Too Scary; Didn't Watch - TWISTERS with Joel Jensen

Episode Date: August 14, 2024

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This is a HeadGum Podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Hemley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. Oh no, silence.

Fuck me. Fuck me. I'm so sorry to report that Sammy is not here. She has COVID, you guys. It sucks. It totally sucks. She's fine, she's gonna be fine. Can you believe she got COVID after her hellish sicknesses

that lasted way too long? It's deeply unfair. It's deeply unfair. I mean, you should know you're not allowed to get sick after you've been sick one time. Like those are the rules and what keeps happening, I don't know, it's not right. We'll persevere, we'll soldier on,

hell chela prevails, but we are sad. We feel the loss. We're gonna just get through this as best as we can. I think we are gonna be able to do it. I think we're gonna be able to do it. I think we're gonna be able to do it. I think we're gonna be okay. We might have a little something, something to help get us through it,

but that sounded more risque than I meant it. Before we do get into that, we do have a little bit of haunted housekeeping. Speaking of Helcella, this is our third to last Hellchella episode, which is just- God, it hurts to hear that. Wow, it hurts to hear it.

It hurts to say it. You know, we'll have to find something else to live for after Hellchella. We will, we will find it. We have three weeks left of Hellchella, and that means we have one more live episode left of Hellchella, our final episode of Hellchella. It will be on, wait, I know this.

I can do this. Just double check that date because- I'm just gonna double check that date. You never know. Okay, it is going to be on Sunday, August 25th, 4.30 PM, Pacific time, 7 430 PM, Pacific time, 730 PM Eastern, live on our Patreon, patreon.com slash TSW podcast. We will be recapping Alien Romulus.

Wow. Is Emily gonna see it? I think I'm gonna see it, even though everyone keeps telling me that I shouldn't. Everyone keeps saying, I can't believe you wanna see that. That seems way too scary. So we'll see if I chicken out as we actually get closer, but I do want to see it,

but everybody keeps telling me I shouldn't. What if I watch it too? I mean, that would require you going to the movie theaters. Let's prove them wrong. Yeah. Let's prove them wrong. And let's get me to the movie theater. I feel like I could do it. I feel like you could do it. I feel like you could do it.

I feel like I could do it. I feel like you could do it. We'll see what happens, but one thing is for sure is that we will be live talking about it on Sunday, August 25th, 4.30 PM Pacific, 7.30 PM Eastern on our Patreon, patreon.com slash TSTW podcast. It is our last live show of Hellchella. If you haven't joined the Patreon to get those live shows, to get those

video episodes, again, if you're, you know, this episode right now is a video episode. They all are. You could just join right now and get freaking three months of Hell Chella content if you've already been there. Hey, great. Thanks. Happy to see you. Happy to see you right now. Henley, did anything scary happen to you this week? Oh man. Okay, so I was looking forward to, I, this is something that I feel like, Emily, you are very good at, Sammy's also good at this, holding back, holding back information until

the pod. Oh yeah, it's not easy. It's not easy. And I thought about texting Sammy this specifically, and I held back. I waited for the podcast because I'm reading a book that I know she's gonna want to read. Ooh, does it feel really bad? Yes. Yes.

It's called The Wager by David Grant. Have you heard of this? Okay, it came out last year. He's the guy who wrote Killers of the Flower Moon. And it's a real story. It's a nonfiction account of this British warship that got lost at sea in the mid 18th century. And like a year later or something like that, you know, a group of survivors appears on the shores and they are hailed as heroes and they tell their tale of survival, et cetera, et cetera. And then six months later, another group shows up on the shores and they have a whole different

account of what went down. They are telling a different story about what happened at sea. And it is about the wooden world, in quotes, the wooden world, that's what they call it. Life at sea, life on boats, life on vessels. Wow, Sammy needs to know about this. There's cannibalism, there's murder, there's treachery, there's betrayal, there is social norms being turned upside down. Or there's no laws at sea. There are no laws there.

It's a floating jail. It's a jail with the opportunity to be drowned. Yeah. Or if you're on a cruise, it's a floating jail with a big slide and a buffet. Also the opportunity to be drowned. Also the opportunity to be drowned. And the opportunity to be drowned. Anyway, I'm very early in, I have very early days, but it's really fun. I mean, it's pretty fucked, but it's fun.

That sounds very riveting. And I know that Sammy will like it and I want Sammy to read it and it's just up her lane with being the little vessel head that she is. So Sammy, I hope you're listening. And if you are, read The Wager by David Graham. It's very good. It's fun.

Oh, I love that. I love that. Okay, Emily, do you have an update on the skunk saga or? No, I mean, the skunk saga or no? I mean the skunk It's skunk. He's been taken care of I will never be the same but you know what? We're trying to move forward We're trying to move forward. We're trying to move forward. Um I'm haunted by the memory of that skunk every time I enter and exit my home. So there's that. Um, I Forgot to mention also I'm recording on my phone because I couldn't figure out my microphone so I'm really sorry I'm recording on my phone by the way. Oh yeah.

It's totally, I mean you know what, things happen we must persevere. And we are. Yes we are. And something I persevered through this weekend is that I recently had like I had a makeup tutorial to learn how to do my makeup for my wedding because I'm going to do it myself. I did that last week and so this week was my first opportunity to practice it, to practice doing my makeup, all the steps. I took all these notes. First of all, I had to buy so many products after I had this makeup tutorial. I purchased just obscene amounts of money on makeup. And I sat down to do it yesterday and it took me...

I sat down to get... We had to leave at 3.30, I sat down at one to start getting ready and I was like, well, you really need to start getting ready that early and I was like, I really do. And at the end I was rushed and I couldn't do the lashes, they weren't working, had to ditch them, forgot some steps, kept having to Google like, what brush do you use?

There's just so, it's so hard. Wait, okay, this is, you are speaking another language. You saw me at my wedding. I was asking other people if they had makeup I could borrow. I think I did help you with your makeup, didn't I? No, you 100%. Me, a freaking amateur. No, Emily, you 100% did all of my makeup at my wedding

and from other people's products. Okay, well you looked gorgeous. Okay, well that's reassuring, because let me tell you what, trying to figure out how to do it for real. I don't know how it can take that long. Like what takes that long? What are you doing?

Well, a lot of it took that long because I was Googling in between every step being like, what do you do next? And what brush do you use? And then like cleaning off because I don't have that many brushes like cleaning off my brush. I just like it'll hopefully the goal is it will not take me that long and I can also refine. Maybe I don't have to do all the steps. It's just doing makeup and doing the like, you use some highlight here and some contour here, and you do the cream products and then you do the powder products and then you spray

the... It's just like it's so many steps and it's so many products and I, it's very new to me. I'm really glad that you are going to be prepared though, day of. Day of you're going to fucking know what is happening. You're going to be prepared. You're going to know. You're going to all of the expectations. Or maybe you'll have to step in and you'll have to do my makeup. Maybe it's going to be a big role reversal.

That will not happen because that would not work out as well as it did with you. It worked out really well with you. If that had to happen with me, it would not work out so well. It's a lot, you know? And I think it's like, as I'm even saying this, it's just like wedding mania brain that's making me be like, well, I think for the first time in my life, I need to have a 25-step makeup process. But it's not that many steps, but it's just a lot.

No matter what, your makeup looks so beautiful, so I really don't think you need to worry about it. And you're very, very good. You have like, you have like the artist's hand. Like you have, you do. Thank you, Henley. No, you just do. I mean, that's just something that you have. And so you don't need to worry about it. You have a, you have a you do. Thank you Henley. No, you just do. I mean, that's just something that you have and so you don't need to worry about it.

You have a real steady hand. I'm going to say that to myself. That's going to be my refrain. I have the artist's hand. I have the artist's hand. You do. And that's going to help me. I absolutely believe that full throttle.

If you wanted to be a surgeon, you could, but- With the artist's hand. Yes. That's what everybody wants out of their surgeon, an artist. Kind of, think about House, he's an artist. God. So I don't know, I'm impressed that you even, you know, went through that whole tutorial.

I'm trying, I'm trying. They might've raised more questions than it answered, but I've got a few weeks still to try to lock it in. I think you should make a TikTok video of yourself doing your wedding makeup. The three hour TikTok? And it would get a lot of views. That's the format for that, right? Well, you speed it up.

Oh, and we're going to see. We're just going to have to see what happens. I'll practice it again, I think, at my bachelorette. So hopefully it won't also take me three hours at my bachelorette party. It would be like sitting in my room alone doing makeup. We're just gonna see what happens. Talking about things that are sped up. Really good segue.

Let's talk about this movie. Let's talk about this movie. Let's talk about whirlwinds. You get it. This week's movie is Twisters. Twisters, the sequel in concept only to Twister. It came out on July 20th, 2024. It was directed by Lee Isaac Chung,

screenplay by Mark L. Smith, story by Joseph Kaczynski, starring Daisy Edgar Jones, Glenn Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Mara Tierney, and Sasha Lane. It's in theaters, probably still. Again, I'm sorry, recording this in the past comes out of the future. Probably it's still in theaters. And we have a guest with us to talk about this movie.

We don't have Sammy, that's very sad, but who we do have is also wonderful. And it is our beloved correspondent, the man I'm marrying, Joel Jensen. Joel Jensen! Hey everybody, how's it going? It's wonderful to be here. Oh, thank you Joel.

Joel, how are you doing? Are you worried about Emily's makeup? Are you gonna step in if things don't go well day up? Great question. To answer both those questions, yes, I'm very worried about Emily's makeup. And to, yes, I will step in if that. The truth comes out.

Also has an artist's hand, Joel. Does have an artist's hand. No, I don't know about that, but no, I am not worried at all. I've already seen what Emily has done for herself. I mean, I see what she does for herself on a freaking Thursday. Do you know what I mean?

Wow. Chef's kiss on a Thursday. She's chef's kiss on a Thursday. And she's chef's kiss chef's kiss every day. And no, I'm not worried about her makeup at all. But I get where she's coming from with the concern. I understand it. And so I'm just here to be supportive.

He honors and respects the concern. Yeah, I get it. Joel, did anything scary happen to you this weekend? This week? Well, you know, I, or this weekend, I have a, I have a couple ideas. There's one thing that I'm like, should I just talk about it? It didn't happen to me this week. It happened to me many, many years ago, but it was when I survived a tornado. Oh, oh shit. Yeah, you should tell your tornado story.

Tell me everything. You never heard the story. Instead of how I'm scared about how sweaty my butt is in the summer. Oh, what's that called? You kind of just did a little bit of both. You kind of just did a little bit of both. Which one should I do? Swamp butt? Is that what it's called? Swamp butt. Is it called swamp butt? I also feel like I get swamp butt. And it's hot right now, so.

Yeah. I think talk about the tornado, Joel. Okay. Okay. Well, when I was in college, so I grew up in Iowa where tornadoes were a big thing. They happened and they were horrible and scary. And when I was in Iowa where tornadoes were a big thing. They happened and they were horrible and scary. And when I was in college, one night I was,

I worked at a bar called Donnelly's, if you're familiar with Iowa City, shout out Donnelly's. If you ever had the Guinness hot sauce, I invented that. Whoa, is that a drink? What's the Guinness hot sauce? Because I worked in the kitchen at a certain point there. At one point a new owner came in and moved all of the men who worked in the front of house

to the back of house, and then just only hired, like, cute girls to work at the front of house. Anyway... It was probably good for business, unfortunately. It was. I'm not supporting it. I'm not supporting it.

I'm just saying, unfortunately, it was probably good for business. I don't remember what day this was, but it was like in the spring, and I was actually working front of house this night, and I was a server. Because you're cute. Yeah, I was cute, I was looking good. You're wearing pigtails.

And a storm came in, and when you live in the Midwest, or any tornado zone, you understand, like if you're living, if you're like in a city ish area, tornadoes don't come there. They just like can't pick up a head of steam or whatever. And so you're, if there's a tornado warning, you take precautions, but you don't get overly concerned. But the tornado siren went off, uh, and it was like very close. And so we took all of the patrons of the bar down into the basement to like,

you know, wait until it was over. But like, it was pretty chill and it was actually pretty fun. We were like pouring drinks for people in our basement. And at a certain point I went upstairs cause it was like, I don't know, like nine 30 or something at night. So, and I figured people would probably just go home after this. So I started cleaning up the tables and the bar was on this like pedestrian mall and had a big window, like a big plate glass window.

And I was cleaning this table right in front of it. So when you're like tornado lore is that they always tell you, like, it sounds like there's a train, like a freight train coming. And that's what a tornado sounds like. And I was always like, how is that even possible? Like, what does that even mean? And I was wiping down this table, and then I saw this big window start to like wobble

and go like, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. And then I fucking heard the sound of a freight train. Like, literally imagine that sound, that is exactly what it sounds like. Oh my God. And then I saw like debris shooting past the window, like 200 miles per hour, like, phew, phew, phew, phew,

like garbage and branches and like whatever. So I like high tailed it downstairs. This tornado came exactly over the downtown area. Like it like roof hopped from one bar or apartment building to the next all through the the Ped Mall of Iowa City. My friend was in an apartment across the like across the mall from me and the tornado landed on a like a douchebag bar next to it, pulled the roof off of it and dropped the roof on my friend's apartment and the whole thing caved in.

