Dad's movies

[moviflicilm]

Think the movie equivalent of dad rock. The kind of movies that your father would hail as cinematic achievement. Not all dads think alike, many of whom will have diverse taste in cinema. As derogatory of a term as it sounds just think about what the below poster wrote in another thread on this very forum.

Originally Posted by cakefactory

It can be two things. That doesn't seem to be a common understanding here. Saying something is mass appeal doesn't mean "unable to be liked by anyone who is a movie snob." It means "regular people can like it, too."

Pale Rider is a MUCH weirder movie tbh. It's not BETTER, but that is a strange movie! What I'd call other "Dad movies" would be things like Lethal Weapon, or Bull Durham, or Field of Dreams, or Midnight Run. The first and four at least are very good (I've never watched Bull Durham myself, and I like Field of Dreams a lot but know a lot of people like to s*** on it), and they've been endlessly replayed on cable for decades, and regular Dads watch them all the time. :P

I don't have anything against the Untouchables, it just is one of those endlessly replayed movies that it seems liked by everyone who watches movies casually. Which doesn't mean it's bad, it's just in that tier of things like Shawshank Redemption where they're VERY mass appeal due to broad, memorable characters, etc. I didn't particularly like it. I will buy it someday just to complete my De Palma collection. I currently only have his thrillers/horror flicks, and then MI1 just cause it came in the set with 3/4 I don't like that one either, but it seems like something I should watch again because it probably has more qualities in it than I noticed. Much like Carlito's Way, which I remember liking but can't remember much of anything else about.

The flip side of the "chick flick" if you want to gender stereotyped.

[The Debts]

Dad movies are the best tbh.

[AaronJ]

Well, these are the first films I remember my dad taking me to:

Jaws

Apocalypse Now

Blade Runner

Alien


Now, he drove my friends and I to see Star Wars (the first time; I saw it 12 times in the theater), but I don't think he saw it with us. OTOH, that was a LONG time ago, so maybe I simply don't remember correctly.

[shinobipopcorn]

I remember him mentioning the movie Mr. Mom a lot, especially whenever he got stuck babysitting.

[Stanis]

I bought the DVD of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid from Big Lots for $3. I am my father.

[cinemaphile]

Well, being a dad, I guess anything I like I would have to consider a "dad movie"

[UltraMario9]

James Bond
Indiana Jones
Lethal Weapon
Carry On

[Leslie Dame]

My dad always enjoyed the classics, stuff he was familiar with growing up. He loved the Pink Panther movies, The Bridge on the River Kwai (he even bought the DVD, this was before blu-ray), The Deer Hunter, a couple of original Bruce Lee movies.
He didn't like horror movies because they gave him nightmare fuel, but The Texas Chain Saw Massacre left quite an impression on him though he never rewatched it again. Plus he was a big fan of Jaws.

[oilers73]

My father loved Patton. He passed away before DVDs were released, but I can guarantee he would have bought the disc of that film and wore it out.

My husband is also the father of our two children, and his favorite film is Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

[Skrazem]

At least once a year my dad visits and buys me a copy of The Lion in Winter. Still never seen it.

[thecalm_7]

My father was 50 years older than me. He saw such change in cinema. I never got along with him however I did enjoy hearing him talk about movies. It was about the only thing that seemed to bring him happiness or relaxation. He had a brutal life. When we got a movie gallery in town they had a copy of Psycho. He rented it. First time I ever saw a movie on the table that my mother didn’t rent. We watched it as a family. I was young, I’d seen far worse. It changed my interest in film. We went to see Tombstone one day when he carried me to a doctor. We never did that sort of thing. Our last film together was The Expendables. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s at the time and would drop in and out of normalcy. By time we got home he didn’t remember the film.
He often brought up the following films
-Shane
-Rebel Without A Cause
-The Birds
-Midnight Cowboy
-John Wayne (in general)
-a film that he said was x rated where a woman unzipped her top to lay with a fevered or chilled man.

[Monterey Jack]

My Dad (still with me ) loves westerns, anything WWII, anything "historical" or outdoorsy with nice scenery (he flipped for The Revenant), but has some problems with movies with knotty, complicated plots.

[drush9999]

My dad introduced me to Leone/Eastwood movies, the films of Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart and Cary Grant, also a whole bunch of WWII movies. He went crazy taping movies off the TV in the 80s and amassed a massive library of VHS. Helped shaped my tastes as well.

