I have a huge bone to pick with the Twisters ending.
Picture this. You’re an extremely hot and successful YouTuber who uses his brilliance as a meteorologist to track tornadoes in Oklahoma and also, because you’re a good person, save hundreds of people in the storms’ path. You look exactly like “Gen Z heartthrob” Glen Powell. You recently met a damaged yet beautiful scientist who thinks that the type of gel found in diapers could stop tornadoes. You guys flirt a lot, survive like five tornadoes, save a bunch of lives, and try out the diaper thing. (It works, kind of!)
Now she’s at the airport to fly back to her job as a meteorologist in New York. You follow her there, abandon your car in the middle of traffic, and run inside. The music swells. Your eyes lock. And then…
Nothing. Literally nothing.
This is the Twisters ending, the cinematic equivalent of blue balls. After building up a romance between Tyler Owens (Powell) and Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) for the entire two-hour run time of the film, the two never kiss. They never make out. They never even hold hands.
This is even more confusing when you consider that the romantic tension between the two not only drives most of the plot, it’s pretty explicitly spelled out. There are long lingering moments and smoldering eyes. There’s even a half-assed love triangle, as Kate’s longtime friend and former business partner Javi (Anthony Ramos) tries to shoot his shot with Kate in the back half of the film. When he realizes that he’s losing out to Glen Powell (it’s okay, buddy), he implicitly gives his blessing for the two of them to ride off into the sunset.
Which they do. Just without consummating the relationship in any sense.
I found it strange and annoying. And it’s especially odd considering Powell’s well-earned reputation for being extremely good at creating romantic tension with his female co-stars. Take his chemistry with Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You. Their flirtatious red carpet appearances and giggly interviews not only made the entire internet go feral, it very likely contributed to the film’s success at the box office.
So when I saw Powell and Edgar-Jones on the cover of Entertainment Weekly last week, their lips inches apart and yearning with sexual tension, I almost threw my computer. What kind of trickery is this? If you’re going to sell me on a hot and heavy, tornado-fueled romance between two extremely attractive people, don’t fade to black!
The press tour has been no better for my sanity. Everyone’s predictably salivating over Edgar-Jones and Powell and their “chemistry. For example, this video of Edgar-Jones commenting on Powell’s ass.
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Or them talking about making out…suggestively.
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Also, apparently they did film a kissing scene, it was extremely hot, and they DID NOT INCLUDE IT IN THE MOVIE.
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If you’re wondering why this travesty happened, there’s one person to blame: Steven Spielberg. This according to Edgar-Jones and Powell in an interview with Collider, in which Edgar-Jones said she recalled the decision to cut the kiss was “a Spielberg note, wasn’t it”
“I think it stops the film feeling too cliched, actually,” I think there’s something really wonderful about it feeling like there’s a continuation. This isn’t the end of their story. They’re united by their shared passion for something.”
Sadly, Powell agreed, saying “this movie is not about them finding love (?)
“It’s returning Kate to the thing that she loves, which is storm chasing,” he explained. “So that’s what you have at the end of the movie. They share this thing, and her passion is reinvigorated, and her sense of home is reinvigorated. I feel like a kiss would be sort of unrepresentative of the right goal at the end of the movie. And it is a good Spielberg note. It’s why that kid is still in this game. It’s amazing.”
Umm…sorry but no. What’s wrong with them having a shared passion for tornadoes but also for hooking up? Is love dead? And if the movie is all about tornadoes, why are they doing this to promote it?
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So fool me once, Hollywood. The next time I see Powell smoldering with a young ingénue, I won’t get my hopes up.
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