Episode 72 – In These Days of Thunder

Days of Thunder

Today we talked about Days of Thunder, probably one of our most quoted movies. Hence gems like, “DRIVE THROUGH THE SMOKE COLE!”, and “I want you to hit the pace car”, Days of Thunder is filled with great scenes and repeatable lines. (Most delivered by Robert Duvall) Also, the 1990 film directed by Tony Scott and stars Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, Michael Rooker and John C. Riley is about a young hot shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level.

Harry Hogge: [speaking to Cole condescendingly about engines] “Now Cole, when that little needle goes up into the red and reads *nine thousand RPM*, that’s bad!”

Source: IMDB.com

Some of our favorite parts of this movie are:

• The producers and writer spent two years researching the film, likewise it’s good
• Many of the stories were pulled from real life events
• Tony Scott, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer often held up filming fighting
• Robert DuVall is perfect in this film
• Many actresses turned down the role of Claire Lewicki

Special thanks to our editor Geoff Vrijmoet for this episode and Melissa Villagrana for creating our social media posts.

Next week’s film will be Lady Driver (2020) available on Netflix

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