I was caught in a swirling maelstrom, emotionally battered and clinging on for dear life – this was my experience of sitting through two hours of this dismal movie at my local cinema last night.
I survived to tell the tale but only just.
I accept that you don’t go to disaster movies expecting deep insights into the human condition but some recognition that we the audience are not universally brain dead would have been nice.
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I have never witnessed a hurricane first hand so all my experiences come from the movies.
This starts with The Wizard Of Oz, the effects for which were apparently achieved by the creative use of a nylon stocking.
While Americans are boarding up and fleeing the path of the latest twister; I’ve been welcoming my mother named Irene who has to use nylon stockings to prevent swollen ankles as temperatures in Italy remain very high.
I’ve also been idling on the net surfing twisters in the movie sites of which these are a short list:
Study guide to Wizard of Oz hurricane sequence
How a twister was made from a nylon stocking in Oz
Movies featuring twisters
Rating movie tornadoes
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