And so like my friends had been like sitting at the apartment like smoking a bunch of weed and getting wasted. Cause I think it was like Friday night maybe. And they like disregarded the warning and were like, who cares? We're in downtown. They heard this like giant crash,

ran into the bathroom of the apartment and then the whole roof caved in. Holy shit. Like and filled the apartment with debris. Like they would have been killed if they hadn't run to the bathroom. Like 15 seconds before this happened. Anyway, we hide in the basement for a while.

It's obvious what had just happened. We're like, holy shit, a fucking tornado just came through. And we hide down there until the National Guard comes and kicks us out. And they're like, there's a gas leak downtown. We're evacuating everybody. Everybody has to get out. And I was like, hey man, like I have a bunch of cash.

I was working, like I need to like get this turned in. And they were like, no, there's no time. You have to leave. So we left. I had my like server apron on with $500 in cash or whatever. And we go outside and it's like, buildings have been leveled, cars are flipped, traffic lights are knocked over.

It was very, there's like national guard hummers everywhere and soldiers and shit and police and ambulances, fire trucks, it was really like apocalyptic crazy. A bunch of places got knocked over, but it was a Friday night or a Saturday night in a college like mega party town. So all the people who were having house parties like pulled their ke. So all the people who were having house parties, like

pulled their kegs out into the street. And it just turned into this really crazy rager where everybody was just walking around like navigating through debris and between National Guard roadblocks, like drinking from keg cups, going from one keg to the next. My friend Troy and I went to a bar that was still open, but their power was out. We like walked past like a destroyed church, went into a 7-Eleven, got a 30 pack of beer and just carried it around. And we went to a bar. And as you walked in, they just handed everybody who walked in a flashlight because they didn't have any power. Wow. And so we all just drank like lighting ourselves with flashlights and got hammered. And they were like, at the end of the night,

their power was still out. So they had no way of keeping tabs. Also, we were all college kids and we didn't care. So they were just like, I don't know, give us 20 bucks or something. And it was just like the craziest. Nobody got hurt. Very fortunately, a lot of property was completely leveled. An entire sorority house got fucking knocked over, a church got destroyed, the liquor store got destroyed. It was really crazy. And it was like really kind of scary. My friends who were in the apartment,

like it like really rattled them and they were fucked up for a little while. They were so scared. Yeah. It's scary. It was really intense. The power of those things is really crazy. And one of the, I think is like a fun context

for a movie about tornadoes is one of the stories I always remembered is there was a guy who was in a house, the roof got sucked off of the house, and he was hiding under, he like flipped a couch and was hiding under his couch. And his cell phone got sucked out of his pocket. What? And like, that's all that happened to him,

is just like somehow in all of that chaos, like the tornado like went boop! And like took his phone out of his pocket. And that was all that happened. So crazy. That's why tornadoes are really scary, is they're almost, they're so random and hard to understand. We'll get into that in this movie a little bit.

They almost have this like magical quality or like this like sentience where they're very unpredictable but they're so scary that you put... They're specific. ...character onto them and like persona onto them. And so... Well, that like you see that like a literal just like, you see like a straight line where a tornado

went and it's like you're only fucked if you're like in that. Like it's like the odds of just being like in that exact path. It's so it's just so crazy. Yeah. There's a lot of stories of like your neighbor's house gets completely destroyed and your house is untouched. And like when I moved out to L. LA, it was right after this really bad,

I think it was an F5 tornado in Kansas that hit this town called Greensboro. And our route to LA from Iowa city took us through that town. And it was one of the most bone chilling things I've ever seen because everything was gone. All of the like grid of the streets of this town was all still there. You could see the outlines of where houses were but everything was gone. Just like gone and they're crazy and anyway I it was the first time I'd ever been that close to one and I couldn't believe how cinematic it was

and how much it confirmed every, like, little urban legend about them, of how random they are, how kind of mercurial they are, what they sound like. It was really crazy. Okay, so... I... For anyone who's watching the video episode, you can see my background is from the original Twister, which is they had something I'd never seen before, which as a how old when it is come out 1999.

Twister came out in 96. 96. Oh shit. Okay. So as a six year old, this movie just seen the trailer on TV, like scared the shit out of me. It made me so scared. I was like, I remember thinking as a six year old, I thought I was nine, I guess I was six. Like, thank God I don't live somewhere where tornadoes happen. Because I'm convinced one will happen here and everyone's telling me they've never happened

in Maryland. And I'm still convinced they will happen. But okay, so in the original Twister, we see cows getting pulled into the tornado. Is this a real thing that happens? Do full cows get pulled into tornadoes? Is that a thing? I mean, I think they show a lot.

Do people get fully, like, people get like fully into a tornado and like, woo woo woo woo woo, and then like killed, obviously. Right? I mean, I don't know if they like fly around in the center or if they just get like, pulled, but like, people fully do get sucked, sucked up. And this, what we just watched.

That's fucking nuts. It's so crazy. We watched Twister a few days ago before seeing this movie. I actually never seen it because I was way too scared of it as a kid. It's not that scary and it totally rules, but. It's so good. It's so good. But then in seeing this movie, which we're obviously going to talk about it in detail, this movie and I think it's partially the combination that it's like 2024 and they can do much more with how they like depict the storms and stuff

to make it more realistic. They made these tornadoes much, much scarier in twisters than in twister. Like they show people getting sucked up into the storm in a way that is the fact that that does actually happen is like maybe the scariest thing ever. That's crazy. That would be so, so awful. Because you don't die right away. How long does it take you to die? Well, I think it doesn't take. Ooh, it probably really depends.

I think it probably doesn't take long. Cause I think. Cause you're like other debris is like hitting you. Yeah, I think that's the main, the main danger is debris and like getting hit. Cause the winds are hundreds of miles per hour. And you get thwacked with something that comes off of, you know, like a brick or a branch.

Or just like catapulted somewhere and fall. Or thrown somewhere. Yeah. It's like, I think you pro- it's probably a pretty short experience, but I don't know. I don't really want to know. It's like not a thing that I want to look up. Humans should have, you know, like a just kill me now option. I should be able to open my... I should be able to open my forearm and just be like, I'm in a tornado. It's over. Done. I'm done.

I don't want to deal with this. Tap out. We should absolutely be able to tap out. But maybe you end up in Oz, you know. You're right. You're right. Who can say what happens after a tornado? Who can say?

Who can say? That's tornadoes three is what Who can say what happens after a tornado? Who can say? That's tornadoes three is what's on the other side of a tornado. Tornadoes. Tornadoes three. Twister, twisters, and then tornadoes three. I saw a really funny tweet. I was telling Emily this. I saw a really funny tweet the other day that was they should make twisters three. And the main plot point is that a good tornado

joins the team. Oh, I love that, I love that. With like big googly eyes and glasses. Yeah, like I'm just here to help. I know these guys. Let me talk to the other tornadoes. I know how they work. I know these guys.

He used to be one of them. You might be hard to believe. He's an academic, he's a meteorologist. I mean, I would like it. How to train your twister. You don't face your fears, you ride them. Okay, we need to get into this movie. I'm gonna give us a little bit of trivia.

This movie has a 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 65 on Metacritic and a 7.1 on IMDB. So it's doing pretty well. I'll just come out and say, I fucking loved it. I had a great time. Really, really loved it. Which especially after having Justine Twister and loving that, I was a little worried

it would make me not love this one as much. I still loved it. I thought it was really, really great. Really, really fun. The budget was 200 million, which was not the original budget, but they got fucked up or fucked over once because of COVID and then the strikes.

So they had to like stop and restart multiple times, which really shot their budget up a lot. The box office so far is 123.2 million. Yeah, they're making that back easy. That's great. Yeah, I should say we are recording this two days after the movie came out. Yeah, that's crazy, whoa.

It's a smash, it's a smash. I guess it actually came out on the 19th, I think earlier I said the 20th, whatever. Yeah, it just came out, it's like, it's breaking records for at least recent. People love Glenn Powell. He's the man. And two of those people are sitting right here with you,

and we, oh, we really love him. Okay, them. Okay, look at this fun trivia for this this movie James Paxton the son of Bill Paxton appears in one scene Which Bill Paxton played one of the leads in the original? Twister King Bill. That was fun. Yeah, he's great in it Daryl, who plays the in this movie, he is a trailer salesman and he is a local Oklahoman actor

who also appeared in the 1996 film. He's a mechanic. And I thought that was fun. In honoring the original Twister film, it was shot entirely on Kodak 35 millimeter film on location in Oklahoma. It looks really good.

It was beautiful. It looks beautiful. It really does. The storms look so beautiful too. Like it just, yeah, it was really, really gorgeous. It looks like a movie. You know what I mean? It's a fucking movie, you know? Love the movies.

It's a lost aesthetic. It's a movie. It's really a movie. It's a go to the theaters like most- It looks like film, you know? It's a fucking movie movie, yeah. It's a movie. I mean, it is film.

Yeah, yeah. Glenn Powell's parents appear in this movie. They sit behind him and Daisy Edgar Jones during the rodeo scene, and according to Glenn Powell, his parents have appeared in all his movies since Spy Kids 3D. Amazing.

What? Who were they in Maverick? I need to know. Glenn Powell's playing the long game of being Hollywood's darling. What if Glenn Powell's parents play the enemy fighter jets at the end of Maverick? Oh my God. In the next-gen. I hope that's who they are.

Yeah. With the big masks and glasses on. Could have been. You can't disprove it. Speaking of Maverick, which I love to do, Joseph Kaczynski was originally attached to direct this film when it was set for, he's the director of Maverick, when it was set for a 2022 release date,

but left after the project became delayed. Other people who were in talks to direct include Dan Trachtenberg. His name was thrown around, which we love Dan Trachtenberg. Also Joseph Kaczynski which, you know, we love Dan Trachtenberg. Also Joseph Kaczynski, fellow Iowan. That's true. So he knows what I'm talking about.

He knows what you're talking about. The New York City scenes were actually shot in downtown Oklahoma City, which was dressed up to look like Manhattan. So that's fun. And yeah, after the delays caused by COVID-19, filming was halted in July, 2023 due to the writer's strike and then couldn't resume filming until December.

Because of that, major sequences were still being filmed in February, 2024, just months before opening in July. Wow, holy shit. Crazy. Post-production teams were working around the clock as late as up to two weeks before opening in theaters to make up for lost time. Cause yeah, this movie would have so much posts, like, whoo, wild.

And a little bit of car trivia because you know we love our car trivia. Glenn Powell kept the grill of his Dodge Ram that his character drives in the movie, which if you're watching video episode, you can see it behind me, his Dodge Ram. He kept the grill and had it made into a dining table. Wow, okay.

So. Sure. I think one of the best things about these movies is that they're not just... They're not even necessarily movies about tornadoes. They're movies about big, awesome trucks. They are definitely truck movies. Right, because they're chasing the storms in these trucks. The trucks in these movies are like, make me want to like, spontaneously grow a beard

and like, yeah, get a truck. Mm-hmm. Yeah, these trucks are indestructible. Really remarkable trucks. They're crazy, they're so cool. They're pretty cool, they're pretty cool. Well, that's all the trivia I have. And so should we take a look at these trucks?

Since this isn't back to truck, maybe should we watch this trailer? Are we watching the trailer? Okay. We're watching the trailer. It's not a spoilery trailer. We're watching the first trailer, which I think is fucking awesome.

Also, I for sure have seen this trailer before because I feel like it's been out for like a long time. Right. Yeah, let's watch that freaking trailer. Guys, whatever's in there, it's big and it's moving fast. Drive. Go, go, go! Look out!

Oh, shit. Guys, you gotta get out of here! Do you hear me? It's Tyler Owens. Calls himself a man. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own.

He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own.

He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. He's a man of his own. It's Tyler Owens. Calls himself a tornado wrangler. If you feel it, chase it! I said if you feel it, chase it! Alright, here we go. Oh, she's perfect! She's gorgeous. You thought you could destroy a tornado. We never had a chance. You want one? You don't face your fears.

You ride them. We got twins! Twins! Was that it? Nope. Was that it? Nope. I love it. It's so good. It's great. I love it so much. It's so good.

Yeah, I really loved it. I can't wait to see it again. This is like a true summer blockbuster. They made tornadoes seem like the scariest thing ever. We're so back, baby. That's how it feels. Yeah, we're back. We're very back. I do feel like I am very scared of this. This is not a demon. It's not a ghost. It's a real life thing that happened. So I am genuinely very scared of tornadoes. Actually very scared.

