Tom Cruise is a specialist at starring in a certain type of cheesy movie.
It’s the kind where there is really no plot. The movie is really just about Tom Cruise glorifying whatever profession he is portraying. Think about it. The whole plot of Top Gun can be summarized as “Navy pilots are cool.” Similarly, Days of Thunder is really only about “NASCAR drivers are cool.” That’s it.
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