As an Oklahoma boy who has had two close encounters with tornadoes, Ive had a fascination with them for decades. But has Hollywood even ONCE managed to capture the look and feel of an actual tornadic storm? Documentary films and YouTube clips, of course, take us into these moments quite effectively, but Im asking if there has ever been movie that got it right. Past attempts include: 1) Twister. Huge, steamy pile of laughable, big-budget crap. (My favorite scene is when the two protagonists survive an EF5 direct hit by belting themselves to an exterior gas pipe, manage to not get their limbs ripped off, and then immediately make out like theyre at a drive-in. Also, the twisters, for some reason, roar like a lion.) 2) The Day After Tomorrow. Roland Emmerich. Ill say no other blasphemes. 3) Night of the Twisters. A TV movie (apparently directed by the people who make Mentos commercials) starring one of the Dukes of Hazzard guys, featuring 90 minutes of skull-numbing expository dialogue and 3.6748 minutes of tornadoes that look like they were made in a mason jar with dish soap and black food coloring. For feel and tone, I can think of only one film that got it right, and the moment happens just before the fantasy sequence at the beginning of The Wizard of Oz. The scenes outside the farm house as the twister creeped in the background actually captured much of what makes tornadoes awesome and scary. youtu.be/5YLW2MeZCks But thats it? In 75 years, thats all we have? And now, were about to be presented with Into the Storm, yet another CGI disaster film where the digital seams actually reduce a dramatic life-and-death scenario to a video game and force the audience out of any real connection with the material? DAMMIT...WHERE ARE THE GOOD TORNADO MOVIES?
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:39:47 +0000
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