[kurtis21]

My dad loved ANYTHING Western with Clint Eastwood in it...he loved the old Monster movies (Dracula, Wolfman, Frankinstein, etc) and Lawerence Of Ariba!

[145gtw]

Caddyshack, The Blue Brothers, Stripes and Back to School. It seemed like it was all that he watched.

[trevanian]

My stepdad loved an eclectic mix of movies. I remember he adored a little Lou Gossett Tony Curtis pic called IT RAINED ALL NIGHT THE DAY I LEFT, and I admit I watched it at least three times with him -- it was a decent buddy pic. And years after I turned him on to THE WILD GEESE, he insisted we watch ... MEGAFORCE. Man did we part company on that one! We both loved THE LAST STARFIGHTER, because we each independently came away with the view that the younger brother was the only one who really 'got' the import of what was happening at the end, and because we thought O'Herlihy's iguana-man was an incredible hoot (plus he loved THE MUSIC MAN, so he saw all Preston films.)

We had a huge falling-out over TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING -- he couldn't understand why I would invest myself in something (over & over again) that had such a downer realistic ending. In fact, he was furious when he finally saw the movie, about as mad as I can recall him getting about almost any other movie.

We had a good bonding moment when seeing DR NO on a late-night broadcast (what it was doing on at 11:30 at night I don't know, but this must have been around 1980 or so, maybe ABC had a temporary thing where they ran features after hours?), where he -- a dedicated Roger Moore fan -- finally came around on Connery in a big way. I've always been a Connery fan, pretty much since my moviegoing began with GOLDFINGER before I turned 4, and absolutely despise Moore and most of his films (outside of THE WILD GEESE and FFOLKES), so it was kind of cool, drinking too much coffee and noticing how for all the radical editing there was supposed to be in the pic, there were also some very long sustained takes, especially in the villain's lair.

He did have a great takeaway on 2001, one that I hadn't heard elsewhere at that point ... he thought the aliens/monolith had reached out long-distance to HAL to gum him up as a test to see if humans were worthy of taking the next step, with the idea being that they would reward the survivor. Apparently he came up with this idea while seeing the film alone, and never shared it with anybody till we were watching the TV waiting to hear about VIKING landing on Mars in 1976 I think. Since then, I think I read Harlan Ellison offered up the same idea, which puts my stepdad in an exalted pantheon in that one regard!

[Slob]

My parents divorced when I was two. It was all cool and friendly and I used to call my dad all the time to take me to movies. He had zero interest but always took me. His big thing was baseball.
We would go to all the horror movies at the drive-in. He'd slip me some cash for the snack bar and then go to sleep. Hours later when the show was over I'd wake him up and he'd take me home.

This only happened one time ever. Dad called me on a Sunday morning,
"You gotta see this movie! It's great! I'll be over to get you."
All the way to the theater he kept going on and on about how great this movie was. It was 1970. I was 12. The only reason I could think of why he was at a movie on Saturday night was that he'd had a date. I figured he got laid and that accounted for his good mood.
The movie was Airport.

[manunited1]

Man, my dad introduced me to some movie that blew my mind as a young child. Many nights were spent sneaking out of bed while mom was asleep to watch a rated R movie that dad would surely have gotten yelled at for allowing me to see. The main one that comes to mind, which also happens to be the first of these nights, was "Predator". Me and my dad even had little inside jokes about the film and I would often point to the forest near our house and whisper, "out there... past them trees". Predator was one of my dad's favorite movies and, as can be expected of any young boy, it blew my mind.

Another one that was a major "dad" movie was "Swordfish". My dad took me to see it in theaters and for the first and only time he asked if I wanted to see it again on the way home from our local theater and after I said yes, he turned the car around and we went to see it instantly again. I am unsure if it was the movie or Halle Berry's... assets that lured him in for a second viewing. I bought the dvd for him on his birthday and, in typical dad fashion, he said "cool" and never opened it.

[Himmel]

Star Wars 4,5,6
Flight of the Navigator
The Last Starfighter

[Haywardson]

My dad once told me that when he saw Goodfellas for the first time he lost interest in movies. It’s the only movie that he thinks deserves to exist. He watches it like once every two months. He has it on every format and even bought a 4K player when I told him it had a 4K disc. It’s still the only UHD disc he’s ever watched. He literally has a 4K for live sports and Goodfellas. When it’s on AMC, he’ll DVR even though he owns it.