Nostalgia Critic Real Thoughts on - Twister

With the passing of Bill Paxton, Doug & Rob take a look at one of his few starring roles in Twister.
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Twister is a 1996 American disaster film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen.
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[@CharlemagneSupernova]

Le'ts not forget that Bill paxton is the one actor who's been killed by an Alien, a Predator, and a Terminator.

[@StarvingHamster]

Charles Schwaniger tell that to Mr. Lance Henrickson.

[@bradhedgehog12]

And himself on the Titanic

[@jesuschavez5875]

He was on the Apollo 13 Mission.

[@jtb9706]

⁠​⁠@@StarvingHamster Lance henrikson was not killed by the alien, he was an android that was torn apart by the alien but still functioning and even managed to save Newt from being sucked into space.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Very true.

[@deltaprime3509]

R.I.P Bill Paxton

[@fightthepowerman]

DeltaPrime350 F

[@MagnusSkiptonLLC]

f

[@KangaKucha]

DeltaPrime350 In honour of his great prefromance in an aussome movie. GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER!!!

[@h.u.n.k493]

People really need to see Near Dark, Paxton plays one hell of a vampire.

[@imbatmanhi3363]

ill tell you what's coming off son your face lol rip bill

[@SexyButCurious]

YES! Thanks to my older sister who grew up in the 80s. I got to watch the film and he was awesome as vampire

[@maplebob23]

Dormammu Near Dark is one of the last great Vampire movies. I didn't even know anything about it when I went to see it. I just thought "Near Dark, I'll bet it's a horror film." And it was and so much more.

[@imissimeem]

He's amazing in that, and somehow still barely a top 10 reason to watch that movie. Best vampire movie ever.

[@ackbarfan5556]

Funny enough, the leading man in Near Dark and the guy who plays Michael in Lost Boys are half-brothers. Both movies involve a teen who is turned into a half-vampire trying to get back to normal.

[@Pontius888]

This movie introduced me to Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt that's why is one of my favorite childhood movies.

[@mshara1]

Ditto. I loved those two and this movie.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

They’re two good reasons for liking this movie.

[@devilmikey00]

Actually storms that produce dozens of tornadoes over the course of a day or two do happen on a semi regular basis. There was a system in 2011 that produced 382 in 3 days and 218 of those in 24 hours. It had 11 EF4's and 4 EF5's. That makes Twisters number of tornado's downright child's play.

[@OurEnemyScalion]

devilmikey00 Wasn't that the superoutbreak though?

[@PsylomeAlpha]

wasn't that the one with the city-wide F5 that crushed through Oklahoma?

[@userasdf]

devilmikey00 exactly. during peak tornado season (may 22-23) you get 80 tornadoes a DAY in Kansas on average.. having 4-5 tornadoes within a drivable area of Kansas during that time isn't that unusual.

[@ChaosZero1031]

That's one of the reasons I kind of like Twister, all the people that call BS on the tornado stuff eventhough tornadoes have pulled off almost even more unexplainable looking BS. These are things that have destroyed houses while leaving some rooms and/or the houses next to them almost completely untouched.

[@readhistory2023]

Back in 1979 I was overlooking Colorado Springs and the sky turned green. 6 six of them came down almost all at the same time and ripped the town a new one. Seeing a gas station getting chewed up by a tornado and exploding was memorable.

[@wickedlateok1697]

Twister is an icon out in western Oklahoma, where most of the movie was filmed. The town of Wakita (where Aunt Meg's house is) has a fucking Twister Movie Museum, and Twister landmarkers are sprinkled all across the portion of the state. Bill Paxton returned to the region once every few years for donations and stuff like that.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That sounds nice-l can see how people in western Oklahoma would have fond memories of the movie.

[@ThatGuyfromBrazil]

I think the soundtrack in Twister was also really damn amazing. That choir just knocks me out the window. Also, maybe this WAS the movie that broke up Van Halen, but Respect the Wind is BEAUTIFUL...

[@Nortarachanges]

The aunt is so wonderful, too. "Where'd you get all this beef?" "Did you see my cows out front?" "No" ^_^

[@leadingblind1629]

Bill directed one of my favorite horror movies. Frailty Already told you guys how much my family loves the film Twister. I have never met a person face to face that doesn't like it. genuinely. "it's the EXTREME!!!!!!". The whole "FOOD!" thing is ALWAYS being used around here.

