"TWISTER" was released 30 years ago today (Wayback on May 10th, 1996)

May 10, 2026 6:29 PM

Pasquinelthe2nd

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twister

The extreme!!!

2 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Never seen it... and kinda proud of that.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

This and Volcano were my two comfort nature disaster movies to watch.. Anytime they were on TV (back in the late 90s) I'd stop what I was doing to watch them.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

And I've spent that last 30 years telling out-of-staters that no, we don't actually call them "twisters" here. 'Nader or tornadee, sure, but not "twister."

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

These clips needed more Jami Gertz.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

One of the best terrible movies ever made.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And I saw it in a 1 screen theater in Elroy, WI. I was 7.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I can't get over how bad the sequel was

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 5

ahh yes my childhood trauma as not long after I watched the movie a tornado nearly hit my house (i was a smol child in midwest and seeing one in person and what it does was scary as fk)

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Who's that playing the hipster doofus?" I wondered. "He's walking away with the movie." Didn't stay for the credits, so I didn't find out until Phillip Seymour Hoffman died.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's a dumb movie, but I'll fight a mofo who says it's bad.

2 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Got to see this last year at a “4D theater”.
Moving seats, wind, water spraying in the face, rain from above, even scents! You could smell grass and even bacon during the breakfast scene! It was awesome!

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#4 we gonna talk about that sweet mullet?

2 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed his hair, lol. Now THAT was a choice, lol. XD

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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That's my uncle!

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bill Paxton was always 100% hawt.

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smh didn't even post the best scene...

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Rabbit is good, Rabbit is wise.

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You know, of game-to-movie adaptations, it probably has the *least* resemblance to its source material.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Love me some practical effects

2 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Bill and Philip, miss you guys. I hope you're resting well.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We got cows!

2 months ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 0

I think that's the same one.

2 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Still a quite enjoyable movie. Decent acting, decent story, some banger one-liners. Might be time to rewatch.

2 months ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

I don't know about that. I can't get past the whole stupidity of Cary Elwes character having sold out to "big weather" and riding around with his crew in matching black SUVs and uniforms. Did a movie about storm chasers really need a group of villainous storm chasers?

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

lousy renditions of tornados, tho

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I just remember the E! Channel really played so many promos and trailers for the movie due to the new special effects.

2 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Quite the soundtrack if I remember correctly.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That movie was so unrealistic. At the end with Helen Hunt inside the tornado and not a stitch of clothing came off? Cummon now, throw a dog a bone.

2 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

And the fake SGI Indy laptops.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

I was just saying I wanted to see boobs.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

"Who *are* these people‽" (Trying to take shelter in a shed full of chains and hooks and sickles and scythes and things)

2 months ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 0

Nope. Nope.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Best line of the movie

2 months ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Had the same energy as the crusher room in Galaxy Quest.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Food........food! FOOD! FOOOOD!

2 months ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

I'm talking imminent rueage.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Guys! We are not invading my Aunt"

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

One of the first movies I ever saw in theaters. Good memory.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That was a great movie and I still carry a sense of glee that the "sequel" was its own piece that merely used the concept to carry on the legacy with very little of the story.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah I loved the original and the new one was actually pretty damn food in its own right.

Like it used the OG as inspiration rather than being a pure sequel.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, it was- wait, pretty damn what?
Philip Seymour Hofton: "Fud!"

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lol autocorrect. Duck you auto correct.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As someone who saw this in a theater 30 years ago, I feel like the description "Wayback" is a bit unnecessary.

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