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Twister [Blu-ray]

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A mile-wide, 300 miles-per-hour force of total devastation is coming at you! In this adventure swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America’s Tornado Alley in 50 years. By launching electronic sensors into the funnel, the storm chasers hope to obtain data to create an improved warning system. But to do so, they must intercept the twisters’ deadly path. The chase is on! Special Features • Commentary by Director Jan DeBont and Visual Effects Supervisor Stefan Fangmeier • Chasing the Storm: Twister Revisited featurette • The History Channel Documentary Nature Tech: Tornadoes • Anatomy of a Twister • HBO First Look: The Making of Twister • Van Halen Humans Being Music Video • Theatrical Trailers

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Actors:	Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director:	Jan de Bont
Format:	Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language:	English
Subtitle:	English, French
Number of Discs:	1
Studio:	Warner Home Video
Run Time:	113 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date:	May 06, 2008
Average Customer Rating:	based on 358 reviews

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Are the releasing Michael Crichton films on to Blu-Ray backwards based on appeal? Sep 01, 2010
I'm a huge Michael Crichton fan. But, I've noticed that the best of Micheal Crichton is still unavailable on Blu-ray. Even though I'm not particularly fond of Jurassic Park, it is considered his most famous story and film, and yet not available on Blu-Ray.

"Twister" is Okay. It's not Michael Crichton's best story writing film effort. Far from it. And the other known Micheal Crichton film currently available on Blu-Ray is "Sphere". It's had mediocre reviews, but yet it too, has been made available on Blu-Ray.

I'm not particularly fond of "The Andromeda Strain", but I'd appreciate it over "Twister" and "Sphere", as I'm sure many people do. But, these are the Micheal Crichton films that I am sure MANY people are anxious to see remastered in High Definition on to Blu-ray. Prepare to get a hard-on when you see all these great movies suggested all in one sentence:

"Westworld", "Coma", "The Great Train Robbery", "Runaway", "Looker", "The 13th Warrior", "Rising Sun", "Congo", and "Disclosure."

These are the one's that we are waiting for on Blu-Ray. Perhaps we could get a box set put together like they did for Stanley Kubrick since he's dead now, too. One less person they'll have to pay royalties to.

My must see movie Jul 21, 2010
I love this movie and watch it every spring.

Our favorite line, "We've got cows".

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Not twisted enough Jul 20, 2010
Twister is a good example of a film made purely to showcase special effects with a very simple plot concocted to hold it all together. I wouldn't have minded had it not been pure soap opera nonsense. I expect more from Michael Crichton.

I first (and last) saw Twister at a preview screening on a sunny Saturday night on July 20th 1996 (exactly 14 years ago today). It was one of those lovely screenings where the movie just starts right away and you're not bothered by long ads or trailers. After such brilliant teaser trailers I was initially let down by the mechanical and pedestrian nature of the story.

The story outside of the twisters ain't nothing new. A man and his estranged wife get back together amid the chaos. Wow! As if that wasn't done in Die Hard, The Abyss and ID4 already. Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt are good (as is her fondness for going without a bra in a white vest with lots of rain pouring down) but the rest of the cast are just scenery. Jamie Gertz is the perfunctory "in" for the audience. And why Cary Elwes attempted to do a Texas accent when he is clearly incapable is beyond me. And don't get me started on Philip Seymore Hoffman! I wanted one of the twisters to drop a silo on his head. All the storm chaser team do is go "yeah", "let's do this" and "rock 'n' roll". Usually in movies a cast this large is killed off one by one, but no such luck here. Not only are they mostly useless to the story progression but they are deeply annoying.

Where the film does succeed is delivering spectacle. The effects may be well over a decade old now but they still look good and the sound design is quite brilliant. If you go to Twister looking for anything else you'll be sorely disappointed.

Still, as modern disaster movies go, it's towards the top of the pile.

Definitely worth putting in your Blueray collection Jul 12, 2010
I have always loved watching Twister ever since it was released. Since I didn't have the dvd version, I just went ahead and bought the blueray version. After viewing, it was quite what I expected, the image quality is really good, a step-up from the dvd version. Almost a good transfer, expected with older movies. Some artifacts here and there. The blueray is more standard high definition. Has awsome 5.1 surround sound.

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Good movie, but could of done better job on BLU-Ray transfer Jun 25, 2010
This is a fun movie to watch but I could not tell too much difference between standard definition and high on this one. I do not think they spent to much time on the high definition mastering of this one.