[@seanlauer9819]

Starr Clarke What's the movie about and when did it came out

[@SexyButCurious]

What's weird is that movie was on a few days before he passed away. Such a great film.

[@leadingblind1629]

Sean Lauer m.imdb.com/title/tt0264616/?ref=m_nv_sr_1

[@dkres82]

Yeah Frailty was amazing, wish he could have gotten to direct more.

[@jakejutras2733]

That's a good Hook, I'm going to try to find that film.

[@glennsworld5178]

To be honest, Twister was the only reason why I wanted to become a filmmaker. I watched that movie when I was three and it actually changed my life. For the longest time I wanted to be a meteorologist until my dad pointed out my addiction to movies. This movie and War of the Worlds really shaped me into how I write scripts or plan out scenes. When Bill Paxton died I actually got really sad because of how much he had a impact in my life. While true, the movie isn't good, it was good to a three year old who wanted to make movies.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

GlennsWorld You were only three? Wow. I was about 8. Maybe 9. But 10 before I really decided I wanted to work in movies.

[@glennsworld5178]

ajmrowland actually, somewhere in my garage there are vhs tapes of me telling my dad to film me as I recreated scenes from twister and war of the worlds. It was so innocent

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

GlennsWorld cool

[@glennsworld5178]

P Ferreira No not really, it's very understandable on why someone wouldn't like this movie. As they said, it's stupidly awesome.

[@readhistory2023]

It's formula, but the formula works.

[@TheSuccumbedSilence]

"But what's an F5?" *shocked reaction* Cuts to an ad. Lol.

[@Zacman1123]

That happened to me too

[@thefilmeffect6089]

"IT'S THE WONDER OF NATURE BABY" RIP Bill Paxton & Phillip Seymour Hoffman

[@KnightJirka05]

OK, we need to see Real Thoughts On - Cool World. How's with me? :-)

[@junebug6527]

MetalFucker666.5 or that vanilla ice movie

[@Changeling9000]

A family picture!

[@namsivad]

MetalFucker666.5 Yeah, I just saw American Pop for the first time recently, but I'm with you on having Doug do real thoughts on Cool World!👄🎭🚬🎬🎥😏

[@anubusx]

Oh Yeah.

[@MewKiichigo]

It's a dumb movie, it really is, but I love it. Not even the way Rob does, I honestly love the movie itself, I love the characters, the story, I even enjoy the drama and especially the banter between Jo and Bill. It's all bad writing, but I unironically love it to pieces.

[@thefirstbourne149]

The fact that you like it for the bad writing characters in the story is the very reason that you like it the same way that Rob does.

[@jeffmcarthur5617]

I had the great displeasure of seeing a pre-release viewing of Twister... without the special effects. Every time it cut to a shot that a tornado would be in, you'd just see an open field. It was hilarious and horrible because you were left with only that TERRIBLE story. There was one interesting part though. There was a total of one shot that I liked. In the end, the bad guy was sucked into the tornado, and as he flew out of it, the camera went to his point of view and you are in the truck with him as he plummets to the ground. I wrote on my card "I liked a total of one shot in this movie..." and I described that shot. They took that shot out of the movie. I also had the pleasure of being at a party where Bill Paxton was singing in a band at the front as the party's entertainment. He was quite good and a fun guy. I was sad to hear he had passed.

[@mikeabler2978]

If they took out the whole 'Divorce' aspect of this movie, it probably would've been okay

[@oystersoup3434]

Mike Abler I agree, I found that aspect super tedious, it felt downright contrived.

[@missmoxie9188]

If they’d developed the characters it’d be better

[@SimonKnight1023]

It should have been a drama about a crazy , bitter, storm lady trying to save a lost kid or something.

[@leob4403]

@@SimonKnight1023 nah it's fine just the way it is

[@SimonKnight1023]

@@leob4403 Meh, even as a kid I thought it was boring as hell.

[@thegenericnerdking]

I love Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Twister! lol

[@midgetwthahacksaw]

Qui-gon Winn He is literally the best bit of the movie!

[@missemeriin]

I love Doug's girly bouncy run into the kitchen.

[@DavidPigbody]

I love yours.

[@Father_of_Kos]

why people never talk about the amazing soundtrack in this movie, one of the best ever. That guitar solo alone in the end credits is beyond amazing.

[@ericspearman2998]

Aptly titled Respect the Wind! I wouldn’t listen to it by itself maybe, but it is really spooky paired with all of that imagery of storm clouds.

