Do you know how long it would have taken to download those trailers? 7-8MBs at about 33.6k (at most)…hopefully less than 10 minutes to get to see a tiny trailer. But video on a home computer was amazing in 1996!
Oh absolutely. I remember waiting at least 30 minutes for a little postage stamp video back then.
I remember downloading screenplays taking 5 minutes or so…for a text file.
I actually still get a kick out of Twister. As goofy and continuity-challenged as it is, it’s beautifully shot, and the tornadoes look about as real as could be hoped for.
I was absolutely floored by it at the time. I’m not a thrill-seeker by nature but I’ve always wanted to see a tornado. I’ve actually had dreams in which I’m watching a tornado, and very excited that THIS TIME I’m not dreaming.
But I always am.
I am decidedly not a thrill-seeker and I have seen a tornado while driving and I can tell you, I did not enjoy it or like it at all.
It was in about 200…….1? There was a spate of tornadoes that hit DC and maryland…my ex-wife and I were driving back from Georgia and we drove right into the heart of the storms. There were cars under bridges, people out of their cars, up under the steel support beams, holding on…and there we were in a small 2001 VW beetle…oblivious to the fact we could die…okay, I knew and I was freaking out…but she seemed oblivious.
We drove a few more hundred feet and there was a small stand of trees that led off the road on both sides, and one of the tornadoes had just come through and there was a clear path of destruction through the trees on the right over the highway through the trees on the left.
And over the hill, in the distance, the funnel was moving away.
Pretty surreal…
I loved Twister, too…but the more time passes the more fondly I seem to look back on any movie from the nineties…strange phenomenon, that…
I’ve never seen a tornado, but when I was a little kid one came within a block or so of my host. The whole family went down in the basement and leaned against mattresses. One of my distant cousins lived near Cincinnati and had their entire house destroyed by one.
See, maybe I would freak out if I saw one but I can’t help but feel envious of your experience, filmman.
But I don’t think I would freak out. When I lived in Arlington, TX, I was at working as an assistant manager at the movie theater the night this happened. It was one of those days where there were weather warnings issued early in the day, and I remember hearing several times on the radio that there were going to be bad storms in the evening.
When I got to work, I got a call from my boss (who was at home) saying that there was a giant purple cell on the radar heading straight for Arlington. I was the only manager on duty, so I had charge of the building, and I had a box office cashier listening to the radio. She was pretty much wigging out, hearing about the tornadoes in Fort Worth to the west and then, after awhile, moving along I-20 into Arlington just a few miles south.
At one point, I opened a side door to get a look, even though it was dark, and I’ve never seen a combination of wind, rain, and hail like that before or since. It was incredible. But I figured I should keep things running like normal until I heard reports of the tornadoes heading more directly towards us, which never came.
Because there had been warnings all day, it was a pretty slow night business-wise, and I’m not sure that most of the patrons had any idea what had gone on while they were in the movie. I got a call a couple of days later from a woman who had been in a movie wondering why she hadn’t gotten any direction from the staff to run and hide.
Besides the damage to downtown Fort Worth, a bunch of planes had been tossed around at the Arlington Airport, which is along I-20 on the south part of town. I’ve never been through another storm like that, and I never had so much fun at work.
Was it in 96?
Could you imagine if a twister came through while they were watching Twister?
Get it? A twister during Twister…? Get it…ahhh…..yeah….
Do you know how long it would have taken to download those trailers? 7-8MBs at about 33.6k (at most)…hopefully less than 10 minutes to get to see a tiny trailer. But video on a home computer was amazing in 1996!
Oh absolutely. I remember waiting at least 30 minutes for a little postage stamp video back then.
I remember downloading screenplays taking 5 minutes or so…for a text file.
I actually still get a kick out of Twister. As goofy and continuity-challenged as it is, it’s beautifully shot, and the tornadoes look about as real as could be hoped for.
I was absolutely floored by it at the time. I’m not a thrill-seeker by nature but I’ve always wanted to see a tornado. I’ve actually had dreams in which I’m watching a tornado, and very excited that THIS TIME I’m not dreaming.
But I always am.
I am decidedly not a thrill-seeker and I have seen a tornado while driving and I can tell you, I did not enjoy it or like it at all.
It was in about 200…….1? There was a spate of tornadoes that hit DC and maryland…my ex-wife and I were driving back from Georgia and we drove right into the heart of the storms. There were cars under bridges, people out of their cars, up under the steel support beams, holding on…and there we were in a small 2001 VW beetle…oblivious to the fact we could die…okay, I knew and I was freaking out…but she seemed oblivious.
We drove a few more hundred feet and there was a small stand of trees that led off the road on both sides, and one of the tornadoes had just come through and there was a clear path of destruction through the trees on the right over the highway through the trees on the left.
And over the hill, in the distance, the funnel was moving away.
Pretty surreal…
I loved Twister, too…but the more time passes the more fondly I seem to look back on any movie from the nineties…strange phenomenon, that…
I’ve never seen a tornado, but when I was a little kid one came within a block or so of my host. The whole family went down in the basement and leaned against mattresses. One of my distant cousins lived near Cincinnati and had their entire house destroyed by one.
See, maybe I would freak out if I saw one but I can’t help but feel envious of your experience, filmman.
But I don’t think I would freak out. When I lived in Arlington, TX, I was at working as an assistant manager at the movie theater the night this happened. It was one of those days where there were weather warnings issued early in the day, and I remember hearing several times on the radio that there were going to be bad storms in the evening.
When I got to work, I got a call from my boss (who was at home) saying that there was a giant purple cell on the radar heading straight for Arlington. I was the only manager on duty, so I had charge of the building, and I had a box office cashier listening to the radio. She was pretty much wigging out, hearing about the tornadoes in Fort Worth to the west and then, after awhile, moving along I-20 into Arlington just a few miles south.
At one point, I opened a side door to get a look, even though it was dark, and I’ve never seen a combination of wind, rain, and hail like that before or since. It was incredible. But I figured I should keep things running like normal until I heard reports of the tornadoes heading more directly towards us, which never came.
Because there had been warnings all day, it was a pretty slow night business-wise, and I’m not sure that most of the patrons had any idea what had gone on while they were in the movie. I got a call a couple of days later from a woman who had been in a movie wondering why she hadn’t gotten any direction from the staff to run and hide.
Besides the damage to downtown Fort Worth, a bunch of planes had been tossed around at the Arlington Airport, which is along I-20 on the south part of town. I’ve never been through another storm like that, and I never had so much fun at work.
Was it in 96?
Could you imagine if a twister came through while they were watching Twister?
Get it? A twister during Twister…? Get it…ahhh…..yeah….