This was my exact reaction to "Twister".

Except here the gulf is even wider. The visual setpieces outdo anything Twister accomplished (and this is coming from someone who has seen half a dozen or so real tornadoes), and the "drama" is that much more insipid. It's mercifully short though, about 10 minutes shorter than Twister.

So, what we need is a viewer edit that cuts out all the story and leaves the tornadoes.

Sad thing is, it may actually be more coherent that way.

Twister 2, or Night of the Twisters 2? XB

Kind of a lovechild of the two, with a Sean Casey/TIV expy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_C.....28filmmaker%29

I saw that movie too and the stupid love scene in the flooded cellar of the abandoned mill those 2 where at, just NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I rather figured your head would explode in the finale, when the giant tornado's tossing around 747s. That's 2012-level hilarity.

EF5s are nasty sons of bitches, and even an EF3 CAN move big planes around, but pick them up like that? That's 735,000 pounds of aircraft. Not gonna happen. They'd get shredded long before they were picked up. (Rather reminded me of the scene in Twister where the EF5 was picking up 18-wheelers right in front of Our Heroes, but they in their little pickup kept driving merrily along).

I think the ending got spoiled for me when I watched the video footage of the El Reno tornado, which was a real 2.5 mile wide twister. At that point the "funnel" simply loses definition and becomes indistinguishable from a rain curtain. (I think, as well, the El Reno tornado was rain-wrapped during its peak development, making it even worse, and being a good part of why all the chase teams lost the plot on it).

I'll see it when it comes out on DVD.

I have difficulty giving my money to people who can't write a good story to go along with what must have taken graphic-design artists years to render.

Our Host describes most-all monster movies in his critic of this here film: kick-ass effects sequences interspersed with painfully long period of cinematic suckage. CineMassacre's review of all the Godzilla movies establishes the formula.

One thing that bugged me in movie was the beginning when the first tornado struck the school.
Why did they take shelter near external doors, especially when they established this movie took place in Oklahoma, one of the most weather savvy states in the US?
To the movie's credit, it was one of the first time I saw an animated multi vortex tornado, which I thought looked pretty cool (and an awful like this twister.)

I gotta say, those people in that video were toying with death. They all but drove directly into the circulation - I would have stopped way, way before that with a multivortex tornado with no clear condensation funnel like that.

If you want cheating death, here's two more videos from the same tornado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUAoCDS-vMg (subvortices surrounding the vehicle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxN2FQdYEZ0 (there window shatters from a subvortex)

Them people are some absolute grade-AAA+ idjits. Just astounded that the subvortex didn't throw that vehicle, versus just shattering windows. Far more luck then brains, all of 'em.

They'd have made natural actors for this movie.

Surprisingly Jim Leonard (who's been chasing since the 70s) was the one leading the window shattered group.
They thought the subvortex crossing the road in front of them was the main tornado (that sounds familiar). But even so, they shouldn't have been that close, especially on a day when (according to Storm Data) storms were moving close to 60MPH.

Jim WAS in a safe position, but ended up stuck in a chaser traffic jam, consisting mostly of local yahoos much like the rednecks in the movie. Without an escape route, he was forced to take a hit from the tornado. The large portion of folks on the road that day were what are called "roaches", chasers who simply follow other chasers. In particular, following Reed Timmer and VORTEX 2 (not affiliated).

I was in one of those jams myself on I-70 in Salina KS on April 14 2012. Again, it was mostly locals that had been watching news coverage on TV and decided to drive out to see a tornado. None of these people were around prior to the storm's arrival in Salina. It was a headache for anyone on the road, as well as local law enforcement. I'm of the very strong opinion that if you can't/won't do the forecasting yourself, you shouldn't chase. It's not safe for the individual, for others, and it cheapens the efforts of those who actually put the work in to see storms.

I saw one instance (not personally, through the magic of YouTube) where a storm chaser was forced to drive into a ditch in order to escape multiple rain wrapped tornadoes (namely a fairly large wedge) after several civilians and rookies cut off his initial escape path, then cut off his back up route (it occurred a day before the date above).

Yay, disaster porn! No taco!

I've been waiting for you to some day just edit all the storm footage together from these movies and dispense with the story in between... just make sure you include that one from Devil Winds where the tornado follows the car through an S-curve. :D

Or the scene from Night of the Twisters where they were driving through town as the tornado was literally licking there bumper.

And of course, when the car reached its destination (an Incredibly Horrible And Contagious Disease Research and Storage Facility that just happened--happened, mind you--to be exactly where the tornado was going), the twister that had been sucking at their exhaust pipe... vanished for about twenty minutes. Maybe it stopped for a coffee, I don't know. Our hero hopped out of his car and it was only overcast.

If you like really badly made bad weather movies, I have to, uh, "recommend" (and I use the word advisedly) Devil Winds. Meanwhile, I'll have to see if I can locate (or already have) a copy of Night of the Twisters. And I'll probably recommend both for Smithees if they haven't already been nominated.

I actually have Devil Winds on DVD XD, and I had Night of the Twisters on VHS eons ago, but alas, time has a way of ruining tape (you can find it on YouTube, though).
And to add to the list of impracticalities, let's add movies like Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister (ACTUAL TITLE) & Atomic Twister.

Oh holy FSM, Atomic Twister... I remember the tornado that inspired that, it hit maybe a mile from my grandparents' place near the nuclear power station. XD

Oh wow.

I'm gonna go and see that too when it comes out at the cinema.

Maybe... it was meant as tornado porn.

Actually, that's pretty much what it is.

Maybe you should have fast forwarded over the boring bits. :)

They spent all the money on the effects and none on actors or writers :P

Dude, ya been in a sharknado ! hahah

The effects were great, yes but over all the movie just didn't come together very well.... also so much BS in it.....