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It has been months without any games, movies, etc I can review with, but I found what needs to be reviewed. This movie is almost a remake of a classic film released a few decades ago but was a standalone sequel to Twister.

Premiered in London, July 8th
Released in Theatrical, July 19th

Before explaining Twisters, let's talk about "What is Twister"

Twister is a 1996 American disaster thriller film directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. It was produced by Crichton, Kathleen Kennedy, and Ian Bryce, with Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, and Gerald R. Molen serving as executive producers. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Todd Field, and Jeremy Davies as a group of amateur but spirited storm chasers trying to deploy a tornado research device during a severe outbreak in Oklahoma. Twister was released in theaters on May 10, 1996.

This movie is the very first film to ever be released on DVD in the United States. It grossed $495 million worldwide and became the second-highest-grossing film of 1996; it sold an estimated 54.7 million tickets in the United States. It received generally positive reviews from critics and received Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound.

When I was a pre-teen, I loved this movie, I loved the storyline, I loved the CG, and it was EXTREME, but now I'm more excited about the standalone sequel they've been making for the last 2 years.

Now let's talk about "What is Twisters"

Twisters is a 2024 American disaster film directed by Lee Isaac Chung with a screenplay by Mark L. Smith from a story by Joseph Kosinski. Produced by Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, it is a standalone sequel to the 1996 film Twister and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, and Sasha Lane.

This movie was supposed to be a remake, which makes sense because this movie has a combination of remake and sequel, making the characters different, and opening the movie differently.

"Haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado, Kate Cooper gets lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi, to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. She soon crosses paths with Tyler Owens, a charming but reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures. As storm season intensifies, Kate, Tyler, and their competing teams find themselves in a fight for their lives as multiple systems converge over central Oklahoma."

This whole plot contains spoilers, so watch the film on theatre before reading this review, here's the entire plot if you did:

Kate Carter is a college student working in Oklahoma with a team of fellow college storm chasers including Javi, Addy, Praveen and her boyfriend, Jeb. Alongside a Dorothy V doppler, they are working on an experiment that will implement a special type of solution from eight barrels to mix with a tornado in the hopes that it would disrupt its intensity. The team drives up to one that just formed. The launch of the solution is initially successful, but as the tornado grows larger, the crew is caught in the middle of it. They hide under a bridge, where Addy, Praveen and Jeb are each blown away by the strong winds. Kate and Javi (watching from a distance) are the sole survivors.

Five years later, Kate is working at a NOAA office in New York City. Javi, now a college graduate and working for a company called Storm Par, reunites with Kate and offers her a one-week position to become part of his team as they are about to conduct a new scanning system for tornadoes in Oklahoma. Still haunted by the death of her teammates, especially Jeb, Kate initially refuses. Wanting to make things right after the accident and seeing a news report that Javi sent to her of the latest devastation in Oklahoma, she has a change of her heart and rejoins him.

Kate and Javi arrive in Oklahoma and join the rest of the Storm Par team, including Scott, a businessman working with Javi. Other storm chasing crews arrive, including famous YouTube storm chaser, Tyler Owens, known as the “Tornado Wrangler,” who is joined by his crew: Boone, Lily, Dexter, Dani and Ben, a London journalist covering his storm chasing experiences.

The teams set out on their first tornado which touched down in a nearby windfarm. The Storm Par crew splits into three different groups: Tin Man, Scarecrow and Lion, each with their own set of equipment to create a pyramid-like scan of the tornado. As The Tin Man and Scarecrow groups set up first, Kate and Javi attempt to set up for Lion, but back out at the last second when Kate drives the truck away from the tornado.

At the teams’ main camp, Kate is introduced to Marshall Riggs, who helps fund the Storm Par team. Tyler gets to know Kate better and uses her knowledge to try and beat their team to the location of the next tornado. En route, Kate and Javi correctly follow the path of the tornado, while Tyler and his team take a wrong turn when it dissipates near their location. Kate and Javi successfully launch their scanning system, but the third scanner is soon blown out by the strong tornado winds. They barely escape as the tornado barrels its way around them. They then help out the latest town that has been devastated.

