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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.

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.

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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…

So, it seems the rumours are true... Quentin Tarantino is going on a STAR TREK!

In some interview, somewhere, Tarantino stated he was a Trek fan and had a great idea for a movie.  Well, you know, actors and directors say stuff and it never goes anywhere... but this time, it has.  JJ Abrams got in contact to listen to Quentin's pitch and loved the idea. A writers room was put together, out of which one writer was chosen to write a draft of the script to QT's specifications.  The writer of choice was Mark L Smith (the scribe behind THE REVENANT. Tarantino is apparently eyeing up the Trek film as his next director job.  This is very important as he's previously stated he intends to retire after his tenth movie.  STAR TREK XIV would well be his swan song!

We don't know anything about what this story pitch is, of course.  We do know that QT has demanded the film is rated R though. 

This will be a major departure for Trek.  Tarantino has a particular style to him as a director, that doesn't initially gel with Trek, but that could be a blessing.  Originally we knew Chris Hemsworth was signed on for the film, to appear again as Kirk's dad, but this new idea will likely knock that on the head. Also, if Tarantino does direct, he'll likely bring in some of his own talent.  Many jokes have been made about Samuel L Jackson coming... which would be awesome.  I wonder if we can also expect the likes of Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel and Uma Thurman... maybe, maybe not.  We don't actually know if this idea will feature the existing cast of Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto etc... or will it be the film to bring together all the different casts in one place?  We know Patrick Stewart would be up for it if that was the case.

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Twisters

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Una chica con un gigantesco trauma relacionado con los tornados se dedica a la meteorología y es fichada por un equipo que quiere estudiar exactamente aquello que la aterra: Tornados.

Nada de lo que ocurre en esta película tiene sentido, es extremadamente ridícula, presentando un mundo en el que hay gente persiguiendo tornados por los estados del Medio Oeste Americano. Si, todo va cubierto con una finísima película de ciencia y de "investigación", pero lo que realmente quieren es estar tan cerca de un tornado como sea posible. Aún así, no te dará un minuto de respiro y cada minuto la hace más y más entretenida. Lo único que echarás de menos es que mencionan al menos una vez el "porqué" los tornados son cada vez más comunes y violentos*.