This was not like a scary movie. Obviously people told us, you're putting it in a cello. Sorry, we had to put it in a cello because I'm really excited about it. You deal with it. It rules and it's fun. Calm down. Also, it is a real life and it's like a real life horrific thing that happens. Like it is a real life horrific thing. First-hand experience. They're scary.

They are scary. And they destroy your life. Like tell someone whose house was destroyed by a tornado, tell them this is not a horror movie. Tell them that TSCW shouldn't cover it. Tell them. Bring it to the court. Talk to someone.

OK, I will say to you, the tension in this movie, like, there were moments that were scary. But also, there was one point in the movie where I realized I had been really gripping Joel's leg next to me. So in order to not do that, I like lifted my hand up and realized I was like, I had my hand just like fully in front of his face. So I was like, put your hand.

But like there were certain moments that were like very intense. Also, it's making me realize like, where's Daisy Edgar Jones? Like, why are we not seeing her in more things? She's so good. I'm thrilled to see her in it. But also, like, I really like her. Where have you been, girl? I want to see you.

Based off of how well this has done, she'll be around. Yeah. She's great in it. She's also killing it on the red carpet for all the Twisters premier. She's looking great. Her stylist is knocking it out of the park.

This movie was a sensation. We're big Powell heads and he did not disappoint. This to me is Glenn Powell just like fully in his lane. Look at that. Your background, Glenn Powell, that might as well be Topka Maverick. That's his like vibe. He's like, yes, like he is.

I thought you were gonna say that might as well be Tom Cruise and we don't disagree with that. Yes, he's really channeling young Tom Cruise. He is a really Cruzean quality. And it is exciting. It is extremely exciting. I think this is his finest hour. It is absolutely his finest hour.

This is my favorite, favorite Glenn Powell. So far. He is so well executed. We were talking about on the way back from the movie, it is like the perfect deployment of actor to role. It's just like, it is so, so good. You guys saw, wait, the Hitman? Or what's the Netflix one he was in?

We did see Hitman, which was really fun. And that also, I think though, shows his range a little bit as an actor, where he can be a lot of different, he's a good actor. He's also just a good actor. Fun guy to watch, man. He's just fun to watch.

And he can fill an archetype that works beautifully. In that trailer, you can even see this movie is about a guy who's kind of a cocky, slick guy, and he gets humbled by fear. And Glenn Powell can play that like almost nobody else. He's so good at it, because he's kind of elusive in that, he's so good at it. Because he has, he's like, kind of elusive in that, he's like Iceberg style, where at the top of the Iceberg

is his like jockey, bro-y bravado and persona. But he has so much theater nerd underneath it. And so much, such deep acting chops. Or hit guy, whatever it was called. And it's like, I feel like that's what we've been missing from Blockbuster. Get me a man who can do both. Is a guy like Glenn Powell,

which is why I'm so excited about him. Because a lot of the Marvel actors can't do what he did in this movie. No. They don't have this moment in my screen at the end of the trailer when he's like screaming into the ring. They only have this one on my screen.

And they for sure don't have this one. Get me a man who can do all three. Confident, scared, cow. I want them all. Where are the flying cows? No, I completely agree. Cookie cutter good looks is not enough. Casting directors, are you listening to us?

Any casting directors out there listening? Any casting, hello? Casting directors on the call, hello? Hello, you listening? It's so boring, no one wants to watch that. Well, I mean, some of them are, because he's being cast in fucking everything right now. Yeah, but he's the one, he's the one.

He's the one, and I'm really excited too, I was telling this to Joel as well earlier, like he's 36 or 37, I was telling this to Joel as well earlier, like he's 36 or 37, I can't remember, 36 or 37. And I'm like, obviously that's very young, he has so much career ahead of him, but he's not like a chalamet, who you know I love chalamet, but he's not like a baby, you know? He is an adult entering his prime of his career. And that really excites me for, like I don't think we're going to get hopefully too much tabloid shit about his personal life.

Or even, like he even managed to sort of make it through that Sydney Sweeney tabloid-y stuff, which may or may not have been contrived. I think he's just going to be like a movie star. He's just going to be like on our screens doing his job. And I love it. I agree. Very it. I agree. Very excited. I agree.

He can do these kinds of blockbusters, he can do legal thrillers, he can do anything. Wait, have we seen him in a legal thriller? No, but he will. Or we just want to. He could. God, I wanna see him in a legal thriller, yeah. He's gonna be in Presumed Innocent's, Innocent 2.

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over our opening credits, which is great. That's what I like. And continues the legacy of Twister, which gives tornadoes little monster voices, which is one of the's what I like. And continues the legacy of Twister, which gives Tornado's little monster voices, which is one of the best parts of Twister. Anyway, Daisy Edgar Jones wakes up, her character's name Kate, and she's like in a van, and she wakes up really early,

and she like looks to the sky and feels the air and the wind and kind of like Neo in the Matrix reads nature and is like, okay, something, it's coming. She kisses her boyfriend, wakes him up. He's like, and she's like, it's, it's here. We got to go. And so she rushes around and this is kind of where we meet her crew at the beginning. They strike me as kind of like post doc age, like in their 20s, maybe early 30s, very young. And we have,

oh god, I did not look up the name of all of these people. But the only real name that you need to worry about is Kirin and Shipka. Yeah, Kirin and Shipka appears. And I had this moment of being like, Whoa, they never showed Kirin and Shipka in the trailers. That's crazy, she must not be that good in this movie. And then I was like, oh, I see. Yes, yes, yes, I see. Okay, the actors are Daryl McCormick, who plays her boyfriend, Nick Dodani, and Kiernan Shipka, and then Anthony Ramos

is also in their crew. So yeah, Kiernan Shipka, who's kind of this like meek, nerdy, she has big glasses, very, she's like a very Amblin character, you know, like very Spielbergian, which makes sense because Amblin is behind these movies. She's wearing a striped t-shirt, you know, you know the type. She looks like she's out of the 70s basically, or the 80s. And she's like bookish.

Then there's the kind of other like really sciencey tech guys who's like always carrying his computer always like locked in on that front. And then Anthony Ramos who is she like wakes him up out of a sleeping bag. He's hung over. He says he's hung over. There's like a bunch of bags of like Cheetos around him. He's like obviously a slob. He is kind of a ponytail. And he's like, can we just wait and like ask the storm to wait or something? He just is, you know, a fucking dude who's hung over. But she gets them all roused up. And she's like, we got to go. Here it comes. Now is the time. And they, you know, get booted up and start going. They drive forward. And before they drive, they start to like like establish a lot of what's happening,

which is basically so at the end of Twister, the first one, Twister is all about this, like the Dorothy project, which is to create a way to get sensors up into the funnel of a tornado to model the way a tornado moves. That's all Twister is about. Yeah, to get data about like why it's doing what it does. And at the end of Twister, they successfully do it. Now we pick up, that is now like an established quote unquote, it's like been around Anthony Ramos, his character is the Dorothy guy and he wants to get the Dorothy stuff up so that he can like do data tracking. Daisy Edgar Jones, Kate

is more focused on the next step, which is basically her like thesis. And I think she's working for her PhD. Yeah. And she's trying to get a grant to scale this way up. And her theory is that you can neutralize an earthquake or a tornado if you send a bunch of like super absorbent polymers up into it to absorb all the moisture, it will like cut off the fuel source of the tornado and kill it. So it'll dissipate it. Very interesting.

And we did see that in the trailer and I believe her. Yeah, it's like the exact kind of science that, it's like Michael Crichton science where it's- It's perfect movie science where it's like, sounds right. You're like, yeah, all right, okay. This sounds cool. It's apparently not. But you know what, sounds right. Yeah, you're like, yeah, all right. Okay. It sounds cool.

It's apparently not. Yeah. But you know what, who cares? I don't know anything, sure. There's a specific Michael Crichton style science where it's like, it feels plausible enough in the moment and it sounds cool enough that you're like, fuck yeah, dude, I'm in.

And they use like- 100%. So many real science words that you go like, yeah, they have to know what they're talking about. They talk about super absorbent polymers. So, so. Absorbing the moisture. There's like a little bit of tension between Kate and Anthony Ramos,

whose name is Javier Javi. She's ready to go before he's ready to go. And he's like, hey, but like, even if it works, your theory, you can't prove it unless Dorothy's up there in it too. Like you need both of these things to be happening at the same time. We need the data as well that you're right. You need the data. And she's like, All right, fine, fine, fine, fine. And you need

to understand like why it worked and all of that. Yeah, yeah, they get everything going. They're all set. The like team works together really well. They're like very rag tag very feel very throwback to Twister. They're all like science nerds and adrenaline junkies combined into one, which we love to see. And they head for the tornado, which they're forecasting to be an F1,

which is the lowest, the most, less dangerous of tornadoes. And we do get this thing about Daisy Eckerdose's character, Kate, which is what Bill Paxton's character had in Twister, which is like this innate ability to understand how tornadoes work. It's like she is so in tune to the wind, the moisture. She has a more accurate understanding

of how a tornado is gonna operate than even like the Doppler radar. Yeah. So that I like love that in these movies where it's like, yeah, I don't know, she just gets it more, you know? I love that, but I can also see how it can be problematic in the way where it's like giving these qualities to a human that is not actually real and could be like formed not actually real and could be like formed in a way that is long-term like not helpful in a way because humans can't actually read the earth in the way that we might want them

to. So I'm glad that you brought up the bio chauvinist critique of these movies because I've been wanting to get into this. Okay. No, I'm kidding. Somebody who supports AI was calling people who think AI sucks bio-shovenists, and it really made me laugh. Oh my God.

Absolutely insane. Okay. Yeah, no, no, no. No, you're right. I'm saying all of this with like a grain of salt. Don't listen to me. I'm just saying this from the sense of like, this is coming from a long narrative of humans having an extra ability that they don't have to like control Mother Nature or like control things in a way that we would She very much can't control it.

No, no, no. And we can understand it. And I respect that. And maybe there are some people out there who can do it. And I love that, like all the power to them. But like we can't build policy. We can't like build community based on this idea that like humans can like... We can't build community based on... This idea that people can be out there like reading the signs of a tornado. Henley, I think perhaps you are taking this further than it is intended to be taken. I think maybe you're reading beyond the page. You know what?

Ever since Twilight, I shall disagree. That's all you can do. Your brain is forever changed. Henley, you're about to be vindicated though, because they drive out to get their gear up into the tornado and all of a sudden they realize like, oh, this thing isn't an F1. Something is happening here. This is bigger than we thought. There's a team of four, Daisy Edgar Jones, her boyfriend, and Kiernan Shipka and another actor. You can tell what their fate is going to be because I don't have a name for him. Praveen. So he's gonna survive. Just kidding. And Javi stays behind a little further ways back to

get the data. But their thing that they're planning on doing, which is like Twister, is detaching a trailer that has all the things they need to send up into the tornado in the tornado's path so that the tornado will come over it, suck it up and it'll just like get it up, get it up in the funnel. And they do that. They get in front of the, you have to get really close to it,

which is also why it's really scary and freaky, but they do, they get up really close to it. They put their trailer in the tornado's path. The tornado sucks it up and they're so psyched. They're like, holy shit, the tornado sucks it up. And they're so psyched. They're like, holy shit, we fucking did it. It's going and they're having, Dorothy went up, so they're getting data about what's happening in the tornado and they've got Javi on comms.

And they're like, Javi, tell us what's happening. Like, is it dissipating? Is it working? And that's when he's like, no, you guys, this tornado is getting stronger and stronger. They're going up 60,000 feet, 70,000 feet. Like, wait, the winds are picking up. And it's only then that they realize this tornado is actually much bigger than we thought.

And now they're really, really close to a massive tornado that like an F1 would have been going, the winds would have been much slower. But so now not only are they really close to a big tornado, it's going to move so fast that they're, I mean, they would never have gotten this close if they knew it was going to be this big, basically. Super powerful. It's an F5, which has winds over 200 miles per hour. It's a big bad motherfucker.

So they try to drive away, like floor it. They're driving like 80 miles per hour. They can't outrun this thing. There's debris flying everywhere. A big piece of like big bale of hay or something smashes into the windshield of the car. They, her boyfriend is driving, he loses control and they're like, fuck, they like go off the road into a ditch and they're like, we have to get out of the fucking truck. It's not safe to be in a car this close to a tornado. So they all run out and her boyfriend's like, there's an overpass up ahead, let's get on that. She's like, dude, that's the worst place you can be.

Like overpasses are bad, which when I was growing up, they were telling you always get under an overpass. That was like the number one rule if you're on a freeway, is like a highway, is get under an overpass. Which hearing her say that, I was like, what? I mean, it must be better than being on the, like maybe under it is better than over it, but probably you're fucked either way.

