All My Movies: Twister (w/ Adam Collins)

[@CinemaGulp]

Everytime I see Bill Paxton it makes me sad and happy at the same time. Miss that guy so much.

[@sarahrisley7231]

Exactly

[@tfromcleveland3741]

In my head cannon Dan always sniffs the dirt outside before entering a movie theater.

[@DanMurrellMovies]

How else will you know if the movie will be good or not?

[@buff4bcs]

As a former meteorological student. I just want you to know, that Phillip Seymour Hoffman NAAAAAAAILED Dusty, I know about 15-20 Dusty's haha That movie nailed Meteorological grad students.

[@mxwells216]

Can you believe releasing the dorothy with small aluminum balls getting thrown around in a tornado like a shotgun and killing people? Now that you look back on it....why would you send 500 balls of metal into a tornado?

[@Phantomwaxx]

RIP, Uncle Charlie. Those are sweet memories, Dan. Love hearing about them.

[@DanMurrellMovies]

I love sharing them - he was a very special person in my life.

[@andrewhogan6533]

Just a solid movie you can pop in and enjoy. You can sit down and watch it repeatedly or have it on in the background.

[@630designs]

So true

[@vincentjetton4157]

When Twister is on, I stop and watch, 25 years later!!!🌪

[@jorgeramirez6060]

I was only 9 when it came out and I still remember the excitement coming into and out of the theatre; as well as the major obsession I had with tornadoes, my cousins and I would spend hours playing as storm chasers with our toy cars and reading all about tornadoes and how they work, at least as far as scientists knew back then. Even though my first VHS was for Independence Day, I have not re watched that movie as much as I have with Twister, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton became my favorite actors for years, even Hoffman was the very reason I watched so many movies, just because one of them were in it. I love this small journeys through memory lane that you take us on. I can never thank you enough, I do wish I could afford being a patreon.

[@Mr-Muyos]

Love this movie. That was a simpler time

[@StuNankivell]

7:52 Thanks for bringing this up! When I saw this trailer in the mid 90s, two things grabbed me - this effects shot was terrifying and suggested a darker tone and secondly seeing music by Van Halen had me hooked.

[@aprilperrault9438]

I haven't listened yet but Twister was the movie I saw on my first ever date. I love this movie and it holds a special place in my heart. I can't wait to watch your take.

[@MrBlue3rd]

This movie has a special place in my heart as I was 15 when it came out. I consider it one of the great Midwest movies.

[@katevand]

Great plains?

[@MrBlue3rd]

@@katevand Well the movie is set in Oklahoma but I live in Kansas and we get a lot of the same severe weather.

[@robk.6591]

Happy 25th Anniversary Twister! 🌪

[@theflickchick9850]

I legit watched this movie for the first time yesterday. I laughed and yelled angrily lot but ya know? If I had friends with me, I probably would re-watch it.

[@markgraves6441]

Love this movie! "Greenage!" "I've gotta go... We've got cows" "I call it 'The suck zone'" "debris!!"

[@_RT___]

FOOD!

[@StuNankivell]

15:12 This is great. Right there with you. Same deal when I saw Star Wars in the early 80s. The world seemed scary, but I loved the heroes so much that I felt safe to go on this journey with them.

[@GameRelic]

I saw the Twister Dorothy prop in person at the Strataca underground salt museum along with the Arnold Schwarzenegger Mr. Freeze costume about a decade ago when they were on Display. Pretty slick.

[@strawmancomics]

I lived in Oklahoma at the time Twister came out. One of my special memories of this movie is that our local weatherman, Andy Wallace, had a small part in the film as the weatherman during the drive in theater scene.

[@davidhiltebrand3987]

So glad you guys did a deep dive on Twister. I have always loved this movie more than I probably should.

[@dbdeets]

Watched it yesterday. Still holds up. A sound reference for the longest time on Laserdisc and still a great track.

[@TraeandSky]

As they were saying, I think Twister for me was so memorable because it was a real monster, a monster I was afraid of. Growing up in Alabama we had tornadoes every year, twister was a movie that I thought of every time the tornado warning sirens went off.

[@totodiledundee6354]

Dan I love these so much please never stop doing these

[@pologoalie7]

Lunch and Opened KZbin at the perfect time!

[@samuelpotts2111]

Hi from Northern Ireland, UK! Thanks so much for your content, really enjoying it.

[@brannondunlap3408]

I am soooo watching this classic again thanks to you guys. Thank you Dan and thank you Adam for sharing your view and passion for this amazing film.

