Summer is the biggest season in Hollywood. It’s the time of year studios look to release their larger budgeted movies in hopes that they become blockbusters. However, it used to be a shorter time as Memorial Day weekend used to be the starting point. That ended when Marvel Studios started taking over the first weekend in May (“The Fall Guy” took that slot this year with no new comic book move ready for release yet). However, in 1996 one movie got the summer started a little early, “Twister!” Directed by cinematographer turned director, Jan de Bont and written by Michael Crichton along with his wife, Anne-Marie Martin, “Twister” starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton and gave moviegoers and early thrill ride planting a seed that studios did not have to wait until the final weekend in May to get big box office returns.
“Twisters” may sound like a sequel, but it’s not. Outside of having the same title with an “s” added at the end this movie has no real connection with the original. The plot is a little similar. Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) was a storm chaser until terribly a tragedy happened involving a tornado. Years later, a friend gets her to get back in the game to do a 3D scan of a tornado in hopes that it could lead to the development of an early warning system. A love interest is also introduced in the form of Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), a storm chaser who has a popular YouTube channel. What happens when they team up and can they finally “tame a tornado”?
