The Short answer is neither.
You have read and now it is repeated.
While certainly is entertaining, Twisters adds yet another encouragement for chasers to bust stop signs, drive in excess of speed, drive recklessly, follow too close, and a host of other traffic infractions.
For educational value, 13 Minutes gives you all that and parking under overpasses, ignoring official warnings, and the drama the real life adds to the everyday storm day.
Why is 13 Minutes named that? Because the average warning time in the USA for a tornado is ... 13 minutes. That is, of course, if chasers don't take video of themselves talking about the tornado, rather than failing to report it to the National Weather Service.
13 Minutes has emergency managers, NWS, media folks all talking to one another. They coordinated the warnings. They were obviously a team, rather than competitors.
Twisters had an opportunity to do that, yet did not. Would the professionals at Stillwater Emergency Management have failed to visit with the rodeo organizers? When the wireless emergency alert was activated, the crowd in the stands were without direction.
13 Minutes had a motel housekeeping staff translating tornado action cards for the non-English speaking guests (That's good Hollywood but the National Weather Service provides material in languages other than English). How many statements were ignored or misunderstood in that movie (How many weather statements do you ignore or misunderstand on any given day)?
The Movie was a remake of the original Twisters. In that line, another round of chasers acting dangerously will be unleashed. After all, movie fans will ignore that famous statement "Don't try this at home."
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