Twisters (2024)
Directed by Lee Isaac Chung
Written by Mark L. Smith
Starring Glenn Powell, Daisy Edgar Jones, Anthony Ramos, Maura Tierney
Release Date Friday, July 19th, 2024
Published Friday July 19th, 2024
“You don’t face your fears, you ride’em.”
What does that mean? I’m being pedantic, I know, but this line clangs like a basketball on the rim bouncing errantly away from a score. It’s a bum note in a symphonic performance, like an out of tune instrument. How do you ride your fears without facing them? The context of the scene is Glenn Powell’s Tyler Owens explaining to Daisy Edgar Jones’ Kate that he gave up bull-riding to pursue meteorology. He had to face the bull first in order to ride it. You can’t get on a bull backwards. I’m being intentionally thick, I just hate this movie and that line specifically.
Twisters stars Daisy Edgar Jones as Kate Carter. Kate was a grad student who, with the help of a team, had developed a way that she believed might be able to tame a tornado. Through the use of a super-polymer, she theorizes that you can suck the moisture out of a tornado, essentially strangling the tornado, rendering it less destructive. Her first test of this theory, unfortunately, goes horribly wrong. Three members of her team, including her boyfriend and her closest friend, are killed. Kate leaves the field and takes a desk job with the National Weather Service.
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