is just when Dusty's watching the Eric Clapton video from Motherless Child.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:00:03 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (6)

  1. industry (industry): Twister → The Cable Guy. Chris pushes back that The Cable Guy, a notorious failure, still made 104 million, and Twister made 495 million.
    “I mean, Twister made 495.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Twister → Industrial Light & Magic. The movie was built out of an ILM proof-of-concept clip of a pickup truck driving toward a tornado.
    “It was a proof of concept clip from Industrial Light Magic”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:11:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Twister → Twisters. Twister and K-Hive both came back on Twitter in the same week ahead of the sequel, and the original is on Max.
    “And Twister is on, I think it's on the Max app, but it's just it just feels very omnipresent right now.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:12:26 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Twister → Jurassic Park. Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous.
    “coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Twister → Titanic. Twister started a playbook of putting not-yet-A-list leads in a spectacle, which Titanic and later Star Wars followed.
    “It became a playbook for it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. industry (industry): Twister → Speed. Hollywood shifted after Speed; Twister marketed Paxton and others as future stars.
    “The one that changed it was speed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:54:13 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (lineage): Twister → Jurassic Park. Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things.
    “I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Twister → Jaws. Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie.
    “The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Twister → The Poseidon Adventure. Disaster movies had two golden runs, the 70s (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno) and the 90s, and Twister belongs to the second.
    “The 70s, we had this awesome run, Poseidon adventure and all those movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:30:51 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (people): Twister → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg executive produced and Amblin is a production company, giving the film a wide-eyed wonder-and-fear Spielberg feel.
    “and the Steven Spielberg executive produced it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Twister → Jan de Bont. De Bont is introduced as Chris's guy: DP on Die Hard, director of Speed, a hard-charging efficient director the crew hated.
    “Director of photography on Die Hard.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:26:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (star-casting economics): Mission: Impossible → Twister. Hollywood realized high-concept blockbusters like Twister did not need top stars, which hurt Cruise's leverage.
    “there was a market inefficiency in not casting stars in blockbusters.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:15:34 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (5)

  1. programming (programming): Twister → Apollo 13. The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4.
    “Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Twister → Mission: Impossible. 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day.
    “So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. programming (programming): Twister → Independence Day. Independence Day (July 2) closes out the 1996 summer calendar that began with Twister.
    “July 2nd Independence Day.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. programming (programming): Twister → Speed. Best double feature for Twister is the Jan de Bont pair with Speed.
    “It's gotta be speed, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:46:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. programming (programming): Twister → Deep Impact. Deep Impact, same summer, is suggested as a disaster double feature and feels coded to Twister.
    “Oh, no, this movie is deep impact coded to me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:47:09 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (11)

  1. theme (theme): Twister → The Shining. The drive-in tornado scene works because a tornado tears the screen while the audience watches The Shining, a frightening movie with a real threat behind it.
    “there's something coming behind that that's actually fucking frightening and it just starts ripping.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:43:59 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Twister → Slap Shot. Chris could have lived in the Twister town, like the Charleston Chiefs fan living in the Slap Shot town.
    “I could see CR living in that town.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Twister → Heat. A joke that Chris Ryan lost the town its treasury of cinematic knowledge when blown away, still hadn't seen Heat, which hadn't been made yet.
    “He loved heat, which had not been made yet.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:45:39 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Twister → Jurassic Park. Jonas, who is in it for money not science, is the same corporate-greed character type as Jurassic Park.
    “Jurassic Park is the same way.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Twister → The Amityville Horror. Going back for the dog in the opening scene echoes Amityville Horror, which Bill says has the best version of the leave-the-dog trope.
    “Amityville horror has the best.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:57:21 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. theme (theme): Twister → Goodfellas. Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas.
    “Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. theme (theme): Twister → Sleepless in Seattle. Dr. Melissa is the stable fiance archetype that rom-coms usually give to the guy, like Bill Pullman in Sleepless in Seattle and Greg Kinnear in You've Got Mail.
    “It's like Bill Palman in Seattle and Greg Canair and you got mail.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:05:33 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. theme (theme): Twister → Batman (character films). Joe chasing her parent's trauma by storm-chasing is likened to Batman, a Caucasian Mount Rushmore of trauma.
    “Caucasian character Mount Rushmore.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:10:15 · Van Lathan (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. theme (theme): Twister → White Squall. A joke title for Twister, Caucasian Storm, leads to White Squall as another white-people-in-nature movie.
    “Have you ever seen White Squall?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:13:35 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. theme (theme): Twister → Armageddon. The panel debates whether Twister is the apex 90s disaster movie against Armageddon, Outbreak, Dante's Peak, Deep Impact, Independence Day; natural disasters only.
    “So so I consider disaster movies to be natural disaster movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:30:12 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. theme (theme): Twister → Fast & Furious (series). Craig says some movies, like Twister and the Fast and Furious films, are better when watched on a plane because turbulence heightens them.
    “I feel like all the Fast and Furious movies are like that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:51:14 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Twister → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave 2.5 stars, saying loud dumb escapist entertainment works but not for thinkers; this became a running joke later.
    “you want loud, dumb, skillful escapist entertainment? Twister works.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:30:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Twister → The Rock. Craig calls Twister the ice cold beer of movies: tight, simple, one storyline, perfect CGI-practical blend.
    “the ice cold beer of movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:50:35 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (9)

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was initially attached to direct, as he was for every movie in the 90s, before Jan de Bont took over.
    “Spielberg initially attached to direct, which I think was the case for every single movie in the 90s”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:16:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Twister → Mira Sorvino. Mira Sorvino was considered for Dr. Melissa Reeves but did not want to dye her hair.
    “But did not want to dye her hair.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:17:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Twister → Garth Brooks. Garth Brooks or Dwight Yoakam is proposed as stunt casting for Dr. Jonas.
    “Garth Brooks for Jonas?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:17:27 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Twister → Sally Field. Casting a bigger actress for Aunt Meg is floated with Sally Field, Ellen Burstyn, Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger.
    “Who was available at? Ellen Bursten? Sally Field? Coming off Forrest Gump?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:21:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): Twister → Tom Hanks. Hanks is the right lead over Cruise, who is too good-looking; the group argues Hanks vs Cruise vs Denzel.
    “This is this is a perfect Hanks movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:32:24 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. what-if (what-if): Twister → War of the Worlds. A Tom Cruise Twister would be the grounded 90s movie he never made, until War of the Worlds years later.
    “It's the movie Cruise never made in the 90s that he should have made.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:33:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. what-if (what-if): Twister → Denzel Washington. Denzel is too cool, like Charlton Heston as Brody in Jaws, so nobody believes he would lose to a tornado.
    “Charlton Heston wanted to be Brody.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:34:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. what-if (what-if): Twister → Leaving Las Vegas. A prequel about Bill the Extreme going off the rails is pitched as Leaving Las Vegas with tornadoes.
    “It's like leaving Las Vegas with tornadoes in Oklahoma.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:39:02 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. what-if (what-if): Twister → Twisters. The sequel should have been about the kid of Bill and Jo, and Glen Powell might be that kid.
    “It should have been their kid who is now chasing the storm.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:47:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Twister: Built from an ILM proof-of-concept clip of a pickup truck, a tractor tire and a tornado, with the story figured out afterward.
    “Let's figure out the story as we go.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:12:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Twister: On May 24, 1996 a tornado destroyed a screen at an Ontario drive-in scheduled to show Twister that night.
    “A tornado destroyed screen number 3 in Ontario at a drive-in theater.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:26:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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