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4DX Is the Only Way You Should Watch Twisters

You don’t face your fears. You ride ’em.

First, if you didn’t heed my advice earlier this year about seeing Dune: Part Two in 4DX and don’t know what I’m talking about, 4DX is a theatrical format in select cinemas, where seats are equipped to move, jostle, vibrate, lift, dip, and occasionally attack you with water, air jets, a back-punching mechanism, and what my moviegoing companion referred to as a “little tickler” near the ankles. The most impressive 4DX effect is the seats’ range and fluidity of movement; they can lift and tilt the audience gently with a soaring drone shot over wind farms and fields of wheat, or they can completely toss you back and forth like a mechanical bull. The ante-upping proposition at the heart of this sequel comes in the form of Glen Powell’s character, Tyler Owens, a country boy–scientist–YouTuber who brands himself as a “tornado wrangler.” There’s a running gag about him peddling T-shirts with a cartoon version of him riding a twister like a bucking bull.

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