Weather movie madness: 'Twister' defeats 'The Perfect Storm' in the championship round
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Following four rounds of voting, AccuWeather's weather movie madness tournament has concluded with a champion: "Twister."
In the spirit of March Madness and the NCAA Tournament, AccuWeather's editorial team decided to create its own tournament of sorts, focused on 16 movies about the weather or films with strong weather themes over the past 30 years.
The original field of 16 featured popular animated winter tales such as "Frozen'"and "Ice Age," apocalyptic thrillers such as "Geostorm" and "The Day After Tomorrow" as well as movies based on real-life storms such as "The Perfect Storm" and "The Finest Hours."
Here are the results from the 'final four' round of voting, which took place over the weekend. The see the previous voting results, click here and here.
No. 4 The Perfect Storm (315 votes) defeated No. 1 Groundhog Day (201 votes)
No. 2 Twister defeated (433 votes) No. 3 The Day After Tomorrow (165 votes)
The final round of voting took place from April 8 into April 9. As of 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, AccuWeather's editorial staff has called the competition in favor of Twister, the 1996 action film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt.
As described by IMDB, Paxton and Hunt play Bill and Jo Harding, "advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, who must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes."
"Twister" received 75% of the vote (728 votes), while "The Perfect Storm" accounted for the remaining 25% (248 votes).
