Creating a tornado in a film has always been a test of the limits of special effects, but most people, luckily, haven't gotten up close and personal with enough of them to spot the differences.
Keith Cecere and Rich Ruggiero, both active storm chasers (and co-stars in IFC's storm-chasing mockumentary "Funnel of Darkness"), have.
That's why they've offered their judgments on five movies known for their wicked weather sequences, which they've rated (both for the effects and the acting -- hey, everyone's a critic) on the Fujita scale, a scale for rating tornado intensity, from f1 (weakest) to f5 (strongest).
"Twister" (1996)
Directed by Jan de Bont
Rich Ruggiero: This classic gets an F5. The effects are really good -- and it came out 13 years ago! In special effects time, that's like 200 years. There've been a lot of advancements since then, but the filmmakers did a sick job with what they had back then.
Keith Cecere and Rich Ruggiero, both active storm chasers (and co-stars in IFC's storm-chasing mockumentary "Funnel of Darkness"), have.
That's why they've offered their judgments on five movies known for their wicked weather sequences, which they've rated (both for the effects and the acting -- hey, everyone's a critic) on the Fujita scale, a scale for rating tornado intensity, from f1 (weakest) to f5 (strongest).
"Twister" (1996)
Directed by Jan de Bont
Rich Ruggiero: This classic gets an F5. The effects are really good -- and it came out 13 years ago! In special effects time, that's like 200 years. There've been a lot of advancements since then, but the filmmakers did a sick job with what they had back then.
- 8/13/2009
- by Keith Cecere
- ifc.com
Documentary filmmaking is a notoriously thankless job-- give up years of your life on a film, wonder if anyone will ever see it, and get paid poorly for it. But if you believe what you see in Funnel of Darkness if your documentary film happens to be a tornado, you'll have one hell of a time while you chase it. IFC paired with Dailymotion, who bought a five day exclusive run of the series, before it was available to IFC August 1st. In a faux reality move, the scripted comedy web series cast a group of good looking guys with a nice background combination of filmmaking and near death experience between them. Keith Cecere as Keith Severe is the group's bearded and fearless leader who has spent some of his real life as tech director for Discovery Channel's Storm Chasers. No related news.
- 8/3/2009
- by Lindsay Stidham
- Tubefilter.com
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