[@stoneyboyd]

@@ericspearman2998yeah, it’s very Hauntingly beautiful.

[@ColorTheoryEB]

That ending where Doug misspoke and said, Bill 'Pullman' and Rob was yelling at him for making that mistake, actually made me laugh to tears.

[@0iqgremlin414]

*watches Twister for the first time* *Tornado warning comes on the tv after the film*

[@midgetwthahacksaw]

Adventures with the Squad Oh, that's brilliant!

[@MargaretRodriguez9GenY]

The movie is okay, but the credits are the best. Respect the Wind guys. Respect the Wind.

[@Mad77max77]

Seriously ? He's DEAD ?! OMG !!!

[@FlameOfUdun96]

Where have you been?

[@cksmith08]

How do you NOT Know that Phillip Seymore Hoffman Passed away? #RIPHoffman

[@seanlauer9819]

cksmith08 refresh my memory he was in that movie as well right

[@SexyButCurious]

+Max Madmax He die on Oscar night I think Febrary 25th/26th

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

RckerMom87 25th. Just before Oscar Night.

[@serbinator8529]

I loved Bills performance in Predator 2! he was very entertaining!!! comedic and near the end of the film he was brave!

[@arcion504]

Actually, twisters tornadoes were actually pretty realistic. It's not uncommon for twisters to dissipate after only 5 minutes. They're extremely sensitive to their environment so they don't last very long.

[@thefirstbourne149]

It sounds like if the characters explained it, you don’t believe they know it, but if that’s not the case, the characters are still not that likable that you can care or you would know.

[@Inthe850]

Ahem... The FINGER of God, not the hand of God

[@harukatakahashi8822]

How would you feel if you're next to big youtubers saying it wrong from a movie like twister?

[@somerandolad]

What, like, the middle finger?

[@minski76]

"It could have been like Jaws with tornadoes." So - Sharknado?

[@anubusx]

😆😆😆

[@LeeLee-pk4ss]

Crichton pissed me off in the first page of The Lost World, he killed off Ian Malcolm at the end of Jurassic Park and then he brings him back with the lame ass line 'contrary to popular belief Malcolm didn't die" WTF I felt like the Kathy Bates character in Misery "HE DIDN"T GET OUT OF THE COCKADOODY CAR!"

[@Master_RoSSShi]

"We saw an F1." "...F1..." *inner weather geek twitches*

[@MagnusSkiptonLLC]

To be fair, the Enhanced Fujita scale was only implemented like 10 years ago, and this move was like 12 years before that.

[@SupermarketSweep777]

The thing with Twister is they mentioned at the start it's representing a major outbreak. For reference the total tornado numbers in a 24hr time span. 2011: 219 1974: 148 2020: 132 2021: 116 Also the tornadoes were to represent the Fujita scale so it's meant to get more intense.

[@JakeCoasters]

Ironically this film was filmed during one of the most active tornado outbreaks in recent memory..There was a ton of data collected during that time...Such a classic film, all things aside RIP BIll Paxton

[@plawson8577]

It was filmed in May 1995.

[@KarmicBead]

If an actor is interviewed on the LeBatard Show, they're dead. It happened to Paxton, it happened to Alan Thicke.

[@Cthusiest_jeff]

They forgot about Apollo 13. My second favorite movie and Bill Paxton portrays Fred Haise extremely well.

[@jenniferblake3224]

Favorite PSH quote in this movie "He's gonna rue the day. Imminent Rue-age"

[@jenjenneration]

Fun Fact: My 6th Grade math teacher was the Weather adviser for the movie :0

[@midgetwthahacksaw]

Sapphire gem Sweet!

[@blind_surgeon]

He's lying

[@StormsandSaugeye]

The book "Big Weather Chasing tornados in the Heart of America" actually covers the "Pre Twister" and "Post Twister" effect.

[@garlandmueller740]

I saw this Movie as a kid and thought it was retarded that they refered to themselves as Tornado chasers. When they released their "butterfly drones" I assumed that they´d fly into the storm and disperse it, basicly destroying it. That should have been the Movie. Bullshit science destroying Tornados.

[@someguyinanambulancesavage9829]

I miss Ride it Out :(

[@creamy3598]

I just found out it's gone recently, I went in/on it in the summer of 2015 and come to find out they closed it a couple months later. It was so awesome.

