🌪️'Twisters' Whips Up $10.7M in Thursday Previews🌪️

[just444]

'Twisters' Whips Up $10.7M in Thursday Previews https://t.co/jy42yxLKdy
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 19, 2024

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Glen Powell our last millennial movie star?

The early Twisters numbers are fantastic

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[squirrels_oh_no]

Saw it last night and I liked it enough, but it was basically a beat for beat remake of the original. Most of the scene order from the original was repeated. Even the characters had direct counterparts in many cases. It was a fun remake, but I kinda wanted an actual sequel, even if there was the slightest of hint (maybe, probably reading into it) that their [Spoiler (click to open)]professor was Jo given they somehow got an old Dorothy unit for Kate's Ph.D. project. However who goes to a state COLLEGE in the US for a Ph.D? How many colleges actually grant doctorates?

[my_moloko]

Oh, that sounds really disappointing.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I think the only real major tie besides Dorothy's cameo - and it was Dorothy V so one built after the events of the first one but with the exact same design, albeit with updated sensors was not even really an actual tie, but [Spoiler (click to open)]Bill Paxton's son playing an unrelated character in one scene just as an easter egg.

[quoyle]

[Link to spoiler] many colleges/universities in Oklahoma (and US in general) are state schools, range between being larger and smaller research programs that grant PhDs

[squirrels_oh_no]

[Spoiler (click to open)]At least in the states where I've lived, public colleges are generally reserved for liberal arts stuff, but hey, IDK about Oklahoma, just the east coast really. I think it's semantics of the college vs. university terminology debate and all. Maybe Muskogee State College is just super into meteorology. It doesn't exist in reality, but still LOL. I know some colleges do grant doctorates, but I think the vast majority of Ph.D. meteorologists in the US went to universities (or institutes of technology), not colleges, for their doctorates (and according to Google, the only college that grants even Masters in Meteorology in the US is the College of Charleston). But it's nothing that actually impacts the movie LOL.

[januarysix]

I learned something new today lol. I had no idea college and university were two different things. I went UTexas and I consider that a state college? I guess it is not lol at my ignorant ass, they should revoke my degree.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I think that would be a state university haha. People in the US say they went to college, but for a lot of those people, they technically went to a university for their college education.

Undergraduates at Harvard technically attend Harvard College, which is part of Harvard University I guess.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/articles/college-vs-university-whats-the-difference

[sudols]

Oh man, so there are really no ties ins to the original?

I heard the original draft for the script was having the female lead be Jo and Bill's kid. While cliché, I think I would've liked that better.

[squirrels_oh_no]

The only tie in is [Spoiler (click to open)]Dorothy and several characters repeating lines verbatim from the first one, so if you're here for the suck zone, you will be rewarded!

[januarysix]

the music and weirdos weren't as fun but I did like Glen and Daisy's chemistry. There was no Aunt Meg no matter how much they tried. and Wakita was a better town that I already forgot the small town name of they one they used.

[squirrels_oh_no]

It was Sapulpa LOL. It's between OKC and Tulsa.

But at the end it took place in the town of El Reno where the largest tornado ever recorded was (although it wasn't an EF-5, only a 3 - big but not that strong), although luckily for most, it stayed in the country. Several storm chasers died, though. First recorded storm chaser deaths ever.