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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
Joseph J Pierce
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.
Small Beans
Signs is definitely a daddy film. Tombstone as well. I could see Unforgiven.
Shane
Sounds 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.
Steven Kirk
I would like to submit for your consideration my dad’s favorite film, 1998’s Enemy of the State starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman
Small Beans
literally my second pick behind We Are Marshall (Hoosiers is also up there). -Abe
John McClurg
All 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!
Tue HL
Your reiteration of the father-daughter dynamic of dad movies in this one made me think, is Day Shift the vampire dad movie?
Laura Martin
Because the system is older and wiser than you. The system is your daddy. And daddy respect daddy.
Laura Martin
I don't think it's bureaucracy, I think it's respect for the power structure/tradition.
Chris S
Also Band of Brothers. perfect Dad war mini series that's not a documentary...
Chris S
Dammit, 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.
Kyle Grant
And not for nothin, but Taken has to be up there in quintessential dad films.
Kyle Grant
I think Dreyfuss plays Cheney in W.
BenGrimmsThing
Wow. Perfect pick for this show. My father watched this anytime he came across it. It was certainly in his top 5
