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They Don’t Make Disaster Movies Like Twister Anymore
I saw the original Twister on opening night in 1996 and hated it. Then, over the years, it grew on me.
The CGI revolution (inaugurated by Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the first Jurassic Park several years earlier) was already upon us, and we just took it as a given that the effects would be good in these expensive Hollywood blockbusters. It helped that my young son was going through an extended tornado phase in the early 2010s, so I wound up rewatching Twister more than the average adult might have expected to. On both his directorial debut, Speed(which does rule), and the Hollywood films on which he served as cinematographer (including Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, and Basic Instinct), de Bont liked to push his camera up close to his actors to capture very real emotions in sometimes extreme physical circumstances.
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