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List Price: $20.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 9396
Released: May 6, 2008 |
| Our Price: $13.56 |
| Used Price: $11.25 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Closed-captioned Color DVD-Video Original recording remastered Special Edition Subtitled Widescreen NTSC | Starring:
Bill Paxton Helen Hunt Cary Elwes | |
Editorial Review:
A mile-wide 300 miles-per-hour force of total devastation is coming at you! In this adventure swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America?s Tornado Alley in 50 years. By launching electronic sensors into the funnel the storm chasers hope to obtain data to create an improved warning system. But to do so they must intercept the twisters? deadly path. The chase is on! Now enjoy this all new 2-Disc Special Edition taken from the digitally remastered film elements with awesome bonus features. Experience the fury like never before!Running Time: 226 min.System Requirements:Running Time: 210 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/DISASTER UPC: 085391167990 Manufacturer No: 1000025740
Description of Twister (Two-Disc Special Edition):
Twister was a mega-million-dollar blockbuster--helmed by a director (Dutchman Jan de Bont) hot off another scorcher hit (Speed)--that flaunted state-of-the-art digital effects and featured a popular leading actress (Helen Hunt) who would win an Academy Award for her next film (As Good As It Gets). But ask anybody who's seen it and they'll tell you who the real star of Twister is: the cow. Not to give anything away, but the cow is one of those inspired little touches (like, say, Bronson Pinchot's career-making cameo in Beverly Hills Cop) that adds a touch of personality to a gigantic Hollywood production. The story is blown out the window after an impressive prologue in which Hunt's character, as a little girl, witnesses her daddy being sucked into a tornado. Basically, Hunt and Bill Paxton are thrill-seeking meteorologists chasing twisters in order to study them (and help warn people of them, of course) with a new technology they've developed. If you thought the Kansas tornado in The Wizard of Oz was every bit as scary as the Wicked Witch of the West, then this may be the movie for you. --Jim Emerson
Twister (Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Twister 
2008-07-21 - Twister on blu-ray has greatly improved the picture and sound quality from the original, I was very impressed.
HD DVD TWISTER!!! FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!
2008-07-19 - I just finished watching TWISTER in HD DVD and man it is one wild ride!! BETTER than going to a Theatre and watching it!! I have seen this movie at the Theatre on release, on VHS tape, DVD, on Dish Network in HD and now finally the BEST of them ALL, HD DVD!! This is a must own for any HD DVD player owner. The 1080p is superb!!! I had both the original DVD and HD DVD playing at the same time, flipping back and forth during the same scenes and its just AMAZING the quality of HD DVD, so much better than standard DVD!!! I got friends that say "dvd is awesome by itself" and I used to say that too, until you watch HD DVD then you wonder why you like regular DVD!! Unbelieable price here at AMAZON.COM, cheapest I've seen anywhere online and havent seen it available in store!! This is a MUST BUY, just like TRANSFORMERS & I AM LEGEND in HD DVD!!
A classic Twister Story - fun to watch over again
2008-07-18 - Being in Oklahoma...this isn't super accurate...but it is entertaining.
The flying cow was a little funny.
Great Quality Picture in HD - This is a great demo for Blue Ray
Enjoy it and add it to your collection
Twister BD 
2008-07-16 - Love the power of nature...from a distance This movie does a fairly good job of protraying the freightening qualities of tornados, but the technology used to create the special effects in this movie is getting a little long in the tooth. Still, I think it's the best tornado movie to date.....but do we really need one? Too bad the technology doesn't exist to more accurately predict the path of a tornado. I can remember, growing up in Kansas, how we all piled into the family car to escape what we knew was certain death, only to wonder which way to go.
BD music is very good and exceedingly ominus when played in a decent home theater.
Twister HD dvd 
2008-07-15 - Looks and sounds great. really was Blown away by the way this looked and the sound was unbelivable. you will really enjoy this especially people that own surround sound.
