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Twisters Trailer 2

Kate Cooper is a former storm chaser who now studies storm patterns safely on screens in New York City. Her friend Javi pulls her back into the field to help test a new tornado tracking system. While there she crosses paths with Tyler Owens, a storm-chasing social media star. As the storms intensify, Kate and Tyler's teams find themselves fighting for their lives in the paths of multiple storm systems.

Twisters is directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith. The films stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (Kate Cooper), Glen Powell (Tyler Owens), Anthony Ramos (Javi), Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, Nik Dodani, Maura Tierney, Harry Hadden-Paton, David Corenswet, Tunde Adebimpe, Katy O'Brian, and Paul Scheer.

Twisters hits theaters on July 19, 2024.

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LET'S TWIST AGAIN

Opening this weekend...

Twisters--This isn't a look behind the scenes at the raw, fiercely competitive world of people who play the Milton Bradley party game. No, this is a pretty belated sequel to Jan de Bont's Twister, the 1996 adventure yarn about storm chasers. It follows roughly the same plot template: A midwestern heroine with a personal grudge against tornados tries to devise a way to combat them. In '96 this role was played by Helen Hunt; here it's a waif called Daisy Edgar-Jones.

After an opening tragedy while she's trying to deploy the "Dorothy" technology from the original film, our meteorologist heroine withdraws to New York. Five years later she's tempted back into storm chasing in her home state of Oklahoma by an old crony (Anthony Ramos) with new high-tech charting equipment and a crew and budget. He wants her tornado whisperer skills in helping them get close enough to get the essential data to figure out how to dissipate a tornado in progress. She reluctantly agrees to join them for a week.

She and her new colleagues finds themselves in competition with a rowdy, showboating band of YouTube storm chasers, led by the cute, cocksure cowboy Glen Powell. They look like insufferable clowns, but as our heroine trades banter with him and gradually gets to know him better, and to learn more about his motives...Well, you can forecast where this is heading.

I guess I wasn't aware that Twister, which also starred Bill Paxton and Jami Gertz, was such a beloved film that there was a burning desire for a sequel. I remember thinking it was okay, if a little CGI-ersatz, and that the "bad" meteorologist in the black SUV played by Cary Elwes was a little corny. I enjoyed it, but certainly didn't feel any great need for another chapter.

The new film, directed by Minari's Lee Isaac Chung from a script by Mark L. Smith, has the same merits as the original, and the same weaknesses. The storms and the destruction they wreak have the sterile, unreal quality of wall-to-wall CGI effects. I'm not sure what the alternative would be; it's hardly fair to ask the cast and crew to work with actual twisters. But the tornado that sucked Dorothy up to Oz in 1939 has, for me, more physical menace than the virtual twisters here.

That said, Chung handles the big showpiece action scenes excitingly, and he keeps them coming. Edgar-Jones, Powell, Ramos and the other actors are amiable enough, though the dramatic and romantic side of the film isn't much more substantive than that of, say, a Hallmark holiday movie--Powell looks like he'd be a natural for those.

All throughout Twisters, it's continually exasperating to see that, in the midst of what we're told is a record-setting tornado outbreak, the small-town Okies are still going to rodeos and street fairs and baseball games. At one point our heroes even seek shelter from the storm in a movie theater which, this being a Universal picture, is showing the original 1931 Frankenstein. If you must get flattened in a theater, at least they get a worthwhile flick.

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Twisters (dir. Lee Isaac Chung).

[It] suitably fulfills its promise of returning to a past era of loud disaster entertainment. Chung uses his bag of necessary contrivances well to properly set up and tell his film economically while adding urgent elements of climate change, humanitarian relief, and runaway capitalism. Its callbacks and small references to the original Twister are fairly light, casual, and referential while making something refreshingly exciting from a well-worn premise.

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The Marsh King's Daughter | Official Trailer

Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn and Garrett Hedlund star in the movie adaptation of Karen Dionne's ‘THE MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER’. #daisyridley #BenMendelsohn #TheMarshKingsDaughter #OfficialTrailer #FilmTwitter #moviestrailers

Writer: Karen Dionne (Novel), Elle Smith & Mark L. Smith (Screenplay) Director: Neil Burger Stars: Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Garrett Hedlund, Caren Pistorius, Brooklynn Prince, Gil Birmingham I want to read the book first but I might not have the time because on that trailer alone the movie sounds amazing. Releases October 6, 2023 If you like this content, please consider supporting the…

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Twisters (2024): Angry Cyclones Consume Towns and People

The 2024 film Twisters features angry cyclones that consome towns and people. Almost vindictively. Director Lee Isaac Chung (That award winning and Oscar nominated good ole Korean farm boy from Arkansas. IMDb does not mention it but Lee is from Lincoln, a small town almost on the border of Oklahoma. The location of Twisters.) gives us a rousing tale of almost supernaturally latent…

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Twisters (12): A Blueprint for Universal's Next Theme-Park Attraction.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Twisters". #Twistersmovie. Sadly, I was not blown away by this popcorn hit. 2.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Twisters” (2024). You’ve queued a little over 2 hours in the Florida sun for this. The announcer says “Welcome to Twisters. The lapbar will come down automatically. Please stand clear of the closing doors. Por favor, mantenganse allejado de las puertas”. We jerk forwards. “Ooh… look kids… here comes the tornado. BOOM… ARGHH!… the fire explosion – heat on your face…