So they run to this overpass and it's, there's debris everywhere. The wind is crazy. It's slick with rain and moisture so they can't easily climb up the like concrete slope of the overpass. They're running, running, running. Before they even get to it, the like tech guy who-

Praveen. Praveen gets sucked away behind them. They're running, running, running. Before they even get to it, the tech guy who... Praveen. Praveen gets sucked away behind them. Just gets grabbed and sucked back. He's gone. Can you imagine seeing your friend get sucked into a tornado? Well, they don't see that happen with him

because they're running. They don't realize it's happened yet. Yeah, I mean, they're running for their lives. Credit to, I feel like, something that this movie did, I think, a little bit better than Twister is they seem so much more scared of the tornadoes credit to I feel like something that this movie did I think a little bit better than twister is They seem so much more scared of the tornadoes in twisters than they did in twister like yeah They're very aware that they could be about to die and that happens multiple times in this movie The fear that they are showing it seems like very real and and correct given the circumstances

So they're like absolutely running for their lives and they don't notice he's in the rear. And so he's like the closest to the tornado's path and they don't see him get sucked up. Okay, how dare you to all of the people out there saying this wasn't a horror movie. This scene was really scary. This opening scene was really scary. And even like knowing, obviously I'm like,

well, they're all literally everybody with Daisy at a greenhouse is about to die. I know that to be the case, because they didn't put Kiernan Shipka in the trailers. It still is really scary and the tension is really high, even though you're like, I know what's coming. Yeah. It's scary.

So they run under this overpass, it's just the three of them now. And they realize that Praveen is gone and they're, at this moment they're like, oh, where did he go? And then it all dawns on them what must have happened. They're trying to rush up into the like little tiny crook of the overpass to get into the smallest space they possibly can. But Kiernan Shipka can't quite make it up the slope because it's too wet. She's like wearing Converse shoes. She like can't get a grip. She can't get traction. Daisy Edgar Jones reaches down to help her and then whack! She gets hit by

in the leg by a piece of debris and it like slices her thigh open basically. Daisy Edgar Jones. And she's bleeding out. She's like in real pain, but she's still trying to reach down for Kirin Shipka who just can't get up. She's reaching down, reaching down and then a big piece of like a big tree branch just shoots under the Lopez, smacks Kierna Shipka, and she's sucked into the tornado. Bye bye. Holy shit. So this time, this time, they saw it.

And they saw her get sucked up, but they still have to get themselves saved because they are so far from being out of the woods. So Kate's boyfriend grabs her and like pulls her up and like kind of like positions himself on top of her as she's like holding on to a pipe. They're like yeah like up in that top corner trying to grab on. And he's like on top of her trying to protect her being like it's gonna be okay it's gonna be okay we're gonna make it we're gonna make it we're gonna make it. They're screaming. He keeps saying I've've got you. I've got you.

I've got you. You're okay. I've got you. And then he gets sucked right off of her. No! Honestly, fuck this. Fuck this movie. Fuck anyone who says this isn't a horror movie. I am so upset. This is so upsetting because this is like real.

It happens to people. This can happen, yeah. Yeah, and so happens to people. This does, this can happen, yeah. Yeah, and so he gets sucked into the tornado, this F5, and all she can do is like, all she can do is keep holding tight, and she just screams and screams and screams and screams and... And she's like staring out at where he went and just like screaming and grieving and terrified and bleeding and like, ugh. And we cut to white.

She's walking away from the overpass through a bunch of debris, just like limping on this bleeding leg and like an ambulance comes or a cop and picks her up and she is the only person of the group that went into the storm to survive. And we cut to five years later. And, oh, the other thing to establish is that she is

clearly, she's from Oklahoma. She loves Oklahoma in this intro. She has a really bad Oklahoma accent. It's the one thing in the way that doesn't work. I mean, she sounds more British than Oklahoma. There are a few really bad moments, but mostly I think she keeps it on the rails. But I mean, she's very British. So she's not dressed like Sidney Sweeney in Euphoria playing Oklahoma. Do you remember

that? No, we didn't see Euphoria. Oh, you guys. Sorry. It's none of my business, Euphoria. It's not for Joel. No, that's fair. Honestly, that's fair for Joel. As an adult male, it's probably not his business.

That's right. That's how I feel. It's none of his business. It's frankly none of his business. But no, but she mentions when they're with the team that they could go home to her mom's house for dinner after they chased the storm. She's an Oklahoman. I love Oklahoma. No, that's an Oklahoman. I love Oklahoma.

No, that's not that bad, Joel. It's not that bad. Yeah, but earlier she does say she's looking out the sky and she's like, man, I love Oklahoma. So she's an Oklahoman. But yeah, cut to five years later and she's in New York City. She's on the train in New York City. And she's in a suit, like very much like looking like she works on Wall Street or something now instead of being like a dusty,

you know, ragtag group. And she goes and to work, she works at the weather channel. Or like the National Weather Service or something. Oh, National Weather Service. Which as like a meteorologist, which in, again, in Twister, the first one they establish is like for losers and frauds where they go to work like It's like selling out and being lame But she still has retained her this like innate ability to read a storm

So and don't worry about it Henley. It's fine One of her colleagues is thinking about like issuing a storm alert in some place in tornado alley in Maryland. And her boss calls her over and is like, what do you think Kate? And she like looks at the numbers and like looks at the way things are working. She's like, no, I don't think you need to call it. This is going to happen. Like the moisture isn't right.

It'll collapse before it reaches anywhere important. Don't issue the warning. And they all listen to her and some people are a little bit annoyed at her ability and but her boss trusts her. But she's clearly like very depressed and very sad and doesn't really, there's no soul in this work. But she doesn't want that soul anymore. She doesn't want to touch the source any longer because it is too painful for her, because it cost her so much.

Yeah, because the worst thing that could happen to a person happened to her. And then one of her colleagues comes up to her and is like, hey, Kate, there's somebody here to see you. And so she goes to this conference room to see who it is. And it's Javi. And he too has become businessified and like Wall Street-ified. He's wearing a suit, he has a haircut, no more ponytail, he's very bright-eyed, he's probably doesn't drink anymore, and he's basically like, I need you for my crew.

And this is a crew montage? This is a gathering your crew montage? Well, the montage happened, she's the final piece. So there's maybe a montage in another movie. Off screen montage, she's the final piece. Yeah, we just see him getting hurt. And he's like, please, let me buy you a coffee and explain. But they hug and it's awkward because she has been avoiding

his calls for five years. And it's just trying to cut that part of her life out entirely. But he prevails on her. They go to get some coffee, and he tells her about what he's been up to. So after the events of the prologue, he joined the military, which is crazy, right? He's like a fuck up.

And she's like, you joined the military? And he's like, yeah, well, I didn't know what else to do. I was trying to find myself. But he ended up working with a division that created these like super advanced 3D scanning satellite type devices that you could plant in a given location and create a 3D model of he was like, you can get it as detailed as like a moth flying through the wind a mile away. Like I could see everything. And Kate, I want to bring this technology to tornado tracking. Because if we can model tornadoes at this level of detail, we can start to anticipate their movements

better than ever, and we can prevent what happened to us and our friends and the towns that motivated us to do this in the first place from ever happening again. And she's like, these devices are really big and she's like, there's no way you could like set that up and he's like, well I got prototypes of shrunk down versions of this and he needs her help because he needs to plant the sensors close enough to a tornado to get these renderings. She's like, no, I'm done with that. I'm not doing it anymore. And leaves, she goes home, goes to sleep, sleeps poorly.

The next morning she wakes up to a nightmare. She's in bed, her boyfriend reaches over, like big spooning her and says, I got you, I got you, I got you, I got you. She wakes up, he's gone, of course. Horrifying. Which I really like this inversion of the like wife in a bed trope.

Really good. So sad. So sad. But then she looks at her phone, she gets a text from Javi. There's another tornado, like a super tornado hit a town in Oklahoma, killed 11 people and he leaves her voicemail that's like, we're the only people who can stop this from happening.

Like, I need you, please come. And she decides to go. So now we catch up to them in Oklahoma, right? Yeah, she arrives in Oklahoma, she meets his crew. And this is fun because in Twister, the crew that we are introduced to is like, they're the ragtag bunch, kind of like Daisy Hickor-Jones was at the beginning. And the bad guys were Carrie Elwes and this like very high tech group of like, more like buttoned up and like super sciencey.

Who are in it for the wrong reasons. Yes. The wrong reasons. They're in it for the wrong reasons, they look, they kind of look like they work for the Empire in Star Wars. Yes, 100%. But this time she goes to meet Javi's crew.

He introduces her like, this is Kay. She's only with us for a week. She's going to be our helpers. And they're all wearing big hats, big hats. They're not wearing big hats. They're wearing polo, button up polos. And they all have like PhDs and they went to MIT and they are like real science people, very professional.

He's like, this is the best team that you could ever get. And there's not really any soul in it, which is exactly right for her. That's what she wants. Like she wants to like run without the emotions of this and like use cool gadgets and tools. And these guys are here to help. Like they are trying to predict where these turnovers are going to go to stop them from hitting residential areas as the, as the area is developing in Oklahoma.

Yeah, they said they got a lot of financing from people who develop housing in these areas because they want to be able to warn the people who live in those housing new developments, like where in a tornado is coming. So this is like to help the people who live there. But as she's in this, they're like in a gas station parking lot, getting like sort of situating to like go find wherever the next storm is gonna be. And there's a bunch of people pulling up in this parking lot. It's like, and Javi says like,

yeah, tornado chasing has gotten to be like a popular thing because we see come into the parking lot, Glenn Powell in his big hat and his red truck. He pulls in, people are like cheering. Then RV comes up behind him with the rest of his crew and they're very much more like rag tech, but they're like do a YouTube channel. They're like the crew from Twister One,

a bunch of like misfit weirdo goofballs, but they're not in it for the right reasons because they're chasing like YouTube fame. They're like not in it for the science. They're just like fucking buckaroos who are there to like go viral and do stunts basically. Yeah, the vibe is very just like only thrill seeking and fame chasing. And so Glenn Powell, like his name is Tyler something. Owens, Tyler Owens, which is a great name. Tyler Owens.

They're handing out t-shirts with his name and coffee mugs and they're selling merch. They're not handing out, they're selling him. Yeah, they're selling merch. He's signing things. People are loving him. He gets, he opens the door to his truck and it's the thing from the trailer where he's like,

if you feel it, and they all say, chase it. If you feel it, chase it. And they're like, woo. And it's just like, that's their vibe. And they come over and they sort of like poke fun at the, you know, nerds in their button up shirts. Glen Powell does take notice of Kate, this new girl, it seemed to see each other around,

I think these crews a lot. And so he's like, ooh, new girl, who are you? And they notice, you know, Kate is getting ready to see what storm they're going to go after. And she's nervous about it. She hasn't done this in a while. She's also got a lot of trauma associated with tornadoes. But hobby tells her like, you can do this, go do your thing. Like, and she's so she kind of walks out to look at the landscape, to try to figure out she's looking at the clouds, where's this tornado going to, what's gonna happen?

She picks up a dandelion and takes all the little petals off and opens her hand and lets it like seize which way the winds are going. And she's sort of just like in her zone and Glenn Powell walks up and he's like, yeah, I used to do the dandelion thing too. And he's like, where are you from? And she says, New York City.

He's like, ah, city girl. Again, it's not a good one, but she does have a Southern accent, but he keeps calling her city girl, which is very funny. He's like, ah, City Girl. Again, it's not a good one, but she does have a southern accent, but he keeps calling her City Girl, which is very funny, he's like, ah, City Girl. And so we're looking at the sky, and we can tell that there could be a tornado over to the east, and there could be one over to the west, and he's like, yeah, what are you thinking?

Which way are you gonna go? And she says, definitely go east. The one in the west, it looks like there's gonna be two. They're gonna fight for attention, they're gonna sort of cancel each other out. Yeah, they're gonna be competing for the same moisture resources. Weather.

Yeah. So like you should go for the other one that's by herself. She'll have all of it to herself. She's going to put on a great show. And he's like, yeah, that's what I was thinking too. And she's like, great, see you later. And so she walks back. But he is with a British journalist who is also like following him to like write a big

article about American storm chasers. And so after she walks away, the British guy's like, hey, so like what's going on? And he's like a very like uptight, you know, the way that British people should be portrayed exclusively in American made movies, if you ask me, kind of like an uptight clueless but sweet hearted journalist. And Glenn Powell's like, yeah, like, this is the part where we strategize about where we're going to go. And so this journalist is like, you know, jotting down notes, very much like caught up in the charisma

of Tyler Owens. Yeah. And so yeah, Daisy Edgar Jones goes back to the truck and it's like, she had told them, like, oh, you should go to the east. That's good. When she gets back in the truck, she's like, we're going to go west. So they get in their cars. They get ready to go. Glenn Powell and his crew get in the car and they're like, we're going to go west. And so that he also knew like what she told him was kind of bullshit.

So now they're all heading down the same path. And this happened also in Twister, where like they're fighting for road space and they're trying to get there first and like cut each other off. And it's very like... But storm chasers. Yeah, storm chasers, but it's like... Storm chase, car chase. It's very like East versus West, right?

