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Worst/most ridiculous movie depiction of tornadoes or chasing

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the 2011 classic "Metal Tornado"!
(If it was mentioned, my apologies)
There is a scene where the tornado pulls a chainsaw out of a guy's hand and the flying chainsaw wreaks some havoc....hilariously, the man doesn't get caught up in any outer rotation, just the flying chainsaw.
I can safely say, it's a personal favorite.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1688653/
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I plead the Fifth!

I was hired by Universal Pictures in 1994 to recreate the Wizard of OZ tornado after a producer mistakenly read somewhere I had created a similar tornado for another movie. (It was actually for a photo shoot for a liquor company).

Despite telling him I was not an "expert" he insisted. (They did not have a budget for special effects). The movie was called the "Coriolis Effect" (Two stars).

With the help of a set carpenter, we built a very small reproduction of the actual Wizard of Oz tornado. The original was a masterpiece for the time, built on a large sound stage. It was made by filling a giant muslin "sock" with fuller's earth, then carefully moved and turned across the stage.

I used the same technique, but at about 1/10 scale, using a large hand drill to turn the twister.

The cameras were rolling, but someone (Moe, Larry or Curly), set the drill at almost full speed so the tornado spun violently for a few seconds, then came apart, filling the studio (and expensive cameras) with fuller's earth. I was told it "looked great," because it was shot at high speed. I never saw the footage, as I was in a hurry to get the hell out of Hollywood. I believe they eventually used a painting.

Warren
 
Kinda surprised no one's mentioned the tornado scene in "Man of Steel" yet -- not so much due to the depiction of the tornado itself, as to the depiction of motorists taking shelter (you guessed it) beneath an overpass. There have been instances in the past where scenes were cut from movies or edited because viewers killed or injured themselves or others attempting to imitate what they saw. Will this undo a lot of the work meteorologists, safety personnel, etc. have been doing for the last 20 years to stamp out this particular "safety" myth? Or is it really that big a deal, since this is, after all, "just" a summer action flick about a totally fictional superhero, and not a documentary or news report that people would be inclined to take more seriously? (I haven't seen the movie myself but wouldn't mind comments from those who have, regarding this particular scene only.)
 
Greg Campbell said:
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:confused: :p ;)
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Thanks to Greg's great forecasting of this event in June, I was totally prepared. The world is just now catching up to him.
 
Bob Schafer said:
Sharknado! Just released yesterday! I only knew of its existence from seeing a headline about it this morning. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2724064/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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2013-07-11 REPORTS: CA

After looking at the 12z run of the NAM and the shark initiation parameter of several HRRR runs, I started the day near Santa Monica. I was initially buoyed by SPC’s morning decision to upgrade nearly all of southern California to a moderate risk with a 15% hatched area for significant sharks. Like most chasers, I figured that the northern approach of freakishly strong Hurricane David from Baja California would probably lead to enhanced vorticity in its outer bands somewhere over Los Angeles County. By midday conditions were mixed – dewpoints were in mid-60s, but oddly, there were flooding rains at times, followed immediately by sunny, cloudless conditions. The show ramped up in the late afternoon, though, and I was just able to catch a glimpse of the three initial waterspouts that came down near the Civic Center. All three were shark-infested; the southern-most funnel in particular was brimming with many great whites and a handful of tiger sharks. I toyed with the idea of blasting east on surface streets to avoid the rush-hour traffic on I-10, but I then noticed the area of rotation to my south that was headed directly towards LAX. Spotter Network showed that most chasers were making a play on this storm as well, so off I went. As I got near the airport I saw Reed and the TVN crew dumping buckets of chum along Sepulveda Blvd, so I can only assume that they were able to intercept the storm – which is good, because although we know quite a bit about the behavior of sharks in the upper parts of tornadoes, we still don’t have a good grip on why they fly around with their mouths open eating people in the lowest 150 ft of the atmosphere.

Around this time I saw on NWSChat that KVTX’s radar had been knocked out after it was hit by a massive whale shark, so I switched over on GR3 to KSOX’s radar, which for some reason was still in VCP 32 mode! By this point the sharknado near the airport was moving toward downtown, and I was surprised that the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard office didn’t pull the trigger and issue a sharknado emergency. The storm itself consisted of a well-defined cone, with violent motions near the ground and the occasional horizontal hammerhead wrapping around the main circulation – in fact, it sort of reminded me of Bowdle. Lots of nurse sharks, bull sharks, and mako sharks were moving through the debris cloud, and I think that there might have been a loan shark in there as well. Intense cloud-to-ground sharks and remoras up to six inches kept me in my car for most of the chase. Suddenly, though, several helicopters appeared, and the storm – which by now was looking pretty HPish - seemed to almost blow itself apart and dissipate. I’m not sure why this happened, but my knowledge of the intersection between meteorology and ichthyology is admittedly pretty limited. I then opted to end the chase and got a hotel room in Van Nuys, celebrating my good luck with a nice sushi dinner. I’ll post some video later.
 
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I didn't save the url, but yesterday I saw an article that Sharknado was so successful the network has already decided to produce Sharknado 2.
 
Just noticed another great one on SYFY this morning called Ba'al the storm god. You kinda have to think these were meant to be bad.

On the other end of the spectrum I recall a Criminal Minds episode about a serial killing storm chaser that only killed during a tornado. I think they used real tornado footage except for the final scene when the serial killer walked into the tornado.
 
Meanwhile, Bill Paxton is still pushing for a "Twister" sequel, incorporating or based upon the 1925 Tri-State Tornado:

http://www.craveonline.com/film/art...on-talks-7-holes-kung-fu-and-a-twister-sequel

(Paxton) "I went on a trip with a guy named Scott Thompson. He played preacher in Twister. He’s an old friend of mine. We did a road trip where we tracked the trail of the Tri-State and we went to all the old historical societies. The one which we went to was Murphysboro. The headline, it’s an aerial shot, it just looks like WWI bombed out city. It said, “In the blink of an eye, Murphysboro is gone” and we saw it because some of the old timers there, you know what they say? They say if it happened once…

"Now, can you imagine, we’ve seen some very deadly tornadoes in the last few years. These ones that hit Oklahoma this year, the one that hit Joplin a couple years ago. They’re just death and destruction because these are now very populated areas. The midwest is populated now. Can you imagine something on the magnitude of a Tri-State coming through there? That would be the third act of the sequel."

(interviewer) "Right, because it never hit a big city in the movie."

(Paxton) "It’s going to hit St. Louis and it’s going to take the famous Arch and just twist it like one of those ribbons."
 
Sharknado: Badass woman falls from a helicopter and is swallowed whole in mid air by a massive great white. A bit later a man dives head first into the same shark while holding a running chainsaw, promptly cutting his way out and reviving the girl, who immediately regurgitates the stomach fluids from the shark and kisses the hero.

What's not believable about that scenario?
 
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