Plot-friendly tornadoes are no friends of mine.
30 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
So lemme get this right: tornadoes move at high speeds across the landscape - except when they locate the main characters which is when they decide to sit around for a while, take a break? So they HUNT humans?

The most laughable thing about movies like these aren't even the dumb scripts: it's the fact that barely anyone even notices how (un)subtly they're being brainwashed with climate change exaggerations. Nobody addressed this.

"It's only a matter of time until these tornadoes become a normal occurrence in L. A, Chicago, even London." Greenland also? Siberia? The Moon too? The Horsehead Nebula? Will we ruin neutron stars too with our "rampant capitalism"? No pollution and factories in $ocialist countries?

Hilarious. This movie was made, what... in 2014. 9 years on yet still no tornadoes anywhere near London. But this is a big-budget film, and where there's a lot of money involved the Red Establishment is never far, with its obedient lapdog Hollywood helping it every step of the way, helping promote dumbing down, anti-science and other nonsense.

Nope, we cannot have any movies these days devoid of political posturing: sometimes subtler, sometimes extremely obvious, but it's always there.

1. Rednecks so dumb it defies all belief. Hollywood would have us believe that these people are even dumber than your average Beverly Hills yentas, which as we all know simply isn't possible. Laughable. The way two of them get sucked by a tornado is like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

2. The young cameraman had been weary and anxious about his job the entire time - but suddenly and inexplicably he goes out of his way to film a burning vehicle within an extreme tornado, a situation that no person on this planet would agree to do. Beyond idiotic.

3. Not one but two mega-cheesy, very boring romantic sub-plots.

4. The "progressiveness" is as subtle as a hammer. The high school principal literally looks like Obama. (You remember Obama? That President that could do no wrong, the morally impeccable President who, because of his origins, never made a wrong decision during his 8-year tenure.) Very probably a former Obama impersonator.

5. The cheesy and awfully dumb teen who is trying to do a report about some polluting factory... Because, "environmentally aware and stuff".

6. A group of 6-7 people running/walking/waltzing through a tornado, while millions of bits of debris are flying at high speeds - yet none of them sustain any injuries.

7. The meteorologist endangering everyone's lives in the truck by insisting on helping two drunk rednecks.

8. Even dumber, when they notice a tornado nearby, these "experts" don't rush to their special vehicle but instead just stand there filming it, as if this tornado would disappear completely in the 5 seconds it takes them to get into the tank.

9. The unbearably soppy dialog. Admittedly, sometimes it's not soppy but only plain boring. AI-generated characters saying AI-generated lines.

10. How can anyone get close to drowning while standing in the ruins of a tornado-destroyed factory?! How does that work... Is there a recorded case anywhere of a person drowning in the ruins of a post-tornado building? They threw in everything but the (flying) kitchen sink.

11. Love it how these tornadoes behave as if they're alive: always being millimeter-precise about going into buildings and places that would endanger the friends and relatives of the main characters. The most plot-friendly tornadoes ever.

12. I had to laugh during the very dramatic situation when the tornado-chaser got out of the shelter during "the biggest tornado in history", and somehow avoided being sucked up into the air. After all, didn't they just show several airplanes and trucks flying way up? Utter hooey.

One of the silliest things I kept hearing is how "this is so much worse than Twister" as if that moronic movie didn't also suffer from a hack script, and stupid cliches.
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