Twister (1996) *First Time Watching Reaction!! | What A Ride |

Twister (1996) *First Time Watching Reaction!! | What A Ride |
Watch us react to seeing for the first time 1996's disaster adventure "Twister". Twister was huge when it hit theaters in 1996. Twister stars Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Elwes and Alan Ruck. In this video we react to and at the end give our thoughts and rate Twister. For more first time watching reactions subscribe today!
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[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

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[@mikesilva3868]

❤I was watching the never ending story movie from 1984 it's my favorite childhood movie

[@StormChaserMaci.]

My thoughts? Twister 1996 is the most accurate tornado film to exist besides a few scenes. Grew up with it 27 years ago now. Absolutely a classic. Never gets old for me, not when I'm a storm chaser myself. I chase for the National Weather Service in Texas. Just glad you got to see it. That film was a big deal back in 1996, & it still is among storm chasers everywhere. Sequel releases July 19th, 2024. Rip Bill Paxton, Eddie Van Halen, & Philip Seymour. Gone, but not forgotten.

[@jennujor1551]

Simply put: Dad was in the "suck zone" ...if he'd been back further with mom & young Jo he would've survived with them

[@thomasmorelli9271]

I have loved this movie since it came out, seen it many many times. The good thing? It gave me a better chance to watch YOU two, as you react. Thank you. I didn't touch my popcorn. 🤩🤩

[@alfroml.a.5404]

HaPpY EaStEr 💚

[@Tralman1965]

As a Midwesterner I can tell you that a tornado (in the F4-F-5 scale) could definitely rip you right out of your shelter.

[@MrTech226]

As those guys stated EF5 "finger of God"

[@tvc1848]

@Tralman1965 I agree. The Jarrell, TX EF-5 tornado didn’t only strip away the grass but removed up to almost 20” of topsoil and ripped asphalt away from its foundation. If a tornado can rip up the roadway and remove a foot and a half of Earth, it can easily pick up a man (and, car, boat, barn….) and send him a long way.

[@StormChaserMaci.]

It absolutely can.

[@fightingidiocy7724]

As a Midwesterner, weatherman, yep, I can tell you that a tornado (in the F4-F-5 scale) could definitely rip you right out of your shelter.

[@SamJackson-xu1py]

Interestingly though the father didn't need to be holding onto the door as everyone else in the cellar survived.

[@markmatthews4481]

In 1997 when an F5 tornado hit Jarrell TX I was about 10 miles away, I had just left Salado. It was so strong it removed asphalt from the roads, removed houses AND the concrete pads they were sitting on. There was nothing left but dirt in some neighborhoods. That was a scary day.

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

That would be!

[@Cadinho93]

Fun fact: The "Dorothy" and "D.O.T. 3" equipment in the movie is based on an actual project called "Toto" that works exactly the same way as described in the film. Thanks to "Toto", we now know a lot more about the wind dynamics of tornadoes, how they develop and move than was previously known. Also, when Bill Paxton passed away, a larger number of storm chasers either went to their designated site or just set their GPS markers all across Tornado Alley to spell out his initials as a tribute. The initials were large enough to cover parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.

[@rickymoranjr9609]

@Cadinho93 I learned about that when watching a video about in on KZbin, luckily even in real life the project was a success. in you're face Hollywood

[@JohnDoe-qw4gc]

How awesome.

[@BillKrayer12thMan]

​@@rickymoranjr9609No, the project didn't work. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOtable_Tornado_Observatory

[@rickymoranjr9609]

@@BillKrayer12thMan it didn't, I thought it did work. clearly I'm an idiot

[@coldflamebluedragon196]

Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman in this film were amazing. They were such characters in this story. May they still RIP forever. Their legacy lives on in these classic films

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

💯

[@johnnywalking83]

Well said!

[@greenpeasuit]

PSH had such an acting range. The same guy playing Dusty, then playing the roommate if Patch Adams, both of them convincingly! Just amazing. RIP

[@IAMCAVE]

You know that Hoffman had a blast with his character.

[@lucaswasieleski6454]

Winds up to 200- 300 mph will suck you out of any shelter and you won't be able to breathe and all the stuff in the air . I can only imagine

[@tommywalker3746]

Tornadoes are one of the scariest things on our planet

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

💯

[@JustinBendall]

I survived an f-4 back on Aug 6th 1993 and once you see it firsthand you never see it in any other way I remember the 210 mph winds at ground level and it is difficult to explain the sound of the twister herself mother nature is the baddest bitch on God's green earth pardon my language

[@andreadeamon6419]

Just said on the news that ohio has the most already in the 2024 year. This bites

[@TheRedStateBlue]

strapping yourself to a pole is not an effective way to survive a tornado... like Ron White says... "It isn't THAT the wind is blowing. It's WHAT the wind is blowing."

