I have strange viewing habits. I have a whole bunch of movies that I love, but I don’t watch them again in their entirety. I skip to the (good) parts I want and call it a day. In this day and age of soooo many things to watch and only 24 hours in your day, you only have so many hours to spare so this is actually being smart about it.
One of my favourite films of all time from the 90s - Twister - is available for viewing on Netflix.
Here are my favourite bits from the film- yup, the parts where I skipped to.

Mad about Helen
We were already madly in love with her in Mad About You, but in Twister, we even fell more in love with her spunk and uncomplicated beauty.
The coolest nerds
I was in a job then that I hated (I think it was advertising) and I had to put on a persona that wasn’t really me. When I saw these guys I thought, isn’t it cool to be in a job you loved where you were yourself, and didn’t worry about coming to work late, or were undressed and had to pitch great ideas to a bunch of corporates who were too far up their own asses to see how stupid they actually were???
That one famous image
Of the flying cow..there’s a story about how originally, they wanted to use a flying zebra from another great 90s movie, Jumanji??
The Meat Stop at Aunt Meg's
If i were to think of America, this is the image that would pop up. The land of plenty- cast iron skillets groaning with huge cuts of meat, and bowls of mashed potato and gravy, and platters of fried eggs and freshly baked bread.
90s tech!
ooff is all I could say
The Shining
It’s funny how you can’t actually see a twister until it’s somehow illuminated by a flash of light such as lightning. The way it crept up in the darkness, ripping things away with an invisible brute force makes it all the more terrifying than a possessed Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
The Biggest Crush
Had the biggest crush on her with The Lost Boys. And by the time she did this movie, more mature and in command in that white pantsuit even when she was caught in the rain and realising that Bill (Bill Paxton) was still in love with Jo (Helen Hunt), we knew that Jami Gertz was going to move on.
Pets ALWAYS survive a natural disaster
They do! Or at least in the movies they do. There were two dogs in this movie that escaped unscathed from the twister.
The 'villain' dies in dramatic fashion
This is the moment when Cary Elwes’ character dies by getting too close to the twister which he could have avoided had he, 1) listened to Bill and 2) had common sense. He wasn’t really a villain though, but just annoying. Bugs me that actual villains in this world don’t seem to get the fates they deserve…
Success!
But is the science even real??