Worst/most ridiculous movie depiction of tornadoes or chasing

At the links below, you can read a hilarious live blog of "Category 6" with snarky commentary worthy of MST3K:

http://www.megcabot.com/2004/11/110052887901276151/

http://www.megcabot.com/2004/11/110081359870165318/

Excerpt from Part 2: "Tornado Tommy, aka Randy Quaid, is trapped on a bridge in St Louis with tornadoes bearing down on him! The St Louis Arch is being pummeled with killer twisters! Hundreds of tourists are dying! F5s all over the place!

"This is the best part of the whole movie so far.

"Pregnant sister-in-law's wacky neighbor is lecturing her on zen meditation in the elevator. Because we would so rather hear about that than see the St Louis arch fly apart with people in it."
 
Considering it's budget, I still think various aspects of Twister are the among the worst.

My Grand Howler occurs when the fogbanknado suddenly descends on the helpless gasoline tanker. Sure enough, the savage winds cause a Michael Bay-class KABLOOIE! BUT... we then watch as the fireball lazily rises into the sky. No shear, no lateral movement, no nothing. (WHAT 300 MPH wind?) I still curse when I see that scene! LOL
 
That 70's show had an episode with a tornado in it that is sorta funny:


Speaking of '70s shows, how could I have forgotten the "Tornado" episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati":

http://www.hulu.com/watch/307

Love the part where Les Nessman, using a script designed for use during an attack by the Russians, warns his listeners that they are under attack by "godless tornadoes" :-)
 
Greg Campbell said:
Considering it's budget, I still think various aspects of Twister are the among the worst.

My Grand Howler occurs when the fogbanknado suddenly descends on the helpless gasoline tanker. Sure enough, the savage winds cause a Michael Bay-class KABLOOIE! BUT... we then watch as the fireball lazily rises into the sky. No shear, no lateral movement, no nothing. (WHAT 300 MPH wind?) I still curse when I see that scene! LOL
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This. Continuity director should have gotten twenty years in the electric chair for that one.
 
Whenever someone asks me to link Twister with the world of storm chasing, I always tell them that the movie is a primer in how not to chase, and if one chased storms like that, they would die.
However there is one accurate scene in Twister that gave me chills and still does when I think about it. It was the night scene at the Aunt's house where winds gustily intensified and you can literally feel in the air that something real big was about to break. The wind chimes swaying more and more, etc.. Also, if I remember correctly, someone got sucked out of their tornado cellar early on. This has actually happened in real life. On the contrary, the final scene-getting lifted into the air but holding on to a metal bar and being unscathed is so inaccurate as to be a joke.
 
Stephen Levine said:
On the contrary, the final scene-getting lifted into the air but holding on to a metal bar and being unscathed is so inaccurate as to be a joke.
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And yet it's still better than Tornado. I recall the final scene of that one had Grandpa-pounding-the-stakes and someone else trying to hold on to each other for dear life, only to realize that at the center of the tornado, it's completely calm.
 
Storm chasers: Revenge of the Twister.

Basic premise was female storm chaser loses her husband who was core punching a tornado in a light air craft becomes all grumpy and difficult to work with. She is sent to Colorado to investigate a tornado because they apparently don't happen there and something must be causing this. Ends up basically being HAARP, they are attacked by ball lightning at one point and embrace each other passionately despite hating each others guts for entire film up until this point. I don't remember much more because I'd lost too many brain cells by this point...
 
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:confused: :p ;)
 
The movie Poltergeist, which is otherwise a pretty quality scary movie, has a very brief but technically poor tornado scene in it - not a breath of apparent wind from it, in a movie that otherwise blasts its actors in the face with wind a few times in other scenes.

Twister never bothered me all that much; the only scene that really bugged me was one in which the tornado is approaching a farm and a windmill is shown encountering violent winds blowing directly away from the tornado. I did find the idea of the antagonist chaser being "in it for the money" to be somewhat amusing; it's doubly confusing that the guy is clearly supposed to be a bad guy for no other reason than having sponsorship (and slick black fleet vehicles) - I mean, he's really only trying to put a sensor-ball-machine in front of a tornado just like the mains are when you get down to it.
 
Great thread! I'm remembering a horrible terror/disaster/sci-fi show that must have been made with a budget of a buck ninety-five. The tornado in it appeared to be a cardboard tube from wrapping paper, being spun from above out-of-frame. Long before computer graphics, along with the "ufo's" that were pie plates dangling from strings. It was just too comical to be scary. I'd have to do some looking to find that one, unless somebody here remembers it. Worse than "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" -- same time frame or earlier.
 
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