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It can hurl a freight train hundreds of yards from its tracks.
And it can even destroy an entire town.
Ride It Outis a misnomer because the attraction wasnt a ride at all.
Still, it wasnt a ride.
Now my dreams have been realized withTwistersin 4DX.
So perfect that you’re gonna wanna run, not walk, to seeTwistersin 4DX.
Beep, beep, you are entering spoiler-town; this is your final warning.
The tornados operate herein the same vein as the shark fromJaws,or like kaiju.
Townsfolk run, scream, and hide as winds tear roofs off buildings and smash cars into each other.
And when a character gets sucked away by the tornado, the chair lurched in sync.
When a car off-roads into tall country grass, the ankle-ticklers licked at the backs of my legs.
just like the movies storm-chaser hobbyists.
For years, theaters tried to make RealD 3-D happen.
It was never going to happen.
Were seeing less of that nowadays, and Im grateful.
I much preferred watchingAvatar: The Way of Waterin 2022 in IMAX over watchingAvatarin 3-D in 2009.
I think I would havereallyloved it in 4DX, though.
Lightning flashes in the corners of the auditorium in sync with the onscreen storm.
Best of all are the theaters wind effects, which really surround you.
At one point during the movies climax, the wind blew a piece of popcorn out of my hand.
Now thats what I call immersion.
His philosophy toward life and tornadoes is You dont face your fears.
Intellectually, I agree with the comparison.
Daisy Edgar-Jones is really quite bad in this.
She is not convincingly smart, nerdy, human, or southern.
But none of that matters when Powell is firing a rocket and youre literally feeling itwhooshpast your head.
It lifted all ships.
For nearly 20 years, millions of visitors were greeted by Paxton in those halls.
As he put it, The twister is not just a weather condition.
By the end, theres only one thing you’re free to do hold on for your life.
That attraction is now long gone and replaced by a fools grotesquerie, which madeTwisterseven more resonant.
Seeing a movie on a screen is one thing.
Seeing a tornado on a soundstage is another.
Have a great day at Universal Studios Florida!
