Days of Thunder (1990)
While I prefer Formula 1 and IndyCar, I do have quite a bit familiarity with NASCAR from racing it a couple of years in iRacing. So it was cool just seeing some track action with the classic stock cars. The racing scenes are great. The rest is so so. Pretty funny at times and cheesy but it owns it well. While the general story is fine to gets things going, I don’t think the rivalry/friendship with Rowdy was developed enough to be really interesting. And as most racing movies does, dealing with the theme of fear of death for these death defying drivers only reaches surface level here. Rush had the better rivalry and The Last American Hero had a more developed character arc. For what it is, this is still a pretty decent racing movie.
Rating: 3.5