Days of Thunder
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. From TMDB
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60 of 182 · most liked firstFinally watched F1 last night and damn, that might be the dumbest movie I’ve seen in a long while. Makes Days of Thunder seem like Hamlet. Amazing racing scenes though.
unlabelledView post →‘DAYS OF THUNDER 2’ is moving forward with Tom Cruise returning to star. Filming is eyeing to begin in early 2027. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)
unlabelledView post →How much cocaine does a human being have to consume in order to forget to film the most important scene of their $60 million movie? A “Days Of Thunder” amount.
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder (1990) Directed by Tony Scott
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched F1 - Days of Thunder: The Next Generation Iron Lung - I'm glad that you liked the film. And that's what really matters Big Trouble in Little China - You know what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like this? The Hitcher - 80s Rutger Hauer. The best vintage
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder (Film: 1990 / DVD: 1999)
unlabelledView post →My main memory of DAYS OF THUNDER is that it was the first film in DTS to play the Chinese, and when we went opening day, it absolute fucking destroyed the center channel speakers in the theater. Like literally ruined them and they had to cancel a few screenings. Good times!
unlabelledView post →Happy 71st Birthday to the criminally underrated Michael Rooker, versatile film & TV actor, acclaimed for roles in HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, EIGHT MEN OUT, MISSISSIPPI BURNING, DAYS OF THUNDER, JFK, THE DARK HALF, CLIFFHANGER, TOMBSTONE, MALLRATS, SLITHER, and THE WALKING DEAD, and more.
unlabelledView post →just seen Tom Cruise is teasing a follow-up to the 1990 film Days of Thunder, one of those 7/10 one-off films Hollywood used to make for summer fun which nobody has ever needed more of, nobody has thought of this film since about 1992
unlabelledView post →America... I feel like I'm a NASCAR fan waiting and watching for the big wreck on turn 4 like in the movie Days of Thunder. I know it's coming and when it does it's going to be a BIG one! What hurts is that the people I care about are in the cars in back. I'm just hoping some of us survive it.
unlabelledView post →putting on DAYS OF THUNDER for the first time in a million years while trying to go to sleep, and i can see why this movie is so big, nicole kidman and tom cruise do a great job playing “smart, beautiful, talented woman” and “charmless twerp who is comically and inexplicably out of his league”
unlabelledView post →WHAT AN AMAZING TALENT ROBERT DUVALL HAS DIED AT 95 WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE THAT HE STARRED IN? THE GODFATHER AND DAYS OF THUNDER FOR ME WITH APOCALYPSE NOW CLOSE BEHIND. RIP SIR.
unlabelledView post →I love Days of Thunder largely for nostalgia/guilty pleasure reasons, but yeah, Robert Duvall in this movie is another great answer to "fantastic performance in an objectively bad movie" convo starter I posed on here last month
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder (1990) Directed by Tony Scott
unlabelledView post →Happy 35th to GHOST. Saw a sneak-preview of it with DAYS OF THUNDER. I remember two burly guys came in after me loudly complaining about having to sit through a sissy movie just to see DAYS OF THUNDER. After GHOST ended, one of them was crying and the other one was comforting him.
unlabelledView post →Not so much to supplement film/tv income as to supplement all showbiz income - they were both stage actors at the time (the time being the early ‘80s.) Wayne Knight’s first credited film role was in “Dirty Dancing” and Margo Martindale’s was in “Days of Thunder”. Margo has said she only worked as a
unlabelledView post →A ‘Days Of Thunder’ sequel is in the works with Tom Cruise set to return. Cruise is close to the age where his right-turn blinker remains on for the entire film.
unlabelledView post →F1 is a solid Dad Movie. I'll forever be convinced it started liife as a Days of Thunder sequel but it works on its own. But I have to dock at a point for introducing Shea Whigham in the first scene and then never bringing him back in the 2 hours and 20 minutes that follow.