Kate begins to see Riggs’ plan when it comes to profiteering from families’ tornado devastated lands. She and Tyler go out to a nearby rodeo, when a large tornado hits the area. They hide out in an empty pool next to a motel. Frustrated with the aftermath that once again falls into Marshall Riggs’ favour, Kate confronts Javi, who irresponsibly blames her for the deaths of their college colleagues.

Kate retreats to her mother’s farm, but she is soon followed by Tyler. He uncovers her previous notes and research regarding the experiment that she and her college colleagues conducted. She, however, still blames herself for their deaths and that the experiment was a failure. Tyler offers to create a new model, based on her previous work, and try out the barrels once more. They come upon a passing tornado and release the solution, to no avail. She hypothesises a change in the solution to account for the difference that the model incorrectly predicts.

Kate joins Tyler and his team as another tornado develops near the town of El Reno. Javi, Scott and the rest of Storm Par join in on the chase. Their truck nearly overturns in a nearby factory, but manages to escape, just as a fire tornado develops in the area. Javi abandons Scott by the road and quits Storm Par.

Kate, Tyler, and their team arrive in El Reno and begin evacuating the townsfolk. In the ensuing chaos, Tyler’s leg is caught by debris. As Kate struggles to get him out, Javi arrives in time to save them both, just as the town’s water tower collapses directly in front of them. They hide in a nearby movie theatre.

Seeing no end to the destruction and devastation it’s causing, Kate takes the barrels and Tyler’s truck and drives to the centre of the tornado once more. After a brief struggle with the controls, she successfully launches the solution into the tornado. However, her truck is overturned whilst she is still inside. The movie theatre is ripped open by strong winds. Lily is nearly pulled out, only to be saved by Tyler, just as the solution takes effect and the tornado dissipates. Tyler, Javi, and the rest of the team run to rescue Kate and celebrate the calming of the tornado.

Some time later, Javi drops Kate off at the airport and promises that more research will continue on their successful experiment. Tyler also sees Kate off, hoping she would stay. Instead, she advises him on his "if you feel it, chase it" motto. He soon chases after her and pulls her away with him, just as the PA makes an announcement that flights are delayed due to weather

Sounds a bit similar, right? Well, kind of but remember, this is a sequel, so some of them are different, and some of them are the same

On an estimated budget of $200 million, principal photography commenced around Oklahoma City in May 2023. Filming was to take place at Prairie Surf Studios for 40 days and in metro Oklahoma City for 50 days. Other locations included Chickasha, Okarche, El Reno, Spencer, and Cashion. Filming was suspended in July due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Production resumed with the conclusion of the strike in November 2023 and wrapped up the following month.

Some scenes are familiarly similar to the original, and some of them are new. I love how the camera focuses on the object that is about to fly and throw off from the tornado, it's satisfying. the film crew puts up a lot of cameras inside and outside of the car so we as the audience can see what these storm chasers do for a living, they look like they're having fun, love em'

Terilyn A. Shropshire edited this sequel, she goes CRAZY with the editing, the CGI is impressive, and the way the tornado consumes the fire hazard from the factory and the black smoke? gimmie that perfect CGI food.

Some of the effects are practical because the film crew is having trouble with the vehicles getting caught in the tornado situation, so they have to use the actual debris and dust to make the vehicle as dirty as possible. They've also used the rain machine to make the movie realistic as well, then CGI for the rest.

There are a lot of soundtracks in Twisters, let's say they've got so many Americans to make the most American country music album as possible since it takes place in Oklahoma.

Benjamin Wallfisch composed the film's score, and the other's are from an album called, Twisters: The Album.

What is "Twisters: The Album"?

Twisters: The Album is the soundtrack to the 2024 film Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung, a standalone sequel to Twister (1996). It was released through Atlantic Records on July 19, 2024, the same day as the North American theatrical release, and featured 29 songs from country music artists. The album is produced by Kevin Weaver, Brandon Davis, Ian Chipps, and Joseph Khoury.