[@alexwlf8434]

Keep up the excellent work Dan. I was only 6 when this movie came out and never saw it in the theater but still this movie made such an impact on me. I enjoy hearing about how these movies interweaved with your familial relationships. I have the same experiences. Looking forward to the next installment of All My Movies.

[@Mr.Monk2G]

Another great episode, Dan. Love this show!

[@SylviusTheMad]

Helen Hunt's performance in the Trancers series is wonderful. Everyone should watch Trancers.

[@DrWho-jw3yg]

The Trancers movies are my favorite. I don't know how many times Ive watched the first one!

[@markgraves6441]

It took me forever to put together that Jonas was the same actor that played Wesley in The Princess Bride. Mind blown

[@SVBonnieLass]

Like you Dan and many others, Twister is a definitive moment in being a kid. My family and I saw it opening week on a camping trip to the beach. We came out of the theater to a rather intense storm that ended up flooding our campsite, leaving us to stay in the van that night. My brother and I overplayed the soundtrack to the point of exhaustion. Even to this day I constantly hear "THE SUCK ZONE!" and the tornado score cues any time I am with my family.

[@grahamschwartz901]

“Honey, your car is in a tree around the corner”. CLASSIC! dang it, I love this movie.

[@malkav81]

Great to spend time with Collins outside of Schmoedown competition. Great show.

[@iAmSantiCruz]

wow! you guys were great! So much nostalgia in one video. RIP Mr Paxton and Uncle Charlie

[@rebeccazainea4645]

Perfect description calling Twister a big, dumb summer movie. But I love it anyway! I was also born in '83, and while I was born in Alabama, I grew up in rural Ohio. I appreciate hearing your take on 90s movies because we experienced these movies at the same age with the same national and world events affecting our world view. I grew up with the story of my mom and older sister running from a tornado the day before I was born. That tornado was likely responsible for me being born the next day. I was also obsessed with the Wizard of Oz and was 100% terrified of tornadoes because of those two things (and living in NW Ohio with regular tornado watches and warnings in the summer and being several miles too far away to hear any town tornado sirens). I saw Twister at the drive-in and the drive-in scene had me straight terrified a tornado was headed our way... lol. My sister and I rewatched Twister constantly, we still quote it, and I own a t-shirt with Philip Seymour Hoffman on it that says "The Suck Zone." My youngest brother born in 1990 does not share the same love for the movie. Thanks for the deep dive into Twister! Red meat, we crave sustenance. Food FOOD FOOOOD

[@loganboettcher8314]

My first date with my wife (holy crap, 25 years ago!) was at this movie on week 3. We still watch this movie constantly and glad to see this is on Dan's shelf.

[@tomboz777]

I find it funny that you’re talking about the chemistry between the two leads because this is the film where Bill Paxton & Hellen Hunt played love interests despite hating each other and both refusing to work with the other ever again.

[@Mike12131984]

Wow, really? Didn’t know that. They do spend most of the movie arguing.

[@may.k_me]

Everyone talks about The Notebook, and Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling reportedly hated each other Maybe hatred leads to good chemistry onscreen?

[@Delight96]

@@may.k_me they ended up having a very, very passionate affair. I don't think Gosling and McAdams hated each other at all.

[@tomboz777]

A couple years later when Universal created a/the ride for their park, as part of the rides introduction they had to record separately, having two screens and feign talking to each other, I’m sure there’s footage here on KZbin of it.

[@tomboz777]

@@may.k_me I’m struggling to think of examples, but I’m sure it’s happened numerous times. Film can be strange like that.

[@Mr_Yarn]

Van Halen’s Respect the Wind, paired with great scenic shots, was the reason this movie was the first I watched and stayed in my seat through to the end of the credits. Also Twister remained my all time favourite movie for many years.

[@clarissa182]

Wow. What perfect timing for Dan to be discussing Twister. I actually just watched it this past Saturday. I've always loved Twister. I did find myself nitpicking at things that I never noticed or probably didn't care about any other time I've ever watched the film. I guess it's just another thing that happens when you watch films from your childhood. 😭

[@carveylover]

I just watched Twister again the other since it was released 25 years ago. It still holds up. It is just a fun fun movie. It also made me really really miss Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It has such a fun cast and the special effects are so good and don't look dated either. I was 11 at the time and I remember being captivated then and I was captivated now. Man I loved this movie!

