So, this was the biggest movie along with Independence Day/ID4/ID-4 of the year of change that was 1996 (Sting in WCW was a great example as when he was explaining as he said it himself) that was an absolute can't miss, and I anticipated this so much back then. I remember it like it was yesterday when I saw it twice. Me and My Mom & her old friend Don from Sears where they worked at in Crestwood Plaza went to see it then Me & My Grandparents saw it too at The Kenrick Wehrenberg Theater in Crestwood on Watson Road. If you knew this area then and if you saw this area now you would been on your knees in tears because it's all gone, the The Kenrick has been replaced by a Walmart & Bio Life, the whole plaza next to it is gone too. There was a cool Humphrey Bogart restaurant there that had nothing but pictures of him on the walls and great food. Me, My Mom and her tall boyfriend Kevin took My Grandparents there for their Wedding Anniversary in 1991 then We saw The Addams Family on a cold December night when things were still very special :) If you love Bogey then you would have had a ball there as it was the only one like it and now it's all gone! Even the building were Frank's Nursery & Crafts & Burger King were. Now the entire area is like it's never existed before :( This is what I'm talking about people, you gotta preserve and think about your history and spread it around. before it all falls to Oblivion...I'm not joking here, I think of this everyday😠
Here's a pic of what that great fun The Kenrick Wehrenberg Theatre looked like back then and keep in mind My Dad worked there as a projectionist and gave Me an awesome Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Poster plus this is where I saw Willow in 1988 over 35 years ago this year as well as Jurassic Park in 1993, 33 years ago this year not to mention many other great times including seeing 95's Batman Forever (30 years ago this year) and 97's Batman & Robin :)
So, Twister was a huge movie for Me and really for My Grandparents because We love Weather looking up at the sky looking at the clouds and all of that. My Grandma knew all the types of clouds and all of that stuff. I know weather but they were much wiser than I am even now. When I saw this movie I was so euphoric about that as this was presented in THX & SDDS Surround Sound which I was crazy about these features. I loved Bill Paxton, he was always one of the guys We always talked about as he was such a household name. My Grandpa always said his quotes from 1986's Aliens. It was something seeing Helen Hunt. As a 15-year-old, I really digged her. I loved Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Dusty character, he's one of My most favorite movie characters. Jake Busey & Carey Elwes was in this as well! My Grandma really like the Aunt character :)
In fact, the Dusty Character is truly one of My favs ever in a film, he's just so cool! This one of the things that so lacks in today's movies as well as society:0
I noticed so much changing in 1996, one of them was the women. The way they looked & dressed, boobs were bigger, their hair was better and all of that...the women in the 90s were arguably the best out of any decade, it was one heck of a time being a teenage boy😎 Look at Helen Hunt here for example :o
Jaime Gertz isn't the innocent lost girl in 87's The Lost Boys anymore💣
The chemistry between Paxton & Hunt was really good.
This being 1996, this was the start of nearly every film being dominated by CGI and feeling like a big event unlike any previous years including 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989 & 1990 :o This film really changed My outlook on so much, just not movies but how I see Weather. I have never stopped loving weather, every day I love it and when there's rain & storms, I never want it to be bad but I want it really exciting. IMO this is one of the greatest movies I ever seen. My Grandpa bought the VHS for Me when he worked at Sears in Crestwood and then when it came out on DVD I got it too:) Here is some of the awesome posters & more!
I would have loved to be a storm chaser. In this awesome & scene, listen to the score here by Marc Mancina & Trevor Rabin, they NEVER released this music on CD, not even on the expanded edition however it is still possible that they might. Listen how they mix it up with Sammy Hagar & Van Halen... My Grandma loved this :)
Now as you just heard, it has one heck of a soundtrack, in fact it has one of the best DUAL soundtracks you could ever listen too. It has a ton of great songs by some of the greats including Eric Clapton. Here's Sammy Hagar's Humans Being that was just for the movie!
Now the score as I mentioned a minute ago is by Marc Mancina. He has a remarkable feat as he was Hans Zimmer's first trending Media Venture protege/colleague/associate/student to use Zimmer's sound. This is really a historical feat because this is the type of sound that has dominated Hollywood's movie scores for decades now and even as I currently speak :) Also, Trevor Rabin is playing the guitar which he is a Zimmer guy too which he is a great composer in his own right:)
Now as much as My Grandma loved the score & them composers, she absolutely adored Eddie Van Halen's Respect the Wind even more :o I love it too, it's such a magical piece in-itself that totally matches the film. It was in the End Credits where they show the sky and the clouds in a time-lapse. I've always said about that We always watched the end credits for the great music that is in the movies while everybody else walked off. In fact, there has never, I mean never been an end credit piece of music like this ever, I mean ever! This piece was written DIRECTLY FOR TWISTER and you talk about originality, now this is it😎Listen to this masterpiece by Van Halen❕
I have a very special story about Me & My Grandma MiMi, the time when the power went out during a huge thunderstorm. During that storm when We were going to & leaving Schnucks on Loughbough in 2004. We were listening to Twister in her Garfield Express Hyundai. We listened to that score so much during the Spring & Summer months for so many years :) One day soon, I will elaborate on this further because it was such an incredible story of Mine and I never had an experience like it since :) That will do it about 1996's Twister, I have always loved that one and always will. I have more Twister stuff to come so be alert for that❗
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