Stupidest movie ever made. Criminally stupid.

[DoctorHurricane2003]

At least Twister is a little more....believable.

I love Earth Science, but the following movies really make me angry:

Maximum Velocity (Grrrrrrr)
10.5 (Grrrrrrrr)
The Core (wtf?...the core stopped spinning?? Ooh! And the Earth is a gigantic Geode!!!! )
Dante's Peak (Grrrrrr)
Generally any Sci-Fi channel movie that deals with weather/geology (ie....Ice, Deep Core, etc.) Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........

[Ixolib]

At least Twister is a little more....believable.

I love Earth Science, but the following movies really make me angry:

Maximum Velocity (Grrrrrrr)
10.5 (Grrrrrrrr)
The Core (wtf?...the core stopped spinning?? Ooh! And the Earth is a gigantic Geode!!!! )
Dante's Peak (Grrrrrr)
Generally any Sci-Fi channel movie that deals with weather/geology (ie....Ice, Deep Core, etc.) Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........

I'm trying, but I can find very little that is believable about Twister. But I've never been in one, so maybe I'm speaking out of turn....

[DoctorHurricane2003]

F5 tornadoes exist.......500 MPH hurricanes do not

I *guess* someone could develop a technology involving remote sensors in bubble gum machine plastic thingies that tell people things going on in the inside of a tornado......

Theories have shown that tornadoes *may* have an eye-like structure.

[PurdueWx80]

Theories have shown that tornadoes *may* have an eye-like structure.

Actual data shows this too...I'll try to find some of the DOW high resolution radar images. They are AMAZING!!

Sensors have also been deployed into tornadoes...although I don't believe it involved looking at metallic yard art for inspiration.

[Ixolib]

Nature, in its natural state, is awesome enough to stand quite well on its own - without all the Hollywood theatrics. Even the Perfect Storm had loads of BOGUS moments, and it was based on the "storm of the century", which - one would think - would provide all the thrilling footage anyone could ever want to see.

Live cows mooing while flying inside a tornado and some guy trying to cut loose his stabilizers (with a torch!!) on a violently swinging outrigger are just a bit too much. I guess my analytical way of thinking just makes these kinds of movies loose their supposed "entertainment" value with the extremely overdone attempts at titilation.

[dhweather]

Cow!

[dhweather]

I forgot to add that cow comment with the Twister reference.

[DoctorHurricane2003]

Oh yes we can't forget the cows......lol

Actually the "Storm of the Century" or the "Superstorm of 1993"....was in 1993 and was an extratropical low in the GOM that came up the Eastern Seaboard.

The Perfect Storm is based on what some called "the Perfect Storm" in 1991 where Hurricane Grace, Hurricane #8, and a deep frontal zone "combined" (more or less the tropical cyclones were moving up the frontal zone) causing rough seas and stormy conditions in the North Atlantic.

And yes I forgot to mention that movie on the list of movies I dislike.....Grace was NOT a category 5 hurricane.......far from it.

[Guest]

Yeah those Twilight Zone episodes are pretty unrealistic too..Wonder why???

Could it be because theyre on;

SCI-FI CHANNEL

[coriolis]

It's like I tell the kids - anything's possible on TV. I mean, there's NO WAY that Sponge Bob could talk like that under water.

[Aquawind]

It's like I tell the kids - anything's possible on TV. I mean, there's NO WAY that Sponge Bob could talk like that under water.

LMAO

[Stormsfury]

Considering the screenwriter also wrote a B-flick about overly-aggressive sharks in the GOM http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391908/ and those were his only flicks, I'll pass.

However, the stupidest movie EVER made would have to be Kingpin, IMO.

Hey ... I kinda enjoyed Kingpin ... Yeah, it was so stupid that I couldn't help but laugh and that scene with Woody Harrelson and the landlord ... *shutters in fear*

[Stormsfury]

Oh yes we can't forget the cows......lol

Actually the "Storm of the Century" or the "Superstorm of 1993"....was in 1993 and was an extratropical low in the GOM that came up the Eastern Seaboard.

The Perfect Storm is based on what some called "the Perfect Storm" in 1991 where Hurricane Grace, Hurricane #8, and a deep frontal zone "combined" (more or less the tropical cyclones were moving up the frontal zone) causing rough seas and stormy conditions in the North Atlantic.

And yes I forgot to mention that movie on the list of movies I dislike.....Grace was NOT a category 5 hurricane.......far from it.

That depiction of Hurricane Grace as a CAT 5 made me cringe ... otherwise, I did enjoy the movie ... (since it was just that, a movie) ...

The Perfect Storm was a combo of three different things ... 1st, the Perfect Storm (or Halloween Storm) was an extratropical cyclone that started out around 41ºN, and had no tropical characteristics whatsoever ...
2) a strong cold associated with the system swept off the coast 3) which ended up absorbing Grace into the Halloween Storm thusly energizing it further ... also, doesn't hurt to have a potent s/w in the northern stream coming in at the same time to add fuel to the fire.

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC for short) has a GREAT segment regarding the Perfect Storm and then its bizarre ending making the transition to an unnamed hurricane embedded within the large scale cyclonic environment ...

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/satellite/s ... storm.html

[Stormsfury]

Theories have shown that tornadoes *may* have an eye-like structure.

Actual data shows this too...I'll try to find some of the DOW high resolution radar images. They are AMAZING!!

Sensors have also been deployed into tornadoes...although I don't believe it involved looking at metallic yard art for inspiration.

I've seen that very data you're talking about on several specials with profiles Doppler on Wheels and Dr. Josh Wehrman's team of research chasers ... awesome stuff, and the structure of several tornadoes they profiled looks much like a hurricane, just on a much smaller scale ... with a calm spot, and the tornado's wall (usually surrounded by a debris field) reveals the center to be a very calm spot or "eye-like" ...

IMHO, there's some relation to the Rossby Waves (or mesovorticies) in Hurricanes like Ivan earlier this year, and Isabel last year, also seem to occur in the stronger tornadoes (F3 and greater) ... although, F2 tornadoes can and do produce multiple vorticities as well (prime example is the Summerville or Mother's Day Tornado that struck on May 10th, 1998 - and cut a swath from Summerville, Ladson, and into Daniel Island before dissipating.)

SF

[WorryWart]

My cable is still out so I missed it......lucky me!

[Cat5survivor]

I couldn't agree more. That thing had me yelling at the screen over the bad "science" it was depicting within 2 minutes and it never got any better, only worse.

This thing needs the MST3K treatment, stat.

[alicia-w]

That's why sci-fi is science fiction...

It's a movie for crying out loud, not a National Geographic documentary.

[TexasStooge]

I haven't seen it, and I don't want to see it!

[melhow]

I'm a sucker for poo tv....

Still no reponse to the "anyone know when this will air" post ???

This sounds like damn fine entertainment..and I'll have you know that aside from the glass elevator scene in "The Towering Inferno", the elderly mountain woman having her legs eaten away by the sulfuric acid produced by Dante's Peak while pushing Peirce Brosnon in a canoe was quite possibly one of the finest cinematic moments ever captured on film...

Naysayers....

[Robert]

4. The second they deploy the secret weapon -- a parachute hooked to a giant generator bank, which creates a cool special-effects "ion cloud" -- the hurricane wind speed starts dropping, "499, 498, 497, 490...." It works!

Something dropped out of a 747 into a hurricane to reduce intensity? Which came first the Dyno-mat (or whatever that stuff is) guy or the movie?