This is a rant. Despite Jan De Bont fresh off the bus with Speed understandably wanting to follow up with a film that had some chasing to do and something faster, Michael Crichton and Helen Hunt, was never a huge fan of the original Twister. Bill Paxton has always been a used car salesman to the average 90s moviegoer. That didn’t help either. Hollywood was still exploring the possibilities of CGI and disaster movies pushed early boundaries. And in Twister, cows did fly ! Yeah it did make a good pop corn cruncher, just wasn’t my tea cup of storm, so to speak.

But that is not what my rant about. It’s rather inconsequential and I have no actual reason to be triggered by whatever it was that triggered me. Amblin Entertainment in the titles probably and the sight of the Indian university student maybe. I have on previous occasions come clean about my issue with Spielberg’s portrayal of Indians right from Temple of Doom days. Yeah he probably has nothing to do with this and I am not making any sense too but that’s how rants are, for the sake of argument. I should get to the rant now, here goes. Why does every Indian university guy in every Hollywood movie have to look like a dork or a nerd ? I mean we are Hrithik Roshans who walk out of choppers making Tiger Shroffs drop their jaws or Nivin Paulys fighting in the mud and walking in black shirts and white mundus, wooing lecturers too, not all of us are Harold and Kumar prospects. Indian dudes can save the damsels in any tornado distress too, just ranting.

Now that I am done, have to say Twisters make for some good pop corn crunching too. It’s just about as formulaic as disaster movies get. Someone makes a mistake, harbor regrets, shuns family and friends, happens to be an expert in the field, reluctantly agrees to show up, gets dragged into the thick of things and saves the day ultimately. In Twisters, true to the theme, things happen at breakneck speed and everything from screenplay to direction to performances are functional enough to make a decent run at the box office. I mean if a family had to choose between Twisters and Longlegs, I don’t exactly need to spell it out, do I?