The Reel Rejects - TWISTERS MOVIE REVIEW!!!

Episode Date: August 18, 2024

CRAZIER THAN THE FIRST?! Twisters Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Twisters Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review for the sequel to Twister (1996). Kate Carter, a retired tornado-chaser and meteorologist, is persuaded to return to Oklahoma to work with a new team and new technologies. The movie features an insane amount of action scenes & visuals with performances from Glen Powell (Anyone But You & Top Gun Maverick), Daisy Edgar Jones, & Anthony Ramos (Transformers & Hamilton).  Follow Roxy Striar YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhirlGirls Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxystriar/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/roxystriar Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm stoked. We really liked the first one, but I hear that this one takes a whole, like, new genre almost, which I'm confused about. Good, because I don't remember the trailers at all. Now I've got to get a defined six-pack, so I can wear the crop. Every video, every person only talks about one thing, and it's how yoked you are. See the little line? No, I don't. To do, too, too, ma'am. Pull that intro!

There's going to be a cow in this one? David Corset, it is him. Oh, damn, goodness. I got one thing in Florida. You're right about that. But I was so iffy on it. Katie O'Brien. Shipka, that's who that girl is from the start.

Paul Shears the comedian. Here's Shifka from the start. Yeah, Paul Shere, I could have gotten that. Well, the reason I was questioning myself on David Corset was like, wouldn't that have been a big deal? I know you think more people would have mentioned that. Or maybe we just missed the conversation? I was like he looks like he should be superman Tornator Wrangler's baby

I think I'll get my own face on a t-shirt That'd be really cool I'd wear one You would Yeah All right Ben you take that back Whoa Whoa

Man they could not have done a better job With that movie I'm sure there's ways Let's talk about it You know I'm sure there's always a way You can do a better job And we should watch the Twisters

This looks like not a cheap knockoff of Twisters and we should watch Twisters the real story. Because it is based off of us. And then we should watch Ice Twister. Good, good. Very good. Let's do our watch on our social video. It is on top of their shit with recommendations right now. I have the storm.

Storm Chasers, the extreme weather files. They have their SEO down on what to recommend. Global Meltdown. Storm chaper chasers. Revenge of the Twister. What the hell? There's so many. Why is this what you want to talk about right now? There's so many tornado movies. We just watched an amazing movie.

I figured out that it was David Cornswet. I need all of the credit in the world. I didn't, congratulations. You recognize David Cornswight. I just doubted it because I was like, Roxy knows nothing. Roxy knows nothing. Why would you get this right all of a sudden?

Yeah, I get that. Guys, if you're listening to us on Apple and Spotify, I want you to know that you should be on Prime Video right now to watch a whole bunch of other movies that are about twisters, tornadoes, and a bunch of other shenanigans with chasing storms, because Prime Video apparently has it. a shit ton on lockdown we just watch twisters twist harder uh starring glen powell dais yeager jones and anthony ramos um roxy what did you think i know you were really into it did not expect this

to be another physical since sensual turn-on movie for you but it turned into that i guess that's what happens you're into the eye of the storm with this girl all three leads are so sexy so that makes sense and four if you count her previous boyfriend who was just like a smoke We've got to look up that actor because I don't know who that is. Sure. So obviously that helps. But I think that this was cool because this movie did, I loved the initial twister that we watched. I thought it was so good.

But this one did give us more to chew on. The influencer angle, the YouTuber angle, I thought was really interesting. I identified. I've like made myself into a twister. I'm like in a little pretzel shape right now. I, yeah, I just thought that they did such a cool job with getting us to, understand that this is extremely dangerous and

when you turn it into a spectacle people get hurt and also if we don't take precautions or do you think you know better just there were so many character choices I really love we'll break it down but in general for a sequel that came out so much later that was like what more could they do

they really nailed this that they did they did you didn't like it? I did no I liked it a lot I thought that was a really solid blockbuster like this felt like a Hollywood luckbuster you know did the first one not feel that way for you no it did that's one of the things i loved about it is that it's a little cheesy but really cool with danger and wonder and good looking people to watch you know i like that i don't like that and i thought this movie had i thought

i had all the earmarks of the original twister that i imagine people love and perhaps elements that i think they improved upon um i'm not exactly sure what those might be just yet But I thought this was a really solid film. Like this does seem like it's learning Joseph Kaczynski was behind it actually makes a lot more sense to me. Because to me, I thought that was a very similar thing where Top Gun Maverick is very similar to the original Top Gun, but makes a lot of modern day improvements on it. Did he write Maverick? I'm sure he came up with the story in some capacity. I've got a lot of IMD being to do right now.