[@DrWho-jw3yg]

I remember going around with my friends on the night that Twister opened and all the showings in our area were sold out. Finally saw it a week or two later. One of the only times that ever happened to me.

[@stealintomorrow]

I've been liking all these videos but I think this one and the Titanic video are my favorite so far! Looking forward to future videos!

[@AA1891]

Watched this movie so much as a kid. Glad I got to experience Twister...Ride it Out at Universal Studios in Orlando back in '98.

[@aubrimartinez8726]

I completely agree with the comment about Katie McGrath's character in Jurassic World. Such a horrific death scene for a character who was not remotely close to being the villain or main antagonist

[@jp3813]

Yup, it was merely done for the "why can't women get eaten by dinosaurs" crowd. Especially since that scene concerns masses of people being attacked yet all the violence was focused on one person. The kids should've been eaten instead for running off and breaking the park's rules.

[@NoCountryforBadMovies]

@@jp3813movies like that are written around storyboarded sequences. That death scene was probably devised before Derek Connelly was ever hired to write.

[@markgraves6441]

Excellent work, Dan

[@may.k_me]

I'm so glad you talked about Twister It is one of my favorite 90s movies that most people don't talk about It's one of my guilty pleasures that I'll always watch if it's on tv by chance After watching it I wanted to be a "storm chaser"

[@mchapmond]

I love this ridiculous movie. I live in Oklahoma and found it mostly accurate to the culture surrounding severe weather. Some of the dialogue didn't sound like it came from people who know Oklahoma well but that is easily overlooked. Great show, Dan.

[@wakkyfodder]

I love going to the movies, it's always an event, it's an experience I look forward to. So much so that I've kept every ticket stub (until they were sent digitally) going back decades, the first one I held onto... was for Twister, I still have it and this movie is still a favourite.

[@NeonluxDJWorks]

Fun! I was just watching the remastered version of this one last night last night!

[@kevinnavarro2180]

One of the first action movies I watched in a movie theater (six years old). So there is definitely some nostalgia, and it has awesome action sequences, likable characters, and effects that hold up relatively well. It is also one of the few action movies to take place in a rural area in the American heartland.

[@katevand]

Obsessed w movie and this show just keeps getting better

[@danielmcnutt4668]

Saw the movie 3 times in the theaters. Soundtrack very memorable, still listen to it. So great to see Bill Paxton get a star turn and deliver. Nice retrospective. Hope you do one on The Rocketeer 30th anniversary this summer. Great movie that opened against Julia Roberts Dying Young. Thanks for the nostalgia. Great channel.

[@chrisdtgordon5331]

“Humans Being” and “Long Way Down” made this soundtrack one of my favorite 90s albums.

[@Tb0n33999]

love Twister. strangely enough, watched this the day before you dropped this vid.

[@brendonkivell9887]

Yes!!! Twister was the movie that started my love of all things film. I believe it was my 2nd movie ever I watched at the cinema as a kid and it just blew my mind. It's probably my most watched film ever too lol

[@bme16s]

My favorite disaster move of all-time! Good episode Dan

[@concord327]

I remember waiting in line for Twister.

[@Psychoclaw]

I remember watching Twister at a drive-in as a kid, and there was a lot of nervous laugher when the drive-in scene happened. I grew up in Ohio's tornado valley, and I've been in two. That's plenty for me. My poor dog starts shaking whenever the wind picks up. Thankfully, the F5 Xenia tornado happened before I was born, but it went through the plot of land my parents ended up building on. To hear my folks go through Xenia and talk about "and this whole neighborhood was wiped off the earth, and that was gone, and that was gone"...yeah, I have a healthy fear/respect of tornados.

[@shakeemwinn3647]

You have a great insight into movies

[@serenityriver2701]

Twister museum, new goal.

[@charlesfarley28]

Much of this was filmed in Iowa and two of my teachers, one from middle school and one from high school, worked on the production crew that summer. Both of them were Shop teachers, surprising no one.

[@theblackdouglas4772]

My old man always say "when I want your opinion I'll give it to you!" 😂😂

[@fcm3d]

Man I love this movie.

[@leafnut420]

Everything’s amazing no qualms EXCEPT for one, I wish you would tell us at the end of the ep what you’re doing next week cuz I would love to watch it beforehand. Other than that great job bud keep it up

[@bizzaro1988]

Great soundtrack for sure. Daylight has a fantastic soundtrack as well

[@iamgroot2654]

Such a fun movie with fantastic special effects. Another movie with Bill Paxton classic lines.

