THB #573: Twisters

It. Is. All. In. Close. Up.

This is the first thing about Twisters that made it a bad action movie.

No one wants to criticize Lee Isaac Chung after Minari, his 5th feature, but his first breakthrough film. A beautiful movie. An industry moment for Korean Americans. A guy you want to root for.

So Universal follows the Marvel playbook and hires the indie director to make the massive effects movie, hoping that he will bring the character moments that will make the light show greater than the sum of its CG.

It’s worked for Marvel a few times… but in more cases, the director or directing team has left the project before it got made. Some truly great directors have been in and out of Marvel projects. Maybe the ambitions of Marvel were well served by these choices… maybe not. There is no way of knowing, even though we all root for our favored directors.

I am still pissed off by the exit of Phil Lord & Chris Miller from Solo when the LucasFilm team decided mid-production that the boys’ process…