Funny you mention Hallmark. I'm not on board the Glen Powell hype train. He has this vibe like he graduated from starring in Hallmark/Lifetime "Christmas in July" films to actual Hollywood productions.
This movie was stupid fun. Friends and I were hooting and hollering in the theater over the dumbest things. The tornado scenes were legitimately stressful. I'm going back in 4DX
Glen Powell doesn't work for me, because he has like this tiny little mouth on a big ol' pumpkin head. So when he smirks, which seems to be often... it's jarring and weird.
As someone who saw Twister in theaters twice in 1996 and dozens of times on TNT/DVD over the next 28 years, I appreciated that this remembered why the original worked:
- It's small without seeming it. Both movies involve some goofy scientists (and evil corporate scientists) driving around rural Oklahoma, trying to develop better meteorological tech. They still give you a summer movie's worth of setpieces and thrills. The simplicity of high-concept and human stakes is missing in a lot of blockbusters these days, and I think we all crave it.
- The cast (DEJ aside). None of the characters in either movie are three-dimensional, but they're strongly sketched and/or strongly typecast, so they're memorable even if they only get a couple lines. And everyone in this one is hot in different ways, not just off the muscly assembly line.
- Actually shooting on location, which assists the CGI by grounding the sense of place. And it doesn't look like we're an hour outside LA/ATL for once.
- The Top 40 country/rock soundtrack, which I'm very tempted to buy on CD - I've still got the original in a box somewhere.
Needless to say, easily the best movie of the summer on my end. I didn't NEED them to kiss at the end, but it was a little weird to set it up (hey, that's a Glen Powell romcom!) like they were going to kiss, with the running-through-the-airport business.
" She has a lot of Anne Hathaway qualities, but without some of the sublimated manic energy that usually makes Hathaway compelling."
To quote Matt Lieb, "she got them peepers, bruh"
"This is at its heart a big, stupid movie about hot people chasing and running from killer wind." Say less, playa.
Also, how dare you trick me into clicking an uproxx link?? Haven't been back since you left and I *stand on business!
*or whatever Drake said before he died.
Vacation, what is this France!?
Funny you mention Hallmark. I'm not on board the Glen Powell hype train. He has this vibe like he graduated from starring in Hallmark/Lifetime "Christmas in July" films to actual Hollywood productions.
This movie was stupid fun. Friends and I were hooting and hollering in the theater over the dumbest things. The tornado scenes were legitimately stressful. I'm going back in 4DX
haha, yep.
Glen Powell doesn't work for me, because he has like this tiny little mouth on a big ol' pumpkin head. So when he smirks, which seems to be often... it's jarring and weird.
As someone who saw Twister in theaters twice in 1996 and dozens of times on TNT/DVD over the next 28 years, I appreciated that this remembered why the original worked:
- It's small without seeming it. Both movies involve some goofy scientists (and evil corporate scientists) driving around rural Oklahoma, trying to develop better meteorological tech. They still give you a summer movie's worth of setpieces and thrills. The simplicity of high-concept and human stakes is missing in a lot of blockbusters these days, and I think we all crave it.
- The cast (DEJ aside). None of the characters in either movie are three-dimensional, but they're strongly sketched and/or strongly typecast, so they're memorable even if they only get a couple lines. And everyone in this one is hot in different ways, not just off the muscly assembly line.
- Actually shooting on location, which assists the CGI by grounding the sense of place. And it doesn't look like we're an hour outside LA/ATL for once.
- The Top 40 country/rock soundtrack, which I'm very tempted to buy on CD - I've still got the original in a box somewhere.
Needless to say, easily the best movie of the summer on my end. I didn't NEED them to kiss at the end, but it was a little weird to set it up (hey, that's a Glen Powell romcom!) like they were going to kiss, with the running-through-the-airport business.
Movie would have been 30% better if Kiernan Shipka had switched roles with DEJ.