[@archivedaccount5990]

"IT'S A TWISTER!!!"

[@pvthitch]

Heath! Nick! Jarrod! There's a fire in the barn!

[@JohnCruz811]

There's a sale at Penny's!

[@IsiniaMosienko]

And Leon is getting laaaaaarrrrrrger.

[@midgetwthahacksaw]

P Ferreira Get us off this road Rabbit!

[@jp3813]

Don't start up with your white zone shit again.

[@th3bff]

I went to the Roxie theater last night and they played this movie as tribute.... every one was drunk and it was entertainment as hell... they also turned the volume way up in the theater and it was awesome

[@HappyHauntsMaterialize]

RIP Bill Pallman, the best president of the whole hunger games, only he could have stopped harry potter from destroying the one ring of the matrix.

[@maymorgan2726]

the f scale referse to the destructive potential. a small tornado can be an f5 in a trailer park

[@lnfreeman]

matt morgan cool knowledge

[@isetmfriendsofire]

Yup, which is why it's funny in the movie when they declare what a tornado is just as it gets started!

[@jp3813]

Finger of God

[@WarKlutch]

That's why it's EF now

[@Jman3302]

Only thing I hate about Twister, was it broke Van Halen up when they wrote the song Human Beings for it.

[@midgetwthahacksaw]

Jman3302 Really?!

[@Jman3302]

Midgetwithahacksaw well it kinda did lol

[@midgetwthahacksaw]

Jman3302 How so? I had no idea of this happening. Please, tell!

[@coolnerdlll6053]

To be fair to Paxton in Titanic, most of his bad lines are scripted for the documentary they're shooting. That's why at the beginning he does a big epic monologue and then goes "Enough of that bulls**t."

[@FlyingFocs]

I saw an article after Paxton's passing that read "Versatile Actor Bill Paxton, Star of Twister, Dead at 61". I don't know what's more sad: that he died relatively young, or that whoever wrote that article couldn't think of a better movie to associate him with.

[@Krokodilius]

i think he was in Commando for 5 seconds. he loses the airplane.

[@Justmyhandle]

Doug mistakenly refers to Bill Pullman when discussing Bill Paxton? OHHH, GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER! 🤣 *#RIP*

[@chrisrembert6928]

Bill Paxton has been killed by Predator, Alien and Terminator.

[@userasdf]

I always agree with Rob more in these. twister isn't suppose to be smart or thought provoking. it's a popcorn movie. it's definitely not the best. it's very paint by numbers . but it does what it wants to do and does it adequately. and independence day was awesome.

[@1399chrismartin]

Bill Paxton's role as Master Sergeant Farell in The Edge Of Tomorrow was cinematic gold.

[@MeeplandHeights]

About the Crichton characters, I grew up surrounded by academics and university teachers and found that the characters pretty accurately mirrored some of these people. I guess Crichton was typically surrounded by them in his life so he just based his characters on those people. Now, this obviously doesn't mean that they are likeable, it just feels realistic to me

[@UnlicensedOkie]

This movie made me want to be a storm chaser as a kid. I'm sure it did the same for a lot of people. I remember going to a weather research class at kids camp when I was younger. Learning about the different clouds and different types of tornados. Yes it's a dumb movie. Come on, it has a pickup driving straight through a house that's rolling across the road. It has them surviving a tornado by tying themselves to a metal pipe. It has them surviving by hiding under a rickety wooden bridge. It's a ridiculous movie, but it's also awesome at the same time. Just like y'all said. The ridiculousness is part of why it's so awesome. Living in Oklahoma, I saw this movie tons of times growing up. Even now, I learn as much as I can about Doppler radar so that I can see what the storm is doing on my phone, without having to wait for the news to come on.

[@briansivley2001]

