Product Description

The house rips apart piece by piece. A bellowing cow spins through the air. Tractors fall like rain. A 15000-pound gasoline tanker becomes an airborne bomb. A mile-wide 300 miles-per-hour force of total devastation is coming at you: Twister is hitting home. 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 enough data to create an improved warning system. But to do so they must intercept the twisters' deadly path. The chase is on!Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/RACE AGAINST TIME UPC: 085391186311 Manufacturer No: 118631

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1485 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2008-05-06
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 113 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Twister
Twister on blu-ray has greatly improved the picture and sound quality from the original, I was very impressed.

HD DVD TWISTER!!! FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!
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
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