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The first thing that struck me about Twisters was how normal it looked. Not in a way that would have been striking back in 1996 when the original Twister with Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt was a hit, but definitely shocking in 2024 because the sequel somehow involved a dominant white male lead full of toxic masculinity and a cast that did not look as if it had stumbled out a Megan Thee Stallion music video.
Somehow Twisters got made without anyone asking where the BIPOC people are, including a long speech about sexual identity or lecturing about global warming. And the media is not happy.
‘Twisters’ Director on Not Mentioning Climate Change: Movies Shouldn’t “Preach a Message – Hollywood Reporter
There’s A Reason “Twisters” Doesn’t Address Climate Change Even Though It’s A Movie About Extreme Weather – BuzzFeed
You won’t hear about climate change in ‘Twisters.’ Here’s why – CNN
It’s 2024 and a movie not pushing a political agenda is headline news.
“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like (it) is putting forward any message,” director Lee Isaac Chung explained in an interview with CNN. “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”
To his credit, there is some scientific justification for the omission, too. Generally, scientists are the least certain about the connection between tornadoes and climate change as it’s unclear how warming temperatures are changing storms themselves or the outbreaks.
However, evidence is growing of the potential impact of planet-warming pollution.
Sure, sure.
How and why did Twisters avoid the same woke gutter as so many other movies? Maybe the producers decided they wanted to make money. Who knows? The story does come from Joseph Kosinski, who directed Top Gun Maverick, another movie that tried to appeal to audiences with some old-fashioned 80s’ movie making, and was originally due to direct this one, The script is from Mark L. Smith who had previously written the well-received The Boys in the Boat.
Somehow the world will have to go on ending without Twisters.
Martina Vaslovik says
When the Left becomes enamored of a lie they will never ever stop pushing it. The global warming lie was cooked up by the communist death cult The Club of Rome, which in 1991 published their book The First Global Revolution. They as much as admit they made it up.
From The First Global Revolution, page 75:
It would seem that humans need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum; such a motivation must be found to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real one *or else one invented for the purpose.*
New enemies therefore have to be identified.
New strategies imagined, new weapons devised.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.
Al Gore is a member of the Club of Rome, as was Mikhail Gorbachev, an avowed communist to the very end.
MuggsSpongedice says
Conspiracy theories of yore are conspiracy facts today!
Algorithmic Analyst says
Most everything has to put in the obligatory plug for “Climate Change”, even otherwise rational articles on wildfire fighting technology (which I read a couple hours ago 🙂
Blaming “Climate Change” for wildfires helps obscure the poor wildfire fighting techniques the leftists use.
SPURWING PLOVER says
I saw the movie Twister and they weren’t using Global Warming since is wasn’t in Fashion back then and so the Media Bottom Feeders are disappointed because the newer movie isn’t blaming Global Warming/Climate Change unlike Keven Cosner’s big time bomb WATER WORLD sis. I Guess they wanted it to be like Gore and DiCaprio’s two fake films and be chock full of Climate Change poppycock and Thunberg’s nasty little face
CowboyUp says
Telling a story instead of, and without preaching a message is a novel concept these days. It’s not my kind of movie. I didn’t see the original even though it had Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in it, but it would be refreshing to see a movie with little to no preaching in it.