Twisters: The Album was compiled by the film's music supervisor Rachel Levy and Mike Knobloch, executive vice president of music for Universal Pictures. Knobloch did not want to recreate the predecessor's soundtrack and treated it as his own project. He closely worked with Chung to conceive a musical soundscape for that film which would be "organic and authentic to where the story takes place, which is in Oklahoma" resulting him collaborating with country artists and songwriters from that location to write music for the album. Knobloch collaborated with Weaver to distribute the soundtrack through Atlantic Records over multiple labels, following the success of Barbie the Album (2023) as the label had signed multiple country music artists, following the genre boom, adding "We know from past experiences that Kevin and his team, like us, are super-competitive and uncompromising perfectionists [...] They want to take big swings like we do. It just felt like Atlantic as a partner had the right attitude. Everyone on the core team [at Atlantic] has great Nashville relationships." According to Weaver, he wanted the music to become a character of the film, over compiling popular music for the purpose of a soundtrack

Levy who had been a fan of country music admitted it as exciting to work with, as music supervisors do not have that opportunity to work with country musicians. Weaver, Chung, and Knobloch met Levy multiple times with Chung selecting over 20 scenes for which he wanted original songs. The label then solicited artists to write specifically for those sequences based on the visuals and brief about tempo, tone, and thematic suggestions. All of the songs were written specifically for the film, except for one song "Boots Don't" which was performed by Shania Twain and Breland. Twain's "No One Needs to Know" (1996) was used in the first film, and Knobloch found it "cool" on her song being used for the sequel as well.

Lainey Wilson was the first artist to be signed who was confirmed within early January. Despite the busy schedules, several other artists seemed to be interested on working on the album after the team reached to them, resulted in assembling nearly 30 artists. Since the album consisted of several songs, they had to work responsibly in keeping the budget under control

Twisters: The Album was released day-and-date with the film on July 19, 2024, through Atlantic Records. Besides its release for digital download, the soundtrack was made available through compact discs and multiple variants of vinyl records exclusively on the album's official website. Pre-orders for the soundtrack were made digitally through Apple Music on May 16.

Let me tell ya, there are lots of songs, I'm not joking, just look:

Barbie Movie did the same but there are just a few of them, 17 in total, Twisters, on the other hand, there's a lot of them.

Top Cast:

• Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kate Cooper, a meteorologist, and former storm chaser

• Glen Powell as Tyler Owens, a famous storm chaser on the internet

• Anthony Ramos as Javi, Kate's former storm chaser colleague

John Papsidera hired 15 top cast in total but I'm not gotta explain how all of them performed, they are all great, so I'm just gotta explain these three I just listed as the main (yes, the trio are the main characters)

— Daisy Edgar-Jones played as Kate Cooper, the first main character in this standalone sequel, she did a good job on her acting, what a drama queen she is.

Unlike the original, she is retired from Storm Chasing, she does not experience some love until the end of the film, and she is also not getting a divorce just like the original, remember that I told you that some of them are the same and some of them are different? yeah, exactly like that.

— Anthony Ramos as Javi, the second character in Twisters. He is one of Kate's friends, the second survivor who ever experienced Kate's traumatized event.

He worked for Storm Par, a Storm Company, reunited with Kate, and tried to catch a single tornado without Tornado Wrangler catching up before them, if you wanna know who the Tornado Wrangler is, it's down next to it.

— Glen Powell as Tyler Owens, the third main character. Unlike the original Twister, he is one of my favorites so far, he's known for Lt. Jake Seresin from Top Gun: Maverick. His performance was amazing and a bit of a-hole.

He IS the "Tornado Wrangler", and he's also a streamer for anyone to experience Tornado, told you he's a bit of a-hole, but also a badass, he had a catchphrase and everything. He also never experiences love, just having fun catching the tornado. But he's also worried and serious about whatever there's a big tornado on their way.

How did it all begin?

In June 2020, a remake of Twister (1996) was announced to be in development by the original film's international distributor, Universal Pictures, with Joseph Kosinski in early negotiations as both writer and director and Frank Marshall and Sara Scott as producers. In June 2021, Helen Hunt expressed interest in developing a sequel to the original film. The studio rejected Hunt's plans to write and direct a sequel.

In October 2022, Twisters was announced to be in the works with a script by Mark L. Smith and produced by Marshall, while directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Dan Trachtenberg, and Travis Knight were in talks to helm the project. There was hope that Hunt would reprise her role, and it was reported that it would focus on the daughter of her and Bill Paxton's characters. The film incorporates climate change into the plot. Smith explained: "That's one of the things that we tapped, and it's true. I talked to so many storm experts, tornado experts, storm chasers, and rode around with some. Even during the tornado season itself, because of climate change, what used to be a tornado alley is going through a certain stretch. It now extends so further east, and it's moving across, and the dates are wider, and the numbers are higher, and the storms themselves are more violent. So we did use elements of that just to shine a light on it, as well, the causes and effects of climate change".

