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Visual/Audio + Storyline/Plot Comments


Okay, so I watched this movie with my little sister, and I have to say this. I watch a lot of Storm Chasers episodes, and I know almost everything there is to know about tornadoes, even though I live in an area that doesn't really get any tornadoes. We get a ton of thunderstorms in the summer, along with tornado watches that sometimes evolve into warnings. Whenever there is a thunderstorm watch/warning, I stay up until it evolves into something more, or the watch/warning has passed, monitoring the weather on the TV and on the computer. I know just about everything there is to know about how tornadoes form, how they move, and how they dissipate.
My complaints are these: in the beginning of the movie, there is a tornado. Before a funnel actually forms, there is a moment of complete silence. No wind, no birds squawking, MAYBE a car on a highway, everything is silent (except maybe for the car). Then the funnel drops.
The looks of the tornado in the movie royally SUCK. First of all, tornadoes are NOT translucent. For those of you who are not very well educated on words, that means that you can partially see through something, usually stained glass, some kinds of plexiglass, and some plastics. YOU. CAN. NOT. SEE. THROUGH. A. TORNADO! It is completely opaque. Opaque means you can't see through something at ALL. Such as aluminum foil or a pillow.
Second of all, tornadoes make a loud WHITE noise. NOT a low brown noise. Which, in my vocabulary, means a low, loud, rumble like thunder. Tornadoes are usually associated with hail, thunder, lightning, and RAIN. NOBODY was wet in the movie. Absolutely nobody.
Third of all, I can tell a green screen was used. In many parts of a movie, green screens are used and you can always tell when one is being used in a specific scene. Throughout much of the movie, I could tell a green screen was used for a lot of the scenes. In most movies, green screens are only used for one or two scenes where funding is not available to go to a specific place to film there. In this movie, a green screen was used for several scenes.
Fourth of all, tornadoes DO NOT leave a spinning path of dirt. They leave a spinning path of DESTRUCTION. There should be a TON of debris. The tornado went over the farmhouse TWICE. There should have been a LOT of debris flying around. In the beginning of the movie, the tornado came through fricking WOODS. TREES! Deciduous trees (leaf-bearing trees), coniferous trees (cone-bearing trees), A LOT OF TREES. I noticed how the tornado came through two trees, coming out into the open. What happened to the trees, you ask? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Those trees should have been RIPPED up and ripped apart. They were completely the same. I have a ton more complaints, but my parents just came home and I am watching an episode of Storm Chasers, so both factors are very distracting. I may post more later, so expect more from me later. Maybe.

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Agreed.

It's as if they got tornadoes completely mixed up with dirt devils.

And the tornado that killed the mom at the beginning of the movie basically jumped out from behind a tree in the forest, like a kid playing hide and seek. And the 'funnel' was no more than 10 feet wide. Gee, couldn't she of just side-stepped it as it approached?

It's too bad, because there are a lot of earnest actors trying their best (not that they're great actors, but they're trying). And yet the CGI fails them miserably and just makes their efforts look woefully silly.

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