Like my crew versus your crew and who's gonna get there first and we think we're cooler than you. Like who's gonna win, like the fancy guys or the like salt of the earth guys? So the fancy guys have to get three sensors in three different sides of the tornado in order to get a full 3D model. So, and there's also a guy with their crew,

the tech guys, Javi's crew, who, I'm just gonna call him Superman the whole time because he's apparently playing Superman now. And he looks just like Henry Cavill. David Corrin's wet. David Corrin's wet. Yeah, I'm not calling him David Corrin's wet. Superman.

Okay. He's great in this movie too. He is great in this movie. He plays a great douchebag. Yeah, it's Cavill, it's Web. Yeah, I'm not calling him David Coren's Web. Superman. Okay. He's great in this movie too. He is great in this movie. He plays a great douchebag. Yeah, it's careful, it's perfect, it's exactly careful. But so, they split off into threes, right? One group goes to set up and Daisy Edgar Jones,

Kate is telling them like, okay, turn left here, the storm's gonna move this direction. She's like, telling them where to go. Meanwhile, you know, Tyler Owens and his crew are hot on their tails. We see the YouTube show and they're like really amped. They're gonna go into this tornado, just a very different energy.

He's like talking right to camera and they're all like, woohoo! Just like party boys. Wow! Yeah, a lot of cheering. And so the tech crew, Javi's crew, they work for a company, their company is called Stormpar. So we should just call them the Stormpar guys.

So they go, one group goes, they set their sensor down. They're like, okay, our sensor, they call them the scarecrow, the Tin Man and the lion. So they're like, okay, scarecrow's down, good to go. Great, Tin Man goes to the other corner of the tornado's path. Yep, we're good, we're set up, all to you lion. And they have to get in front of the tornado's path. Yep, we're good, we're set up. All to you, Lion, and they have to get

in front of the tornado, that's their part. And so, Javi's like, how do we get in, where's the storm going, what do you think? Asking Kate, she gives them a location, they go to it, they get in front of the storm, and they're locked, they're getting ready to take their sensor out of the back of the truck and put it down, and she starts, obviously,

and of course, having PTSD about being so close to this tornado. Of course, Javi needs her help to get the sensor out and get it set up. And she, instead of helping him is like, we have to get back in the truck. She's like, this isn't right. This isn't right. She gets in the driver's seat. He gets in the truck. They drive away and they miss it and they don't get their sensor in time. You know, they're too far away. Javi's really upset. But they're alive.

But they're alive. But this probably wasn't... They could have done it, right? Yeah, this tornado wasn't shit. This tornado was just like a little baby F1. Yeah. But they weren't able to get their data because she got too scared. And we see, meanwhile, Glenn Powell,

their thing is they drive into the path of the tornado and sit and let the tornado come over their truck. His truck has like a drill that he locks and like spirals into the ground and locks their truck in place. Anchors their truck to the ground. It's awesome. That's cool. It's fucking cool. So we see just, Chee and Javi are watching, he's like, they drive into the tornado, they're fucking crazy.

He drives in and we see they shoot fireworks up into the tornado, so we just see fireworks going off. And then the tornado dissipates as it does, just naturally they drive out and Glen Powell drives his truck past them and they're like, what you guys doing all the way over here? You missed the tornado. There's a really great tornado over there. Just like, I don't know,

ribbentum for not making the tornado. He also talks into the camera on his YouTube live stream and is like, you guys asked if we could shoot fireworks into a tornado and turns out you can and it looks awesome. Thanks for watching. Like and subscribe. The British journalists who watching. You know, like and subscribe. The British journalists who did not know that they would be driving.

They also have like harnesses instead of seat belts. Like they put full harnesses on in their car before they like get into the tornado. He's like gets out of the car and is puking because he was so scared and he did not know that they were gonna have to do that. Javi and Kate are obviously very upset. Javi is like, it's okay, we'll get the next one.

There's always gonna be more tornadoes. And also, specifically this week is like a forecasted event of like a shitload of tornadoes. Like a once in a century storms. We could assume that this has to do with climate change, but they don't ever really explicitly call it out, which I think is smart and cool. But it's like an unprecedented amount of tornadoes are coming this week.

OK, great. So, yeah, that night they show up at a motel, which like all of the tornado people are staying in, because it's just like in the path where the storm is going to be. These storms, when she's getting ready to go into her room, they're kind of reminiscing about their old crew. And it's, you know, they're bonding a little, it's a little sad. And Javi asked, you know, after we get kind of got cleaned up, do you want to go do something tonight? We're getting a feeling that like, you know, he's very happy to be reconnecting with her. Maybe there are some old feelings there, but she is, you know, still being very anti-social, still very traumatized. It's like, no, maybe another night I'm going to go to my room.

As she's walking up to her room, she sees Glenn Powell and his crew all hanging out and they're asking her like, oh, Storm Part didn't catch the tornado today, like what happened with that? And they're asking her about her, where are you from, where did you come from? And Glenn Powell's like, oh, she's a city girl,

she's not giving much information up, it's hard to get to know her. And she asked them like, are you guys meteorologists? Like, how'd you get into this? And they're like, no, we didn't need PhDs. Like, that's not our deal. We're just cool. We're just fucking awesome.

But they do reveal one of the, Brandon Perea, who's like kind of the right-hand man to Glenn Powell's character, is like, it's Tyler who's the scientist. Like, he's the only, you know, he really knows what's going on with storms. He kinda lets on that he actually. He went to meteorology school.

He is more of a professional than he lets on. He's like, nobody wants to hear it. Like, all right Boon, that's enough. Oh, that's his character's name is Boon. Say, all right Boon, that's enough. And they say something to her about like, oh yeah, well you know, city girl, you can always trust that she knows what's going on

and she replies back. Well, you know, you can definitely trust a guy who puts's going on. And she replies back, well, you know, you could definitely trust a guy who puts his own face on a T-shirt and is making fun of Glenn Powell and they all, the rest of his crew fucking love that. They're like, ah, she got, look at his face. Like she got him. But there's a real, there's a spark there. We see the spark, but she, you know, goes back to her room, cut to the next day, back in that same sort of parking lot looking for storms.

And the sky looks super clear. It looks like there's not a storm in sight. And once again, she's out looking at the sky, Glenn Powell comes and walks over to her and is like, you know, if we're going to be here all day, he's trying to get more information from her. Like, how'd you get mixed up with the storm Power people? And she's not giving him really any information about herself. And he's like, look, if we're gonna be out here all day waiting for nothing, we should be civil to each other, right? And she's like, you're right, let's be friendly.

Can I get you something to drink? Do you want anything to drink? And he's like, all right, yeah, be sure. I'd love a nice tea. She's like, all right, great, I'll be right back. She turns around and she goes up to Javi and she's like, we got to get the truck. There's a tornado coming. And it's very funny. We see Glenn Powell, like take a beat as she walks away. And then it's like, there's a tornado coming and like knows that she's trying to fuck with him.

And she's like excited by this. Like she starts like running back to her crew. She now like got the bug back a little bit because she was able to outfox Tyler Owens. And like, she smells the rivalry, she was able to one-up him, and now she's like, the thrill of the hunt is kind of coming back to her and overtaking her fear. Yeah. And we're seeing like a bit more zest in her. Yeah. She's like, we got to go, we got to go right now. We got to get this tornado. And so he's also like, fuck, we got to go, we got to go right now. And so once again, they're back on the road, they're back chasing this tornado. And we're looking and we see a tornado starting to develop. They're all also always so excited when they see a tornado touchdown. They like watch the funnel coming through and these people, they

fucking love tornadoes. They like see it touchdown. It always looks so good and like religious in the, in the like epic scope of the way that these tornadoes are shot and staged. They look supernatural and the music feels like you're watching the first omen or something. It's really, really great. And we see this tornado starts to form and then it's actually two tornadoes. And this is the line in the trailer where Brandon Perry is like, twins, we got twins. They're so excited. But the thing about twins is they sort of separate and

then only one is going to become a strong enough storm. So they have to sort of choose right or left, which of these storms are we going to chase? And we get a really cool scene here. I think this is a scene where in explaining which tornado they're going to go after, Kate is talking about how tornadoes work to Javi. And I think there's maybe another guy in their car. She's talking about like the power of tornadoes and how nobody even fully understands why they work the way that they do. It's like this magical combination of like meteorological conditions and

also the environment and like nobody really gets it. And she's talking about tornadoes in this really sort of magical way. And Glenn Powell is doing the same thing talking to the journalists in the back of the car. And so it's like cutting back and forth, they're sort of saying the same thing about storms and have the same sort of like awe and respect for them

and fear and admiration. And they're so in sync with the way they're talking about the storm. It's just really cool. And meanwhile, we're like learning a lot about tornadoes and I don't remember the actual things that they said, but it was cool. What if this was a new pedagogical way of teaching people where you had two people in love on opposite sides of the classroom? I actually think that's great. That would be, and That would, and there's like a lot of sexual tension and we're like, oh my God, when her sentence ends,

his begins, they're really like, what's gonna happen, what's gonna happen? And we're only learning. This is how they should teach puberty. This is how they teach everything. Two teachers who wanna fuck but haven't yet. That's how we teach America's youth. Two teachers who want to fuck.

Honestly, it would kill. It would kill. America is lagging. We're lagging in the charts. And if we want to vault ourselves forward, I think there's something here. There's absolutely something here. The only hard thing is finding two teachers who are in love. That is tough. But if we could figure that out. We haven't fucked yet. That is an important part of the equation.

You need that tension. You need that tension. But if we could figure it out. But yeah, it's just a very cool scene. And so we see they're like, which one are we going to choose? What are we going to choose? And she goes like, they're looking at the radar and like, we should pick the one on the right that has more moisture. I think that that one's going to be stronger.

And Glenn Powell and his car is saying the same thing to the journalist. He's like, which one are you going to pick? And he's like, we're going to go with the one on the right. Because again, their radar saying the same thing. And then you get this really great moment that I started crying, where Kate starts looking around the environment around her. And she looks at the wheat fields out of her window and she sees the wind move in this, like, really jittering, like, start-stoppy specific way as it kind of changes direction. And you're watching her,

and this is a great performance from Daisy Edgar-Jones, her big eyes, as you can see, you're just taking in all of this information around her and reading the environment. And you see it as she hasn't done this in years. And then this is happening to her almost involuntarily, and she's finally willing to give herself over to it. And it all just pours into her big eyes,

and she pieces things together and she's at the very last moment, she goes, we have to go left. It's the other one. And it's like such a moment for her, like where she's like back and she sees what nobody else can see and that even Glenn Powell can't see.

And it's like such an exhilarating moment to watch somebody just be really good at what they do. Oh, I love to see people good at what they do. I love it. And like trusting herself. And feeling it. It's like love of all of it sort of like radiates off of her. It's really cool. Well, it's like a childlike thing. It's like she reverts back to this childlike thing probably that she did. Yeah. Like just naturally.

And you can see it. it's like in her performance, you can see Wonder take hold of her again. Yeah. Yeah, and so yeah, they go left, and this time Tyler Owens and his crew don't follow. They're like, they called her Dandelion Girl. Dandelion Girl picked the wrong one, we're going off this way.

And so they go off to the tornado on the right, Kate and her crew go off to the tornado on the left, and Superman meanwhile is like not happy about this. He's in a van behind them and he's like, They go off to the tornado on the right. Kate and her crew go off to the left. And Superman, meanwhile, is not happy about this. He's in a van behind them and he's like, who is Javi listening to? Because the radar says we should pick the one on the right. But he's not happy that we brought this woman on board

that Javi is now listening to. Yeah, he's like, this isn't the data. It's like the numbers say that the other one's gonna be bigger, yeah. There isn't actually. He's not acting like it's because she's a woman. But I just added that for flavor. So they go off to the left.

They get their number one scarecrow set up. Great. Tin man set up. Great. It's time to get Lyon set up. And they go, Kate and Javi. And this time, she doesn't freak out. She's able to do it.

She keeps her calm. They set the radar up, they drive away, we're getting the data, it's like all working. Meanwhile, we see Glenn Powell and his crew, they're so pumped, they're gonna drive into this tornado like they do and shoot off some rockets. And so they do it, they get into the path, they lock their truck down into the ground,

and it dissipates. That was not the right tornado. And the journalist is like, wait, what happened? Was that the tornado? And they're like, fuck, we picked the wrong one. They look over and they see the other one and they're like, oh shit, like Dandelion girl was right, she fucking knew. So now they've all gained a lot of respect for Kate,

but the tornado, meanwhile, they get good data on it, but one of the sensors gets picked up by the tornado and like thrown a distance and they're like, okay, fuck in order to get the rest of the data, we need to get that sensor. But Daisy Edgar Jones, I keep going back and forth. So Kate realizes after they get their data on the tornado, the tornado is still moving and it's heading towards a small town. And she's like, no, no, no, we need to go help the people in this town because they're

about to get not like prevent the tornado from coming, but like give them the help they need after the storm. Rather than chasing after the sensor, we need to go to this town. So Javi agrees, even though it's he's a bit on the fence. Yeah. He's like, you know, we need to get the data, but you're right. Fine. And so we go to this town.

