A few people had mentioned that 'Twisters' didn't invoke climate change, so I thought cool -- a few special effects and a fun few hours.
Then it starts -- two white chicks and three pajeets! And... there are, actually, some astonishingly good-looking pajeets, but they chose the weak-chinned losers, of course.
I lasted about five minutes.
I wish we could put pajeets, chicks and (the rule-16 people) on an island, and see what they'd create.
We all know that they'd do nothing but argue.
But hey, Madame Curie was, like, super good at putting samples into a machine that she didn't build.
Sorry, just ranting.
It was an ok movie. I'm not gonna do the whole Season 3 of Picard thing and call it the best thing in 20 years because it was marginally better than fat black troons performing the Vagina Monologues in the form of slam poetry. It was ok. 20 years ago it would have been slightly below average. It's major strength is that it actually did shit that was commonplace 20 years ago. Attractive straight White male and female leads, the male lead isn't made to be a bumbling idiot, no one is a faggot and the two leads are allowed to have a normal straight romance arc that doesn't overshadow the main plot and turn it into a chick flick. Not only no climate change bs, but there's no mention of race, no politics, no faggotry. There even a scene where they're basically at some small town rodeo in Oklahoma shitting on city dwellers for a few minutes. And the White male lead is made out at first to be a dumb YouTuber, but it's revealed later that he's just as much of a genius as the chick and she needs his help to complete her idea.
The two negative points I would give it are, first the one you mentioned. The hot white chick is shown in a race mixing relationship in the first 5 minutes. Gross, but at least he dies pretty quick. And second there are some very vague "big business evil" themes sporadically thrown in. Just like in the first Twister, there's two teams of storm chasers, one is the plucky group of misfits and good natured weirdos, and the other is the slick business types with matching everything. The business team is made out to be the 'bad guys' but not even really that bad. The movie shows that they're actually being paid to try to find ways to predict and prevent tornado damage, but it's insurance companies footing the bill, and the insurance companies are the ones paying out claims when people houses are destroyed. The movie might have been trying to make that seem evil, but it doesn't even do a good job because it shows people who lost everything still getting something to put their lives back together, and the business storm team is actually trying to do something that is legitimately life saving.
It was worth a watch on the high seas, and I might have been willing to actually go see it in theaters if I still did that sort of thing. Minimal wokeness, attractive White characters being allowed to excel together without the man being made a fool or a villain, no queers or Trump mentions at all. If anything it was nice to see attractive straight White characters as the two main leads in a dumb summer action flick. There were 87 of those every summer 20 years ago, but even having just 1 now is astonishing.
You remind me of something I notice. I will watch some b movie from the 80s or 90s on Tubi or one of the other free streaming and I think it’s brilliant when I probably wouldn’t have liked it back then since blockbusters were being cranked out. My general rule of thumb is to not watch or read anything past 2014. So nowadays it’s really nice to watch something from heck even 20 years ago where there isn’t an obsession with diversity or before they decided that lgbt had to be in everything (or the black/lgbt/girl power trifecta).
Also watching a period piece from the past is great since they made a much better effort of actually looking like the period they are depicting
You know what else isn't in modern action movies these days, boobs. Watch action movies from the 70s to the 90s and you see boobs. Nowadays no boobs
Yes! But they will show topless or naked men. I don’t see anything wrong if they want to appeal to men and women with the opposite sex
Women don't really think about men that way. They might now -- but only because of mass media.
The 'topless men' thing is more of an attempt to turn men gay.
(I know that sounds crazy)
Sydney Sweeney isn't afraid of getting the girls out
My rule of thumb regarding whether to watch something has a scale with "yes" being things before and including Return Of The King in 2003 or Revenge Of The Sith in 2005 falling to "no" with either Obama's first or second term down to "absolutely not" with Gamergate or the 2016 US election.
Not a bad system. Where I live a lot of free digital channels have popped up with shows from 50s to early 00s. Then you have free western channels. They keep popping up. Should be an indicator to someone
I know someone who only watches Bonanza, F Troop etc on Tubi and Youtube - literally nothing else
Based on your comment, I went back and watched it. I skipped the first 20 minutes... and then it became a decent 80s/90s flick. Flashes of brilliance, even.
I was going to post a retraction, but I don't want to inundate the board.
The interracial relationship is a dead give-away, though.
Fr poojeet's sloppy seconds. Yum
It doesn't last 5 minutes. She ends up with the White dude who played new Iceman in the Top Gun sequel.
Doesn't matter. It was still included, wherein lies the propaganda value.