Twister - Patreon Version
Added 2024-12-10 15:53:29 +0000 UTCComments
I remember finally going to see Twister, in theaters when I was 11 ... The place I usually went to only had three theater rooms so only 3 different movies to choose from, but Twister had gotten so big, that they were showing it in 2 rooms due to the large lines to see it ... The other theater room was showing a brand new movie that would soon become bigger than Twister the next week, and had two rooms showing it and only one for Twister! lol ... It was called MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE :)
justin swan
2024-12-12 01:16:00 +0000 UTCThe actress who played Melissa was the actress who played Star in the Lost Boys.
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-12-11 20:46:09 +0000 UTCMy work sent me to Dallas, Texas for training in 2017, and I don't like flying if I don't have to, so I drove from Saint Louis to Dallas. I passed through Joplin and decided to stop in there for lunch. Partly because it was lunch time and mostly because I wanted to see what Joplin looked like 6 years after that EF5 went through there. It was all rebuilt by then - including the neighborhoods. One thing that was very obvious though was the lack of trees. Joplin is in a heavily wooded area, trees everywhere. At least in 2017, a huge stretch of Highway 43 - which runs straight through Joplin - had no large trees. The trees that I did see were small, as if (and probably were) newly planted. That was kind of eerie about it. I wasn't about to ask anyone there about the tornado. I was just some passing "tourist" and probably every person in the town knew someone who lost their life that day. It would have been very inconsiderate to ask questions. I just ate my lunch and got back on the road.
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-12-11 20:43:24 +0000 UTCSometimes I watch tornado videos on YouTube as they're fascinating. There was one - I think it was the Moore Tornado? - that was caught on video hurling 18-wheelers through the air. The EF5 Joplin tornado was crazy and there are some horrifying videos of people stuck in a gas station cooler as the tornado ripped up everything around them. They all lived in that video though, which made it bearable to watch. What was heartbreaking was the video of the Storm Chaser - who initially was excited about seeing a tornado - broken down as he walked among the wreckage and finding bodies. That was the video were he found a dog that survived and he was choking out the words to call the pup to him. Don't watch that one, Dasha! The dog is fine, but it will break your heart. I watched a youtube video about a F4 or F5 that was so bad that it ripped a heavy duty safe that weighed like 500 lbs - AND was bolted to the concrete floor - out of the house, mangled it, and threw it several hundred feet. That tornado tore trenches in the ground it was so intense. No one tying themselves to pipes would survive an EF5. It's just much more intense for a movie if the people are stuck inside. My brother drove through an EF0 once. Didn't even see it until he hit it going around 50 MPH. Shook his car a bit but he made it.
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-12-11 20:30:42 +0000 UTCYeah they drastically downplayed the EF-5 in this movie but also fun fact, the town of Wakita is a real town, they had found an old run down town that had a lot of demolition planned so the art department actually destroyed a lot of the buildings and make it pretry accurate to what tornado damage looks like. Thought that was neat. Unironically enough actual tornadoes touched down near there before filming began.
Thats MR. Baldamort
2024-12-11 17:45:57 +0000 UTCOKC, yeah. well mainly outside Choctaw
puppers
2024-12-11 13:50:11 +0000 UTCOklahoma?
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-12-11 13:49:25 +0000 UTCMy town used to have a drive back in the day. I know as kid I loved going to the drive in, I remember seeing Spider-Man 2002 there. It was taken down not too long after and I haven’t been back to one since my childhood. From my memories it’s a unique and fun movie experience that I really want to experience again but they’re so rare and hard to find nowadays.
Hank Jr
2024-12-11 07:45:02 +0000 UTCSuch a good movie. Of course, this is not how real tornados work though, they are FAR more destructive, especially an F5. The one I was in, May 11, 2010 it didnt directly hit me, but hit everything nearby and ripped up my trees. It was 1 mile wide. Destroyed a neighborhood next to me and a couple gas stations
puppers
2024-12-11 04:32:25 +0000 UTCYeah, wouldn't that be nice?
Eddie Perkins
2024-12-11 02:44:07 +0000 UTCEddie, any chance you could give metomorrow's winning lottery numbers?
Troy Hickman
2024-12-11 00:53:02 +0000 UTCI just watched this and felt a strong sense of deja vu, as if I had seen this reaction from you before. I knew everything you were going to say right before you said it. So either I have become psychic, or this is a repost. See, this is what happens when you have a fish memory and you Patron with too many different people, everything starts to blend together.
Eddie Perkins
2024-12-11 00:42:57 +0000 UTCSide chick of the century xD
Thats MR. Baldamort
2024-12-10 23:21:57 +0000 UTCI agree, it absolutely was disrespectful to Melissa for Bill to leave her and go on this adventure with Jo. I know it wasn't planned, but it was an inconsiderate move nonetheless. Having said that, Melissa should have spoken up. She was clearly uncomfortable with it, but she just went along with it. I get why she went along with it. Going along with it appeared easier than telling Bill that even though he loves the Storm Chaser job he should not go. She saw Bill being excited and passionate, and she convinced herself that it was a temporary thing. She believed they would get the divorce papers signed and then be back on the road to their life. He shouldn't have gone. She should have spoken up. In the end-as Dasha said-Bill and Jo seem more meant for each other. I do agree, they were much more compatible than Bill and Melissa. In a weird sort of way, it worked out for all of them. I think that's why we forgive the shitty situation here, because the audience got the message that Melissa and Bill really didn't belong together and that Jo and Bill did. It still was a shitty situation for Melissa to be in.
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-12-10 21:25:27 +0000 UTCOh BTW. Dasha i want to request a future movie for when it comes out. It's in theaters now so don't go see it but "Gladiator 2" since you saw the first one on your channel
Thats MR. Baldamort
2024-12-10 19:58:57 +0000 UTCOkay good I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it was dis respectful for Bill to treat his current fiancé like he, letting his ex get between them.
Thats MR. Baldamort
2024-12-10 17:50:08 +0000 UTCDasha, you mentioned wanting to go to a drive-in theater, so let's talk about them. You absolutely should go, as there is nothing else quite like it. At its peak in the 1950s, there were about 4600 drive-in theaters in the United states. Currently there are only 336 left in the country, although it did have something of a resurgence during the covid pandemic, as you might imagine. There are also about 40 drive-in theaters in Canada, so it's certainly possible for you to go to one. The one that is closest to me here in Indiana, Mel's Drive-In, is a very nice one, with a 1950s retro theme to it, so they have old cars sitting around and stuff like that. You can tune in on the movie audio through your car radio, but they also have the old time box speakers that you can connect to your window if you want real authenticity. The concession stands always have interesting foods, like the Chilly Dilly, a frozen pickle, which is quite refreshing on a hot summer night. There also used to be an x-rated drive-In not far from here, not that I would know anything about that ... cough cough...🙄 But yes, absolutely you should go before they all disappear. Give yourself a bouffant hairstyle and put on a poodle skirt and go! 😉
Troy Hickman
2024-12-10 17:12:47 +0000 UTC