It has been pretty destroyed by this tornado. They're like helping people through the rubble. And we see this man named Riggs, who's a financier for Stormpar out with the people as well, and he's like giving them his card to these people who are like, you know, outside of their destroyed properties. And Javi doesn't seem to really want there's like a hesitancy. He tells Kate like, why don't you take the truck, go back and get cleaned up? We've been here helping for a while.

You should get some rest. It seems like he doesn't want her interacting with the finance guy. So she agrees. But she sees as she goes back to the truck, she sees Tyler and Boone looking for a dog under some some rubble. She's surprised to see them there. Yeah, she's surprised that they're there. Because like that's not fun. That's not good content.

Yeah, they're like looking for this dog. And he says to her, he's like a little frustrated and he asks, he like sees the finance guy there and he seems pissed., he's like a little frustrated and he asks, he like sees the financier guy there and he seems pissed. And he's like, do you even know who you're chasing for? She's like, we're trying to get data to help people and like help prevent this same thing from happening. And he's like, oh, is that so? Like that's the story that you have. And she's like, well, at least I'm not here

taking advantage of people. She sees that their truck is there with like the t-shirts and they're like giving out t-shirts and mugs and have like chips and stuff out on a table. And she's like, at least I'm not taking advantage of people and like trying to sell my merch and like get famous off of their tragedy. And that really offends him. And he's like, whatever I have a, I have a dog to find. And she's like, great, why don't you get back to that? And so she goes to get in the truck and leave, and Sasha, one of the women from Tyler's crew,

who was also in the Conversations with Friends Hulu show, which I was like, whoa, Sally Rooney to Sally Rooney, little universe that I liked. But she goes over to Kate and she's like, hey, Kate, do you want some food? And Kate's like, oh, no, I don't have any cash. I'm not gonna buy food. And she's like, no, no, it's free.

That's why we sell the merch back at the gas station, is we're giving the stuff away. And she's like, oh, that's actually really nice, but no, you should save it for the people who need it. And she's like, okay, well, see you around. She's just really nice to her. So we maybe got it wrong. Maybe these people are here to help after all.

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outside of it and he says, you know, you just saw the worst of this place. Thought you might wanna see some of the best. Like, come out with me, I wanna show you something. Takes her to a rodeo. Oh my god. Yeah, baby. Where his parents are sitting in the row behind them. Oh yes.

We're watching barrel racing. We're watching bull catching with your lasso. Bull catching. The classics for bull catching. Bull catching. What's it called? Bull riding. Is it just bull riding?

They do some bull riding, but they're also catching it. Lassoing? They are. What do you call it? Bull. I think it's just wrangling. Wrangling. Okay, bull wrangling, whatever.

I honestly don't know, but I do know that it's not bull catching. I can't tell you that much. Fine, fair enough, fair enough. And so they start talking, they start getting to know each other. One of the guys doing the bull stuff looks over and sees Tyler

and does his little tornado symbol to him. And so Kate's like, oh, do you know these guys? And he's like, yeah, I used to- He was a bull rider. Compete here, I was a bull rider. But he's like, I got, you know, my head almost stomped on one too many times and realized that I should probably go to college instead.

That'd be a better path for me. And so she learns a little bit more about him. He did go to college to study meteorology. He asks, what was your first tornado? And she's like, what was yours? He says when he was eight, he saw his first tornado. He was driving his aunt, he saw a tornado touchdown. He was so amazed by it. And only when he looked over to his aunt did he realize he was supposed to be scared. He saw the look on her face and Kate says, so you're not scared of tornadoes? He's like, no, no, no, I very much am,

but I think like that's why I'm out here, you know? If you don't face your fears, you ride them. She's fucking awesome, dude. Oh yeah, baby. I've never felt more patriotic than when he said that. And he learns that she's from Oklahoma, she's not a city slicker, she's from a town that sounds like the city slicker, she's from a town

that sounds like the Star Wars character, Cebulba. But I think it's like Sepulpa. Sepulpa or something, yeah, Sepulpa I think is better. So he keeps calling her that, and I just kept being like, why does he keep calling her Cebulba from Star Wars? But yeah, so he learns that she's actually from, she grew up on a farm in Sepulpa. Cebulba.

She's like, this isn't my first rodeo. And they're having a nice time. And just then they both feel the wind shift. The air gets thick. The two of them are looking up and they're like, fuck, this is not good. Moments later, the tornado siren goes off. Someone gets on the speaker,

like a tornado's touched down nearby, everybody needs to get out. And like immediately it's chaos. People are like, just like Sammy's greatest fear, they're like stampeding through each other. Like so scary, that's scary. There's like flickers of lightning in the distance and you can see the silhouette of a big nasty mean.

It's big and bad. Tornado already there. It's like on them almost. And so yeah, people are doing what they absolutely would in this scenario, which is just panicking and like running for their lives and crashing their cars as they try to get out. Yeah, a horse like is running through and like runs into someone. It's like very scary, very chaotic before the tornado even gets to them. But Tyler and Kate are trying to help people and being like, you have to get underground.

People running to their cars are like, don't go to your cars. They're really trying to do what they can to help people. But it's absolute chaos. They see a motel across the street, so they run to that. There's a mother and child running around. They grab them with them. They're like, come with us. We need to get underground.

We go to this motel where there's a man complaining about something about his room to the hotel manager, and this is Bill Paxton's son. Great. He's very petty. He plays, he's great. He plays basically like a character Bill Paxton would play, where he's like kind of a weird little dick.

Yeah, and Kate and Tyler are like, stop this fucking fight that you're having. Like, we need to get underground, there's a tornado coming. And the girlfriend is like, they always say that and it's Never actually a tornado kind of like what Joel was thinking in Iowa City like that's real It's never actually a tornado and they're like, no, no, there is a train of coming

We need to fucking get underground just then like the power goes it gets very clear. Like a storm is fucking coming the siren from the rodeo crashes through the window of the hotel which finally convinces them like oh a tornado is in fact coming so there's no storm shelter, but Kate looks out and sees that there's an empty pool. And so she's like, that's, we got to get in there. We just need to get below ground level basically. So Kate and Tyler and the hotel manager and this mother and daughter and this couple all start running out. They start running into the pool. They're helping this mother and daughter and the hotel manager and this mother and daughter and this couple all start running out. They start running into the pool. They're like helping this mother and daughter into the pool.

This fucking couple gets in their truck to drive away. They're like, we're getting out of here. Kate tries to stop. She sees them get in their truck. She screams, they're like, no, no, no. And we see their truck get fucking sucked up into the tornado. They are dead. So they are scrambling to get into this pool.

The tornado is coming fast. The mother and daughter get in and they are able to get to the back corner where there's like, again, like a drain pipe or something they can like hold on to. Kate gets back there with them. The hotel manager drops into the pool, but like lands funny and kind of hurts his ankle

and is freaking out. And Tyler's trying to help him. And it's like, just stay low, stay low freaking out and Tyler's trying to help him and is like, just stay low, stay low, because he keeps trying to crawl and Tyler and Kate are like belly on the ground, like laying as flat as they can and Tyler's like, stay low, stay low.

A big fucking piece of metal flies into the pool, the hotel manager is freaking out and he keeps, he like, as you would, like he keeps getting up higher and crawling and is like, where do I go, where do I go? Because he's trying to like move faster. Yeah, and Tyler's like, stay low, stay low. He's trying to reach out his hand to him. The guy gets up on all fours again

and it's just enough that the wind picks him up and he gets sucked into the tornado. Oh shit. So Tyler has to now belly crawl his way to try to get to hold onto a pole at the corner where Kate and this mother and daughter are. He is like, you know, weather's working against him.

It's really, it like, again, I'm like, no part of me thinks that Glenn Powell is going to die at this point in the movie, but it is so fucking scary. On his face is like pure fear. He is so scared. And we've already established, we've just established that tornadoes do scare him. And you see it on his face. He's like, Oh fuck, I'm gonna fucking die. This

is fucking awful. I'm so scared. They all think that. And that's why I think that this movie is in that way more impactful than Twister. And it does that so much better. They are so scared, as you would be. So they, he finally at the last second makes it over to the pole. He is behind her. They're both hanging on this pole like very much mirrors the opening scene where the mother is saying to the daughter like you're gonna be okay you're gonna be okay you're gonna be okay. He is saying to Kate like Kate I've got you we're gonna be okay we're gonna be okay. They're

getting like rained on wind you see the terror in their faces, and the tornado moves past. They make it, they're okay. That's the craziest thing is that it moves past. It's like how long is the tornado on top of you actually? It's so fast. It's like you either make it or you don't. Sometimes they'll like sit stationary for a long time.

Sometimes they move really fast. They just do whatever they do. I feel like this scene also is like felt like in the way it's designed feels very amblin in the nineties. Like it feels like it throws back to a the original twister but it also feels related to like a sequence from Jurassic park, which has like the Michael Crichton effect too, where you're watching people who know how this stuff works,

use their intellectual understanding to stay alive, and then the people who don't quite get it, fuck up. It's like the T-Rex, like very first T-Rex scene when it gets out of the pen in Jurassic Park, where Grant is like, don't move and he can't see you. And then people move because they're scared and make it worse. It's like very, I like really love a scene like that

where it's just about these guys are empowered because they know how this stuff works. Their understanding enables them to like master their fear enough to survive. And I love that kind of shit. It also, their intellect doesn't make them immune. Right. It's like it's both things. It like they also could still they know that they could still die there, which I

also really like the stakes of that. I love it because this is when COVID first started happening in 2020. Tim and I watched so many action films from the 90s because also it gives this idea of like, which I agree with to a certain degree, but like this idea that like experts also are immune, even if they know they're not immune, their knowledge gives them immunity. And I want to believe in that. Like it's like so comforting as a viewer where it's like, there are people out there who do know this much about storms. And they are able to anticipate this, and they are able to survive. And I want to believe in that deeply, and I love that.

There's something calming about it. It's enough to give a little bit of a superpower in a way that is like very relatable, because you could have the same superpower if you just studied, versus being like Captain America, you know what I mean? Right. Yes, and I love that. It's very humanizing.

It's very like grounded and humanizing. Yeah. Oh my God, let's return to this, you guys. So they make it out, they get out of the pool, the mom and daughter are okay, but this town got leveled again and Javi shows up with his truck. He's like, oh my God, when I saw the storm was coming here,

all I could think about was if you were gonna be okay. And she's like, yeah, no, I'm fine. And we made it. He sees that she was there with Tyler and he's like, we're here with Tyler the whole time? And he's clearly pissed about that, both I think because he has feelings for her and because he fucking hates Tyler.

And she confronts him about Storm Par in this, you know, she's feeling, they're all feeling really shaken up and vulnerable. And she's like, who are we working for? Like why, oh, because Superman comes and he says like, Riggs is gonna want data on all this property. I'm gonna go grab the data. And she's like, who, whatiggs is going to want data on all this property. I'm going to go grab the data. And she's like, who, what are we doing this for? Like he, I know that he's developers.

He's just coming in and like, he's trying to get these people's property with their most vulnerable. Like, is that what we're doing this for? Yeah. His whole plan is that he buy, like when a tornado hits, he goes and he swoops in and buys the land for really cheap, like, while people are still traumatized. And Javier is like, hey, man, like, these people want to move on. He's giving them a chance to leave this stuff behind. These are fair offers.

But, like, he knows that it's for the wrong reasons in his heart of hearts, but he's also, like, still the same guy from the opening who cares about the data. He's basically like, I'll make a deal with the devil to get the data that I think is important and can in the long run be a good thing. We'll do more good. Yeah. But it's like over time you keep redrawing your line and redrawing your line. And all of a sudden you're a servant of the fucking devil.

Yeah. And she, she tells Javi, she's like, you're exploiting these people when they have just lost everything. You have no idea what that's like. And he says, I don't know what that's like. Maybe it's like losing your three best friends all so that you could get your fucking grant money. Whoa.

Yeah. And they both realize, and that, like, she backs away, says nothing. He seems to kind of immediately regret it a little bit, but also said what he said. He's like, I've been carrying that same fucking guilt for three years. Like, this is on you too.

And even in the, when they first had their meeting, he was like, Kate, do you ever wonder why it was the two of us who walked away from that day? And it starts out with him believing that there's maybe a higher meaning, but it all comes around to the guilt and shame, like forcing him into this shame and into this guilt that yeah, of course he would carry that. Yeah. But so she she just backs away and takes her keys to one of the storm power trucks that she had driven there and she gets in the truck and she drives off.

And Tyler watches her drive away as well. And he maybe hears some of this conversation. It's not really clear, but we see her driving through the night and we see her showing up at this farmhouse, taking the spare key out, letting herself in. Obviously this is her childhood home. Her mom wakes up, sees that she's there, they hug, and she showers off and sleeps in her childhood bedroom that night. Next day, we see her, she goes into the barn.

