Get Sucked Into Twisters (Sorry) and Also Celine Dion (Not Sorry)
Plus... a Facts of Life blind item?!? Sure!
Lured by the appeal of movie popcorn, giant buckets of soda, powerful air-conditioning, racking up points on my Regal app, and the prospect of seeing cows getting sucked up into wind tunnels, I — like a lot of people — saw Twisters on Friday. Good news: It was a decent use of my $12!
I saw the original Twister in the movie theater when it came out, but I barely remember what happened in it beyond the aforementioned cow getting sucked up into a wind tunnel. Looking it up on Wiki,1 it actually has more plot similarities to Twisters than I realized, but suffice to say, Twister/Twisters was not a repeat of the Top Gun/Top Gun: Maverick experience for me, even though they do share Glen Powell’s irresistible dimples. Top Gun: Maverick is legitimately very good, with a well-deserved Oscar nomination for its script, while Twisters is a little more pedestrian. I found it sincerely entertaining, but it lacks TG:M’s emotional depth and there are aspects of the plot where the film expects you to j…