Saturday Afternoon at the Movies

Happy Weekend everyone,

   Since we have had so many tornadoes here in Missouri along with all the flooding this month, it reminded me of an old movie I rewatch if I see it on the tv

Twister




This was a so so movie, a little "dorky" in spots but I loved some of the actors, and found it interesting how they were learning how to track the tornadoes they were spotting For the times allot of special effects.

The trailer:

This is a 1996 film, find information here  and more about the film here too
     Below copied from one of the links:

Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt and Carey Elwes may be billed as the stars of Twister, but the film's real attractions are the cyclones themselves. Best experienced in a theater, the nail-biting, blow-the-audience-out-of-their-seats computer generated graphics, cutting edge sound and other special effects are designed to take viewers straight into the roaring funnel of a gigantic tornado. In order to focus on special effects and action, the story is simple and the characters are drawn in broad strokes with little depth. Jo Harding (Hunt) became a storm chaser (a meteorologist who photographs and scientifically studies 


  Happy Saturday and weekend-stop by CJ for her movie pick and also Elizabeth some times posts a movie too.