I don't know what it is about that movie, but damn if spring doesn't just always put me into a mood to watch it. Just this spring alone I have already seen it 3 or four times and am getting a hankering to watch it now again.
When the movie first hit theaters that first week of May 1996, a friend and I (who later became my girlfriend and then wife) went to see it and just had a blast. I then proceeded to see it four more times in the theater. So any of you are aware, that record is only matched by Star Wars SE and Titanic (shut up).
I just could never get enough of that movie. Was it silly? Did it have just outright bullshit parts? Was the acting below average at best? Yes on all accounts, but nevertheless it accomplished the only single thing a movie needs to accomplish, it entertained. It was absolutely stupid seeing the cow flying past the truck (same cow), but at the same time it just had you chuckling. You knew they would get shredded up in the eye of the F5, but it was just so cool to see that on the then huge 38' screen at a local theater in SDDS that you just didn't care. The first time that the water tornado split apart to reveal two tornados.. and seeing The Shining up on screen getting torn apart at a drive thru.. man, screw milwaukee for getting rid of the only drive in we had left. and seeing the eggs and steak and potatoes and gravy.. holy jeebus that may be the greatest food ever presented on a movie screen.
and screw any of you who don't like the movie.. fucking heathens (preemptive attack).