You go ahead and do that. And this is how I feel about that. like the disaster moments every tornado moment i thought was like electrifying it was it was like a goose bump thrill ride every single time and i think the way they posed the the actual tornadoes as an enemy that you had to defeat but at the same time it's not sort of a monster that you have a wonder about so it was cool i think that's why they actually chose frankenstein at the end of the they were in the movie theater because Frankenstein is sort of known to have that effect where there's monstrous but there's also something that's wondrous when you go underneath the surface of it of him the monster of Frankenstein and like that's that's a great thing about those old universal monsters as particularly that character because it's just like this monster that causes destruction but doesn't really mean to and it's actually some type of beautiful elephant element of nature and I like how this movie really zeroes in on that especially through especially through

the perspective of daiser daisy edgar jones because you do these like moments where you see the way she sees like cloud formations and the grass and stuff we yeah all the way that's happening and it looks like almost nature documentary-esque whilst doing flips I know you really want to share with me something that you found on IMDB what you find no i was listening to you please go ahead i want to hear what you have to say well i have to look there's a few different things going on right now

joseph kaczynski was the black girl did you find that out no i'll look for that in a second joseph kaczynski did not do the story for maverick um he did the original graphic novel for oblivion and he did the story for this and other than that that's all that he has done

story wise which is interesting that he was roped in this But the screenplay was by Mark Smith, who did the screenplay for The Revenant, which is, that's interesting. Another movie dealing with surviving against elements. Yeah. Okay. So the girl that we both knew was Sasha Lane. Sasha Lane was in American Honey, but she was, oh, how to blow a pipeline, which people loved.

But I, she was in Loki. She was in. That's the one. She was in Hellboy. Yes. She was in Harts Beat Loud. I loved Harts Beat Loud. It was Loki and Hellboys.

Who was she? Oh, she was Rosenheim. She was the Miseducation of Cameron Post. That was an exact. Okay, the entire time I was thinking of her in a movie, I felt like I could see clearly, and it was the miseducation of camera post. If you haven't seen that movie,

I highly recommend it. It's excellent. Wow. Okay. So she's done a bunch of indie stuff, and then Hellboy Loki. So she's, yeah, she's really. good she's really good um okay the girl that hirnan shipka who i was like that's mcana grace

because apparently i have facial blindness and can't tell the difference between anybody uh she is in a ton of stuff but she plays sabrina in what chilling adventures of sabrina she's she's Sabrina she's Sabrina um which i don't watch that show but she guest appeared on riverdale as Sabrina, so that's what I knew her friend. Oh, okay. But I'm bummed with myself because I genuinely feel like I should have pulled that. And she looks a ton like McKenna Grace. David Cornsweit is my claim to fame now that I got that.

That's really good. The guy that I loved, oh, his character's name was Dexter. We didn't even get to hear that. He was in a Spider-Man movie? What, Greg? Spider-Man Homecoming. Mr. Cobwell. Cool.

Okay. Lots and lots to choose for. Katie O'Brien. The person that I said was in Lovelry, Lies Bleeding. Good poll by me. I'm so smart this we know now really good. And then the guy that I thought was super hot, the ex-boyfriend that we didn't know. His name is Daryl McCormick.

I don't recognize him from anything. Now you know. Now we all know these things. We don't know him from anything. So you had never seen a Lee Isaac Chung movie. before. Have you? Yes, I love Minari. You're not listening to. He directed an episode of Mandalorian as well.

He directed season three Chapter 19, The Convert. That might have been the Katie O'Brien episode. Oh, that would be interesting. But Minari is another great movie. I actually think you would love that movie. There's a lot of chickens. Is that the Johnny Debt movie? No, no. Minari is a, was a, It was partially in foreign language.

It was the Stephen Youn film. He was nominated for Oscars. What am I thinking of it? I'll show you the cover of it. I'm not the Johnny That movie. No, I actually don't know what you're thinking of. I don't know what that Johnny Young movie. He's like a chicken sexster.