[@ircjesselee]

I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability.

[@blakewalker84120]

3:45 "I feel like that would not happen. It's a little too much." May 4, 2022, Lockett Texas, an EF3 tornado ripped the cellar doors off the shelter where several town members were seeking safety from the tornado. Nobody was hurt. That was just a category 3 and the one in the movie is supposed to be a 5, much much more powerful. That's just the first true story I found when googling. Tornado winds are strong. Strong enough to flatten houses. Any winds that can flatten a house can blow off one door. There is also suction, which is why tornados are full of dirt - it sucks things up from the ground.

[@williambill5172]

I have seen tornadoes roll up paved streets like sod and drive straw right through a tree trunk.

[@chandie5298]

tornadoes pull up mature, well rooted trees and roll 2000lbs cars end for end.... picking up a single person is not a difficult task.

[@lolmao500]

Crazy that not all houses in tornado alley are underground or something. Also I read last week that like 40%+ of people in texas dont have home insurance.

[@blakewalker84120]

@@lolmao500 Maybe not that crazy. Underground homes are expensive, way more expensive by far that above ground. Also, it's easy to die in an underground home. Poor ventilation and cave ins seem like the greatest hazards, but also getting in and out could be a problem, especially for elderly people or disabled people - unless we build them all with elevators too. Very expensive indeed! Note that in the US, about 70 people die each year from tornadoes and about 25 die each year in underground accidents involving mines or caves - and that number is without having tens of millions of people living underground. If only a few thousand people spend even part of one day in caves, and we still get a couple dozen deaths, imagine having 50 million people living their whole lives down there - that number would shoot up intot he thousands, or worse.

[@user-fk4zf9rz2n]

The soil/water table also makes the construction of underground shelters in homes difficult here. For most tornados an interior closet/bathtub will typically do, unless its a strong F4/F5 then you are toast@@lolmao500

[@jamalbryant8099]

Fun fact: joss whedon (buffy the vampire slayer creator) wrote the dialogues for this movie but never got credited for it

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

You would definitely be ripped out of a storm shelter that close to the opening. For the wife and little girl, it would have been even more dangerous then they depicted after the door was ripped off.

[@shadowbeast2276]

This movie was great. Hilarious. "You left her with Dusty? what's wrong with you?" "Where's my truck?"(Crash) "There it is" "She just missed the truck, that was awesome!!"😂 "Cow" "OMG WE GOT COWS" "ANOTHER COW" " actually I think that was the same one" Poor cow lol

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

😂😂

[@BigGator5]

"Jo. Things go wrong. You can't explain it, you can't predict it. Killing yourself wo'nt bring your dad back. I'm sorry that he died, but that was a long time ago. You gotta move on. Stop living in the past, and look at what you got right in front of you." "What are you saying?" "Me, Jo." Fun Fact: There are a total of eight tornadoes in the film. Casting Notes Fact: This movie reunites Helen Hunt with Bill Paxton who both appeared in Next Of Kin (1989). Music Enthusiast Fact: Jan de Bont is a Tori Amos fan and decided early on he wanted to include some of her music. Tori Amos filmed a music video inspired by The Wizard Of Oz (1939) in 1994. Sound Effects Fact: The unique siren sound made by Dorothy is achieved by combining the sounds created by a standard police, fire, ambulance siren control head. These control heads have modes called yelp, siren, and phaser. Cutting Room Floor Fact: Was shot as an R rated film that featured profanity and grislier wound details. The film was edited down to a PG-13 in post-production which caused additional scenes with Cary Elwes and Philip Seymour Hoffman to be left on the cutting room floor due to content alone. Exposition Dump Fact: Jami Gertz's role as Melissa Reeves doubles not only as a love interest for Paxton's character, but also as a vessel for exposition. With her character being the only one with no knowledge of tornados or meteorology exposition is "disguised" as her simply being curious while feeding the audience important information about the science behind tornados. Computer Enthusiast Fact: All of the computers in the movie are Silicon Graphics workstations. This is highly unlikely (albeit not impossible), especially for the main characters' unsponsored team, since the average price for a Silicon Graphics workstation was around $40,000 at the time. ($73,296 in 2022 money, adjusted for inflation). Furthermore, the Silicon Graphics laptop did not exist in reality. It was created specifically for the movie by Silicon Graphics as a prop, and was not actually a functioning computer. Needless to say, Silicon Graphics was a sponsor of this movie.

[@doc_adams8506]

BTW, the sky does turn green during a tornado. It's absolutely frightening 😦😨

[@nathancline4000]

Yes, tornado winds have the strength to carry a person away.

