The Twister: Caught in the Storm

Spectacular production. I've seen so many documentaries about storms, including tornadoes. This was far better than any of them. The reconstructions, the visual effects (I guess), the tons of real footage the production team was able to pull together, all made this the best tornado documentary. And the survivor stories were so well-told. There was not a single hot-shot tough guy testimony saying, "So cool. It was narly, man!" Instead, every survivor was clearly affected deeply by the Joplin tornado, and the witnesses really made this film.

This was amazing and gave me chills multiple times. I've seen videos on YouTube about this incident and my god, it still leaves me shocked. I feel so bad for these people and what they went through, especially that 16 year old kid that ended up with the fungus and losing half his fucking insides. It's insane.

It truly amazes me when people complain and moan about an IRL incident where 160 people were killed not being "real" enough because it featured reenactments of many of the stories rather than "faces of death" style footage. The aforementioned and complained about "pulse pounding firsthand footage" is not due to shaky cam cell phone footage, (although there is plenty of that) but in the first hand accounts of people who survived an F5 ("finger of God") tornado.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW4hQKHIL_8

The fear is palpable in the retellings from survivors who truly didn't know if the next few moments would be their last on this earth, and the scars (both physical and mental) and survivors guilt for those who made it through. Then, even if you did survive there was the risk of contracting the damn Cordyceps fungus from "The Last of Us", necessitating the carving off of large chunks of ones anatomy. As far as survivors "running on" when telling their stories, I don't thing it was a matter of "pressuring them, but, making sure they got to say everything they wanted to say, rather than quick cutting between interviews for the sake of brevity and story line.

Well worth the watch whether you are a noob, or a seasoned twister aficionado.

The documentary is really well done, but if you focus on it, you will realise it's just a couple of moments of actual footage and the rest is a mixture of interviews, AI made scenes and reenactments. It's like taking a blurry one minute video from YouTube and making it into 90 minutes documentary. It's definitely a strong experience that deserved to be told, but don't expect "pulse-pounding firsthand footage" from the movie description.

Documentary has some strong moments, but it was just okay. Some good human stories from survivors.

They tried way too hard to force emotional interviews. It was cringey. The constant run-on filming after people were through speaking was irritating. I wouldn't be surprised if they pressured survivors to cry.