[@tomhahnl1927]

Another great episode of 'All My Movies'!!! I liked Twister, didn't had that impact on me but still an ok movie.

[@dplunk13]

One of the best Van Hagar songs.

[@kassiosful]

Epic movie!!!! 6 times on cinemas..😀

[@davidhiltebrand3987]

This movie introduced me to The Shining as well (or at least I hadn’t really noticed it much before).

[@thewatcher8573]

love this movie

[@Tereza_Sky]

Loved the show

[@jp3813]

2:42 Shouldn't Demolition Man be the one credited for launching Sandra's career?

[@DanMurrellMovies]

That was her first major role, but Speed made her a star

[@TheWisestWizards]

I've had a few close calls with tornadoes over the years. No direct hits yet! We had a death about a mile away from a collapsed roof near my friends house. We've had our roof replaced 3 times, but only minor damage thankfully. I saw Twister at the drive in and at the theater. It scared me and made my fear of tornadoes even worse. My dream was to move to California, not for Hollywood to make movies, just to get away from tornadoes! 90's action movies still look better than current movies coming out. They had a weight to them, even garbage like Godzilla 98 compared to the new Godzilla Vs Kong. I guess they don't put actors in danger as much as they used to, that could be a big part of it. Then the new Mad Max comes along and you remember how things used to look. The perfect blend of new and old.

[@andrewfiorini8169]

Classic 90’s movie

[@JGAbstract]

The beginning when they are hiding in the underground room scarred me as a kid. Terrifying for Midwestern kids growing up with tornado watches every year.

[@Erni3K]

My mother was my Uncle Charlie. There are movies that I cannot see without thinking of her reactions. She would have loved Skull Island FAR more than the other Monarch films.

[@daleanderson7629]

everyone got a copy of this with their first DVD player when they became affordable. this was peak 5.1 surround at home.

[@murkrowsquad]

I was really big into meteorology, thanks to the movie Twister. I can't remember how many times I watched it in theaters.

[@mikephillips1043]

This is my most watched movie of all time

[@lifeasafanpodcast9529]

This is one of my favorites also..

[@AWSVids]

18:46 “The practical’s incredible, like when they throw the house across the road.” That’s actually completely CGI. Apparently, one CG artist worked on that one shot for months, animating all the pieces and everything. It looks real because it’s photographs of a real house painted onto a basic CG model, instead of being completely rendered as a detailed house model with artificial light, which they couldn’t do very well at the time, so they had to get around the limitations by using more real elements. One of the better examples of limitations leading to better results than the supposedly “more advanced” method would have accomplished. This is true for how they did the dust/debris of the tornados as well. They couldn’t render actual 3D dust, so it’s shot elements of real smoke just attached to basic particles floating around. You’re watching a 3D animated collage of dust footage, instead of the “more advanced” way they’d do it today with actual simulated dust using artificial light. I think VFX artists should go back to doing it this way more often. They did the same thing for the Balrog’s fire in Fellowship of the Ring, which is why the fire looks so real as opposed to simulated flames.

[@XenFayed]

This movie is ridiculous but fun! I've never seen it in a theater - first time I watched it was when the family rented the VHS (I was only 9 when it came out.) I was already afraid of storms and this did NOT help! That's interesting that this is one of the first movies released on DVD. I didn't know they'd been around that long. The first movie I watched on DVD was The Matrix.

[@binkle76]

I worked at a few different theaters between 1993 and 1997 in the IL/MO St. Louis Metro area (the now-defunct BAC chain and then with Wehrenberg Theaters... one of the oldest chains in the country, founded in 1906- currently owned by Marcus Theaters). Twister came out a year after I graduated high school, and I remember taking a few of my college buddies to see this on a night I had off, and we all agreed that it was a big, dumb flick (we were theater kids, so we criticized the inane tropes and corny dialogue the movie relied on), but all of us secretly loved it. Twenty-five years later, I appreciate this movie more now because I realize it wasn't trying to be high art. It's just big, dumb fun. The cow scene still makes me laugh, and the Drive-In sign crashing still makes me cringe because you can basically see the wires. Overall, I'm so happy this movie came out that year because I was already a cinephile by '94 after my theater screened Pulp Fiction in the smallest theater for one week before they booted it and I watched it 13 times. This was a stark contrast to what I was into at the time, but it stuck with me. I totally get your little aside about how brains are funny machines and how memories imprint, because there were several scenes in this video that totally made me remember why I say or inflect certain statements. It was a kind of a flood of memories and nostalgia watching this. Thanks, Dan. Keep it going. **Edit** - I don't know a single person alive who doesn't just absolutely love Bill Paxton. God speed, lil' doodle...