[@RenegadeSamurai]

I love how they used The Shining in that scene. At 23:26 you can see Johnnys face exactly at the moment when the Twister strikes, kinda giving it a terrifying face, coupled with the growling the Tornados have it gives them a living feature. Also the moment Dorothy took off the Twister was like..."Well, you try to uncover my secrets. Then die!" :D

[@TrueBeauty2974]

April 27th 2011, tornadoes were sucking up concrete driveways and tossing around bulldozers. Some of the tornadoes were creating trenches in the dirt several feet deep. I think this was the EF-5 Hackleburg, AL tornado. It was raining roofing shingles, pieces of wood, and pink insulation. It was sunny outside, but the Tuscaloosa tornado had reached Fultondale which was about 10 minute away from me just north of Birmingham. So it seems like it would be possible for a tornado to suck a person out of a house or shelter, but who knows.

[@charlesmaurer6214]

My dad retired from the power company and the updraft from a cooling tower of a power plant is almost enough to fly unassisted without wings. A twister is many times as powerful even a f1. With a door like that to act like a wing he will fly far before he can even let go. An F5 like a volcano is among the few natural forces that can push a blade of grass though a tree trunk like a nail.

[@johnnywells5341]

Yes, that would happen, and he wasn’t tucked in there, he was basically hanging on to a sail.

[@Challenger0428]

Back when blockbuster movies were made. Fantastic.

[@TheCkent100]

27:12 "It's not that heavy". Actually, it is. A 25 inch cathode ray tv, like that one, would weigh about 100 lbs. That weight falling approximately 10 feet would hit with an impact force many times greater than 100 lbs.

[@ellie_jeann]

🫡 RIP Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman

[@pastorbrianediger]

This came out when I was in middle school. I remember watching it in my high school French class. Now when I watch it, I remember the EF5 that hit Joplin, MO. I moved from Joplin the year before that.

[@piggyintheshadows]

A tornado of that strength can absolutely carry you and the door away. In fact there is an infamous story of that exact thing happening during the Joplin tornado. It's hard to comprehend the power those things can have.

[@ChrisReise]

2:20 Notice the name "Toby" for the dog is very similar to "Toto" from "The Wizard of Oz"? That's no mistake, that was an intentional nod...as is the fact that Toby is the same breed of dog that Toto is. :)

[@the_smoking_patriot3993]

Ah Twister, grew up on this movie and still love it to this day

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

It’s good!

[@ravensdark99]

That movie made me consider studying meteorology at university. Tornados are insanely dangerous and you should seek cover if you encounter one, but I encountered 2 in real life and I can totally understand the fascination..its like with freak waves..they strangely pull some of us towards them (literally sometimes)

[@Easy_Skanking]

I was living in D/FW when we had large outbreak of tornadoes. It destroyed downtown Ft. Worth and then trashed Arlington. I was watching a Dallas Stars game when the satellite dropped out. I had to pick the game up on AM radio and was listening when the power went out and they started emergency broadcast breakthroughs. They said there were tornadoes all around me. I ran to the sliding glass doors to look out and there was a twister going west to east about a half mile away. I was watching it move and praying it wasn't coming towards me. I found out later that while I was watching, it was putting a Corvette through the second floor of a friend's house. The damage path was nuts as no trees had leaves or many branches left. The houses were just piles of trash. The destruction was crazy.

[@rickymoranjr9609]

R.I.P. Bill Paxton

[@Howiex-is8gq]

This movie ĺiterally blew me away in a theatre back then. I Mean literally I was at a drive in . And the tornado hit Oklahoma and tore the screen off.......never saw the ending😂

[@T-Rex_007]

Helen Hunt is great in this as in many films she’s done and with her and RIP Paxton it is worth watching again. All the other disaster movies that this started to spawn were one and one for me with some hit and miss there. Thanks for your reactions to this movie, they were wonderful ! 👍🏼❤

[@SinSationNation]

The new Twister coming out will be just a rehash of the original Twister of 1996, so I don’t expect that the remake will be a box office hit at all. On another note, I am sorry for your loss of your grandfather 🙏🏻 and we will always be here for the both of you when the both of you return for livestreams. Family always comes first before anything else!

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Thank you!

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

Twister was my favourite movie as a kid. Made me want to become a stome chaser.

[@theglanconer6463]

We had some great directors (and actors like Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, RIP) working in the States during those times (Paul Verhoeven is another one (He and Jan de Bont (one of the best cameraman ever) worked together for decades (Paul started in the Netherlands in the 1950s, Jan early1960s). Yep they could/can tell stories (and Paul is still working over here in Europe). Jan also made Speed and Lara Croft.

[@agentooe33AD]

Natalie's Dad jokes are on point in this video! In the spring especially in the Midwest, the cold air from the north and warm gulf air from the south collide creating lots of supercell storms. These storms can potentially outbreak dozens of tornadoes. I live on the southeast coast of the USA, and my state alone has had over 30 tornadoes in a single day before. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's a not so uncommon occurrence. This movie's depiction of tornadoes is definitely possible.