Yeah, that sounds like a great movie. It's an excellent movie. But from that to this, he went from a, indie to like this is a master blockbuster like you said do you want some trivia or what i mean sure you i don't know you keep looking at me like i'm supposed to give you more no i mean i want to know what you think a little bit more about the movie first what do you want to know what you think about how do you feel compares to the first one i think i actually preferred this one i love that the first one came first because i thought that this wasn't going to be able to beat that and they're kind

of a little bit different but this one did give me more to choose on like the first one i feel like was for the thrills and this one i felt really connected to the people um really connected and i wish we had gotten that kiss you know i'm lover of love ship or ships i feel like maybe this one's buying for a sequel yeah actually continue the franchise yeah which the first one wasn't um so they're kind of keeping a little bit open there i loved our lead i thought that the character Kate was so intriguing and just great to follow and then I thought it looked and sounded unbelievable like you don't think about you think about the visuals for disaster movies but you don't think about the work it takes to make that it sound right yeah and that was

crazy overwhelmingly good yeah I thought it was brilliantly edited the way when you when you're cutting around to multiple things and you got this much chaos going on it's really easy to walk away going I can't tell what's happening or I don't know what's going on or lose track of the geography of things. Yes. When you're getting lost in things that are being obscured by all kinds of elemental disasters occurring. And I think the editing of it was so well crafted. Like you really got to properly stage those things. This is wild. You're speaking about loving the editing of this. So I'm like, who is the editor? Her name is Tara Lynn A. Shropshire. And it looks like she edited

I'm going to ask you again. Did you ever see love and basketball? No. It's one of my favorite movies as a kid. Love and basketball. You never saw this movie? It was like a really sexy basketball film. It was awesome. For those of you guys who know, that's a crazy shout out that she did that which was in 2000. She edited when they see us. Did you

watch that? Okay. It was a mini series about the Central Park 5. That was an unbelievable and she was the editor of that she has done some like crazy all over the map editing um that you who would have known that she edited the old guard oh funny a lot she's a lot under her belt she crushed this like the cuts in this were crisp a f and like the way that she it could have looked very jarring and dizzying it really looked beautiful yeah that's a lot in part

to the cinematographer as well though and i think we're working with the cinematographer i appreciate whenever they knew how to they like the handling of povs on the camera work and the like the directing of itself sort of felt like a character of the movie when you when you would handle certain shots of the povs that would be locked off and and like in disaster sequences you would have multiple different angles going on at once and you're kind of between multiple different character povs and each one kind of gave you elicited a different emotion out of it and you even had that one great wonder that was inside of the pool and that was cool and i do think this this really drove home this as i don't

really recall the first one giving us much of how this is affecting the towns like there was a one disaster in a town where they had to save people but it still felt like it was primarily just about the group this really felt like this was about rescuing a city yeah it's about saving people in the first one like it was more personal about her she had lost and then it's like how do you keep family but this was like how do you help them masses. I mean, everybody's a mess. I have the best news on the planet for you. Sure. Let's hear it. Other people aren't going to

care about this at all. But to me, this is the greatest news at all time. Do you know anything about my absolute obsession with the Amazing Spider-Man 2? No. I love that movie so much. I think it's amazing. I'm like completely obsessing. The cinematographer of that movie is Dan Mindle, who is the cinematographer of this movie, which is just so incredible for me.

Shouts out to the crew that worked on this one. So good. He also was the DP of Star Wars Episode 7. The one ever... Nope, sorry. V... Give me the lines. How many lines?

Forest Rican's V1-1-7. V-1-7. Yeah, okay. Seven. Force Wiggins is 7. Yeah. And he was the director, the DP of Mention Impossible 3. Oh, cool.