[@oneopinion6806]

Excellent movie! In reference to the "villainous" storm chasers--yeah they're a bit cutthroat on the road but I love that the basis for their villainy (before we find out he stole the design) is that they "sold out" and went corporate. Like researchers aren't looking for grants to be properly funded in their endeavors.

[@kitkatsneakattack7933]

"You see there was another Bill - an evil Bill - and I killed him"

[@sammyskelly]

My favourite childhood movie it’s one I wore the tape out from the vhs

[@DrWho-jw3yg]

I was also a big fan of the 80s funny cop show Sledge Hammer! and Anne Marie Martin played Detective Dori Doreau on that show. She was married to Michael Crichton for quite a while, apparently having met on the set of Crichton's awesome 1984 film Runaway. Martin apparently came up with the original Twister idea and did the original treatment.

[@JoJoJoker]

Alan Ruck was in Twister. He is great as Connor on Succession.

[@emilyplunkett6034]

I think that what sets Twister apart from its disaster contemporaries is that it completely shuns the spectacle of the cut-and-paste existential human crisis, like aliens, meteors and hidden volcanoes. For being one of the big 90's blockbusters, it's kind of...small in scale. The fate of the world was not at stake. There was no Godzilla or aliens over Manhattan. Hell, the tornadoes themselves were just regular tornadoes. There is not one studio-mandated f-10 behemoth set to destroy a major city or some bullshit like that. Instead, the strongest and most devastating storm in the film was of a scale that (although rare) is a documented occurrence and the biggest thing to be flattened was a town of less than 350 and it's adjacent drive-in theatre. Twister is so compact in its premise but uses everything that means to take everyone for an oddly enjoyable ride into a fear that hits close to home. It's so simple, but it was so well done that, while some folks may not remember if it was Volcano or Dante's Peak or Deep Impact that they saw, they for damn sure they remembered seeing Twister. What a great movie!

[@devinthadude88able]

I knew he was going to say Along Came Polly!!!

[@kristingoree7105]

Can't wait for you to do The Rock.

[@WillingCrawdad4]

BLASPHEMOUS! MURRELL is fraternizing with his A.I. Bot! The Matrix has finally glitched.

[@FlagCutie]

God Cary Elwes so dreamy at any age!

[@kylefukumoto5811]

There was a ride at Universal Orlando, Twister: Ride It Out, it was never at Universal Hollywood so I went, there is a tractor crushed into a wall and broken telephone poles outside the attraction, then you walk into a faux sound stage with the impression of a cow on a wall, you see a prop of the Dorothy II, screens show the beginning of the movie, then an introduction by Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt. Next you walk through a ruined house to reach the "set", first another video, alarms go off, up steps past the truck in front of the movie theater, you go into rows. There is a recreation of the town, I remember the gas station, lightning splits a tree, you see the twister start to approach (giant screen), wind starts blowing, a swirling column forms in the town, kinda cool, the Dorothy II floats past you, the theater sign rips off, the cow flies by you, I remember the cow, the gas station leaks and sparks send fire until the ground suddenly drops a little (like the Backdraft ride). It's kinda goofy like the movie, but an interesting experience. It closed in 2015.

[@jsharp3165]

Helen’s tank top needs to get some credit for the home video success of this film.

[@noeau4469]

Loved seeing Dan and Collins away from the Schmoedown

[@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677]

I knew Bill Paxton and he was fighting the comedic or as he called it "cheesy" aspects of the movie while shooting it. I think in the hamburger beef falling on the truck in behind the scenes is said in more of an ironic way like "well, if we are already doing all this crazy stuff why not take it to next level and do this"

[@katevand]

My brother was a storm spotter chaser when this movie came out and I bugged him to watch it w me over and over

[@samlewis5285]

The best part is all the editing errors, like the shot on the dirt road but actually a two lane highway on a nice day with another car going by.... and illogical physics.... like tornados can pick up semis, the bad guys truck but not a red dodge truck... until the end. You could do a whole video on the errors in this film.

[@keenandurham2631]

You can purchase the remastered film score on Discogs for about $48.00,if anyone is interested in buying a copy.

[@PennProductions]

La La Land Records released an official score not too long ago. Not sure if it's still in stock or not.