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Unintentional comedy at its finest


I'll preface by stating that I'm a huge Bruce Campbell fan - that said, Tornado! pushes the cheese factor past the usual Campbell fare. This one definitely falls into the category of so bad it's good, especially if you find yourself trying hard not to laugh through the most serious parts of the film.

Here's a few of my favorite slices of this pie:

1) Apparently humans are unable to detect tornadoes without an official warning from NWS or at least a siren blaring. The good folks in the soon to be tragically destroyed town continue to stroll down the street through hurricane force winds, flying debris, and ominous howling, all the while remaining blissfully unaware until the sirens start.

2) Stealthnados - a creation of global warming, stealthnados pop out on clear and sunny days, only announcing their presence once they're upon the prey. Once the victim is aware of the stealthnado, the skies suddenly darken, and despite being able to top 100 mph in a vehicle, it is better to abandon your vehicle and lie in a ditch that's less than a foot deep. Anyone else seen the video of tornadoes scouring pavement off of roads?

3) Tornadoes are either really blurry, or they suffer from nearsightedness. This might explain how they're able to sneak up on people so easily, and why they miss so many folks once they pounce. It's hard to catch your prey with really poor vision.

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1) Apparently humans are unable to detect tornadoes without an official warning from NWS or at least a siren blaring. The good folks in the soon to be tragically destroyed town continue to stroll down the street through hurricane force winds, flying debris, and ominous howling, all the while remaining blissfully unaware until the sirens start.

That scene always bothered me too. We got an F4/F5 tornado that's less than half a mile away from a city, but there's no warning at all. In reality, the NWS would have issued a tornado warning for that town indefinitely, whether or not the tornado was actually headed for the town.

The funniest part was the couple who continue to do household chores while their neighborhood gets blown away. Were they both deaf or something? Where I live (Cleveland, OH) we don't get so many tornadoes, but if there's a huge storm and the winds are strong enough to blow trees over, we know to get our asses to the basement, Tornado Warning or no.

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Not to mention the completely calm "eye" of a tornado that the characters found themselves in at the end. Apparently the producers of this film confused tornadoes for tiny, tiny hurricanes.

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That scene always bothered me too. We got an F4/F5 tornado that's less than half a mile away from a city, but there's no warning at all. In reality, the NWS would have issued a tornado warning for that town indefinitely, whether or not the tornado was actually headed for the town.


Aahaha, yes! The tornado was just chilling about 20 feet outside of Roseville for half an hour before it makes a U-turn right for the town, and after the town gets blown away, the storm chasers were all "The people in this town had no warning!"

Apparently the homes in Roseville had no windows, or the citizens were blind. How else could they have missed a giant, easily visible tornado in broad daylight?

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