Say goodbye to this spiritual sequel to Jurassic Park leaving HBO Max

Jurassic Park is a monster movie, right? But it's also a natural disaster movie. It revels in the awful glee of the natural world having its revenge on foolish mankind and generally fucking shit up. Hollywood seems to have realized this — or at least, intuited it — because Jurassic Park was not followed by a swathe of big-budget dinosaur movies. It was followed, for pretty much the whole of the rest of the 1990s and into the 2000s, by a fad for the natural disaster blockbuster: Volcano, Armageddon, Outbreak, The Day After Tomorrow. Foremost among these is Twister, the 1996 movie about tornadoes. It stands out for a few reasons. First, it's just a banging movie. Second, it's kind of an unofficial sequel to Jurassic Park. It originated as a visual effects proof of concept put together at Steven Spielberg's request by Industrial Light & Magic, which had done the digital dinos for Jurassic Park. Spielberg was originally attached to direct it, produced it through Amblin Entertainment, and the initial screenplay was co-written by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton. Thirdly, Twister proves the thesis for Jurassic Park by reversing it. If Jurassic Park is a monster movie that's also a n

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