Talk:Twister (1996 film)

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Contents 1 Manekz 2 Ride 3 ??? 4 Jo's Aunt 5 Cell phone 6 goofs and odd things 7 Scott Thomson 8 Wrong link to Rick Mitchell... 9 Fair use rationale for Image:Twistermovieposter.jpg 10 Fair use rationale for Image:Debris15.jpg 11 Questionable Trivia

[edit] Manekz

Is the reference that twister is the last movie to be released on HD-DVD make any sence? The citation page also did not provide any answer. I did not wanna remove it before verifyin the informaiton! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.43.24.229 (talk) 14:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ride

"Ride" section sounds like it was written by 12 year old.

Agreed, have cleaned it up to make it sound less breathless - and removed the constant references to what happens to 'you' at the ride. Will leave the clean-up tag there, pending other views. Njjh201 21:39, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit]  ???

Does anyone know if the outbreak of twisters in the movie was based on the Super Outbreak of 1974? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.39.130.85 (talk)

No, it's not ---Ntay 02:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

There was some discussion that the "idea" of the movie came from the Super Outbreak of twisters. But this alone was not the only idea/deciding factor on the idea of the film. MattyC3350 (talk) 06:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jo's Aunt

I am changing the section that had said that her aunt was almost hurt, because she was most definately injured. I am changing it to injured and almost killed.

[edit] Cell phone

Bill Paxton's fiancée is on a cell phone during the storm. Would she have had service then?

No, because cell phones are also limited by the closeness of a provider station. Since it seems to have been destroyed, then she was S O L.

This may get deleted since i'm not a wiki guy. If not, remove this message.

[edit] goofs and odd things

there are alot of goof's that u can see sometimes in the movie. i think a section or something should be added just because most movie pages have them also. here are a small list, like 1 that i can think off.

• during the scene with the waterspots, after the first cow goes flying by, it shows them, if u look out the back window, u can see a second road leading the other way, with a car driving by.

but after that, it shows the bridge as a single road going 1 way.

• i think theres another one of these when there drving towards 1, anothner car is shown driving away from the twister
• after jonas's truck is picked up, and its showing his team watching, the last guy seems to be smiling and frowning at the same time.

srry for the speeling errors--Cody6 22:18, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scott Thomson

The link that was in the article to Scott Thomson was a link to a Scottish football (soccer) goalie. I'm assuming that he isn't the Scott Thompson in this film. If I'm wrong, please correct me. Darry2385 15:23, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong link to Rick Mitchell...

The link to Rick Mitchell goes to some Australian guy instead of the TV weatherman from KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Twistermovieposter.jpg

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BetacommandBot 07:35, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Debris15.jpg

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[edit] Questionable Trivia

I see that it says that in real life one couldn't survive an F-5 Tornado by strapping yourself to a pipe. It also states that both the barn and the house should've been leveled. I find this highly uneducated and highly unsupported by evidence of past tornados. Tornados (for instance) have been known to destroy sections of buildings and leave items, tables, and funiture in tact in the exact place they were before the storm. They've also been seen to "jump" houses, leveling various houses out of a suburb and leaving the rest with some stripped siding or with absolutley no damage at all. I'm not sure but if I had to guess, I'd say the person that added that was pretty young, using a phrase such as "cut you to ribbons". I'd advise imediate removal of this as it's unsuppported by widely known facts about tornados, I'm not saying you're safe everytime you go out there and strap yourself to a pipe, but with as unpredictable as tornados are, you've at least got a fair chance of survival. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.115.83.54 (talk) 03:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)