[@steveg5933]

Have a family friend, his dad was a long distance trucker. As a small boy he went out on the road for the summer with his dad. Dad stopped at a truck stop to use rest room. My friend was asleep in the sleeper of the semi. Tornado hit, collapsed the truck stop, picked the semi up and set it down over a mile away. My friend was uninjured, his dad was crippled for life. Yes an F4 or F5 could absolutely pick you up like that

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

That’s horrible. Tornados are scary

[@steveg5933]

@@ForceOfLightEntertainment I livve in Blizzard country, Buffalo NY, my best friend, not far from the town in this movie. I've always told him yes we have storms but when we do I may not be able to see my house but it's exactly where I left it! He thinks blizzards are scary.

[@texasps91]

An F5 tornado can absolutely take a person out like that. There are videos where an 18 wheeler is going round and round in and F5 tornado, so yes it can pull out a person for sure. There have been times, sadly, family members were found miles away from where their home was.

[@stefanjrgensen6842]

yeah, F5 tornados are often called "fingers from god" bcoz where they go, destruction follows

[@HorrorFan-WrestlingFan]

Twister was the very first film to be released on DVD and if you liked Twister you will like the film Night Of The Twister it was a T.V. Movie RIP Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman

[@XDarkSyntaXOriginal]

I've seen entire neighborhoods wiped away completely. No houses or trees left in sight for miles. It would definitely rip you right out of a shelter.

[@geraldvance7925]

Tornadoes have been known to kill people in their basements and in shelters. The Jarrell Texas tornado pulled plumbing out of the ground and reduced large objects into shrapnel. Some tornadoes can dig into the ground up to 3 ft. People have been pulled out of cars and shelters because of the low pressure vacuum of a tornado. F5 tornadoes level brick houses down to their foundation and carry away the bricks. Tornado damage can be very impressive and unbelievable especially with F-5s. Recently in the Joplin tornado someone died holding a door to a shelter and he was blown away with the door just like in the movie.

[@shainewhite2781]

The tagline for the poster reads: From The Creators/, Producers of Jurassic Park And The Director Of Speed. TWISTER, The Dark Side Of Nature. Summer 1996.

[@ridl8006]

...we got "greenage"... I still remember hugging my dog Socks in the bathtub... (the most central part of the house)... when the tornado was 3 blocks away in NWOKC.... It always missed us... but went on up to hit Edmond....

[@brettyeamans]

I remember seeing Twister in the theater back in 1996. It was really a fun theater experience. Oddly enough, I have seen a couple of tornados before.

[@shawnmiller4781]

Especially if the theater had surround sound. You could hear that cow fly around the room

[@rickbourne1376]

I think this was the first movie on DVD. Hellen Hunt's Aunt is a fun character in this. Philip Seymour Hoffman, RIP, had way too much fun with his role. The suck zone, hillarious. Bill Paxton, RIP also, great job as the lead. The extreme! Many good quotes. "Roll the maps" "The Rabbit is wise" "We've got hail" "We've got cows" and "I know how to make Dorthy fly"

[@paulbrawley2595]

"Fashionably late again, Jonas?!" Lol!

[@StormChaserJeremy]

This movie basically shaped who I am today because it sparked passion for tornadoes and storm chasing as a kid

[@Nikaro23]

One of the absolutely terrifying things about tornados is that if you get sucked into one what kills you is not getting flung into the air and dropped, but you get shredded to pieces by all the debris being flung around at 100s of miles per hour. You basically become human hamburger....

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Oh gosh…

[@mumblinmae1140]

Hehehe! One of my fave movies from the 90’s. We saw it at the DRIVE IN MOVIE and it was and is a lot of fun. Love the review ladies!

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Thank you!!

[@LUISSYPER]

Natalie, the "Red", those are absolutely fantastic,!!!

[@geneticrex]

An EF-5 has more than enough power to do exactly what was depicted to anyone that close to the funnel and once that door was ripped off, anyone else in that cellar had better be nailed down, depending on the configuration of the shelter.

[@shnozberries92]

Twister is my all time favorite movie because I live in OKC and have dodged Tornadoes my whole life. I'm an actual professional Storm Chaser now for a news station in OKC, and was lucky enough to score a role in the sequel! You can spot me in the Twisters trailer in the scene where shout, "Chase it!". I'm the guy standing behind the red dodge in the camouflage pancho and backwards green hat lol.

[@toodlescae]

I love disaster movies and this is an excellent one. In the theater with surround sound you felt like your seat was shaking and you were in the tornado with them.

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

I’m sure!

[@nathancline4000]

The final house from the final scene was shot near where I went to Junior College in Iowa. I graduated from HS in 1996 when this came out. My college roomate grew up just down the road from that house and was a huge movie nerd.

