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626. Inside Dads: Master and Commander, and other Historical Adventures
🕑 Added 2023-09-12 13:00:06 +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
James Van Dyke
@Chris, yes I think this matters a lot. This is the first Inside Dads that I think misses the Dad mark because they ignore this. Also, they seemed to interpret the movie only from the perspective that war movies should be anti-war (ie the critique of nobody learns anything here, etc). I would point out that many 'Dad' war films are actually very pro-war. It's the rah-rah of the team winning the fight. Same as the rah-rah of a Dad sports film (like, say, Major League).
Bobby Wayward
Save the boys
