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There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Who knew you could make a story about wind interesting. I wonder, if after the filming was done, Paxton was overheard saying, "Storm over, man. Storm over." Twister has a good cast, great eye candy, very nice FX AND if you can't laugh at flying livestock, I don't want to know you.This is a good flick and a must see for all us Helen Hunt fans. I can watch this every 5 - 7 years.

"Twister" stars Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as Dr. Jo Harding and Bill Harding, whom are investigating and chasing an immensely intense series of tornadoes. Scenes in "Twister" were relatively accurate, yet horrific portrayals of how twisters and tornadoes are perceived and experienced. The main storm chasers, Dr. Jo Harding and Bill Harding, speak of series of storms occurring in one of the beginning settings of the movie. They are both storm chasers and are expecting tornadoes to arrive after the sky begins to show signs of a tornado forming. Watchers can see the lightning and the dark clouds in the sky behind the characters during the beginning of the movie. This weather is similar to how clouds of debris begin to form today before tornadoes. The scenes of the tornado show dust clouds forming around the tunnel of the tornadoes and the darkish green clouds and sky that surround it. This is an accurate portrayal of real-life tornadoes and how they look from afar. However, it shows debris being blown away from the tornado when in reality it should have been sucked into the tornado itself. This portrayal of the tornado was inaccurate and not scientifically correct. Also, the sounds of the tornadoes in the movie are inaccurate to how real tornadoes should sound. Real tornadoes have a roaring sound and sound as if a train was near. However, in the movie, they used sounds that didn't have this train engine sound.Dr. Jo Harding and her fellow storm chasers were preparing to follow these tornadoes in their "tornado proof" vehicles. Storm chasers today use these tactics when chasing storms. They guard themselves with these tornado proof vehicles along with their many computerized machines to help dictate and describe the characteristics of the inside of a tornado in a closer perspective. This is a true representation of how storm chasers are seen today. The precautions the characters took in "Twister" accurately displayed those actions an everyday citizen should take. Hiding in underground cellars, driving and moving away from the direction the tornado seems to be going, and listening to radio and television announcements that are being put out about the weather and precautions one should take in order to not be harmed or killed. I learned a few lessons from this movie: don't be a storm chaser unless you plan on close death or actual death, and don't believe that all things which happen in movies will happen in real-life situations and circumstances. Although "Twister" had its inaccurate scenes, it was a relatively realistic movie and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

The problem with this film is that it was not written as a tornado film, it was probably written with a generic plot generator where you have to fill in the name of the sport, um, event and it would generate a plot.In this case, we have a team of good meteorologists and a team of evil meteorologists who accepted corporate financing and "do it just for the money." What? They do their job for money? As opposed to what? They accepted corporate money, so what? Is it a bad thing that corporations are funding research that helps save lives? This evil team is doing the exact same research as the good guys, so what's the harm in it? And who funds the team of good guys? Not explained. The bad guys are bad guys because the film says they are. At the end of the day they do the same work, using the same techniques. It would be like saying "he's an evil doctor. He only work for money." I would have serious doubts about gynecologists that do it for the love of the job and have no interest in a salary.The generic plot doesn't stop there. There is some ridiculous love triangle that makes no sense. Bill is engaged and is about to get married, he just needs a signature from his ex-wife. She refuses to sign over and over, "forgetting" a page, etc. but we are never told why. She doesn't really show much of an interest towards him. She just doesn't to sign the papers for some reason. Then he leaves his fiancée for his (ex-? current) wife. His fiancée is there just so that he doesn't appear too desperate running back to his wife. Supposedly he loves her, yeah, right. And supposedly she loves him, uh-uh. But then she just says "I'm leaving." She says she can't compete with his current wife. She's not really in love with him and it doesn't make her sad. He doesn't get sad either. I don't know what kind of relationship this is or why this is in this film. Two people that are getting married for...? What exactly? Great films are based on hard choices. Stay or leave. This person or that person. This movie runs away from the difficult choices - everything resolves itself by itself without anyone needing to take a decision. The evil guys go on a suicide mission and get killed by a tornado. His fiancée leaves by her own volition. His wife just falls in love with him by default, as does he. The machine they built just works. They got the data they need. Everything just works out.There are never any difficult choices anyone has to make. This man is not torn between two women. He has no interest in his fiancée. He even lets her drive alone while he drives with his wife. The evil team is there just in the background. They do not offer him a position, try to lure some of his teammates or present any kind of competition whatsoever. They're there, they're evil, then they die. It's all like that. The backstories are just as ridiculous. Jo's dad died in a tornado and that's what made her want revenge, I mean to research tornadoes? So predictable.There's a scene where the whole team is eating and they explain to his noob fiancée about the tornado scale. They talk about F3 and F4. She says "Did anyone see an F5?" and the whole table goes quiet, everyone stops eating. It's so cheesy.The music was good, but that's about it.

Bill Paxton plays Bill Harding, a former storm chaser who travels to the heart of tornado alley with his fiancée, Melissa, during an unusually high outbreak of storms to retrieve divorce papers from his storm chasing, soon-to-be ex wife, Jo (Helen Hunt).Jo, who still has feelings for her estranged husband, reveals that she has brought Bill's design for an internal tornado reading device, 'Dorothy', to fruition. Lured by the chance to see Dorothy in action for the first time, Bill agrees to join Jo and the team one final time.Unfortunately, an inept but arrogant rival team of storm chasers have copied Bill's design and developed a tornado reading device of their own called 'D.O.T.', and Bill and Jo must get Dorothy into the air before they have a chance.The rest of the movie that follows is basically Bill and Jo realising their true feelings for one another interspersed with scenes of tornadoes that appear and disappear conveniently according to the plot.This movie is a huge guilty pleasure of mine. Going by my own personal rating system this movie should be a '5', which is an essentially 'bad' movie with good elements that make it worth a watch, but I bumped it up to '6' for two reasons; as an avid sky watcher (seriously, I should have just gone into meteorology for the amount of time I spend looking upwards) there is a real dearth of good extreme weather movies out there and as long as you aren't concerned with complex characters or plot then Twister delivers in that respect. Yes, the science is implausible and downright silly at times, but it's still the best extreme weather movie to date.The second reason is for the end credit sequence featuring Van Halen's instrumental piece, 'Respect the Wind'. I've bumped up many a mediocre movie before due to their soundtracks and I feel 'Respect the Wind' captures the wild, majestic, unbridled nature of planet Earth's skies perfectly and beautifully.