[@alfroml.a.5404]

Bill Paxton is the olny Actor to have his Character killed by The Terminator, killed by An Alien (Xenomorph), and then a Predator. 💯❤️🙂✅️

[@Bobal27]

3:51 EF 5? Yeah. That’s possible. Unlikely with any decent storm shelter, but that was wooden and rickety, and with a direct impact in the sucking part (rather than the normal, but debris-flinging circular winds around it), it’s possible.

[@RichardM1366]

The fury of nature. Storms can strike without warning. This movie gives you the illusion of being in a twister. The at the edge of your seat suspension is high. If you like disaster movies like The Towering Inferno and more you will enjoy this one.

[@danielmatthews1522]

When wind crosses a gap like a hole it creates suction. That suction can easily pull doors and people out of spaces, especially when close to the suction point.

[@-The-Cake-Is-A-Lie-]

It's the "Suck Zone". 🧐

[@derangedlunaticakad.l.7030]

Ladies, I love this movie it’s so over-the-top. Now you know what happened to the cow, they had it for supper. When I was a kid, there was a drive-in theater near me that got taken out by a twister.

[@Erik_The_White]

I saw it in the theater the weekend it came out, and loved it. After all these years I still feel a surge of spring fever every time I watch it. Good writing, good directing and great cast. And the music is some of the last truly good music Van Halen put out before they got all crazy and dramatized.. Love this movie.

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

It’s good!

[@mrich1976]

Just a bit of information...the Fujita Scale (The F scale that they mention in the film) has since been replaced with the Enhanced Fujita scale. So *in general* where they mention the F scale in the movie, because they don't really mention wind speed, replace it with EF. Also, the highest wind speed ever recorded in a tornado is something like 295MPH +/- 20 MPH. Something like that. And the widest tornado ever on record was 2.6 miles wide. Also, these days, you can sort of "retrofit" your house and have a "storm shelter" built into your house, instead of having to go outside to an in-ground one. In ground ones are still available, but so are the others.

[@GaunteroDimmm]

I was 6 when this movie came out. Cemented my fear of tornados forever. To top it off it was raining when the movie let out that night so yea….little 6 year old me was scared shitless lol

[@daron85]

I've been a lifelong lover of horror films. As a kid I never really got scared of horror films. I'm talking hundreds, but when I went and saw Twister, a non horror film, in theaters when I was about 11 it traumatized me. Especially the opening scene. Like seriously. I remember we had to leave early. It didn't help that I already had a fear of tornados growing up in Kansas in all then I had to see that lol. I guess I didn't think a movie would have an effect on me like that. Boy was I wrong. I remember always looking out of the window to see if a tornado was coming. Anyways it's one of my favorite films now. Probably because of the trauma lol.

[@McFrozenNuggets]

It's the wonder of nature, baby!

[@garytom1935]

I like Helen Hunt, so seen it several times 👍🍿🎭

[@JohnDoe-qw4gc]

This is one of my guilty pleasures and has been since I saw this in the theater. The scene in Jo's aunt's house where the chasers are describing how they met Bill is one my favorite scenes in all of filmdom. And Helen Hunt in this one. Hubba hubba. She was always beautiful, but in this and As Good As It Gets ... oof. And I love how youtube buries my comments 30-50 down, lol.

[@StillJaded_07145]

Crazy chemistry!

[@valashar5313]