That's where she did all her research and stuff for her PhD project before. We have a little flashback to her with her boyfriend in there and we're seeing like a younger much lighter livelier version of herself where she was like excited to go chase this storm. She's like dancing around doing poses. She's like very naive. She's like, we're going to tame the tornado and like happy and in love and excited and we see all her notes and

she's just yeah kind of flashing back to that and her mom comes in and is like I wanted to ask you like what I should do with all this stuff and she's like oh you can just throw it out and her mom says I'm not no I'm not gonna throw it out I'm still waiting for you to change the world so her mom still believes in her which is very nice. I love that. Oh, by the way, her mom is played by Maura Tierney. I love that. Her mom is played by Maura Tierney,

which was a fun little moment. She's great in it too. Yeah. And just then she's looking at her middle school science fair project, which is a little, which we had seen in the flashback. It's like a little tiny replica of like a model town. And she flips a switch and there's like, I don't know,

like a magnet or something up top, and it creates like a model town and she flips a switch and there's like, I don't know, like a magnet or something up top and it creates like a little tornado. It's a pegboard so she can like blow wind up through the ground and down from something over it and create like a little tornado model. Yeah, so even as a child she was into tornadoes and as she's doing this, who should walk in those barn doors?

But Tyler Owens, baby. Tyler Owens, he can do it all. He can do it all. He walks in and she says, you found me? And he says, yeah, well Boone, or one of the guys on his team. Dexter. Dexter. Was able to look you up.

He remembered seeing your name in the papers a few years back when this horrible tragedy happened before. And he's like, I'm really sorry about your friends. And they're connecting a bit more. And Mortimer walks in and she's like, I invited Tyler for dinner, by the way. Kate is like, oh, no, he's going to be leaving.

And Mortimer is like, no, he's not. He'll be having dinner and he will be hanging out. Yeah. She's like, this hot guy came here looking for you. Like, yes, he will be staying. And so they're having dinner and they're having a great time. Mauritini is telling stories about how Kate always loved bad weather.

And it was all. The worse the weather, the happier the girl. She was like, I remember one time I was giving her a bath and she heard the thunder and got up out of the bath, butt naked and walked outside into the field to like go look up at the sky and you know, they're flirting and she's like enough mom, enough mom and we're all having a really nice time.

And her mom starts to talk about, you know, the project that Kate was working on and Kate sort of cuts her off and is like, does anybody need anything? Starts clearing plates and clearly doesn't really wanna go there. So she is in the kitchen clearing plates. She goes back out to the barn where she sees Tyler

is in there and looking at her notes and is like, this is amazing. You were trying to like dissipate a tornado, like this is so cool, this would have worked. And he's like really into it and is also like, okay, like big science girl. Like he's like flirting with her and is like, thinks it's so cool and he's so excited by it.

And he like wants to do it basically. He's like, this we could do this. Like we could, this would work. And he like wants to do it basically. He's like, yeah, he's like, we could do this. Like we could, this would work. Like you're, this could save lives. He's really excited about it. And she like, he's like, why aren't you still working on this? And she's like, because it didn't work. And she gets, she starts crying and is immediately like,

when I went out, when in the field, when I went out to do it, it didn't work. And I lost everything and it's not worth it. Yeah. Like, I like didn't know what I was going to face. Like I it's not worth it. Like, too far. Yeah, I didn't know what I was gonna face. I wasn't ready for it, because it was like this giant thing. And yeah, she was like, I was wrong, and she was too cocky and she blames herself.

And she's like, I've lived with it ever since, and I will have to live with it forever. And I'm never going to put anybody in that kind of danger again. Yeah. And he says to her like, you know, Oh, he does, he does a great speech. He goes like, yeah, it's really great. This is again, just what you want from these things. Cause she's like, we thought it was going to be an F1 tornado. It turned out it was an F5 and we got, and they got killed. And he's like, you know,

F5 and they got killed and he's like, you know, the way we categorize these tornadoes, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, like, we don't categorize them as that until after the tornado happens. Like, it's used to describe not what the tornado is, but the damage it did in the aftermath. How much more are you going to let this tornado take from you? Whoa. Like, it's an F5, but like it is still pulling things away from you and still wrecking your life, becoming way worse than an F5 could ever be. It's really good. It's really good. I fucking love that. And let me just tell you, I've been watching a TV show slash reading

a book series with my three year old called Still Water, which is about a Buddhist panda who moves in next door to a bunch of kids. And he tells stories that explain life. And one of the stories he tells is about two young Buddhist monks going on a long journey and they go past a river where there is a haughty, rich, young woman who demands to be taken across and she's mean to all of her servants and the older priest just goes and puts her on her back and he brings her across and she doesn't even say thank you. And he puts her down and then they keep on going. And then they travel for a much longer time.

And the young priest is like very upset about it. And then a while later, he says to the older priest, he says, that woman, you just brought her across the river and she didn't even say thank you. Like, why did you help her? And he says, I put that woman down a long time ago. When are you going to put her down? Yeah.

Perfect. And. Perfect. That is life, man. That is life, man. Just put it down, put her down. You gotta let it be. Put it down.

This just reminds me that of a perfect Glenn Powell line that we missed from earlier that I must go back and say again Which is that when he brings pizza to Kate the box of pizza? they're being friendly again, and she asked him like because he had been they had been looking for a dog under the rubble and She asked him. Did you find the dog? He says of course I found the dog and it's so Of course I found the dog. And it's so good.

Because it's like, it feels like this meta moment of like this guy, this movie, this character, of course he found the fucking dog. Like, really? His delivery is so good too. Of course I found the dog. Of course I found that dog. Of course I found the dog.

That's not what this movie's about. The movie's not about the dog. It's not about him being heroic. It's not, but we do love him. So anyway, she has this meltdown. He leaves. We had already established that Moratiria had invited him to stay the night in the guest room, so he is staying the night.

But she stays back in the barn with her notes and she's crying and she's looking over them. She's looking at a picture of the old crew. But she starts looking back over her notes and we see that she is maybe thinking about picking this back up again. Next morning, it's pouring down rain. Glenn Powell puts on his big hat and his white shirt and he walks out to the car in the rain. We see him looking up at the window of Kate's room longingly, like wishing that he could stay, wishing that she had listened to him. And he's getting ready to drive off and there's a knock at his window. And it's her, it's Kate. Just a girl in front of a boy standing in the rain. Asking to work on tornadoes.

He rolls down his window, he's so excited to see her. And she's like, you think we could make this work? And he says, yes, they go in the barn. They're trying to work it out. Because he's basically been like, hey, we could make this work? Says, yes, they go in the barn. They're trying to work it out. Because he's basically been like, hey, we could create a new model. Like I can use my computer, my updated data. I can use my data that I've been doing.

To like build a model to understand why it didn't work. And we could try it again. So they do, they build a model, they figure it out again. There's a tornado coming and they go out there and they go out and they take his truck. They've got their stuff. They drive into the tornado's path. She's like, okay, we're going to ditch the trailer in the tornado's path. And he's like, no, no, no, we're going to drive into the tornado's path with my truck and that way it can't miss.

So they do it. They drive out. She thinks he's fucking crazy when they are staying in the car, but they lock it down into the ground. Tornado comes over them, sucks the stuff up. And they're like, oh, my God, it did it. It got it. They're so excited. They look back at the tornado and they're like, but fuck, it didn't like dissipate the tornado like we thought it would.

But she had a fun time. She had a fun time. She loved it. They had a great time. But they realize, Glenn Powell's like, maybe it would. But she had a fun time. She had a fun time. She loved it. They had a great time. But they realized, Glenn Powell's like, maybe it's our model that's not working and we need to like predict, we need better data on this tornado. So she calls Javi, Javi shows up with Superman

and they have a little sort of moment. He apologizes like, I shouldn't have said that to you. And he and Tyler kind of like glare at each other. Yeah, it's like he sees Tyler on the porch, Tyler respectfully goes back into the house, but it's very clear, like, you know, she's with Tyler now. But he says, how can I make it up to you? And she says, you could give me the data that you've collected for Storm Par, so that we can have a better model.

So he does, he gives her a hard drive, Superman's not happy about it. And she says to Hybe, she's like, you could stay and you could help us. We can do this again. She wants him to do it with them. He's like, I have a job to do. I have another team that's relying on me. Good luck. And so he takes off. They use the Stormpar data and they have way better 3D model now of the tornado and they realize, oh,D model now of the tornado. And they realize, oh, not only do we need to send up the polymers that we've been sending up, we need to create more precipitation in order for the water to catch the polymers.

We buy it, but I don't... That's right. That's exactly right. That's right. Basically, they realize like there's another chemical we need to shoot up into this thing. Okay. For the polymers to work, we have to shoot up into this thing. Okay. For the polymers to work, we have to add another ingredient.

Yeah. Okay. So the model that they've got, it helped. They helped them figure it out. So Tyler calls his crew now and like, they're like, okay, we need your help. Here's what we're going to do. And they're all psyched. They're on board.

They're going to use his, his funny truck is like rigged for storm chasing where it's like it burrows them into the ground, but it also can just like shoot rockets and fireworks from the top of it. It has speakers on the outside of it, like the doof warrior from Fury Road. So they just like blast like country rock music while they do it. It's so cool. So they're like, we can shoot rockets of that first, the chemical that we need from our funny truck into the tornado and then release the polymers. And that's what's going to do it.

So this, this crew is like super on board. We're getting ready to do it. And there's a big one coming big tornado coming. And so they're going after it and the storm par people are going after it. So again, we have a little road race of like, who's cutting who off and we're chasing this tornado. The storm par people get in front of them. So they're in the lead, but it's now they're getting so close to this tornado and it's a big one and it's pouring down rain, hail. The visibility is terrible.

They're right by a oil refinery too. Yeah. And the Doppler goes out because of how close they are to the storm. So neither team has exact data on where this tornado is. They have to use the force. They have to use the force. They're going after it. So it's Javi and Superman are driving up closest to this tornado. And Superman's like, we just gotta keep going, we gotta be close.

Javi is starting to flashback, I think, to before when they were kids and is like, I think we should turn around, this is not feeling right, we're too close, this isn't good. And Superman's like, keep going, keep going, keep going. But in that moment they realize they are at this tornado and they are not gonna be able to get away from it. It's like really right there. And meanwhile, Tyler and Kate see this. They see that Javi is like up at this tornado. There's nothing they can really do.

She's like absolutely freaking out for Javi's safety. We see this tornado coming. Now Javi's trying to like back up away from it, drives into a ditch. They can't get out. The tornado is coming. It's coming through this oil refinery and causing fucking big ass fires and explosions. And it like sucks the fire up into its funnel.

So it is like a burn. It's like a tornado that is on fire. Yeah, it's so cool. God, that's the worst. It's awesome. Case situation. It is awesome. Case situation. And it is coming for Javi. Well, and it like, a piece of debris hits their truck

and it tips it over. So they're like on the side of the truck, like grinding against the gravel of the road. And just as it's seeming like they are done for, the tornado turns a little bit, starts moving away from them. The wind like writes their trucks, so they're able to pack out and away.

Kate and Tyler see that they're okay, but they also see this tornado is now heading towards a small town. So they're like, fuck, we need to go and try and help these people get to safety. So they start hightailing it to this town. Superman and Javi see this and Superman's like, they're bailing, they don't want to go after this tornado,

ha ha ha, and Javi's like, no, they're going to help people and we should be doing the same. And Superman's like, fuck that, we have to get this data, that's what this is all about. I don't care about those people. I care about the data, like I care about what we're here to do. And Javi's like trying to drive to the town and Superman's like, stop the fucking car, because he wants to get this sensor out

of the back of the car. So, Javi does, slams on the brakes, Superman's like, thank you, Superman gets out of the car, and Javi peels off and leaves him there. Yeah, Javi, yeah, Javi. Meanwhile, Tyler and Kate have arrived at this small town, along with Tyler's whole crew, and it's looking bad. I mean, winds are coming through,

people are trying to run to safety, they're trying to corral people, they're realizing the tornado shelter is full, the only other place people can go to is this movie theater in town. So they're trying to corral everybody into this movie theater. The movie theater's doing a really fun thing, we're on the big screen, it's playing,

I don't know what movie it's playing, do you know what movie it is? Frankenstein. Like the old Frankenstein movie. Whereas in Twister, there's a scene at a drive-in movie theater where a tornado is coming and they're playing Psycho? The Shining.

The Shining, that's right. The scene that they show in the drive-through in that movie is like right as Jack Nicholson is chopping the axe through the door. What? The tornado rips through the movie screen like in the exact same place of the axe chop. It's a very fun.

