Days of Thunder

I’ve seen this once before, but it’s been a while. I couldn’t say why I had this middling feeling about it, but the first half of the film had be questioning that middling feeling from before. This was fun stuff from Scott, Simpson, and Bruckheimer. It really did seem like this rather ideal distillation of their obsession with male-dominated relationships and things that go vroom. And then…the second half started where it was supposed to get serious, and it just never recovered. They didn’t ...