(This comment is a word wall I wrote while watching,) Yes a tornado can easily suck up a person, even a F-1 tornado can be fatal occasionally. Also, every type of tornado shown in the film is accurate to reality and has been seen at least once in the last century. I wouldn't classify this as a disaster movie, but rather a dramatization of real events. As a life long US Midwest native this film was very true to life. The Dad would have been fine and survived the intro tornado if he had gotten away from the door and gone all the way down into the shelter with Jo and the Mom. By being at the door he forfeited all the protection the shelter offered. The door on a tornado shelter isn't what protects you, it's the depth and being out of a direct line to the surface or outside (in the case of above ground shelters). All the door protects you against is debris or heavy rains that come with the tornado. When they hid under the wood bridge the only thing that kept them alive was the tornado being just about the weakest possible (F-1) and that the truck was between them and the tornado as it passed. Doing what they did is a valid tactic if you're caught in a tornado's path but it's a second to last chance gamble (last chance is finding the lowest possible ground, laying flat, and making peace with your life since it's a tactic that's not likely to save you). It's possible the cow did make it out alive since those twin tornados were by water. The probability isn't great, but it's also not zero. It really was considered potential suicide to get the 'Toto' package placed into a tornado's path for the real life scientists who did it. At the time it was fully impossible to track where tornados would form or the path they would take. So the only option for the device was to keep it mobile. Otherwise they would have needed to place a static sensor bundle in various points around the landscape by guess work. Given how impossibly huge Tornado Alley is it would've meant trillions of dollars sunk into it in a time when meteorology was considered to be only about half a step above palm reading. As a character Melissa really is a great person and I truly like that she's never presented as an antagonist at any level. And I like that at the moment she overhears Bill and Jo on the radio that the other team members (even Dusty) are sympathetic to what she's going through. And when she lets go there's genuinely no angst in the moment. Storm Chaser teams are paid by grants or are in the employ of a foundation. These days there are more that are employed by various companies with a vested interest in knowing the weather to keep their own interests. In the context of the film, Jo's team would have been swimming in grant funds in the aftermath of Doroty's success. The scene in the drive-in theater is an amazing depiction of the absolute horror of tornados and how something so massive and powerful can just sneak right up to you. The one shown is a strong F-4 tornado and the wind didn't even pick up until it was less than a minute from striking them. If anything heavier than a hubcap had hit that guy's head, it could easily have just sliced the top of his skull clean off. Tornados have been documented to drive a single piece of straw straight through a tree. I encourage you to look up that and other such seemingly impossible things that have happened in the wake of tornados, hurricanes, or derecho storms. It's fascinating. The rival's driver getting killed quickly was a mercy. I just hope the jerk in charge suffered all the way to when the truck exploded. Maybe even not dying until after so he could suffer for getting his entire team killed. The Dorothy package had to be anchored long enough to open and spread the sensors, so they used the two tons of truck. And no it wouldn't have been any fun to jump out into the corn. Corn leaves are razor sharp and if the film had a different rating those two would've been shown covered in corn cuts. I worked as a detasseler (walking through corn fields and removing the pollen producing top tassel from every single corn stalk across hundreds of acres) and even though that job takes place in the high heat of summer everyone wore long sleeves, jeans, gloves, and a neck scarf to prevent corn cuts. Because dancing with heat stroke is far better than getting the entire front half of your body covered in what amounts to hundreds of infected paper cuts. You nailed the benefits and risk of the 'tied themselves to the pipes' tactic. It'll keep you from getting sucked up, but debris could still kill you.

[@DougRayPhillips]

I see that one of the Dorothy machines has a sticker for Muskogee State University. Twenty years ago, April 2004, I went to the Bare bones Film Fest in Muskogee for the first time. While i was there, there were tornadoes three nights in a row. We'd go to a bar, watch the satellite TV images, see the storms passing thru Oklahoma City, then Tulsa, and then bearing down on us. One of those nights, there was so much small hail that people had to use shovels around their car tires to get traction and drive. Kinda like digging out of wet snow. Up here in Wisconsin, I live on the other end of that same Tornado Alley. I know of three little towns that have been wiped out. And I've seen tree trunks a couple feet thick be uprooted. I had hail damage to my house in 2006, 2010, 2011 and now 2023. The 2010 and 2023 ones meant replacing the roof and siding. The hail size in 2023 was about 2.5 inches. It even busted out the skylights in WalMart and rained debris on the customers taking shelter.

[@StormChaserMaci.]

2.5 inches isn't small. I've seen many times what that can do.

[@giodagrate5369]

Saw it in the theater. Awesome sound design!

[@cinemeleon2808]

'Resistance running' and 'shared trauma'...your one liners are hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣

[@matthewgordon2811]

Good morning! I love it! 90s classic! Great reaction! 😊

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Thank you!!

[@matthewgordon2811]

You're welcome!

[@ganggreen9012]

11 days ago there were three tornadoes that went through northern Ohio and eastern Indiana in one evening. The first one passed a little south of Findlay Ohio and traveled east to a bit north of Mansfield before becoming "just" a dangerous thunderstorm by the time it passed through the southern Cleveland suburbs. The second one killed three people in Indian Lake Ohio north west of Columbus, passed over Delaware Ohio and did damage around Sunbury. That one was an F-3. The third one hit Winchester Indiana and traveled into western Ohio. My sister and I were in the original path of the first one, but it moved north of us. My other sister and my parents were in the path of the third one, but it fizzled out before it reached them. If someone had known in advance where to position themselves they could have chased two of them the same night, but Ohio wasn't really expected to have tornadoes that evening.

[@ChrisReise]

8:05 I also screwed this guy's last name up for years. The proper pronunciation is Cary EL-wes.

[@allengray5748]

RIP Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Paxton!! Gotta say you two are a treat to watch! The only other movie I've seen with Helen Hunt is AS GOOD AS IT GETS!! If you haven't seen it it's a treasure. Great cast, story and dialogue 2nd to none!! GREAT JOB!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Thanks!

[@greenpeasuit]

Still haven't figured out the design of the house they drove through. It was laying on its side, they drove up stairs (that would have had to be sideways when the house was built) and still ended up on ground level upon exit.