I loved Twister because of how realistic the tornadoes looked in the movie. Also I loved it because of the science in it because I love the weather and my biggest dream is going on a Tornado Chasing Vacation and potentially risk my life to see a tornado again and potentially almost losing my life to a tornado again lol. When I was about 4 or 5 years old I was living in Cincinnati at the time because of what my dad did to me (don't ask me what he did it was bad) and I was visiting a friend of mine across the street from my home and we found out that a tornado touchdown and I had to run for my life and I got to my mom and we ran towards our home and a few times the tornado was pulling me out of my mom's hands kinda like what happened to Joe in the end of the movie with the F5 that what happened to me but with a F1 tornado. The tornado lasted a half hour until it died. But I would do a tornado chase even after being in a tornado lol. I love Twister so much that I use it as a comparison to other movies that have tornadoes in them. I think Into The Storm is bad because of how unrealistic the tornadoes looked in the movie. And sure Twister is also unrealistic but at least the actual tornadoes by the way they looked was realistic unlike the tornadoes looked in Into The Storm. And the reason why the tornadoes in Twister looked so realistic was because the film makers did research on tornadoes before making the movie unlike whatever the film makers of Into The Storm did. I feel the same with Volcano and Dante's Peak Volcano was so unrealistic that I loathe it and I adore Dante's Peak because of the science in it and how realistic it was. Heck some of the scenes of it was filmed at Mt St Helens Volcano the same volcano that they were inspired by the eruption in 1980 for the story of it. I just find when movies that use weather or any other national disaster that could happen is unrealistic to be boring.

[@captainbossman1016]

I watch Twister to see a team of crazy storm chasers chase and intercept tornadoes So for me it's a 10/10 IGN

[@NukeOTron]

17:34 Wait, Jaws with tornadoes? ...didn't you already review that show?

[@Sithicus1]

I picked this up on Blu-Ray recently to enjoy again after hearing Bill had died, replaced my old VHS copy. I've always enjoyed the movie, but it has some major issues. You can't tell me this movie isn't running on the Cartoon Physics of Tornadoes. The main characters use some stupid little belt things and tie themselves to pipes and somehow managed to survive without being ripped up into the sky and killed. One of the guys has a hubcap slice his head open and he doesn't go to the hospital, he's still involved up to the end of the movie running the computers at the base site. And the movie screen, THE MOVIE SCREEN! It's torn to pieces in the perfect slow-motion that the image of the Shining ironically sticks around long enough to showcase the scene in the movie with Nicolson and Duvall and the axe coming through the door. I enjoy the movie, but I concur with Rob's views, totally an awesome movie, not because it's good, but because it's bat shit insanely unrealistic while trying to show off real science and entertaining as all hell. Your basic Chrichton story.

[@chainslawterhd8904]

"Here's Twisty!"

[@cory6266]

Bill Paxon had the honor of being the only actor in history to be killed by an Alien, a Predator, and the Terminator.

[@majorkong2828]

cory6266 and Lance Henriksen

[@cory6266]

No, Bishop was killed by Ripley in the third movie.

[@Markimark151]

Bill Paxton was cool, he also did movies with James Cameron.

[@MartialKaiju98]

RIP Bill Paxton.

[@Deep_Armageddon]

"I THINK WE'RE GOING IN!!!!" "Maybe we should get off this road.." -Bill Paxton

[@arcion504]

In one day, 122 tornadoes touch down in the United States alone. It is more than possible to see that many tornadoes in the time that twister took place.

[@carlrood4457]

They spend the whole movie showing how the tornadoes whip up all the debris that will cut you to pieces, but then the end has them out in the open attached to a pipe, but don't get shredded.

[@Chrisx005x]

I take it one of the reasons Rob likes this movie essentially is to make fun of it which I don't blame him if that's the case and can relate, lol. This is one of the greatest comedies ever made and I say this as an amateurish meteorologist or at least a weather nerd. Yes, the film does have a sort of kinetic flow with it where it doesn't leave the viewer too spaced out without overstaying its welcome even with parts of the exposition in different scenes. The pacing's fairly good. It helps tremendously that Bill Paxton was cast as one of the leads for the ensemble (Still miss him today as a fan. May he rest in peace. He was so versatile as a character actor in practically every role with his range) among other things. It's essentially a guilty pleasure for me and particularly since it's really the only halfway seriously distributed "epic film" portraying Tornadoes in a major context in terms of revenue which doesn't always necessarily matter since the actual product ought to have more relevance than any monetary connotations, but you know what I'm saying here. It's one of the handful of natural disaster "blockbusters" in the genre that I think are serviceable. It's still fantastical given what little science if any at all was consistently presented in the film. The nice Van Halen instrumental scoring during the credits really bookended the epilogue.

[@Headbanger142]

I was a fan of Twister when I was younger but looking back on it, it really hasn't aged well.