unlabelledView post →Happy 35th anniversary to Days of Thunder. callsheetapp.com/movie/2119
unlabelledView post →#LogLoads64 Days of Thunder Wow. Another #C64 game by those scamps over at Tiertex. I wonder what th- SHIT! It's utter shit! Another #MovieTieIn and not a Tom Cruise in sight, oh no, tilt your head down, there he is. So, I just did Daytona Qually. It is awful, but, is a exercise in gear management!
unlabelledView post →New ep & big weird movie! James & Maso watched The Dog Stars & Lanterns plus all your latest news including Days of Thunder 2! Available on all pod apps #weeklyplanetpod
unlabelledView post →DAYS OF THUNDER is 35. One of the worst movies I somehow saw multiple times in the theatre. Also the first review I ever wrote online (in 1990! Back when you logged into BBSes). Here's me on its 4K release in 2020. filmfreakcentral.net/2020/05/days...
unlabelledView post →Revisiting DAYS OF THUNDER for the pod & man, I wish we could go back in time & cast Michael Rooker & John Savage as brothers. Imagine a western, but it’s also a war movie, they might get teary, they’re covered in dirt but have shampoo commercial hair, & they’re wanted in 4 states, but you trust ‘em
unlabelledView post →Why make any movie? Days of Thunder? So what? He races a car. We get it. Just play the opening credits and the end credits back to back. My Left Foot? Some people have one leg. Big deal. Why do we have to see him struggling? It's like someone taking a dump. Just show the ball going into the net. Actually, I have PTSD about getting hit with a ball. Just do the credits end to end again. Why do we need to see things any single person could be slightly offended by? Star Wars? Come on. We all know…
unlabelledView post →Rewatching Days of Thunder for like the 1,000th time. That movie still hits the spot.
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder "revolutionised cinema". Yeah, like Citizen Kane, or Jaws, or Star Wars. I cannot count how many conversations I've had with cinephiles about how everything felt so different the day after Days of Thunder came out. What a sad, sad world it was before that movie came along.
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder was so revolutionary that I, a serious movie buff, never had even the slightest interest in seeing it.
unlabelledView post →There's rumblings of a sequel to Days of Thunder, with a potential match-up for Tom Cruise with Brad Pitt's F1 sequel? That might explain why the original 1990 NASCAR movie is streaming everywhere; it's far too slammed together to be great, but still watchable. 3/5 film-authority.com/2026/02/08/d...
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder never came to the #AmstradCPC yet Amstrad Action reviewed it in 1992 as part of a compilation. But the real tape had Indiana Jones in its place. So, what did the reviewer actually play? Did the game exist? www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/days...
unlabelledView post →I like DAYS OF THUNDER we do not need a sequel Tony Scott made that movie what it was and no one else could come close
unlabelledView post →I really appreciated that Robert Duvall could make a role great without taking over the movie. He always stood out a little, in a good way, but not too much so as to be distracting. Killed it B-tier movies (Days of Thunder, Falling Down) as well as some of the all-time classics.
unlabelledView post →When Dan mentioned that two of his own personal Blind Spots happened to be Matt’s favorite Tony Scott movie Man on Fire and my favorite Tony Scott movie Days of Thunder we knew what had to be done—and needless to say we had an absolute blast recording this double feature episode! Hope you all enjoy!
unlabelledView post →Kyle also called Days of Thunder the best racing movie ever made, conveniently forgetting how many NASCAR drivers hated that movie at the time, too.
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched All rewatches, all gold. Days of Thunder may not be an amazing film but this was a newly arrived 4k which looks and (especially) sounds glorious.
unlabelledView post →Watching Days of Thunder, which I haven’t seen in ages, and first of all, Tom Cruise is so young. Second of all, man, Tony Scott sure could direct a film.