[@mattruffino6720]

Hes just seeing what direction the wind is goin when he droos the dirt

[@ChrisCollins068]

“I feel like that wouldn’t actually happen…” Well good thing it’s a movie and not a documentary 😂😂😂

[@RenegadeSamurai]

but it actually can happen :D

[@americanmutt9089]

I saw this in the theater and the sound effects were awesome coming through the sound system.

[@Bobal27]

34:28 I know this is factual. The corn makes the landing softer, no doubt. But if you’ve ever been smacked in the head by a 40 mph corncob, it’s not fun. This batch of corn was going relatively as fast as the speedometer shows (0mph + the speed of the truck). Plus, additional corn is flying around that tornado at 200+ mph. One unlucky stray would do as much damage as that antenna part did to Jonas’ driver, possibly (I can’t verify that. Maybe Mythbusters could shoot corn at a ballistics gel head).

[@ThirteenthDiget-lg3in]

Yes, I saw this in the theater. It's great on the big screen. I'm disappointed you didn't include "I think it's the same cow" in your reaction. You gave it a higher rating than I thought. The weird guy with the red hair is Jake Busey, Gary Busey's son. Melissa is Jami Gertz. She was in such classics as The Lost Boys, Sixteen Candles, and Crossroads where Ralph Macchio (Karate Kid) has a guitar duel again Steve Via who portrays the devil. She was also in a great series called Still Standing with Mark Addy who was in The Full Monty (an old version of Magic Mike) and more recently Game of Thrones. Thanks to Jami's husband, Anthony Ressler, she has a net worth of $8 Billion dollars.

[@kb4342]

It was a fun movie. You knew when Helen put her ring back on that she didn't want the divorce. RIP Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I never saw it in the theater.

[@cinemeleon2808]

I think she moved a larger ring from her right hand to conceal the wedding ring that she was still wearing on her left hand.

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

Bill Paxton is the Character Actor who Makes The Movie a Classic, a much Darker Bill Paxton Movie is " Near Dark" he's also in a little known movie called " The Vagrant " , i Saw this movie at a Drive in and it was Magical

[@DarthVader-gs9hj]

My mom took me to see this in theaters, the experience was awesome !

[@user-fk4zf9rz2n]

Great Reaction! Couple of interesting tidbits for you from an Okie who has lived in Central Oklahoma for 46 of my 50 years; and is also currently a grad student at the University of Oklahoma (unfortunately NOT in meteorology lol). 1. Who pays for Helen Hunts crew? Probably a government grant through OU. The original script essentially had them being a team from the University of Oklahoma, which is the world's most renown meteorology/severe weather school, and who essentially started the scientific chasing of storms in the late 80's. The school is co-located with the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) and the National Weather Service (NWS), on the south side of the main campus right off highway 9 in Norman, OK. At the time of the original movie, the University was not sure what the reception of the film would be, and essentially asked to have a very low profile as the OKC bombing had just happened, and everyone was a bit weary of a disaster film being made. (Dusty's OU hat is about the only reference to the school). In the upcoming sequel the University is supposed to have a larger role. I happened to be at NWS about 3 weeks ago and it was all the talk, they had recently trained Glenn Powell for his role; and side note the original "Dorthey" movie prop is in the lobby along with some of the original real instruments. 2. Do they have that many tornados in one day? We absolutely can if there is a large enough outbreak. I was living in CA about 3 months from moving back when the 1999 Moore F5 hit,; but was here in 2013 when an F4 hit Moore and 5-6 days later an F5 hit El Reno, Oklahoma. One each of these 3 storm events there were multiple other tornados. In fact the 99' storm is what caused NWS to create a new warning. Normally you have a "Tornado Watch" and a "Tornado Warning". But in addition, we now have "particularly dangerous situation" and "Tornado Emergency" for large or multiple storms. 3. Overall the movie is fairly realistic, but............ Bill and Helen would not have survived an F5 by lashing themselves to a pipe. During the 1999 F5, there were places where IF a large enough tree survived, all of the bark was stripped from it. In a few places the concrete that made up the roads was actually LIFTED OUT OF THE GROUND. The local TV meteorologists actually started saying, "if you are not underground you will not survive" and "we have never told you to get in a car and drive away, but if you are 30 minutes or more away from this and don't have a shelter do that now". Winds clocked by OUs mobile truck mounted Doppler were over 316 miles an hour. This is comparable to the blast wave of a small nuclear weapon. Other than the F5 though, flying cows and trucks can and do happen. If you search youtube there are some great documentaries and other footage of the 1999 and 2013 F5 tornados. 4. DId any of you see this in the theater at the time? Yes, several friend's and I went, it was all the talk, a major movie being made in OK. The weird thing was it was a relatively nice evening when we went into the theater. But when we got out it was night, and a storm front was headed right to us, lightening, hail, tornado watch, sirens, etc.. we were living' the movie on our drive home LOL. I plan to do the same again for the sequel. Especially because some shots were filmed just 2 miles from my neighborhood. Great reaction, you got a new sub!

