CagleMtnVol
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Yeah. Got a copy of the original. Hollywood just changes faces and makes a tweak here and there, but they pretty much copy the original. A lot of familiar scenes. Guess after almost 40 years it will be new and fresh to another generation. Just wish Hollywood had some imagination and originality to bring fresh content instead of endless remakes.I was disappointed with the trailer. It looked more like a cheap knockoff remake of the original from Asylum Films or something like that.
Yeah. Got a copy of the original. Hollywood just changes faces and makes a tweak here and there, but they pretty much copy the original. A lot of familiar scenes. Guess after almost 40 years it will be new and fresh to another generation. Just wish Hollywood had some imagination and originality to bring fresh content instead of endless remakes.
They casted a 25 year old smokeshow as a “retired stormchaser” with a PHD. Very believable.
Me and my son watched it yesterday afternoon and it was a packed theater. Which for a Friday, at 4:10, in Oak Ridge, TN, was a little suprising. We wanted to go earlier in the day but we couldn't get 2 stadium seats together in the 4 previous showings and that was around 9 in the morning. I checked today's ticket availability and the earliest I could get 2 stadium level tickets together would be at 10 PM.I'll probably see it, but I'm just not sure this kind of movie holds up anymore. People only seem to flood theaters for movies that are part of a long-planned series, or star studded one-offs with big name directors (Scorsese, Tarantino, etc)
The glory days of movies like Twister and Dante's Peak drawing in crowds seems to have passed, they just don't seem to have much to offer to the viewer anymore.