I could see that actually. um oh and he also did star wars rise of skywalker pacific rim uprising which are covered on this channel cloverfield paradox zoolander too wow this is a dp that works they all seemed so good at what they did yeah no it's crisp and i think the character work was really good too overall like i appreciate that they gave some nuance to that and like as the movie starts off where it is a similar setup to in terms of like our main female protagonist having to overcome a trauma that involves a tornado and now has to face it all over again and really conquer it to save the day whilst overcoming her trauma is the real journey she's on but I think the way they played into that actually felt a little

bit more I don't know the right word's realistic but I guess more attainable in the way that the portrayal was done yeah like I guess the the understanding of psychology has updated since the 90s And I think the way they did the hear is like how much of a resistance she had towards facing it. I like how that kept coming up. It was a consistent battle that she had to keep going up against. And I like the inverse flip with Glenn Powell, where it is presented kind of like the Carrie Elwh's character of like, oh, he's the competitive douchebag. And then as the story of progress, it's like, oh, actually the team we were on was not the good team. They're the bad guys.

And he's the good. And he ends up being like a real sweetheart. And they are representative of the tornadoes. There's something beautiful underneath them. I think also it was realistic of Anthony Ramos' character, like how you can convince yourself of things. He was like, no, he's trying to, you know, he's giving them an option. He's trying to help them.

And she's like, he's taking advantage of them during their time of need because, like, we didn't end up hating Anthony Ramos' character because we found out he had been working for him. We were like, he really had made it seem like, you know what, I needed the money because I did still have a greater purpose. And sometimes you have to work with, you convince yourself, you have to work with evil in order to do good. And I thought that that was an interesting message, too.

There's so many messages in that. And I feel like when you hear about visual effects a lot in movies, you mainly hear about when people are bitching about how bad they are. And I think that the visual effects here are like Oscar-worthy. Yeah, it looks truly. Would you be surprised if this is nominated? I'd be surprised only because of the genre and how early it came out this year. But in terms of what the quality is, no, the quality of it wouldn't surprise me.

The quality is amazing here. I agree. It makes it that much more believable when everything is going down. I'm like, are there, is there a moment or two where you could tell it's fake? Sure. But like so much of this relies on CGI. And a lot of practical effects, too. Like you could tell they really destroyed and built some sets to make them look like destruction.

And I love the blending of both of those. I agree. I don't feel like we've, as a society, I don't think we've nailed lightning fully yet. Like some of the lightning. But other than that, I just thought it looked incredible. I actually think that this probably will be nominated because it also did gangbusters in the box office. and did it I think so

yeah I think this is gangbusters I thought it was like one of those weird it's a hit but a flop kind of movies I don't think so it didn't make enough because this movie was insanely expensive but it made more than a lot of other movies

I mean look I don't recall what the conversation Twisters box office blows past major global milestone is Twisters a hit or a flop okay we generated 310 million globally 22 million from domestic sales that's great that's really big that's a lot of domestic sales

but it flopped in china um yeah i don't know because it was probably really expensive actually so i don't know what they uh what they would have needed to be considered a hit but i does it look like a hit to you i guess so i don't really know anymore numbers confused the hell out of me when it comes to box office because the movie can look like a hip and then i'm like oh this cost 300 million to make, never mind. So, yeah, but. And there's no way that movie cost less than 150 to make. No.

No. So with marketing and stuff, if it only generated 300 mil so far. Yeah. I really like the community a lot of, like, the country music infusion, too. Mm-hmm. I will say that I do think the characters here are good. And there's other versions of romance and such that I thought was more believable and perhaps. more rewarding when it came around but it's really hard for me to to to beat the charm of like

bill paxton and helen hunt i hear that that's like really hard for me because they were such a big part of that first movie that that was such a big selling point i think it's recency bias a little bit for me too i'm sure if i rewatch that one i'd be like they're totally even and i do think we got to spend a little more time with that last movie with the motley crew like remember that dinner scene everybody's there i loved that scene here i just happened to fall out of Absolutely head over heels in love with that one guy who is me, who screams out whatever the answer is. And I was like, I relate to you. But we didn't actually like the girl that was in Loki that we don't actually spend that much time with her.

The one who is in love's lives bleeding. We don't spend that much time with her. Even Boone is right man, man. We don't spend that much time with them. Like we don't really, really get to know them. But our main three, we really got to know. Yeah, they're like distinguished still in the ensemble. at the same time there's something about them that doesn't really quite shine through

whereas i i remember like some of the imagery i remember like philips seymour hoffin and you know and he's just like a side character in that last one too no i think that they did shine for me they did shine not no i think they did obviously it's just your opinion man here we go again here we go again difference of opinion now i'm gonna get just climb down my throat about Clown. Climb.

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