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Thank you!!

[@your-average-patriot-nerd146]

This is a fun movie, lots of good actors in this. Universal Studios used to have a special effects experience called "Twister.. ride it out." That was fun. Real tornadoes on the other hand, are no joke. I remember as a teen in the Midwest under a tornado warning, and the sky and air turned green. I was out in the yard and all the birds and insects went quiet. Then I saw a funnel cloud forming above us. It was one of the weirdest moments I've ever experienced. I found out later it touched down a few miles away and damaged a barn. Kinda scary. On a brighter note, fun reaction Ladies. 👍😎👍

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Thank you!!

[@WheresWaldo05]

I am in the minority but twister is in my top 10 movies of all time. I own over 2000 movies and seen probably 3000 for context. Yes the cgi is off in 2024 but i easily can ignore that. The vibes, the acting, the story, the fun, the exhilaration, i just love it so much.

[@StormChaserMaci.]

I assure you, you are not the minority.

[@therealstephentv]

It had a good Twist to it. And holy cow this movie can really lift you up! Plus it reminds you, there's no place like home. Enjoyed to reaction. Have a wonderful day, Michelle and Natalie! Five hoots to ya 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

Thanks Stephen!!

[@Phaota]

The practical effects created for this classic raise the bar for movies of the time. It's worth watching the behind-the-scenes filming of how they did everything. Did a sequel need to be made? No and I doubt it will be good. You should watch a comedy next to mix it up. I know all of the recommendations I've given in the pas are on your list, but how about starting with either "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" or "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", which has a connection to "Twister" in that the actor Alan Ruck is in both movies.

[@user-jg5ie8rc1s]

I loved the twist in the end.

[@kelly6491]

I listened to this as I cooked dinner with my headphones on while my phone was left charging in the other room and it spun me out a bit, I was surprised at how often Michelle kinda sounds like Helen hunt lol.

[@ForceOfLightEntertainment]

🤩🤩

[@craigmccuistian]

According to Ron White, it not THAT the wind blows… it’s WHUT the wind blows.. :)

[@NathanMalnaa]

I love this movie, it's 28 years old and still looks incredible. That little girl in the beginning is Alexa Vega 14:53 there was an idea to make that cow a zebra instead to tie it into Jumanji which came out a year before, but they decided against it lol During the credits it actually shows you the path that tornado took

[@orangeandblackattack]

As a truck driver, my co-driver and I were on the east side of Tulsa, OK in 2006 or 2007 an we had an F3 barreling down on us on I-44 and all the cars were almost blocking the highway trying to get under the overpasses.We were too big so he told me floor it. We had a CAT 500 motor in a Peterbilt and I had the SOB up to 140 mph screaming down the interstate with black smoke everywhere and we got by it with 10 seconds to spare.

[@loganrideout9151]

Ive lived in Oklahoma all my life and yes, a tornado can rip you out of the shelter. However, i think if the father would have just let go of the door he might have survived. That door acted like a sail once the wind got a hold of it.

[@StillJaded_07145]

One of my personal favorites!

[@scottosborne2915]

when the dad got sucked up by the twister that really can and does happen but he would have lived if only he had just let it go and stayed with the wife and daughter who some how grew up to be helen hunt ho i cant wait to see twisters just to see if its a remake or if its different to twister back in the day when i was 16yo i first seen it in the cinema day of release in the uk we was sat front row in the middle it was cool made my mum feel a little bit sick in the scene with the cow and the truck spinning around it really made us feel like we was in it

[@CaddyJim]

I seen this in an IMAX theater in Vegas

[@black-velvet98]

This is one of my favorite movies

[@user-ol4qz1cx3j]

As a kid I always wanted to see a tornado in person. Then I saw one pass over my house and then wreck 200 homes. I never want to see another tornado.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

A lot of storm chaser friends didn't like the film. I have to say I definitely was entertained by it. Couple of things. You can't look at a tornado and say what its 'F' number is. The other one would be when, at the end when they go into the shed and hang on to the pluming. When the shed was blown away all that debris would rip them to shreds. On the subject of 'F' numbers. The way to determine the 'F' number is to investigate the damage and see what was blown away. As for F-5 tornadoes. Go look up the Jarrell Texas F-5 tornado. Think about this. The Jarrell tornado ripped ROADS off the face of the Earth!! As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

Yep. They don't assign an "F scale" value until the damage is surveyed afterwards. And NO way they would've survived at the end!😂

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

@@dr.burtgummerfan439 I've been a chaser since the late 60's. Off and on. I lived in Tulsa. There is always plenty to watch there!

[@user-hf8wf4df1o]

That was a wooden door with latches. Yes the older ones did fail sometimes