Perhaps the most startling difference between Twister and Twisters is the attractiveness of the ✃cast. While Twister felt like ordinary people you believed were on the fringes of society chasing weather, Twisters features people you could see in magazines advertising perfume. And in real life, we do.

It’s not necessarily a criticism. While I think Twisters loses the tornado in its sails as it sets up its finale, I prefer its overall narrative and think it offers deeper villains and a more rounded story by focussing on the human impact of tornado damage. The setting dur༺ing Oklahoma’s worst tornado season ever, plus the country-fried soundtrack, makes it seem otherworldly too.

All things said and done, I prefer Twisters to Twister. But with the cast near wall to wall heartthrobs, it fee𓃲ls♑ like a reminder of the new direction of Hollywood. The movie business has always been for The Beautiful People, but it also took all kinds of kinds. Speaking as an ugly person, we have talent too, and it’s hard to not look at Twisters and think about what the industry is losing.

Twisters' Cast Is Just A Bunch Of Leads In Smaller Roles

Of course, attractiveness on some level is subjective. My wife turned to me as we left the movie and said “Why on earth did she pick Glen Powell over Anthony Ramos?”, even though Powell’s innate hotness is the chief reason for this article. I contend that Ramos was not offered as a true romantic lead, but was instead a representation of Kate ‘being back’, which she rejected until Powell’s love of storms got through to her. My wif🍸e also said “Anthony Ramos can abuse my tragedy for insurance gain any day”, so I’m not sure she’s thinking clearly on the subject.

But that itself is part of the point. While Powell is positioned as the new Hollywood heartthrob, Ramos is also highly attractive and a seasoned romantic lead himself. Meanwhile, the supporting cast included Sabrina lead Kiernan Shipk💞a, Love Lies Bleeding lead Katy O’Brien, OA star and badly-due-a-breakout Brandon Perera, new Superman David Corenswet, and bubbling under but obviously good-looking Daryl McCormack.

There is another, cheaper version of this movie (obviously with worse tornadoes), where Shipka and Perera lead it. You can’t really say that about the original cast, which was loaded with iconic character actors such as Sean Whalen, Alan Ruck, Joey Slotnick, Zach Grenier, and the legendary Patrick Fischer, plus Phillip Seymour Hoffman back wheཧn he was doing his Jack Black thing.

It’s leads all the way down now, and the art of the character actor is being lost. Chris Pratt is one of the most sought after actors in the worl�🐽�d, but would that be the case if he were still schlubby comic relief? Even though that would make him 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a better fit for Garfield and Mario, I doubt it. And then there’s Bill Paxton.

Movie Stars Used To Look Like Real People

Our humble Twister lead might have been a crush for some of your mothers in the ‘90s, but putting him next to Glen Powell it’s clear the sequel goes in a different direction. Of course, the ‘90s was the era of the Hollywood megahunks, and Powell being a seemingly vapid (but actually smart and empathetic) YouTuber is key to the role. It wouldnꦅ’t work with Paxton i🍰n there. But these days, what role would?

Paxton perfectly sells the idea that he is a regular ol’ dreamer who gave it up for a life of peace with a corporate wife. He needs to look like a regular Joe for that to land. The ‘90s might have been the era of hunks, but they were also a time when a lot of movies about everymen were made, and they were played by everyman actors. Ed Norton in Fight Club, Ron Livingstone in Office Space, Michael Douglas in Falling Down… these mo෴vies would all be a little less relatable today, partly because lots of ‘90s movies were men being mad about having jobs, but also because the leads would be at least ten percent hotter.

It’s not really a comment on Twisters, where the attractive cast does a great job. It’s hard to imagine anyone besides Powell in it either, and we might be looking back on this movie in a decade as the birthplace of a bonafide movie star, if we don’t retroactively gi𓆏♌ve that credit to Top Gun: Maverick. It just feels like the field of actors to choose from is thinner, and while they found their perfect man this time, less choice means that won’t alw💦ays be the case.

Twister was one of the most profitable movies of its decade (15th in the ‘90൲s), and relative to inflation and its peers, Twisters will likely not reach that benchmark. That’s not a failing, it’s a solid good time of a blockbuster, will help establish Glen Powell as an A-lister, and opened to $123m internationally. Twisters is great. But it reminds me that we don’t let guys like Bill Paxton lead movies anymore, and it feels like we’re losing a lot in that deal.

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