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| Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in Twister (1996) |
Happy New Year! For me New Year’s Eve is always about changes and setting new goals. Well, for starters, I thought I’d change the way my posts work in Cinema Head Cheese. You’ll still be getting one post per month by yours truly but for 2025 you’ll have only one Static Age installment (that will essentially make the television column annual and will be published in December, in order to wrap things up on the small screen front), and for all other months (January to November) you’ll have A Binge too Far installments (most of them covering a duo of films, or even a trilogy). In other words, every eleven A Binge too Far posts, will be followed by one Static Age post. I decided upon this new arrangement in order for Static Age to grow even bigger and include more content each time (I’m thinking more than 3,000 words and more than twenty series or forty subjects overall tackled per post), while of course A Binge too Far will remain pretty much the same, featuring a special each time that’ll included a couple reviews of a duo of films or a trilogy. Got it?
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Twister (1996) poster
Twister
(1996)
A couple on the
verge of divorce (a tornado expert meteorologist played by Helen Hunt and
television weather forecaster played by Bill Paxton) has to overcome its
differences and tensions in order to work against a combination of tornados by
employing a recently-invented device.
Backed by Warner
Bros, Universal Pictures, and Amblin Entertainment, with a lavish $92 million
budget, this studio project ensured that director Jan de Bont [Speed (1994)] would have everything at
his disposal in order to create a bombastic blockbuster; which is exactly what
he did, as a perfect combination of surprisingly believable CGI and practical
havoc is blended perfectly and results into a fascinating picture, much more
enjoyable than its subject matter would have you expect. It made $495.7 million
at the box-office and it became the second highest grossing film of 1996.
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Twisters (2024) poster
Twisters
(2024)
Traumatized by
the death of her colleagues many years ago, meteorologist Kate Carter (the
gorgeous Daisy Edgar-Jones) moves to New York in order to approach science in
more conventional manner, but when the chance arises she returns to Oklahoma to
chase tornados, where she meets local twister wrangler superstar Tyler (Glen
Powell), only to create a completion between their two teams.
Directed by Lee
Isaac Chung, this belated standalone sequel to the mid-1990s blockbuster is a
sensation in itself, featuring bombastic tornado scenes – mostly rendered with
surprisingly believable CGI – and a country rocking soundtrack, as well as a
great cast. It is very enjoyable and an overall better film than the original.
It was budgeted at $155 million and it grossed $369.7 million.
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