This weekend, NASCAR will kick off it's 2011 season this weekend with the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway, a non-points exhibition event where drivers earn an invitation to compete based on their past successes such as winning a championship, rookie of the year honors, or a number of others. Despite the name of the race, being able to polish off a pony keg by themselves will not earn a driver an invite to this event and there are no drinking games involved (there's one way to increase the ratings). There is, however, a high probability that at some point in the next few days one of the worst sports-related movies ever - which just so happens to involve the great sport of NASCAR - will be gracing the airwaves. That movie is none other than 1990's "Days of Thunder", directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Duvall.
Like most sports movies, "Days of Thunder" takes every cliche about its subject matter and uses them for the context of the plot. In this case, you've got a movie which makes NASCAR drivers out to be just as interested in doing significant bodily harm to each other as they are in winning races, and who get out of their cars looking as if they've been sweeping chimneys all day. Perhaps the greatest line from the whole film is uttered by Harry Hogge (played by Robert Duvall) - "No, no, he didn't slam you, he didn't bump you, he didn't nudge you...He rubbed you. And rubbin, son, is racin'."
"Please explain to me how I went from 'The Godfather' to this crap?"
And so it is in honor of the 2011 NASCAR season that I leave you with this stunningly hilarious re-imagining of a conversation between Tom Cruise and Robert Duvall.
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