[@BlazePiffington]

Its game over for us man, what a loss...rest in paradise Bill Paxton...and the ride too

[@Drazeroth8]

24:13 They BOTH just called him Bill Pullman WOW! ("RIP Bill Paxton...It's really Bill Pullman..." "Yeah Bill Pullman")

[@187mrsmith]

Twister is a good underrated movie with a sneaky good Underrated Cast top to bottom

[@rs52594]

I never saw it, but Twister at least gave us some of the soundtrack by Van Halen.

[@anubusx]

Funny how Bill Paxton was killed by a Terminator, Xenomorph and Predator on screen.

[@chwenhoou]

First off, fuck I miss Bill Paxton. Even in bit roles, you can never say he slept walked through any of them. Second, I love Twister because its a dumb movie. Hell, every scene of Phillip Seymore Hoffman in that movie was gold.

[@sokandueler9578]

6-year-old me broke so many of my sister's doll houses replicating that drive through the house scene that I was grounded from watching the movie till I was 14.

[@davidmackenzie9899]

dude that light behind your head.

[@ChloeGfan]

Twister is an awesome movie. Good acting and great special effects and Dusty is the best in it!

[@FestArc]

Twister is no doubt a silly movie. A very unlikely perfect storm, that makes an outbreak of twisters, that show up at just the right time, they roar like Dinosaurs, and always seem to be chasing the main characters. So yes, it's silly. But it's FUN!!! And Bill Paxton as well as the rest of the cast, take the material so seriously and portray their characters with such conviction that it allows you to buy into the story no matter how outlandish the situations get. Twister was one of my go to VHS movies growing up, and it's still one of my favorite movies today.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

It’s an exciting,enjoyable movie,no doubt.

[@alpine1600s]

"My favorite Helen Hunt movie, Twister!"

[@HumanAfterAll123]

my favorite Bill Paxton roll is in a movie that nobody else has ever seen...Near Dark. go watch that fucking movie. it is one of the best modern vampire movies we have comma it is up there with the Lost Boys

[@Chrisx005x]

Believe it or not, the Jarrell F5 Tornado began as a wispy rope like funnel, dissipated and then quickly restructured into an enormous multi-vortex wedge funnel literally in the span of just a couple of minutes or so. Even then though, it along with nearly all tornado evolutions aren't as cyclical with the rotation as they were ridiculously shown in less than a microsecond in Twister. Still love the film though even with its warts. Back on the Jarrell Tornado, it left supposedly the most intense damage ever assessed in a singularly confined area in the modern era or at least in recent history keeping of both the original Fujita Scale and the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The upward motion on the tornado was so unreal it looked as if it was "sizzling" into both the earth's core and the atmosphere itself. Certainly one of the more wonders of tornadic anomalies.

[@forrestdorman4870]

You hacks! Wait...this isn't redlettermedia.

[@BugVlogs]

Real thoughts on Garbage Pail Kids, please!

[@mrhitisnumberone]

complete utter hatred.

[@joshuaobryan4896]

already did it

[@killer92173]

Ryan Grille what's there left to tell? they've already REALLY exploit the fuck out of their thoughts on the movie with commentaries, top 10s, and other stuff.

[@BugVlogs]

killer92173 I want them to suffer even more. Mwahahaha!

[@MagnusSkiptonLLC]

Yeah. I also really want to know what was going through their heads while watching it (a la Cat in the Hat's *"WHY ARE WE WATCHING THIS!?!?!?!?"* moment)

[@audrey1053]

Doug, you probably realized it by now. But next time don't sit with your head right in front of the light... You know because...The halo...Emmmm it makes you look... Even more... Angelic.

[@dianagulati7705]

Fun fact : the "Daniel from lost" guy in the beginning of his Twister review is Jeremy Davies, aka Baldur from God of War

[@cwjian90]

To be quite honest, the whole "public sponsor" thing is an actual thing in scientific research: you can lose quite a bit of respect as a "serious researcher" for becoming a science publicizer

[@swanpride]

Actually, corporate sponsors are often a problem in the science world, because they tend to want a very specific result, which in turn colours the data from the get go. Not that it makes the way this point is portrayed in the movie any less ridiculous.

[@nathanieltheoneandonly5933]

Wait, The Nostalgia Critic has a wife?

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

RedSonicGaming Yeah, both of these guys are married.

[@emorigio]

RedSonicGaming you thought he was with Malcolm?

