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...this year the moguls spent $55 million to send Tom Cruise around a racetrack in Days of Thunder, $65 million to launch Arnold Schwarzenegger into outer space for Total Recall, $70 million to help Bruce Willis save a besieged airport in Die Hard 2. The industry would pay any price, detonate any explosion, inflate any body count to meet its megahit expectations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: If It Worked Before, Do It Again | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...averages about 150 m.p.h. in his 670-horsepower gold-on-black Pontiac and is usually hotly pursued by a roaring pack of heavily decaled Chevys, Fords and Chryslers. A Wallace outing, in short, is like a scene from the current Tom Cruise movie about stock-car racing, Days of Thunder. And no wonder: Wallace is the world-champion stock-car driver, and his weekend driving last year earned him six victories and a record $2.2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Real-Life Days of Thunder | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...DAYS OF THUNDER. The perfect school's-out movie, with Tom Cruise's fast driving and winning smile and Robert Duvall's fatherly smarts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jul. 23, 1990 | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crash Course | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crash Course | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

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