Twister (1996)

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by Jlouisbarrett

Eh, I think it looks fun — like a big, dumb, fun and flashy disaster action thriller in the great tradition of Irwin Allen… which is precisely what the original was. It’s not like we’re dealing with high art here. I’ll definitely be checking it out.

But yeah, even with that said, what I want most out of the sequel is for the original to be issued on 4K.

To me it looks like a set of jangly keys from an industry running out of ideas and money and driving their artists into the ground stringing it all together! Alien has more in common with the original than new-sequel to be frank. Going by the trailer it's completely aestheticless and moodless. Not a fan. Will keep saying it because it needs to be said!

On the whole "movie dumb" talk, that's too high-internet-intelligentsia woowoo for me. Alien and Twister are high art! That's the way it is!

But anyway, yeah! Bring on that Twister 4k!

[Fat Phil]

Originally Posted by Kyle15

To me it looks like a set of jangly keys from an industry running out of ideas and money and driving their artists into the ground stringing it all together! Alien has more in common with the original than new-sequel to be frank. Going by the trailer it's completely aestheticless and moodless. Not a fan. Will keep saying it because it needs to be said!

On the whole "movie dumb" talk, that's too high-internet-intelligentsia woowoo for me. Alien and Twister are high art! That's the way it is!

But anyway, yeah! Bring on that Twister 4k!

It looks like there's a huge vacuum of personality at its core.

The original had an abundance of character actors. But instead of Bill Paxton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Cary Elwes etc we've got.... that guy with the chiselled jaw from that thing. That girl - she looks kinda attractive, right? That, um, other guy.

[Kyle15]

Originally Posted by Fat Phil

It looks like there's a huge vacuum of personality at its core.

The original had an abundance of character actors. But instead of Bill Paxton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Cary Elwes etc we've got.... that guy with the chiselled jaw from that thing. That girl - she looks kinda attractive, right? That, um, other guy.

That's exactly my point! Take Twister and remove the character actors interacting with very bad weather, remove the direction and aesthetic of said very bad weather, and you get jangly keys for the crowd who put down anything not aiming to be ~literary art~ as stupid/idiotic/etc. People can say what they want about Twister being "thin" or whatever all day but they're clearly looking at it from an obtuse angle. It's essentially an aesthetic film, the art of tornadoes being terrifying. They're the most convincing, spooky tornadoes on screen since Wizard of Oz; that's more of dare-I-say an "art film" akin to Alien. Remove the art from it and you are left with a string of scenes involving people running from CGI tornadoes, and the attempt to put the original on the same plane is funny.

[random123]

Twister certainly created a generation of metereologists. No kidding, it’s not hard to find reports of metereologists saying that Twister was key in shaping their love for metereology.

[GrouchoFan]

I just picked up the Glow in the Dark Slipcover version from Wal-Mart...



...because for $8, why the hell not?

[AmishParadise]

I miss Bill Paxton.

[Comicfan]

Originally Posted by GrouchoFan

I just picked up the Glow in the Dark Slipcover version from Wal-Mart...



...because for $8, why the hell not?

I ordered this with my pre-order of Dune Part 2 last week.

[Croweyes1121]

As stupid as this movie is, I’d upgrade it in a heartbeat to 4K with Atmos. It’s in seriously dire need of an upgrade.

[Shane Rollins]

This might be the official “crap Blu-ray, absent on 4K” movie of our community now. The 30th anniversary is two years away, and we’re still working off of two awful Blu-rays from 20 years ago.

[steev210]

I thought I read somewhere Twister is getting a 4K UHD release this summer to coincide with the sequel, Twisters releasing in theaters July 19th.

[mpls1981]

Originally Posted by steev210

I thought I read somewhere Twister is getting a 4K UHD release this summer to coincide with the sequel, Twisters releasing in theaters July 19th.

It's been expected, but nothing official has been announced about it as of yet.

[that1guystudios]

Originally Posted by mpls1981

It's been expected, but nothing official has been announced about it as of yet.

The 4K restoration was completed at MPI last fall.

[Telemachus]

Originally Posted by GrouchoFan

I just picked up the Glow in the Dark Slipcover version from Wal-Mart...

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...because for $8, why the hell not?

So does it glow?

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by steev210

I thought I read somewhere Twister is getting a 4K UHD release this summer to coincide with the sequel, Twisters releasing in theaters July 19th.

Originally Posted by mpls1981

It's been expected, but nothing official has been announced about it as of yet.

Originally Posted by that1guystudios

The 4K restoration was completed at MPI last fall.

HURRY THE HELL UP - YouTube

[GrouchoFan]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

So does it glow?

You can’t exactly read Mad Magazine by it, but in a pitch black room it’s better than I expected…

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If anything, the effect is probably more impressive in the photo than in person!😀

[Pieter V]

4K Blu-ray incoming:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=372631

[Comicfan]

Originally Posted by Pieter V

4K Blu-ray incoming:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=372631

Figured this was coming sicne the sequel comes out this summer but since it's WB and a catalog title,I figure it will be 4k disk only (no combo with a Blu Ray disk) so I'm glad I got the Twister Blu Ray with the new Walmart glow in the dark cover a few weeks ago when I pre-ordered the Dune Part 2 steelbook.