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The Marsh King's Daughter Review- An Average Father Daughter Film With A Twist

I’ve seen a lot of films in my day about father-daughter relationships. The Marsh King is the latest in the genre of movies. It was intriguing to me because of the two stars at the front of it. Ben Mendelssohn and Daisy Ridley are both Star Wars alumni.  So they are an interesting duo to lead this movie.Based on the book from Karen Dionna,  it wasn’t as good as I had hoped beforehand. Helena…

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I also like that his nickname for her changes as he learns more about her (because their interest in understanding each other parallels their interest in understanding how storms work) but it’s always in reference to where she’s from. Because she has that whole “running from home -> returning to home” character arc thing going. So we start with “city girl” and we move to “Sepulpa.” And the guy who’s giving her those nicknames is not only demonstrating that he’s learned more about her and they’re getting closer, but also, he’s the one really reminding her where she’s from/where she belongs in this story.

Javi is also doing that, but the thing about Javi is that he is associated with the Big Tragedy. He was part of the thing that makes Kate want to cut herself off from “where she belongs.” So even though he’s reminding her of who she is and where she’s from, too, it’s in the wrong direction. Kate’s character needed somebody new to come into her life, not somebody from the tortured past. And what better “somebody new” than a guy who’s got all the love for weather she used to have, and all the challenging interest in her, with none of the “reference to tragedy?”

I mean they could’ve written Tyler to be a storm-chaser who lost someone, too. At the rodeo, he could’ve gone, “yeah, my parents died in a storm, there wasn’t an early enough warning system, so now I chase what I used to fear to help understand the thing that took my family from me,” yadda yadda, angst angst. But that’s not what they do. Because Tyler’s character doesn’t need to foil the tragedy. He needs to foil the fun. And the hope, and the enjoyment, and the bravery, that Kate’s character has been suppressing.

So what better character to start marking where Kate’s return-to-where-she-belongs journey is, with nicknames, than Tyler—the guy trying to understand her—and then once he gets an understanding, he’s the guy trying to push her to move forward?

Good good good. Good writing, good storytelling, good characters. Nothing fancy. Just plain good.

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Twisters (2024)

"I'm not back."

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Twisters (2024, USA)

Director: Lee Isaac Chung

Writer: Mark L. Smith (based on a story by Joseph Kosinski)

Mini-review:

This was exactly what I expected and wanted it to be: a thrilling piece of popcorn summer entertainment. Is it a great movie? Definitely not, but I had a lot of fun watching it in the theater. Mostly, it's a brilliant showcase for Daisy Edgar-Jones' and Glen Powell's star power and charisma. Also, while the story has quite a few silly moments, Lee Isaac Chung manages to elevate the material with his masterful, classy direction. And the CGI is much better than the stuff we've been seing lately in Hollywood movies, too. So yeah, Twisters is not a perfect film by any means, but as far as summer blockbusters go, it's arguably one of the best we've gotten in the last few years.

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Twisters will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on October 22 via Universal. The 2024 disaster epic sequel to 1996's Twister is currently available on Digital.

Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) directs from a script by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Vacancy). Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell star with Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, and Nik Dodani.

The film is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision/HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio Commentary by Director Lee Isaac Chung

Deleted Scenes

Gag Reel

Tracking the Fronts: The Path of Twisters

Into the Eye of the Storm

Glen Powell: All Access

Front Seat to a Chase

Voice of a Villain

Tricked-Out Trucks

Ever since a devastating tornado encounter, Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) gave up chasing storms across the Oklahoma prairie to safely study them on screens in New York City. Lured back to the field by her friend Javi (Anthony Ramos) and a once-in-a-lifetime scientific opportunity, Kate crosses paths with Tyler (Glen Powell), a charming daredevil and self-proclaimed tornado wrangler whose thirst for tornado-tracking adventures made him a social media sensation. As storm season intensifies with terrifying phenomena unlike anything seen before, Kate and Tyler realize they may need to work together if they are to have any chance of taming, and surviving, an unprecedented outbreak of destructive tornadoes.

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Twisters Trailer

Remember the 90's Twister?

Kate Cooper is a former storm chaser who now studies storm patterns safely on screens in New York City. Her friend Javi pulls her back into the field to help test a new tracking system. While there she crosses paths with Tyler Owens, a storm-chasing social media star. As the storms intensify, Kate and Tyler's teams find themselves fighting for their lives in the paths of multiple storm systems.

Twisters is directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith. The films stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (Kate Cooper), Glen Powell (Tyler Owens), Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, Nik Dodani, and Maura Tierney.

Twisters hits theaters on July 19, 2024.

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. You don't face your fears, you ride 'em.

Twisters, Lee Isaac Chung (2024)

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Shang Qinghua- Scum Villain's Self-Saving System/Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Oliver Marks- If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

Wallace Price- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Evred "Sponge" Montrei-vayir- Inda (series) by Sherwood Smith

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The Boys in the Boat (2023) Review

Set in the 1930s focusing on the University of Washington’s rowing team who are attempting to get to the Berlin Olympics in 1936, pushing the boundaries for the gold medal. ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading The Boys in the Boat (2023) Review