577. Inside Dads: The American President, and other Romances
Added 2023-03-17 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
Our new limited series with co-hosts Abe Epperson and David Bell digs deep into the internet meme of the “dad movie.” We can all probably name a dad movie, but can we isolate the tropes that really make this a bona fide film genre? Let’s find out!
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Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/abethemighty
David Bell: https://twitter.com/MovieHooligan
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Comments
Before you guys woke me up to the concept of the dad film I had just watched Nobody and was very confused why someone would make a John Wick that was targeted secifically at male boomers. I'd love to hear you do that movie sometime.
Joseph J Pierce
2023-03-25 20:33:12 +0000 UTCSigns is definitely a daddy film. Tombstone as well. I could see Unforgiven.
Small Beans
2023-03-24 17:54:12 +0000 UTCSounds like Signs is M Nites dad film. Is Tombstone the ultimate dad Western, or does it need to be a classic or a spaghetti even? The Coens may have inadvertently mastered the dad film with NCFOM.
Shane
2023-03-24 13:16:28 +0000 UTCI would like to submit for your consideration my dad’s favorite film, 1998’s Enemy of the State starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman
Steven Kirk
2023-03-20 21:47:30 +0000 UTCliterally my second pick behind We Are Marshall (Hoosiers is also up there). -Abe
Small Beans
2023-03-20 14:22:51 +0000 UTCAll right, I have to throw my dad hat in the ring; The Natural. An old timey magical baseball dad that doesn’t even know he’s a dad! And when he finds out he explodes a stadium with his dad energy!
John McClurg
2023-03-20 12:44:16 +0000 UTCYour reiteration of the father-daughter dynamic of dad movies in this one made me think, is Day Shift the vampire dad movie?
Tue HL
2023-03-19 20:03:54 +0000 UTCBecause the system is older and wiser than you. The system is your daddy. And daddy respect daddy.
Laura Martin
2023-03-17 22:35:46 +0000 UTCI don't think it's bureaucracy, I think it's respect for the power structure/tradition.
Laura Martin
2023-03-17 22:29:51 +0000 UTCAlso Band of Brothers. perfect Dad war mini series that's not a documentary...
Chris S
2023-03-17 15:47:12 +0000 UTCDammit, I wanna know what Robert Evans was doing 20 feet above the President. I definitely shouldn't know what Robert Evans is doing, Robert Evans should be allowed to operate in total secrecy till whatever Robert Evans wants to do happens. But I really wanna know.
Chris S
2023-03-17 15:23:13 +0000 UTCAnd not for nothin, but Taken has to be up there in quintessential dad films.
Kyle Grant
2023-03-17 14:50:07 +0000 UTCI think Dreyfuss plays Cheney in W.
Kyle Grant
2023-03-17 13:55:14 +0000 UTCWow. Perfect pick for this show. My father watched this anytime he came across it. It was certainly in his top 5
BenGrimmsThing
2023-03-17 13:03:07 +0000 UTC
