30 favorite things in 1996 cinema masterpiece "Twister"

I've spent a lot of words on the crowing achievement of American popular culture's triumphant film masterpiece Twister, so in lieu of replicating a million talking points anybody reading this blog has already heard at least a dozen times, I'll humbly share 30 of my favorite things about and/or from the movie, in a non-exhaustive, non-hierarchical list:

• "Tasty cow Aunt Meg"
• Greenage
• All of Bill's former colleagues: "welcome back", Bill, defiantly: "I'm not back"
• The Extreme
• Imminent rueage
• "Humans Being" - the original Van Halen song recorded for the film
• Referring to Jami Gertz as "the bad guy"
• Referring to Cary Elwes as "the bad guy"
• "These pipes go down at least 20 feet if we anchor to it we might have a chance!"
• "Where's my truck" ... "there it is"
• The Suck Zone
• "Why can't we spend a normal day together"
• The medley of Deep Purple's "Child in Time" guitar solo, Rodgers & Hammerstine's "Oklahoma Fanfare," and the William Tell Overture
• "Bill, you're taking the vows? Nice!"
• "Can I drive?" "No" "Then will you?"
• Food. Fooooooooood.
• "Another cow!"
• Jami Gertz's amazing background acting in the scene where the auto repair garage guy hands her the bathroom key and she holds it away from her all white pantsuit with digust.
• The sound tornadoes make was produced at ILM and includes a camel's growls, slowed down and played in reverse
• Was the first new release film to come out on DVD and the last film released on the Microsoft HD DVD format
• The original script was written by Michael Crichton and if you think the dialogue in the film cut is bad (I don't of course) you'd really hate the original script - it sucks! The love triangle between Jo/Melissa/Bill is heightened and the scene at the motel by the drive in includes a lil cat fight where Melissa suggests that her and Bill did the nasty between tornadoes 3 & 4.
• On the VHS release, there's an original Looney Toons short featuring Bugs and Taz.
• "He's in it for the money, not the science!"
• "You've never seen it miss this house, miss that house, and come after you"
• The shot in the movie trailer where a tractor gets thrown into the road and its tire flies into a windshield was a proof of concept that ILM could make believable CGI for the film. It ended up being the last shot of the trailer - a damn test!
• Jo & Bill's fight before the first tornado.
• "Oh and Bill, I really enjoy your weather reports."
• Jan de Bont hesitated to cast Bill Paxton becuase, at the time of casting, his hair was not long enough to whip around in the wind.
• "That's no moon, its a space station!"
• That' Bill Paxton's character's name is Bill. Come on. That owns.

*part of why this list is so sparse is because I have one eye on the movie while I'm typing this.
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