Worst/most ridiculous movie depiction of tornadoes or chasing

Keith Wilson said:
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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Dag nab it, Keith! Ya done ruined the suspense! :rolleyes:
 
Now comes "Into the Storm," due to hit theaters in August:

http://www.deadline.com/2014/03/into-the-storm-teaser-trailer-warner-bros-tornado-movie-warner-bros/

The project was previously dubbed "Category 6" and "Black Sky". It stars Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield from "The Hobbit" flicks) and Sarah Wayne Callies from "The Walking Dead". It is apparently a "found footage" type flick a la "Blair Witch Project," "Cloverfield," etc., and although set in Oklahoma, was filmed in Detroit (!) Apparently, the director (Steve Quale of "Final Destination" fame) originally envisioned it as "high school students attempting to survive the worst hurricane in history" but he later changed it to "high school students documenting the wrath of an enormous, tornado-spawning windstorm".
 
I love 'Twister' and 'Tornado', because both were made in 1996 (when I started) and both remind me of those early chasing years....fond memories. Plus, despite the fact they're movies and therefore, by default, completely unrealistic, the storylines are just your average tornado chasing adventure, nothing more. Both of these movies are perennial favorites amongst my movie watching library, usually during Spring and often the night before a chase. While most continue to loathe them, they are both near and dear to my heart. I guess maybe for different reasons than just the movies themselves.

The ones that involve nuclear disasters, sharks, and all that other intentionally-done lame crap, I can't stand those.
 
I'm with Shane on the sentimental value of Twister. Despite some problems with the overall accuracy of the movie, I still remember being awestruck at the graphics in the movie. Good times.

What does everyone think about the trailers for the upcoming, "Into the Storm" movie? I saw a few things in the trailer that made me cringe a little, but I suppose I'll have to save any judgement for after I see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Vkp77tVTM
 
Todd Rector said:
This adds a whole new dimension to the phrase "mothership" when describing a supercell.
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Aliens invade the Earth using electromagnetic tornadoes as a weapon of mass destruction. Brilliant high school student with her father and a female blogger involved in the study of tornadoes struggling against time to prevent a huge disaster and defeat the conquest of the planet.

I watched from one set of commercials to the next ,about 15 minutes . That was enough. :confused:
 
Elaine Spencer said:
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."
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For what it's worth, I think this is a mistake. Part of Twister's appeal, and one thing that really sets it apart from other run-of-the-mill disaster flicks is its ambiguous setting. It happens "somewhere" in middle-America. It's believable because the tornadoes damage random small towns that look like random small towns. Disasters hitting giant well-known cities (and the attendant required destruction-porn starring famous landmarks) tends to ruin the immersion, at least for me. A random home or business in a random small town getting destroyed is easy for me to believe for the sake of the story; but I know too well that nothing actually happened to the St. Louis arch (or the Capitol Records building in LA, or the White House, or whatever specific landmark) for the movie to get away with scenes like that. As soon as I see them I'm right back to "oh yeah, I'm watching a movie".
 
I saw this earlier but the movie Into the Storm looks Silly.
Basis: A group of high school students document the events and aftermath of a devastating tornado.
The town is supposed to be in Oklahoma but filmed in Michigan.
Its going to be great visually i think but science has been blown out the window.
 
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