this movie has a 5.3 rating ? people are so biased, as a movie its perfect, not too slow, not too fast, character development, story arc, action.
this deserves a rating of 7 atleast (overall)
This is YOUR LIFE and it is ending one minute at a time!
This film has nothing special about it, like a TV movie of the week.
Oh Lord, you gave them eyes but they cannot see...
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The film definitely deserves at least a 7 rating. 5.3??????? HAHAHA. I don't think so.
"Go on talking about Bill Carson." - Angel Eyes
In all my life, this is the only movie I ever walked out of. Let's just say it wasn't everyone's cup of tea.
I've been a racing fan for 30 years and have been to literally hundreds of late modal sprintcar and modified races at my local tracks, a couple of dozen nascar races at Daytona Dover Watkins Glen Richmond and Pocono plus 5 F1 races three in Montreal one each in Australia and Indy, two Indy 500s and lots of NHRA drag races so I know what a race car looks like in action.
Anyone who is a racing fan will tell you there is very little realism in this movie. A former sprint car driver (not to be confused with the current Nascar Sprint Cup drivers) who doesn't know how to set up a car is beyond belief for one thing, not to mention the over the top crashes.
There hasn't been a decent racing movie made in decades. DoT, Driven, Talladega Nights, Stroker Ace, all were sub par. Le mans was decent escept for the sped up scenes and the over the top explosion, Bobby Deerfield was good in parts and Grand Prix was great if you could get over the use of F2 cars in place of F1 and the slow mo but not realistic suspension failure in the end crash. Heart like a wheel had potential but the director had no idea how to portray a dragster really accelerating.
The Last American Hero was my favorite but there has yet to be a totally realistic racing movie made that portrays the excitement in historically accurate cars with untainted racing footage in forever.
I'd say the rating here is about right, perhaps a little high.
real racing can be very very exciting and dramatic sometimes, a true genius movie about racing should capture this not make a fake reproduction of the sport that is an unrealistic and pathetic joke like this movie.
The ppl who write the script should do their job and enough historical research to find events in the past that can inspire the movie not just make up stuff that have never happened and will never happen on a racetrack.
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I agree with the OP. Saw it for the first time in years today and I loved it. It's definitely not the best movie ever made, but it certainly deserves better than a 5.3. Sure, it's cheesy people - it was made in 1990! What's wrong with you people? I gave it an 8/10.
shareYou know another movie that was made in 1990? Goodfellas. What a cheesefest, eh?
I agree with your basic point though. It's a fun movie, and today it works well as a kind of a museum piece. I'm personally not a fan of NASCAR at all and thnk it's kind of a uncinematic sport, but I still thought the movie was fun.
This is a movie that as a child, I thought was brilliant. Now I watch it with adult eyes, and it's pretty bad.
Buddy's death is only explained in a cryptic manner. The drama is over the top. Who casted Nicole Kidman? What professional team builds a racecar in a barn? The editing is awful!
Talladega Nights was great because it didn't take itself seriously.
But does 'Days of Thunder' really take itself seriously?
We're talking about a movie where two rivals end up racing each other down a hospital hallway in their wheel chairs (complete with dramatic music).
"Im going to asume your joking. Character development, 23 year old Nicole Kidman as a nuerosurgeon !!! Ive never laughed so hard. A movie ONLY nascar fan could love."
Only a film that NASCAR fans could love, and we hate it because of how damn unrealistic it is. it's insulting to the sport of NASCAR.
Rating is grotesque. The movie is fun and has Robert Duvall in it.
shareThis movie tried WAY to hard to be good that it killed itself.
Starting with the over dramatic entrance of the main character:
Mysterious, on a motorcycle, with a trenchcoat, coming out of the fog....give me a break.
When Cole appeared to be getting explaining himself, the camera would pan in on Nicole, as if she's really caught up in what he's saying and what a wonderful man she is with. (Don't tell me you were trying for an oscar there)
OP, I was just about to start this topic myself...I find the rating grievously low and I am pretty hard on film (generally speaking).
I thought the performances of Randy Quaid and ESPECIALLY Robert Duvall are enough to get this film up closer to a 7/10.
I also liked the evolution of Cole's relationship with Rowdy.
Anyway, by no means perfect, but 5.4 is absolute joke -- these are probably the same people rating garbage a 10/10.
I agree. As do others, apparently. When the OP wrote, it was 5.3. When you wrote, it was 5.4. Now it is at 5.5.
I think it's worth somewhere between 6 and 7. I'm going with 7.
this movie has a 5.3 rating ? people are so biased, as a movie its perfect, not too slow, not too fast, character development, story arc, action.
this deserves a rating of 7 atleast (overall)....
The movie is OK if you are a fan of sports racing or love Tom Cruise movies but it is really just another formula movie about some hot shot who wants to win a racing contest
There are plenty of other movies made during the 90's that I think are a lot better or are more interesting or exciting to watch
There is the crime drama Goodfellas by the director Martin Scorsese that I think has a lot better acting, direction, cinematography and etc and is actually based on the true story of Henry Hill who was part of the Mafia for at least 3 decades and star actors like Robert Deniro and Joe Pesci
The Matrix and Terminator 2 has a whole bunch of great special effects, great and exciting action scenes and etc. that I am afraid just makes Days of Thunder look routine and predictable
And there is World War II movie Saving Private Ryan that has several battle scenes that are really exciting and scary to watch...the director Steven Speilberg really makes you feel you watching a real war
I think the 5.3 IMDB rating is probably just about right...Days of Thunder is OK but when compared to these other movies I just don't think it is really that great or special
i hate nascar and i gave it a 9. you racing fans just need to just relax and enjoy the movie. it was pure cheese, but it was exciting and thrilling.
i don't get what's up with all of these other unrelated films (goodfellas-overated and like every other mafia movie out there and saving private ryan-boring and no danger). stop whining and enjoy. probably the best racing film of the 90s.
I gave it a 7.. It's top gun in a race car but fun to watch..
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