Tornado Movies Ranked

So there’s so many tornado movies out there, which ones should I watch next?! Also keep an eye our for a Christmas Twister Christmas Special! Thanks for watching!

I know that it's a short scene, but let's be honest: the tornado in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) was spectacular. It looks better than some CGI twisters.

Twister is an automatic S tier for not just the acting, not just a lot of the characters and story and scenes, but because it's responsible for probably the majority of professional stormchasers and tornado science interest today. That film may be indirectly responsible for a CRAZY amount of info we have on tornadoes now.

"I've gotta go Julie, we got cows" 🤣🤣 one of the many, many memorable lines in my favoritt movie twister ❤

I remember when I was like 5 years old, I said once, completely out of pocket, that "tornadoes are cool!" and my mom looked at me with a "I'm just gonna show you how wrong you are, my sweet summer child," and showed me Twister to try and scare me. Instead, I developed a MASSIVE crush on Jo and outright declared that I wanted to be a strormchaser just like her. So short story shorter, while the other girls in kindergarten were screaming their heads off during Tornado drills, my goofy ass was spouting off every fact I learned from that movie. The other girls were not amused or impressed at all. 😅 It doesn't really matter now though. Sixteen years later and it still is one of my favorite movies of all time!

The animalistic sound effects used for Twister's tornadoes are still the most terrifying of any other movie of its kind.

11:58 the way the mom just so smoothly floats off screen genuinely got me laughing so hard. i was not expecting it to be THAT awful looking and overly dramatic lmao like why'd they have to make her look like a powerpoint sliding transition😭

I’m so excited for twisters this July, this tornado season has been wild

Fun fact: Wakita, Oklahoma, was an actual town, but it was going ghost, so when they filmed twister, they literally destroyed buildings that needed rebuilt, and that's why it looks hyper realistic with the damage.

"Twister" was more than a blockbuster film. It was iconic and the cradle of the storm chasing movement as we know it today. From scientific stiff costume dressed men to all the inspirational personalities we have grown to love these days. Maybe the effects has gone old but still.. I would LOVE a updated version to today's standard and AI possibilities, but with the same crew. Wouldn't that be cool?

Twister always gets brought up alongside Independence Day as famous '90s disaster movies on a similar level of prestige (or lack thereof). But I think Twister is on another level and here's why: a lot of people remember Independence Day. But a lot of people have memorized Twister. That movie is so unbelievably quotable, it has a huge cult of fans today, people cosplay Bill and Jo at cons, and It has no doubt inspired tons of people to try storm chasing.

My mom used to get so concerned about me watching Twister over and over again obsessively when I was really young. To this day if it’s on, I’m stopping what I’m doing to watch.

Twister was one of those movies I rewatched dozens of times due to a limited VHS collection. It also introduced me to the Shining, the greatest horror movie ever made, in that drive in scene. The fact that Bill and Seymour are no longer with us, also gives it extra special meaning. Not to mention the soundtrack, such a great film.

Twister without a doubt will always be THE tornado/storm movie. The characters, the score, the effects, the story. All of it is just perfect for a theme like this! granted I am aware that it has flaws but that'll never change my opinion. (if you can't tell already, it's my favorite movie of all time)

Best line ever "We got cows"

As a resident of El Reno I can confirm that parts of the movie 13 Minutes were shot in El Reno. The 2 scenes shown that feature a shot of downtown from the middle of the street are taken from different places along S Bickford Ave facing North. I recognize the theatre, the El Reno Public Schools Admin building, and JKM.

Watched Twister in theaters when it came out. I was seven and it shifted my previous obsession with Dinosaurs (Jurassic Park did that) to Tornadoes. I got the VHS for my birthday and i watched it everyday for 3-4 months. RIP Bill Paxton. RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman.

As someone else mentioned below, the practical effects of the tornado in The Wizard of Oz is far more superior than a lot of the CGI in other movies.

"Twister" is what made me wanna be a storm chaser when I was a kid. Maybe not my top job prospect now, but it still holds a close, nostalgic place in my heart. One I can rewatch over and over, quoting every line, and never get bored of it.

Twister is a deep rooted core memory for me. I watched that in an honest to god “old school” neon marquis theater, the Rodgers Theater in Poplar Bluff, Missouri when I was 6, I believe on premier night. We walked out of that film to actual tornado sirens. At that age, I was pretty convinced that cinema could manifest weather. Fast forward to being an adult, I can see past all the scientific inaccuracies and the aged CGI, and I still genuinely enjoy watching it at least once a year. So many iconic lines. It really is woven into the fabric of being a weather nerd. Lines I’ll still quote out on chases, like “Bob’s Road.” Just the other day on a tornado warned supercell I asked my chase partner what was beyond the brush, “a brick wall, a bearded lady, WHAT?!” Anyway, what a great film. Living in Missouri and working out in the Great Plains it gives me such an appreciation for what so many regard as flyover country. The cinematography and helicopter shots really show off the beauty of the middle of the US. Not to mention, I work for the railroad, and occasionally blow through Guthrie, Oklahoma on freight trains, spitting distance away from the grain elevators featured in the drive-in scene. In 2021 I ran through there minutes before being stopped by a tornado warning and it really was an emotionally weird full circle moment. In short I wholly agree with your assessments, but how in the f*** are you not going to mention the dad from “Night of the Twisters” is John Schneider—Bo Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard? C’mon bruh.