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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Weather in TV & Movies => Topic started by: chief-david on June 24, 2020, 07:06:03 PM
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https://variety.com/2020/film/news/twister-reboot-joseph-kosinski-universal-1234648589/
Is nothing sacred anymore? Has Hollywood officially run out of ideas? This is blasphemy!!!!
Time to boycott, protest and cancel. Riot. Loot the streets. Burn down the movie theater.
#dontrebootTWISTER
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I wouldn't mind looking at Helen Hunt for 2 hours again. :-)
But that was 24 years ago and we did lose Bill Paxton 3 years ago.
I'm always up for a good weather movie so yes I say.
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If they could re-do the digital stuff, but leave the rest intact, it wouldn't be all bad.
Although they were cutting edge in 1996, the CGI is a little "crude" compared to what they have now.
Didn't they re-render parts of Star Wars and Jurassic Park?
But if this is a total remake, most of them don't turn out so well. I still prefer the original Andromeda Strain over whatever they did with that remake. Yuck.
Greg H.
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Total remake/reboot. :mad:
The 1996 tornado-CGI was pretty good for the time. Some of the sound was Jurassic Park dinosaurs and cougars slowed down. IMDB has a great page on it.
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They should remake it but maybe change it up a bit, like have some sharks flying in the tornado.
:grin: :grin: :grin:
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This was a Cow-nado and a Tractor-nado film. No sharks allowed, they have their own niche films.
Actually, while that was bad enough, the equivalent of anthropomorphism for weather events with the 'growling' storm and the ominous shifts in wind and other predatory characteristics was a bit too much, especially when I live in tornado country and we have older people absolutely terrified as it is with the season having local TV stations do the beep-beep-beep and the text crawls along the bottom of the screen.
To think there is something sinister about a storm beyond what it already is, is wrong.
I was hoping to have the growling storm be my ringtone but my wife told me to stuff it.
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They should remake it but maybe change it up a bit, like have some sharks flying in the tornado.
:grin: :grin: :grin:
That'd be more realistic than the ridiculous growling sounds the tornadoes made in the first one... :roll:
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I was hoping to have the growling storm be my ringtone but my wife told me to stuff it.
The wife told me in the theater to shut up about it. ](*,)
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It is perfectly reasonable to express concern about how far known violations of nature and physics can be stretched. I enjoy some movies and have a willful suspension of disbelief, but at a time when something is absolutely wrong and done only because it is easier for the lazy screenwriter, or some additional things that may seem 'cool' to some but ruins any possible buy in by a reasonably educated or skeptical person.
Yet, the wife denies others access to my (sometimes unsolicited) expertise in many occasions.
Sigh.
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Natural disaster movies are about destruction. Not science. We all know that.
Into the storm. yuck
Day after tomorrow-Oh my.
10.5-gag
San Andreas-nothing in that movie is correct-NOTHING
Twister has it all. Tornados, ram trucks, Iowa.
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"Twister has it all. Tornados, ram trucks, Iowa."
And lots of sharp knives, sickles, scythes, and pitch forks as I recall. :-)
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But we all know farmers never throw anything away.
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This was a Cow-nado
The part of the cow will have to be recast because the original cow after touring several counties retired suddenly and was never seen again. 🤣
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Only if it has Chubby Checkers singing "Let's do the twist."
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You know the WOKE version will be awful.....just to be totally inclusive the movie will also have an earthquake, a tsunami, and a landslide. No snowstorm will be added because the Woke crowd will be offended with the snow being a symbol of white supremacy.... :grin: :grin: :grin:
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Sounds like it is a go.
gag
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I wouldn't mind looking at Helen Hunt for 2 hours again. :-)
But that was 24 years ago and we did lose Bill Paxton 3 years ago.
I'm always up for a good weather movie so yes I say.
I could live with that LOL as long as Christy doesn't catch me.
But it'll never compare to the original
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Twister has it all. Tornados, ram trucks, Iowa.
The end was quite cringe worthy considering the entire story was set in Oklahoma and they suddenly ended up in a corn field. #-o
A lot of "on location" was filmed in Wakita, OK. I lived in Enid at that time and the local paper ran stories almost daily about the filming and even pictures of the set, etc. They solicited extras from the area which probably gave a bit of a boost to the local economy which was still in the throes of the oil bust at that time. Gary England of KWTV Channel 9 of Oklahoma City had a cameo at the beginning of the flick. As the OKC stations were "locals" I was familiar with the various broadcasters of the time.
The next spring after the movie's release there was a minor influx of newly licensed hams that came to the area to chase tornadoes. That was 1997 as I recall and there were no major storms or outbreaks that year. They went home disappointed. It's likely they missed chasing the major outbreak of 03 May 1999. Such is the way of weather.
I only watched the flick on VHS loaned to me. It's likely that I would have jeered loudly in the theater or walked out. I thought it was that bad.