Really good movie, Better than DoT...

Rating: 9/10 (28 April 2001)

I've seen Days of Thunder between 150 and 200 times. I've more or less got the movie memorized and it's been one of my favorite movies for a long time. Having said that I think overall Driven is better. I read quite a few reviews before i went to see it this afternoon and I expected a lot more way over the top crash scenes. There were only 2 or 3 crash scenes that left me wondering what they were thinking, and even those scenes looked cool so it didn't take away from the movie. Those of you complaining about realism make me laugh, I mean when has a movie EVER been completely realistic? So aside from 2 cars swimming with the fishies and the sometimes too loud soundtrack I thought Driven was a great movie. Someone questioned the realism of Bly and Brandenburg pulling off the track to help Memo, but it's happened...Late 80's if I remember right, Dale Earnhardt (R.I.P #3) clipped Rusty Wallace and sent him flipping in to the infield at Talladega. Earnhardt pulled off the track, got out of his car and checked on Rusty (who, amazingly walked away from the wreck with only a broken wrist). Loved the quarter kicking scene and the Chicago street racing scene "I need backup!" LOL... 9 out of 10.
Ryan