Recommended Movie 'Twisters' - It's Enough to Just Experience the Terror of a Disaster
A big-budget Hollywood entertainment film that turns disasters into a spectacle. You sit in an air-conditioned seat and enjoy the terror of a phenomenal disaster, but how many victims were there just within this film? If you start feeling that kind of guilt, you won't be in business. If you can enjoy the sheer impact on the big screen, that's enough to feel the threat of nature. It's set in Oklahoma, an area where tornadoes frequently occur, and apparently, it was a huge hit when released locally, so it's fine to just set aside your worries and enjoy it.
In that sense, I'm interested in the fact that Lee Isaac Chung, the Korean-American director of the autobiographical film 'Minari', ended up directing this film. He was acclaimed for depicting delicate, almost private matters, and then he was offered a big Hollywood blockbuster. It must have taken a lot of guts for the people who hired him, but studios prioritize the momentum of a director. The same goes for Chinese-American director Chloé Zhao of 'Nomadland', who was suddenly entrusted with the massive Marvel blockbuster 'Eternals'. Unfortunately, that seems to have been a box-office failure, but this 'Twisters' seems to have been a big hit.
The reason for that is simple and clear: a straightforward structure, involving a man and a woman who don't get along, inevitably leading them to fall in love by the end. In the process, you aren't bored by the high-impact visuals. It is truly the result of practicing the ironclad rules of this kind of movie without any embarrassment. That's why, surprisingly, nothing remains; there are no elements you'd want to keep in your heart. That's why it's not a bad film, and that's why it's a good one. The 1996 film 'Twister', starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, was a guaranteed hit by casting trendy stars and selling it under the Steven Spielberg brand. This is completely a remake of that, with zero intention of being a sequel.
Daisy Edgar-Jones, who gained momentum with 'Where the Crawdads Sing', appears with her beauty level suddenly raised from her usual dark vibe. Glen Powell, who doesn't appear for a while at the beginning and keeps you waiting, shows off his status as a trendy star with his overflowing, ominous pheromones as a handsome man. After 'Top Gun: Maverick', before you could even ask 'Who is this handsome guy?', he starred as a charming pilot in 'Devotion' and then established himself as a handsome star with the successful romantic comedy 'Anyone but You'. Since it would be a lack of consideration to have only two white leads, the very popular Puerto Rican actor Anthony Ramos rounds out the film with a great performance. A fair-skinned, young, bespectacled handsome man appears as Javi's support, and he is David Corenswet, who was chosen as the next Superman; there is no doubt he is on the fast track to becoming a handsome star.
With a production budget of about 23 billion yen, you can fully understand the scale of the massive open sets that were completely destroyed, and it's impossible to tell where the CG ends and the VFX begins. Another thing: when you think of tornadoes, you think of 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939), and it's nice that they pay plenty of homage to Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion. In reality, natural disasters are unavoidable and one is powerless to deal with them; if a human body is lifted up in an instant, all that's left is to be dropped from hundreds of meters in the air and slammed into the ground.