This time: Twister!
This movie is the epitome (ok, one of many) of the 90ies, so it's not a big surprise that I absolutely love this movie.
Many would say the story is pretty basic: seperated stormchaser-couple rekindles their relationship through their mutual fascination for tornadoes, while surviving one ridiculously dangerous situation after the other - perfect!
Bill Paxton (who happens to be one of my all-time-favourite underrated actors) delivers a solid performance, and 90ies sweetheart Helen Hunt goes along quite well (positively reminding me of Laura Dern from Jurassic Park) giving us sometimes moderate, sometimes believable screen chemistry.
Done with the formalities, let's get down to business... whenever you talk about "old" movies, it's the special effects that are most interesting. Can they still hold up to our viewing patterns?
Oh hell yes, they can! Sure, the CGI wasn't quite Avatar and Jurassic Park makes the tornadoes look as if they were drawn on paint and animated with power point, but there are still a lot of practical effects in this movie and twister-funnels aren't too hard to animate anyways.
One of the good things about having imaginary tornadoes is, that the actors actually have something to work with, since the wind and some of the debris is actually real and on set.
The protagonists of the film are stereotipical 90ies villains, their motivations and aversion against our heroes is superficially comprehensible, their performance utterly forgettable, though - the tornado remains to be the actual villain here.
In conclusion: Is the movie still watchable? Definitely! Will you have a good time watching it? Yes, if you grew up with it and enjoy good old 90ies action, when things were still a bit more cheesy and unrealistic, but at the same time much more relateable than modern-times-movies. Does that make sense?
So rent/download Twister now, and spin back to your childhood. Ha!
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