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.
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