In December, Lee Isaac Chung was hired to direct. The standalone sequel is a joint-venture production between Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, and the Kennedy/Marshall Company, with Universal and Warner Bros. switching distribution positions from the previous film, with the former distributing in North America and the latter internationally.

Twisters was shot on 35mm film. Principal photography was originally going to occur in Atlanta, Georgia, but instead commenced around Oklahoma City in May 2023, marking Chung's return to the state of Oklahoma after Minari. The move cost the crew several work days and resulted in removing some storm sequences. Filming was to take place at Prairie Surf Studios for 40 days and in metro Oklahoma City for 50 days. Other locations included Burbank, Calumet, Cashion, Chickasha, Fairview, Hinton, Kingfisher, Kremlin, El Reno, Midwest City, Okarche, Pawhuska, and Spencer. Challenges arose in El Reno due to heat waves, lightning storms, and strong winds, as well as the presence of "a jet engine on set that you could barely talk over" and the need for a bright, hotkey light to produce the "feeling of a storm-like sky", according to Chung. Storm chaser Sean Casey captured storm footage for the film. The theater sequence was shot on a soundstage, using vintage seats from a closed Colorado movie theater and a location in El Reno as a reference point. It was Chung's decision for the characters to be viewing Frankenstein (1931), a reference to Universal's "monsters" franchise.

Filming was suspended in July due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Production resumed with the conclusion of the strike in November 2023 and wrapped the following month. In July 2024, Variety and Deadline Hollywood listed the budget as $155 million before print and advertising costs.

According to Smith, the story incorporates the effects of climate change. However, the film does not mention the issue by name. Chung clarified he "wanted to make sure that we are never creating a feeling that we're preaching a message because that's certainly not what I think cinema should be about. I think it should be a reflection of the world." Chung said the most challenging part about making Twisters was balancing the tone because he wanted to entertain audiences while simultaneously taking the natural disasters seriously due to their real-world impacts.

I know that I wrote the same thing in the Filming/ Photography part but I just wanted to include it

First, the plot is almost the same as the original, second, the cinematography... yeah, that's it- third, the CGI looks impressive, fourth, the soundtrack is just fine but the sound effects are the most satisfying one, and fifth, their acting is amazing.

I might give this:

9.5/10 "A worthy sequel is what we need"

Oh hey, before You get to the Critic's Consensus, I have something new for this review and the next.

I called it "The Grade Score", CinemaScore but in my score opinion.
Alright, let's get to the point, my Grade score for Twisters will be

A+ "This is the first review to ever get a grade score"

For this standalone sequel, I might recommend you watch this on IMAX if you want to see a big screen, or if you want to feel it, go to 4DX or Dolby for surround sounds.

Twisters had grossed over $311.9 million worldwide, surpassing the US & Canada's projected box office gross of $45 - 55 Million with over $80.5 Million in every cinema in two countries.

The film received positive reviews from critics, on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes

77% of 173 critics' reviews are positive
with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's consensus reads:

"Summoning a storm of spectacle and carried along by the gale force winds of Glen Powell's charisma, Twisters' forecast is splendid with a high chance of thrills."

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of

66 out of 100, based on 46 critics
Indicating "generally favorable" reviews

with IGN, they've also given a score of

Strong 8/10

"Twisters is less visually appealing than its predecessor, but more emotionally engaging, resulting in a worthwhile summer blockbuster"

Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Jordan Hoffman gave the film

an A- grade saying;

"There's a ton of technobabble that you have to take on faith, but Jones and Powell do more than sell it; they make it compelling"

That's all the critic's review I could find, sorry :(

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, thank you so much for reading this review, this took me a while to write, and copy-paste how the movie got made, and the critic's reviews, but what made it take a while it's that there'll be two reviews this weekend. Twisters got a regular review, and then a horror movie distributed by NEON, the same distributor that made ROBOT DREAMS, that movie is going to be a short review.

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