Twisters gonna be fun!

This piece contains spoilers. If you haven't seen 'Twister', you need to relook at your life choices. And then watch it.  

The first time we saw the trailer to this was before Super Bowl 24, and it gave us a sense of "Why in the hell are you ruining a good thing?"

However this year, it's become a little more prescient. 

There have been a whacking 864 tornadoes this year, ranging from the ones that don't hit anything (Thank God!) to the one that leaves a city without power for nearly a week (Hello Houston!). 

The reasons why Tornado Season is getting worse and worse, which is why a movie like this will almost certainly be a little bit of fun in the madness.

The old one simply wasn't that. It was simply: 'This is a nasty motherf**er, and we're going to do our best to understand it". 

The woman on a mission (Helen Hunt) was someone who'd seen it "miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you", and he's joined by 'The Extreme', Bill (Bill Paxton). 

What makes 'Twister' so special is that it wasn't a vehicle for a Glen Powell. The star was the fucking tornado. 

It ripped houses to their cores, trees from limb to limb. Destroyed Jack Nicholson's face while he was about to kill his daughter in The Overlook Hotel. Scared many, many people. 

The roaring, evil monster also ensures that the cast don't have to be on Oscar form. After all, they are going 1-on-1 with the undefeatable, so you end up just hoping that they'd get out alive. 

In fact, if you really want to go for it, 'Twister' was also good because while the twister acted up and knocked down, the whole cast acted pretty well. 

Bill Paxton (Bill Harding) - God rest his soul - wasn't a very good actor, but by God, he got the right roles and it worked, dammit. His partner-in-crime, Dr Jo Harding (Helen Hunt), dialed it up to 5 on the Fujita Scale on the earnestness front (she's on a mission to save the world from this kind of evil), and there was Bill's fiancee (Jami Gertz), there to make sure Billy got his ex-wife to sign the paperwork so they could get married and live happily ever after. Gertz was a twister virgin, but a licensed sex therapist. It's a love triangle with a lot of damage in the middle, baby. 

And yet they all killed it. 

Oh, and the supporting cast are incredible. 

Philip Seymour Hoffman is incredible as Dusty as the crazy stormchaser, who worships tornadoes and Bill in equal measure, whacks on 'Child of Mine' by Deep Purple while driving the rig towards the storm for everyone to hear, and then chills out to Clapton's 'Motherless Child' in the sun, while explaining to Jami all about the big twirly sucker in the sky ("It's all about the suck zone!") in the creepiest way possible. Oh, and he still craves sustenance, and he talks like he's about to hit the surf at any time. When, you know, he's probably from Wisconsin.

 

 Then there's Rabbit (Alan Ruck), who's the cocky navigator who's never wrong, but he's as batshit crazy anyone out there. And remember, he's good and he's wise. And don't fold the ****ing maps. 

We've also got a dude who blasts out the William Tell overture en route to attacking a tornado, screaming maniacally with adrenaline and gets hit in the head by some steel, and there's the dude who sums it all up by saying: "I'd like to get by lightning once, y' know, see what it's like". 

And who could not love Aunt Meg (Lois Smith), Jo's hippyish family member, who puts cows on plates and wind chimes out front? You find yourself praying for safety not have been eaten alive by the tornado that rips a hole in her town (Update: The dog makes it out, too). Her role - like her gravy - is iconic in this one.

And while Cary Elwes is also excellent - and believable - as the baddie, who steals the great idea of throwing bubbles into a tornado and creating an early warning system within it and gets himself some corporate backing (and dies in a predictable but hilarious way), he's simply not as good as the biggest baddie.....

The Twister itself.

So please Glen and friends, please don't screw this one up.