Check out more of our favorite car movies here.ĭays of Thunder is your typical film about a long-shot racer who beats the odds to win the big race, but it does so in thrilling fashion with a notable cast. As an automotive alternative, we’re offering our own suggestions of our favorite car movies for your viewing pleasure. He believed that a new version of the movie that just swapped out the songs would be a classic.Editor ’s note: Car guys, and even car girls, can take only so much of those Hallmark holiday movies that fill the airwaves and cable systems this time of year. When I worked at Geffen later in the decade, a colleague insisted that we should redo the soundtrack with contemporary country artists like Alabama, Travis Tritt, George Strait, the Judds, Steve Earle, Randy Travis and Clint Black. There's also Guns N' Roses' excellent version of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." This was a lineup of killer hit artists in 1990, but it's not really anyone's idea of the tunes you'd hear in the parking lot on race day. The movie has a Hans Zimmer score and a Geffen Records soundtrack that features John Waite, Tina Turner, Whitesnake's David Coverdale, Chicago, Cher and Elton John.
That's the major difference between "Top Gun" and "Days of Thunder." Both movies cut a lot of corners, but it's only the fighter pilot one that captures the heart and soul of its subject. But Cole is an outsider who never really immerses himself in the sport's bootlegging soul. Scenes are filmed at actual races, and several real driving legends make cameos in the movie. There's a whole lot of love here for cars and the mechanics of racing but not a lot of understanding of NASCAR culture. It's easy to imagine that everyone involved was thrilled to have a prestige writer like Towne on their movie, but the result seems like Robert cashed the check, took some notes while screening old boxing B-movies and cranked out the script over a long weekend. On "Days of Thunder," he stepped up and has a story credit shared with Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne ("Chinatown," "The Last Detail").
That's obviously worked out well for him because he has had some remarkable creative and commercial success over the last decade-plus with the "Mission: Impossible" movies, the "Jack Reacher" films, "American Made," "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Oblivion." "Days of Thunder" is pre-CGI, and any modern producer wouldn't risk the danger when computers could create the sequence instead.Ĭruise has made no secret that he spent the early years of his career learning how his movies were made so he could later step up and be his own producer. The NASCAR racing scenes are fantastic, and he's figuring out ways to use cameras to capture the action that would never happen today.
Unfortunately, the "Top Gun" magic didn't transfer to "Days of Thunder." It's not a bad movie, but it can't hope to compare to the movie that directly inspired it.
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