[@nathanieltheoneandonly5933]

THE Fool No, I always thought that he was single

[@emorigio]

RedSonicGaming he was before got married

[@IsThereAnEkkoInHere]

THE Fool .... Yeah that's kind of how the process of how relationships work

[@cdifreakguy]

It's okay, Doug. It was just a slip of the tongue. Happens to everyone. Don't feel bad and don't let anyone make you feel bad. R.I.P. Bill Pullman.

[@jmantime]

*This may sound stupid but....* i always wanted a Twister Anime , with cute moe girls storm-chaser's, chasing and running away from tornado's , sounds dumb but it's an original idea

[@smegstar8527]

jmantime with lots of "GAAAAS!" and "UUAAAS!"

[@james13sylar]

Well there is an anime special (I think) about anthropomorphic and moefied race horses, your idea isn't at the bottom of the spectrum.

[@PsylomeAlpha]

@james: My Little Pony is technically Canadian.

[@gutembergcraft]

jmantime Someone get Kyoani on the line, we are into something here.

[@Waiting4thaWroms]

jmantime Sounds *very* stupid, but I can see it somehow working. Reminds me a little of High School Fleet. Could be a lot of fun if they applied Anime's trademark on-the-nose enthusiasm to a simple but silly idea.

[@karasmith576]

The beginning of Twister actually scared the shit outta me when I was a kid. I’m a Daddy’s girl so seeing the Dad being blown away scared me so bad because it makes me think if my Dad died like that. But Bill Paxton seriously was so likable. He will be missed!

[@BadGuyRants]

Doug's hair in front of that light is the scariest thing I've ever seen!

[@PokemonHaloFan]

True Lies is probably my favorite role for Bill Paxton. Besides Hudson in Aliens obviously.

[@FaydsterTV]

Growing up in the Midwest, tornadoes are a constant 3/4 of the seasons. When I saw this on VHS when I was younger, I fell in love with it immediately and have had this childhood connection to it for most of my life. It’s full of great memorable dialogue, and plenty of actions scenes that would make Michael Bay fans jealous. Underrated classic.

[@MAnuscript421]

During the breakdown scene in Aliens, James Cameron just told Bill Paxton to just say what comes to mind. No script, just go all out and say what comes to mind.

[@bertimusprime7900]

Man, Rob's Bill Paxton impression is spot on. Kudos to you.

[@JasonOlshefsky]

Great job on the impersonations this time! As one of my guilty-pleasure movies, I know the lines fairly well, so huzzah! Here's one way to like Twister: if you ever followed a storm hoping for something cool, and then you found out about storm chasers and tornado chasers, Twister is the perfect fantasy of what that is like. See, thank goodness they focused on the stupid divorce plot because otherwise it would have been something about the relationship between Wendle Josepher's character and Todd Field's character and how Haynes is secretly lusted-after by every straight guy in the gaggle ... because the likely truth is most chasers are not particularly charismatic, and kinda messed up socially, and probably way more boring overall. And then like you say, the likelihood of such a perfect day for them is astronomically small. So if Twister were realistic, it would be awful. Er ... more awful.

[@gamefan6219]

Is it me... Or is Doug getting getting more bald?

[@guineapiggirl400]

gamefan6219 male pattern baldness will do that, isn't he like 45 anyway?

[@40GamesAG]

I think he's actually 36.

[@DigiRangerScott]

KentuckyWallChicken 35. November birthday

[@40GamesAG]

Ah, right, I should know that, my birthday is a few days after his.

[@michaelwolfe9496]

No, he just has a huge fucking forehead.

[@dropUrPeaches]

So weird. I was standing around with my coworkers today, swapping tornado stories, and we touched on Twister. Personally, I love Twister. ^_^ Even though it came out RIGHT after my family moved to OK from a decidedly twister-free state. And then May 3rd happened three years later. XD Everyone has made the Pullman/Paxton snafu.

[@CMW1995]

I would like to know their real thoughts on Timothy Green

[@borghome]

The special edition of Twister gets sharks added. :)

[@Omnius15]

Hand of God joke ruined by an ad

[@DeepEye1994]

Bill Paxton, Kurt Russell and Ron Perlman are the ultimate actors who can work with anything they're given. Like "Soldier" isn't a great film but Russell's performance is amazing how he emotes and everything, in "Stargate" too (the movie, not the TV show where Richard Dean Anderson was amazing and had better writing to work with), in the hands of another actor the character of O'Neill could've been a very dull, but instead Russell took the little he got and made the character feel more genuine and Perlman as Conan's dad in the shitty remake was great, so was his character in "Alien Resurrection".