"Rode" the tornado up into the heavens.....ridiculous, or incredibly unbelievably ridiculous?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItMJtA8vfpw
I actually thought that scene was the best in the movie :) It's what he was after (sorta) the whole time, at least he got to see it before dying (but I'm not saying it was realistic..)
shareOf course it's unbelievably ridiculous, but that was definitely a WHOA moment for me and many others in my audience. Visually, I thought it was the best scene in the movie.
shareWell considering this fictional monster tornado was able to flip school buses and jet planes around like they were aluminum cans, it was easy to imagine the Titus swallowed up into the upward spiral of the funnel and spit out above the clouds to plummet back down to the ground. That was the most incredible, creative, and horrifying death I can ever remember seeing in a movie. That scene REALLY freaked me out. Left me in awe and was the reason I came to this board to see if anyone else felt the same way.
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I would think picking up and flipping a school bus is far more likely to happen (actually it does) than a heavy tank vehicle being lifted hundreds, if not a couple thousand feet into a tornado.
As for the 747s being lifted off the ground that would have to do with them being designed to lift off when wind flows over the wings. (Bernoulli Effect)
I really enjoyed the planes being picked up, it demonstrated the power of that last EF5.
That scene was amazing, and seemed fitting that Pete finally got to see what he'd been chasing. And believable enough, given that even though the Titus was tough & built to take a lot, the winds were clocking at least 300 miles per hour. (And perhaps the footage was supposed to have been salvaged from one of the many, many cameras on the Titus.)
shareIt reminded me a lot of the scene in Matrix Revolutions where Neo flies above the clouds the same way.
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