Film Preview: Twisters (2024)

Film Poster

Page Revisions:

(February 18, 2024) Original
(May 12, 2024) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#2-#3)
(July 14, 2024) New Posters (#4-#10)

Release Date:

July 19, 2024

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “An update to the 1996 film ‘Twister’, which centered on a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives in an attempt to test an experimental weather alert system.”

Poster Rating: C / C / C+ / C+ / C (3) / C+ / B- / C

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Review: (#1, C) For a film called Twisters, having only one is a bit of a dodge. It does remind favorably of the design for the original, but in this day and age, it’s insufficient.

(#2, C) Setting the characters into a field on the outskirts of a storm is suggestive but surprisingly dull. (#3, C+) While it might create a small sense of excitement it also feels like something that the Sharknado producers had put together.

(#4, C+) There seem to be a lot of designs lately that take massive title characters and embedding images in them. This is a simplistic design where there’s only one image and that keeps the effort feeling unnecessarily mediocre. (#5-#7, C) These format-specific designs are all lifeless in spite of any action elements presented. None of them stand out as appealing though the third for Dolby looks way too much like a Ghostbusters sequel. (#8, C+) It’s an action shot and the titular tornadoes are in the background but that’s the limit of its appeal. (#9, B-) While this doesn’t differ much from the prior effort, it does one thing better: it sets the stakes of a disaster film unlike any prior designs, which put the danger in a remote location. (#10, C) And now we have people standing around and that minimizes the danger and action elements of the film. The various items in the tornado’s funnel don’t add much intrigue.

Trailer Rating: C+ / C

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Review: (#1, C+) What the 1996 special effects extravaganza had going for it was its humor-tinged tension. That doesn’t seem to be well executed in the trailer and the effects look about as good as they did with the original, which is worrisome.

(#2, C) There was a perverse charm to the original film and the trailers managed to highlight the adventure and excitement without making the audience feel cheated. This trailer does almost the opposite throwing every bit of nature’s fury porn at the audience without making the plot seem that interesting. It even manages to make its faux-country roots feel tacky and limiting.