{"id":1548,"date":"2024-07-18T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T22:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2024-07-24T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T03:04:03","slug":"wales-movie-adventures-twisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/18\/wales-movie-adventures-twisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales Movie Adventures: Twisters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/twisters-bar.png\" alt=\"Twisters movie bar\" class=\"wp-image-1549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/twisters-bar.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/twisters-bar-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/twisters-bar-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part II of my <strong>Let&#8217;s Watch America-centered movies in Wales Tour<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s play <strong>Guess What Happens!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The movie opens with five inexperienced friends acting like nothing bad could ever happen to them driving into the path of a tornado.<strong> GUESS WHAT HAPPENS!<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The lead character&#8217;s friend gets her to help him with his tornado chasing company. Whenever the lead gets near the man bankrolling the friend&#8217;s company, the friend steers her away from the conversation. <strong> GUESS WHAT HAPPENS!<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The friend&#8217;s company is slick and high-tech. There is another group of tornado chasers that the friend hates; they are low-tech and wild- maybe dangerous- but charming. <strong> GUESS WHAT HAPPENS!<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The low-tech group is led by a handsome, charming man. When the lead first meets him, she rejects him. <strong> GUESS WHAT HAPPENS!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is exactly ONE direct reference to the original film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time I counted the commercials (not trailers, commercials) before the movie. There were FIFTEEN, including three for the armed forces, one for a cleaning product, and one misguided commercial for KFC. Is Kentucky Fried Chicken popular in Wales? I&#8217;ve seen a bunch of them- more than I&#8217;ve seen McDonalds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why anyone thought there needed to be a sequel to a 28 year old film without any of the original cast, but here comes TWISTERS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}