It's so fucking good. ...parallel. This is why you gotta watch Toy Story or something, if you're having a horrific Mother Nature experience. Put on some Pixar. Yeah, make it not reflective of your experience. Um, and so they're trying to get everyone into this movie theater, and there's like,

this town has like a little cable car running down the street, and the wind like flings this cable car down the street. It hits a piece of wood, something, and pins Tyler down. So Tyler's leg is kind of fucked up and he's pinned under this piece of wood. And Kate is trying to lift it and get him out. And this tornado is coming fast. It's like knocked into this water tower. And we're seeing the water tower is like

getting ready to fall over where they are. And this tornado is huge. Huge and black and scary and like really intense. And Tyler's telling Kate like, you gotta leave me. Like you can't stay here. And she's like, I'm not gonna leave you. And just as she's trying desperately to lift this thing up, Javi shows up and he helps her and they lift it up.

And the three of them get to the movie theater, Tyler is limping, but they're able to get him in. They get into the theater, but it is becoming quickly apparent, like parts of the roof are starting to cave in. They're like, this theater is not built to withstand this size of tornado. Javi and Tyler and Kate are looking like, is there a basement somewhere? Is there somewhere else we can go? They're sort of splitting off trying to find another way to

help people. They realize there is no basement. They're trying to just get people as far back and under the seats in the movie theater as they can in this sort of chaos and as they're all doing this and trying to help people and realizing there's no other option. Kate was like standing at the back door looking at this storm realizing it is coming for them. These people are not going to make it. Like the storm is just simply too big.

Like they can try as they might to get under these movie theater seats, but it's not gonna fucking work. And she on her own, their truck is all rigged up and ready to go with everything they need to try to dissipate this storm. She goes out alone and gets in this fucking truck and starts driving towards the tornado alone.

Oh, hell yeah. It's awesome. I started crying. Yeah, it's really powerful. It really is. Meanwhile, Tyler and Javi realize this. They have a moment of being like, where's Kate? They look out.

They see the truck going towards a tornado. There's nothing they can do. They can't go with her. They can't help her. They can't stop her. They're like, we need to try to get these people in our cells to safety as best we can. Tyler fucking screams, because I think he's just so scared

and like now loves this woman and is like, fuck, we all might be about to die. Has no other choice. So we're cutting back and forth. They're all getting to the back of the movie theater. They're helping people. Parts of the roof are falling. The movie theater screen is getting pulled out.

The whole wall gets ripped out. So it's like still like the frame of the curtains of a movie screen, but the whole wall is gone. So it's just, the tornado is just framed. It's just like a perfect view of the tornado. It's really fun. And so people are grabbing onto the like metal bar. The seats are like drilled into the ground

and people are grabbing on, but row by row, basically the seats are coming. Holy shit. We're like seeing close up of metal on the ground of like loosening, loosening, loosening. We're seeing a couple people have started flying out, getting pulled by the tornado. We're cutting back.

Kate is driving into this tornado. The truck is getting hit by debris and she does this thing that I love when movies do where like the truck is hitting you go like, and the driver goes like, ah! Like as if it's like part of their body. Yeah. And I mean, it's like her visibility is shot. She's just kind of trying her best to get to the center of this massive tornado. She is exploding around her because there's more like oil derricks that are like exploding. And so

there's fire and debris and she's crying and the wind is howling. So she's going and we're cutting back and it's like she's made it. She's made it in. She drills the truck into the ground and. But even after drilling it, it's being dragged through the ground. We see it, yeah, making basically two moats

through the mud as the truck is just getting moved. Great description. Two moats like through the mud, like as the truck is just getting moved and moved. Two moats. Perfect. I also am understanding why Daisy Edgar Jones took this role, like she is having so many emotions pass through her face right now. Oh, she's really doing it.

I can barely drive a car. Like the idea of getting into a truck that has this like drill. It's a truck movie, Henley. This is a movie about cool trucks. How does she know how this like drill. It's a truck movie, Henley. This is a movie about cool trucks. How does she know how to work it? It's a truck movie. I admire her so much.

It's a movie about the American man's connection to trucks. Yes. Shown through a British woman. Oh, and by the way, the British reporter just as a... Oh, right. At this point, like the British reporter has been like, when they get to the town, he like throws his pen and notebook aside to like help people.

So he's like all the way bought in on this too. And there was an earlier moment when they're getting ready to try to dissipate the storm. Kate with Tyler's crew, the reporter is still there. Kate is out like looking at the sky and the reporter like gets a picture of her and the sky and Tyler tells the reporter, he's like, by the way, your story is about her. It's like not about me anymore. Like I know good, like I know good way, very free of ego that you wouldn't have expected. And the reporter is basically like, yeah, yeah, it is like she's the story. And Tyler says, will you

give me a copy of that picture? Which is also really cute. This is like a picture of her that the reporter took. He's like, I want, I want a copy. But yeah, so, so Kate makes it, she locks the truck down. She shoots off the first thing, which is also really cute. This is like a picture of her that the reporter took. He's like, I want, I want a copy. But yeah, so, so Kate makes it. She locks the truck down. She shoots off the first thing, which is the rockets of that first chemical into the tornado. Meanwhile, we've cut back to the theater where now we're finally at the row

where like Tyler and his crew are all getting, we're seeing their seats are starting to loosen. It's looking really bad for them. Sasha, who's the girl from Conversations with Friends, Tyler and his crew are all getting, we're seeing their seats are starting to loosen. It's looking really bad for them. Sasha, who's the girl from Conversations with Friends, she starts getting pulled. And Tyler reaches out his hand and he's got her by the hand.

It's one of those perfect movie things where it's like, she is up basically airborne being pulled by the tornado. He's got her by the hand. His foot is like wrapped around the metal of the chair of the row behind him, but that row is starting to come loose. It's like moments away from them being done for. Kate pushes the button to deploy the polymers. The button is jammed. It's not working. It's not working. Nothing's happening. Finally, she presses the button. They go. She has meanwhile, like,

harnessed herself into the truck. She takes her hands off the wheel. She's very like, I might die here. I know that that's the case. Like, Jesus take the wheel, whatever. The polymers go up. They're shooting up into the tornado. The truck finally comes loose. The truck is flipped over and dragged around., like it's game over at this point. But we see through the clouds of storm, like inside the tornado with her, we see it's starting to dissolve. Like it is working.

It's working. It's working. And we see inside the theater, the wind is dying down. Sasha comes back down to the ground. They're okay. They made it. The tornado is no more. It's a Jurassic Park ending.

It's a Steven Spielberg miracle. And they get up, Tyler immediately knowing now that they're good and Sasha's good, he like gets up onto the movie theater stage where he can see out the big hole and like looks out. They see Kate's truck flipped, faced out, like it's not looking good. Cut to the truck and we see Kate's hand come out of that window. She starts pulling herself out of the truck, blood on her face scratched up, but

pulling herself out of the truck. She's trying to come out and then just then we see a hand grabbing hers. Tyler's there. Javi's there. The whole crew is there. Tyler's whole crew is there. They're pulling her out. They're like, they're all crying. Like Tyler's crying.

They're like, you did it. You fucking did it. Like you saved these people. You did it. The crew is all like, you're amazing. Brandon Perea's character is like, I think I'm in love with you. We're just having this really fun, lovely moment where they're like, it happened.

She's all battered and bruised, but she's emotional. Nobody kisses. Nobody kisses. Well, and then they ask, he's like, are you okay, are you okay? And then she does the little like, rodeo twisty tornado sign to him. Oh my fucking God.

That's really cute. Cut two, Javi is dropping Kate off at the airport as she's all cleaned up. He's going over the pitch with her. He's like, remember, like these are the things you're gonna say. They're gonna try to deny that what you did actually helped. They're gonna say it was like any other number of factors, but like, you know what

we did and we've got the data and she's like, I know I've got it. Importantly, Javi is not in his polo anymore. He's now wearing like a dusty denim Wrangler Storm Chaser jacket. So he's like back to the Javi of old. He's not like the slick science guy now. Yeah. And he tells her he's like, you got it partner. And so it's clear that like they are now partners in this and she's going to pitch what they're going to try to do, like

sort of going back to where they were five years ago, like get the grant, be able to do this, make their project happen. And he's given her a hug. They're like at the sort of drop off point outside the airport. We see Tyler's there with his big old truck, getting yelled at, needing to move his truck by Paul Shear. What? Who's in this movie for just this scene. I don't know, but he is. Okay, Paul Shear, you get your money however you need to.

You get your money however you need to. And Tyler gets out of the car and he comes and talks to her and he's like, so are you coming back or like what's going on? And they'd had this bit back and forth where they they ask each other for info about the tornado or whatever and they'd be like, oh, you'll find out later. And so she's like, oh, you'll find out later. And oh, I think he says like, I'm scared. I'm, I'm never going to hear from you again. Like scared that you might be about to leave forever. He's like, are you seriously,

so wait, are you seriously gonna like go? And she goes, yeah, but you know, if you feel it, chase it. There it is. That's what she says, if you feel it, chase it. There it is. And then she walks into the airport and he just kind of stands there and is like upset

and then she's left and Javi looks at him and he's like, come on dude. But Paul Scheer is yelling at Tyler, be like, move your car, like you need to move your fucking car. Wait, that's so funny that it's Paul Scheer. I know, it's so weird. It's like fine, fine, I'll move my car.

He gets in the driver's seat and shuts the door and he's like, he can see through the glass walls of the airport, Kate sitting there looking for her gate. And he's like, fuck, fuck. And so he presses the button that drills his car into the ground. He fucking drills through the concrete. Oh, nice, there it is.

To wedge his truck down on the ground. Chekhov's drill. Chekhov's car drill. G gets out, runs into the airport. Javi sees this happen, he's like, there you go, man. So now we're all, we're good, we like each other. Love, actually. He goes into the airport, he stops next to Daisy Edgar Jones and just then they look to each other

and announcement comes over the loudspeaker due to some wind in the area. All of our flights are delayed. They share a little smile. He grabs her bag. They walk off. End of movie. Wow, wow!

It's a rom-com. No kiss. It's a-com. No kiss. It's a love story. No kiss, which is good for the narrative of the character, but for me, a woman of flesh and blood, I'm pretty disappointed. I want a kiss. I wanted a kiss.

I for sure want a kiss. They had such good chemistry. It was so, so good. And I was like, really? I don't get any of that. Oh, that's so frustrating. They kept all the sugar for themselves. Well, maybe they can start in the next Sally Rooney.

Yeah, I love this. It is interesting, because I understand the ending does so much for the genre. Like if the ending was bleak and upsetting, it would be full horror. But the ending is like happy and uplifting. It's an action movie ending. And then it becomes a full... Yeah, it's a crowd pleaser.

Full crowd pleaser, which I love. Yeah. But without the kiss, which I also like, I really admire their restraint on that. I'm sure that was a big battle for them. Apparently they did film an ending with a kiss and went with the ending without it. Because it's not about that. I'm sure that was a big battle for them. Apparently they did film an ending with a kiss and went with the ending without it. Cause it's not about that. So the kiss is out there. All I'm saying is I don't need it to be in the movie,

but I need to see it. Just show it to me. Show it to us. Maybe a bonus feature on the Blu-ray. Oh my God, give us a Blu-ray. Just give me anything. I'll take anything. It's Glenn Powell. I loved it. I love that this is a blockbuster film about Mother Nature. It feels very early 2000s to me and I miss that.

I miss the films about Mother Nature Nature action films about Mother Nature like that Scared the shit out of me. It's too real now. It's very true real and it scared me as a kid like deep impact and even like Armageddon and stuff like was very scary to me as a child and Mm-hmm. It makes it all the more like Delicious though to hear about this one because I'm like,, ooh, it's nostalgic and I fucking love it. And I love Daisy Edgar Jones and I love Gumbel. It was a great summer movie, man. Oh, God, I love it.

Yeah, I love him. It was a great time. And Anthony Ramos was also so good in it. He's really good, man. He's a star. Yeah, he's amazing. I forced Silas to watch some of Hamilton this morning. He was also so good in it. He's really good, man. He's a star. He's really good. He's amazing. I forced Silas to watch some of Hamilton this morning and he didn't take to it right away,

but I feel like there's a runway there we can work with. I'm going to go to bed. It is almost 11. You got to go to bed. Yeah, you stayed up too late. No, no, no. That's the time for me to feed baby May. Oh, okay. So it's actually perfect timing.

Wow. Because I'm going to say goodbye to you guys and then I'm going to go heft my hefty daughter out of her little tent and I'm going to feed her and then I shall go to bed myself. That's a perfect evening if I ever heard one. That sounds so nice. And I'm gonna whisper to her the entire plot of Twisters. Yes, just tell her the whole, spend another two hours and 20 minutes

on the plot of Twisters and then go right to sleep. Just make sure that you teach baby Mae as she grows, not to face her fears, but to ride them. Ride them. Ride them. Ride them. Ride them. Ride them. Alright, and I'm gonna do, don't face your fears, ride them.

If you feel it, I'm gonna try to do Clint Paul's accent. If you feel it, chase it. From all of us here at Too Scary to Watch, if you feel it, goodbye. Chase it. Chase it. Goodbye. Goodbye. Bye. Bye.

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