Word: thunderation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DAYS OF THUNDER...
Round and round he goes, motor roaring like -- oh, all right, thunder. Where the unfortunately named Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) will stop, everyone who has ever seen a race-car movie knows: slamming into a wall; skidding across the infield; ultimately, after the getting of masculine wisdom (hospital stays, love affairs, and rivals suffering gloomy, exemplary fates are the traditional teaching aids), in victory alley...
...nerve of these people, recycling that story. No, the shrewdness of these people. For Days of Thunder offers adolescent males the possibility of a high- speed crash almost every minute. It offers their dates the possibility of a shy, winning Tom Cruise smile on an equal-opportunity basis. The boys get some sober, silly chat about the nature of courage. The girls get to see one of their sex (Nicole Kidman) play doctor with Cruise...
...that the incongruous fact that the corporate logos generously splashed all over the screen have already parlayed themselves into commercial advertisements and promotional gimmicks in the real world, and you have the sum and substance of Days of Thunder...
...Thunder is the latest in a series of multi-million dollar extravaganzas that clumsily blur the line between promoting and making a film with disastrous results. With Simpson and Bruckheimer it is becoming increasingly difficult to see where the advertisement ends and the film, if it ever does, begins...