As I've made clear here on this site for as long as this site has been site-ing we're Twister-heads here -- huge fans, love Jan De Bont's 1996 disaster flick, flaws and flying cows and all -- and so the only thing that I paid any attention to with regards to the Football Thing that happened yesterday was the trailer for the sequel Twisters that got dropped. And...weirdly... it only sort of grabbed me? Glen Powell in a wet white t-shirt grabbed me. But so many of the shots in the trailer were recreations of shots from the original that this looks really remake-y to me? Just with a bunch of young pretty things replacing the slumming character actors in the original. The thing giving me hope is Minari director Lee Isaac Chung directed it so hopefully he knocks it out of the park. It's a difficult needle to thread -- the movie needs to be dumb but fun, not take itself too seriously but give us at least passable characters who don't get totally devoured by the relentless weather. Whatever -- I'm such a disaster movie nerd I'll be all over it the second a press screening is announced; I just wasn't blown away (hardy har) by this trailer. Something felt missing. Maybe I'm just really hoping they can pull out a surprise Helen Hunt appearance. Anyway -- your thoughts?
Twisters hits theaters July 19th.
7 comments:
I liked the ridiculous Jan deBont film as well. I think every now and then I'll say "We have debris," as a poor attempt at humor.
This shot and its inclusion in the trailer gives me all the hope I need.
Not a great preview. Ramos and Perea may make this worth seeing. I gotta find a drive-in.
Lee Isaac Chung directed the absolute worst episode of The Mandalorian (which is saying something). Does not bode well for his future in high-budget films...
That bland-ass white boy Glen Powell seems to be in everything these days, and ... meh. Surprised you didn't mention the far more appealing Ramos. And were they running for a highway overpass, which is the last thing place you're supposed to shelter? In any case, even less interested in this than the first one.
LMFAO!!!! This movie looks fucking ridiculous
I'm not optimistic despite Glen in the T-Shirt. Twister is the type of ridiculous so bad it's good that you can't set out to make. It has to happen by accident, where you can tell people at some point thought they were actually making a decent movie. If you set out to do it, it's just self-conscious and obvious.
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