Twister (1996)

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Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week, Paul & Amy are breaking down the 1996 weather disaster movie Twister, starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton (not Pullman). The two chat about the link between Godzilla and Twister, this being the first movie to come out on DVD, and how dangerous it was to be on the set of this film. Plus: Paul and Amy break down the original Van Halen songs made for the Twister soundtrack. Next week we'll be continuing on with our Disaster Movie Summer with the 2014 film, Edge of Tomorrow aka Live. Die. Repeat. You can find Edge of Tomorrow on any streaming services but don't forget to check your local library or apps like Hoopla and Kanopy! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1996 and welcome to the suck zone.
0:05.0	The movie Twister. Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to
0:29.4	to I am Paul Sheer, joined as always by my co-host Amy Nicholson.
0:37.0	Amy, we talked about Godzilla last week.
0:40.0	I love Godzilla minus one.
0:42.0	It really has been a movie that's stuck with me for a long time.
0:45.8	Yeah, but the Godzilla that keeps coming up in this podcast
0:48.8	is the disastrous 1990s Godzilla,
0:51.6	because that is once again storming through this episode. Oh that
0:55.0	Matthew Broderick Godzilla and I like Matthew Broderick but man oh man that movie
1:01.6	is bad and they shot that right in front of my house.
1:03.7	Maybe I have some PTSD because when they were shooting
1:06.9	uh Godzilla at the flat iron they were shooting machine guns at him and for many nights
1:11.3	it was just brat- nothing and maybe that's why I don't like it but
1:18.0	also I have eyes and maybe that's why I don't like it.
1:20.4	Possibly but however the case, that Godzilla, that badly conceived 90s, Godzilla, has just left a
1:26.6	gigantic footprint all over the last couple months because here we are still talking about it because the years 1996 and Jan de Bont, the director of speed,
1:37.2	the DP of Die Hard, has just decided that he is not going to make that terrible Godzilla he is backing away from it
1:44.0	thank goodness he decides you know what yes it could be popular but I don't know and he
1:50.9	didn't do it like right away he did six months of pre-production right he
1:56.9	actually had like a hundred and fifty million dollar budget based on that pre-production and then he's like and no I'm not going to do this I'd rather make a movie about
2:07.4	Tornadoes and just pieces out like a French exit just leaves the project and wow that's that's bold.
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