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An iconic film of 1996, at the height of the [[Disaster Movie]] revival. ''Twister'' tells the story of a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] who chase tornadoes for a living. The main duo are scientist Dr. Jo Harding (Helen Hunt) and her former husband Bill Harding (Bill Paxton). Among the many others is Dr. Melissa Reeves (Jami Gertz), Harding's current fiancée, providing a [[Love Triangle]] of sorts. Also a tale of ''vengeance'' against the tornadoes that deprived a little girl of her father. Also a villainous ''evil'' team of tornado chasers that seek to beat Our Heroes to the punch at a scientific breakthrough.
''Twister'' was popular not because of its groundbreaking or interesting plot. The love-story is hackneyed and loaded with instant characterization and tornadoes ''do not work that way''. The real draw of ''Twister'' was its ground-breaking special effects featuring some of the most realistic and thrilling images of tornadoes ever created for film. This isn't ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
The film went on to become the number-two top grossing film of 1996 and its special effects won it numerous awards. While remembered these days with less fondness due to the lack of an interesting plot, it is credited for spawning a whole new generation of tornado chasers. ''Twister'' was also the first film ever released on DVD ''AND'' the last film put out on HD DVD in the U.S. (though the very last HD DVD worldwide was a German release of ''[[Death Proof]]'').
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** Jonas' truck does get picked up, circles, and then gets hurled without ever actually touching the funnel cloud itself.
* [[Drive-In Theater]]: The twister attacks one.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Twin]]: Used as a joke when Bill's buddies are telling embarrassing stories to his fiance. He blames the stories on Evil Bill, who he killed.
* [[Fake American]]: The very British Cary Elwes as the very southern Jonas, though he's ''supposed'' to be from the Midwest and his accent is hard to place.
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** Jo ''tries'', though. She feels that she's seen tornadoes "miss this house, and miss that house, and come after [people]!"
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Led by Patron Saint [[Terminator|B]][[Aliens|i]][[True Lies|l]][[Titanic|l]] [[Weird Science|P]][[Tombstone|a]][[Predator|x]][[Apollo 13|t]][[Big Love|o]][[Spy Kids|n]]
** [[Lost
** [[The Princess Bride (
*** And [[Rent|Mark Cohen]] is one of his assistants!
*** [[Fight Club|The Narrator's Boss]] is his driver!
** [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
** [[Boogie Nights|Philip]] [[The Big Lebowski|Seymour]] [[Capote|Hoffman]] at his goofy finest.
** [[Nip Tuck|Bobolit]]!
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* [[Running Gag]]: The device that the group came up with getting knocked over and its sensor bulbs getting spilled everywhere whenever they try to use it near a tornado.
* [[Serious Business]]: Storm chasing, apparently.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Get Smart
** [[Star Wars|"That's no moon, it's a space station!!"]]
** The tornado device is called [[The Wizard of Oz (
** The flying cows that twist in distress as they're blown around may be a [[Shout-Out]] to a silly shot in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
* [[Smug Snake]]: Jonas.
* [[Tagline]]: Originally it was going to be [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"It Sucks"]], but the potential for [[Exactly What It Says
* [[The Red Stapler]]: Sales of red Dodge Ram pickup trucks increased notably after this film's release.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Jonas, who pointedly ignores Jo and Bill's warning about his vehicle and the placement of the oncoming Twister just because they don't like each other. He even ignores his own driver who expresses the same concern and has even less motivation to see them both die a windy death.
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