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DVD Twister
Twister was a mega-million-dollar blockbuster--helmed by a director (Dutchman Jan de Bont) hot off another scorcher hit (Speed)--that flaunted state-of-the-art digital effects and featured a popular leading actress (Helen Hunt) who would win an Academy Award for her next film (As Good As It Gets). But ask anybody who's seen it and they'll tell you who the real star of Twister is: the cow. Not to give anything away, but the cow is one of those inspired little touches (like, say, Bronson Pinchot's career-making cameo in Beverly Hills Cop) that adds a touch of personality to a gigantic Hollywood production. The story is blown out the window after an impressive prologue in which Hunt's character, as a little girl, witnesses her daddy being sucked into a tornado. Basically, Hunt and Bill Paxton are thrill-seeking meteorologists chasing twisters in order to study them (and help warn people of them, of course) with a new technology they've developed. If you thought the Kansas tornado in The Wizard of Oz was every bit as scary as the Wicked Witch of the West, then this may be the movie for you. --Jim Emerson
Twister is a very exciting movie. Anyone who likes action and adventure would love it. It also has a bit of comedy and romance, too. No movie could match it. In fact, I'd say it's my favorite movie. When ever you see it, you just got to watch it again. It's especially great if you're interested in weather and stuff like that. Helen Hunt is really good at the part. And who ever plays Dusty is pretty funny. Twister is the best movie.
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It's the special effects that are the star of this megahit; the script and performances are run of the mill, offering nothing extraordinary at all. But if you like a good disaster film, TWISTER delivers. Director Jan DeBont(Speed) keeps the action sequences tense and volatile, but the film bogs down when it tries to focus on the failed relationship of stars Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt. Throw in Jamie Gertz and Cary Elwes in derivative roles as Paxton's new fiancee and his self-absorbed competitor, and you have the ingredients for standard disaster cum personal crises film. But who can argue with the awesome dynamics of the terrifying twisters; the flying cows; the eighteen wheeler oil tanker, and other SEs which permeate and validify this blockbusting movie, which has the honor of being the first movie released on DVD.
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HELEN Hunt...need we say more. We got this because we no longer have VCR (had the VHS TAPE). ACTION PACKED! COMEDY! Not a chick flick or a 'man's" film. Just as I said, I don't mince words.
Personal moments with a touch of comedy.........WOW!If you lived or heard of the tornado row.....this is soooooooo cool!
In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bill Pullman - Jeff Goldblum - Will Smith Director(s): Roland Emmerich DVD Release Date: Released the 11 May 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The first of 1997's volcano disaster movies (the second being Volcano) was arguably the better of the two, but both of them made for passable entertainment with some spectacular special effects to serve as icing on the stale cake. After all, Dante's Peak doesn't pretend to be anything more than an updated variation on a whole catalog of disaster movie clichés. Despite all that, it's reasonably enjoyable. It's an added bonus that the script is just smart enough to allow Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton to play their roles with straight faces, never condescending to the audience of the formulaic story. He's a volcano expert from the U.S. Geological Survey, and she's the mayor of a cozy Washington State town perched beneath a volcano that's about to blow. Telltale signs... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Pierce Brosnan - Linda Hamilton Director(s): Roger Donaldson DVD Release Date: Released the 20 January 1998 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The latest testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continues Hollywood's millennium-fueled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understands what mainstream American audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid- fire pacing, and patriotic flag waving. Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, lewd, oversexed (but lovable, of course) oil drillers summoned to save the world from a Texas-sized meteor hurling toward the earth--are not flawless heroes, but common men with whom all can relate. In this huge Western-in-space soap opera, they're American cowboys turned astronauts. Sci-fi buffs will appreciate Bay's... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ben Affleck - Billy Bob Thornton - Liv Tyler - Bruce Willis DVD Release Date: Released the 05 January 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Sam Neill - Laura Dern Director(s): Steven Spielberg DVD Release Date: Released the 10 October 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A great big rock hits the earth, and lots of people die. That's pretty much all there is to it, and most of that was in the trailer. Can a major Hollywood movie really squeak by with such a slender excuse for a premise? The old disaster-movie king, cheese-meister Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), would have made a kitsch classic out of this, with Charlton Heston, rather than a resigned and mumbly Robert Duvall, as the veteran astronaut who risks several lives trying to blow up the comet that's headed right this way! As stiffly directed by Mimi Leder, this thick slice of ham errs on the side of solemnity. It may the be most earnest end-of-the-world picture since Stanley Kramer's atomic-doom drama On the Beach. There are a couple of classic... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert Duvall - Téa Leoni - Elijah Wood - Morgan Freeman Director(s): Mimi Leder DVD Release Date: Released the 05 October 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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