Days of Thunder (1990)
Directed by Tony Scott
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash their cars. But with the help of his doctor, Cole just might overcome his injuries-- and his fear.
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…possibly since “Days of Thunder,”…
One of the following three movies is on the TV, no earlier than half over: Days of Thunder, Remember the Titans, or Glory Road.
In order to see the issues in F1: The Movie clearly, I have to talk about Days of Thunder (again).
It's a film that makes Days of Thunder look downright subtle and muted.
It’s a drama with Formula One racing, blondes who look at computer screens with wavy speed lines, cocky kids who Learn A Lesson, and Brad Pitt.
Racing films are landmarks of dad cinema, from ‘90s classics like Days of Thunder to recent bangers like the Oscar-winning Ford v Ferrari…
Essentially a more serious version of Days of Thunder , albeit more from the perspective of Tom Cruise’s rivalry with Michael Rooker than his romance with Nicole Kidman, the movie hard-sells the kind of “competition as camaraderie” between men that’s really, really hard for dudes (myself included) to resist.
It's much better than Tom Cruise's Days of Thunder and Sylvester Stallone's Driven.
We don’t get many films about professional racing, only “Senna”, “Days of Thunder”, and “Talladega Nights” come immediately to mind, so it’s always refreshing to see a film attempt to capture the speed and power of the elegant machines built to satiate humankind’s relentless need to race.
There's a junkyard of movies - "Driven," "Days of Thunder," "Le Mans" - that faltered because filmmakers used their shiny, fast-moving automobiles as an excuse to ignore the story.
Frankly, when the halfway point rolled around and I thought to myself, 'I’d rather be watching Days of Thunder again," I knew things were veering off course.
Those locals who lamented that 1990’s Days of Thunder transposed the word “Charlotte” over an image of a good ol' boy drinking out of a Mason jar while standing in front of a dilapidated barn will be further disheartened with the representation here.
Y por supuesto, manejando autos de Nascar, como en Días de trueno (Days of Thunder, 1990), donde también encuentra un sabio maestro (Robert Duvall).
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More than just a Days Of Thunder spoof (a plaintive cry of "Help me, Tom Cruise!" notwithstanding), Talladega Nights showcases Will Ferrell's comedy genius to perfection.
It also inevitably begs comparison to everything from Days of Thunder to Talladega Nights to, um, Stroker Ace to, uh, The Love Bug and, sure why not, Cars and The Cannonball Run and Death Race 2000 .
Days of Thunder starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman had a blazing hot romance side story for the rest of us (who don’t follow cars or racing) in the audience.
Compare it with classic racing movies — James Garner and Steve McQueen reportedly did their own driving in “Grand Prix” (1966) and “Le Mans” (1970), respectively, as did Tom Cruise 20 years later on “Days of Thunder” — and “Ford v Ferrari” looks like Pixar’s “Cars” or the Wachowskis’ “Speed Racer,” despite the fact no CGI was used during these scenes.
From "Top Gun" to "Days of Thunder" to "True Romance' (probably my favorite film by Scott) he has always displayed a sure hand in entertaining his demographic audience.
I will say that the end of the film brings into focus something that was tickling me throughout the whole film, and indeed can be found scattered throughout Tony Scott's entire filmography: while it's easy to look at that man's body of work, and conclude that he makes feature-length commercials for technology and machines, praising a metallic, dehumanised way of life (the three films that strike me as "quintessential" Scott, are Top Gun, Days of Thunder , and Crimson Tide; a movie about planes, cars, and a submarine, respectively, with only the last of these about its characters to any meaningful way at all), his films also tend to hinge on male relationships.
On the Tony Scott scale of high-gloss quality vs. high-gloss crapola, it ranks much closer to "Crimson Tide" than it does empty vessels of cinematic cool like "Enemy of the State," "Top Gun," "Days of Thunder," "The Fan" or "The Last Boy Scout."
(Scott, you may recall, directed "Days of Thunder" in Charlotte 11years ago, subsequently marrying a Lake Norman woman he met on that shoot.
At times, Whiplash suggests a dark riff on an early Tom Cruise movie, with Teller in the Cruise role of the obsessed hotshot committed to being the best in the world, and Simmons as the hardass mentor (think Robert Duvall in Days Of Thunder , Paul Newman in The Color Of Money , or Tom Skerritt in Top Gun ) who pushes his protégés to heights they never imagined possible.
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"The Rock" is the last production of the late Don Simpson and his partner Jerry Bruckheimer, who were responsible for frenetic films such as "Top Gun" and "Days of Thunder."
From the director of Bladerunner, Alien and sadly GI Jane, Ridley Scott's movies nowadays more resemble those by his high concept brother Tony, of Days of Thunder and Top Gun fame.