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Slow week but I did see one great surprise in Code 3, the worst "comedy" of the year, Salma looking the best she's ever looked (which is saying something since she always looks amazing) and a good movie that should have been Days of Thunder part 2.
unlabelledView post →Insert a movie into another movie: AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS OF THUNDER
unlabelledView post →New bonus movie commentary and it’s Days of Thunder! Join James, Maso & Tom Cruise as Cole Trickle in big racing action over at bigsandwich.co
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder is actually a good movie to make a legacy sequel to because any purist fans of Tony Scott's tenth best film are too weird and niche to possibly disappoint in a way that matters.
unlabelledView post →(I say this as someone who likes “Days of Thunder”! It’s actually a better movie than “Top Gun” because it’s broadly the same story, minus the military propaganda. Neither film warrants a sequel!)
unlabelledView post →A raft of our most successful Movie directors came out of the U.K. advertising world of the 1970’s — such as TONY SCOTT (‘Top Gun’, ‘True Romance’, ‘Days Of Thunder’, ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ etc). Here’s one of his stylish commercials for Martini & Rossi.
unlabelledView post →Now (re)watching: DAYS OF THUNDER (1990) You Cruise, you lose. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →DAYS OF THUNDER is only interesting for the circumstances that made it terrible. A Jonathan Levine-directed sequel just sounds like slop. www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2020/05/...
unlabelledView post →A raft of our best & most successful Movie directors came out of the U.K. advertising world of the 1970’s — such as TONY SCOTT (‘Top Gun’, ‘True Romance’, ‘Days Of Thunder’, ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ etc). Here’s one of his stylish commercials for Martini & Rossi.
unlabelledView post →5/5 Finally, we had Days of Thunder on Friday which never came to the #AmstradCPC yet Amstrad Action reviewed it in 1992 as part of a compilation. But the real tape had Indiana Jones in its place. So, what did the reviewer actually play? Did the game exist? www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/days...
unlabelledView post →I would much rather watch a film about the making of DAYS OF THUNDER than DAYS OF THUNDER 2.
unlabelledView post →'Days of Thunder' was released on this day 36 years ago! (June 27, 1990) Directed by Tony Scott. Screenplay by Robert Towne. Starring Tom Cruise. The film stars Cruise, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Michael Rooker, Nicole Kidman, Cary Elwes, and more. #OTD #OnThisDay #90sMovie
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder. Man I love this movie so much.
unlabelledView post →“Days of Thunder” premiered on the same day that “F1” will premiere 35 years later. Back then, the Tony Scott film was the third most expensive of 1990, with a $60 million budget, equal to 150M$.
unlabelledView post →Look, I don't understand how they haven't done a Days of Thunder Podracing movie. Money on the table.
unlabelledView post →I literally saw the first film a couple days ago and... why? Why make Days of Thunder 2? What's next, Cocktail 2?
unlabelledView post →1990: "Okay, okay...Top Gun wasn't very very goth at all, but that was probably a 'one for them' situation. His next movie is coming out and I know it's gonna be goth as all hell. Listen to this title: Days Of Thunder!"
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder - a Kidman and Cruise movie They did a pretty good job of making it not that noticeable but ohhh we knew better.
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 - William Gibson - Neuromancer (1984) One movie 🎥 - Double Indemnity (1944) One album 💿 - The Midnight - Days of Thunder (2014) One TV Show 📺- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005- )
unlabelledView post →The DP from Days of Thunder had me stand in for a model who no showed when testing a new movie camera
unlabelledView post →Days of Thunder (1990) is a great film if u like thinking abt mello yello
unlabelledView post →Robert Duvall proving he needed less than 30 seconds to steal a movie from anyone he acted with. He elevates Days Of Thunder in a way few actors ever could! Damn we lost one of the greats. 💔💔
unlabelledView post →RIP to one of the absolute greats. Elevated every film he was in even turkeys like Days of Thunder. His 70s work will be (rightly) celebrated but don't sleep on The Apostle (wrote and directed too) and Open Range. A giant and a hell of a good run at 95.
unlabelledView post →This makes it a lot easier for Tom Cruise to combine the Maverick and Days of Thunder sequels into one film. racer.com/2025/07/20/n...
unlabelledView post →No that's Days of Thunder, Thunderbolts is that Jim Cummings movie where he plays a sad cop
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