I saw Twisters on Friday and absolutely loved it. I am planning to see it again with friends. I hope they make another that is a sequel of this one.
I saw Twisters on Friday and absolutely loved it. I am planning to see it again with friends. I hope they make another that is a sequel of this one.
It's good clean fun.
If it bothers you to see Oklahomans who don't know a thing about where to take shelter when a tornado is bearing down on them, or if it bothers you to see downtown El Reno completely reconfigured with the water tower moved from the bridge on 81 all the way to downtown and for downtown being adjacent to agricultural fields and oil tanks, this is not the movie for you.
If it bothers you that everyone seems to have attended some university no one has ever heard of or the "U of A" for any serious pursuit of meteorology with a PhD in mind, this is also not the movie for you.
If you think it's a little strange that nothing OSU or OU appears in a movie about Oklahoma weather (as I guess the fees to the rights were too much), this is probably not the movie for you.
i just had a serious laugh in the el reno scene, because my grandpa (before he passed) used to yell about them digging the street car tracks back up, and saying he remembered when they paved over them, and that nothing good could come from bringing it back... and now i wish he were alive to see this movie, so that he could see that he was right. lol
This was a huge improvement on the original movie in pretty much every way. Particularly enjoyed that you could really tell this one was filmed here. The original may as well have been filmed entirely on a sound stage for how generic all of the settings looked.
I'm in El Reno several times per week. I think this movie is the first time I've ever seen the street car. Not one reference to onion burgers either.
I did have court when they were filming and was able to see the mess they made downtown.
There's a lot of beautiful Oklahoma scenery.. but it's like a strange parallel universe Oklahoma as you'd find it in some sort of a dream... sort of like reality, but not really like reality.
But really, again, if you are bothered by Oklahomans scheduling little league games and not calling them off until there's a tornado on the ground... maybe not the movie for you.
I think if any of this stuff bothers you, then most movies aren't for you.
I love watching chase scenes set in cities I'm familiar with. You get to watch them turn a corner and suddenly be in a completely different part of town.
Or watching Vancouver stand in for various US cities. For that matter, OKC stood in for NYC in this one. It's just how movies are made.
It is cool when they get it right, but even the most true to setting movies usually take a lot of liberties with location geography.
I've stayed in the Biltmore in downtown LA a couple of times, and it is simultaneously cool AND a bummer to see its interior CONSTANTLY being used on commercials, shows and movies. Cool because "hey! I've been there!" But a drag because "dang, that's not really Monaco, that's just the elevator landing at the Biltmore..."
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For years, I worked at 515 S. Flower which is almost directly across from the Biltmore. Between was the main library and a large park which were also very popular sites.
My parking was off the 110 via a series of crazy tunnels and overlapping ramps which I see on a commercial almost every single day. If you've seen a car chase scene or a Toyota commercial, you've seen my former commute.
Fortunately, most of the ridiculous amount of filming was in the evenings or on the weekends. But it was so constant it was still a gigantic PIA, especially when you realize that any filming is 98% people standing around and it's not cool or interesting at all.
People talk about all the filming leaving L.A. but you'd be surprised how much is still done there.
I learned this watching the Killers of the Flower Moon and Tulsa King filming down the street in Tulsa. Initially cool to watch but boring to watch them attempt the same shot 45 times. DeNiro rolled down his window and said hello to us though as they were heading out though so that was kinda cool.
Not sure I can go along with all of this, but interesting read nonetheless:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...source=twitter
I saw it in IMAX on Sunday and it was awesome! But I do agree there should have been more OKC in the film, not just standing in - but a downtown shot and a better shot of Will Rogers Airport, perhaps inside would have been nice. I think there should have been some more references to the other movie besides just a Dorthy. ..
But anyway - I give the film high ratings as did my wife and son who is a tornado fanatic and likely soon to be OU weather student. See it in IMAX if you have a chance!
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
I saw the new movie. I will say that this thread is pretty spot-on in reviews. To me the new one is a better movie than the first one. And I have huge nostalgia for the first one. But if you re-watch the first one in 2024, you see how bad it truly is.
Both movies are super cheesy, that isn't a surprise. What was a surprise to me is the quality special effects, non-stop action, and actual scientific jargon being used [mostly] correct. I am a weather nerd and used to chase storms myself, so the dialogue around the storms was refreshing.
Side-note for anyone who has seen it, why does the main character's name get mentioned in every single sentence said to her. I swear they said the name Kate at least 1000 times, it got distracting.
Where the storm chasers met and launched their tornado chase was in Orienta, Oklahoma, which is a few miles north of Fairview. It basically has several grain elevators and a couple buildings and a gas station.
I thought this movie was much better than the first. Yukon also made a cameo with the YNB sign (Yukon National Bank) and Daisy driving the truck at night down Main Street.
Saw it last night and you've expressed a lot of my qualms with it.
I would much rather have seen a story about the actual people we have here that chase storms. As an Oklahoman, there were so many things in it that I thought, "That's not how that works".
The effects were fun, though.
Meh. It’s entertainment, not documentary. Pretty much every action movie has multiple scenes that require suspension of disbelief, and which defy known laws of physics. And no big-budget thriller will ever be centered around non-actors. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
When they drove by the YNB, weren't they supposed to be in a different city? I can't remember, but I do know the friend with me at the theatre nudged me and said, that's Yukon, but they said they were in _________" and I can't remember where they were supposed to be. El Reno, maybe?
I told her nobody was going to notice or care except Okies I didn't even notice it.
Yeah, it was about what I thought it would ultimately be. After the movie, I did think it was a missed opportunity to showcase more of the actual storm chasing that we really get here in Oklahoma from the folks that chase for the news stations, but you're right. It was straight entertainment and I can't begrudge them for making it. I think there's still a more realistic movie to be made about the folks that chase tornadoes. I might be the only one that wants it, though
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