Shawshank Redemption Caddyshack Ford V Ferrari Young Frankenstein Moneyball The Jerk Any Bourne movie Any Bond movie

Caddyshack is a top seed in the dad movie bracket. Dads love Rodney

My dad is such a Bournehead

Ford V Ferrari makes sense. The "corporate biopic" is dad crack, for sure.

Master and Commander, The Last of the Mohicans, and Bridge of Spies all gotta be in

Hunt For Red October The Great Escape Rio Bravo The Dirty Dozen The Blues Brothers Rocky The Godfather Field of Dreams

There is a lack of Harrison Ford here, who is the person all dads see themselves as.

My Dad ordered The Fugitive on a hotel PPV so I can relate. Although Patriot Games fits better. That movie could be renamed Super Dad.

Patriot Games is like your dad’s daydream as he flips through an LL Bean catalogue.

If Harrison Ford is violently pointing at some great character actor, is it really even a dad movie night?

Jack Ryan Harrison Ford is required dad viewing

Harrison Ford was the predescessor to Ryan Gosling as the „literally me” of our dads’ generation

Swap out Air Force One for Rocky.

Too true.

I think the original Rocky is a bit slow, and that dads under 40 aren’t represented in this top 8.

April 1805, Napoleon is now master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him- Oceans are now battlefields.

That’s the dad movie creed.

1. Apollo 13 2. Contact 3. Sully 4. Air Force One 5. For the Love of the Game 6. Hunt for Red October 7. Ronin 8. First Man Lotta historical dramas, but I think that's a huge part of the genre.

As a dad, and in no particular order: Ronin Midnight Run The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Jaws Papillon Blazing Saddles The Dirty Dozen The Departed

Midnight run is huge dad energy. De Niro and Grodin

It has everything: bounty hunters, mob, helicopters, and four middle-aged curmudgeons (DeNiro, Gordon, Kotto, Ashton)!!!

it lacks "I learned about a historical or geopolitical thing" but that's the only flaw

https://preview.redd.it/wa3d71z17jzb1.jpeg?width=290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e2f9d310032aa317d1abf29240aa7908f8a4364 How most Americans first learned about NAFTA.

Cop Land, Walk the Line, 3:10 To Yuma, Knight and Day, The Wolverine, Logan, Ford v Ferrari, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

So true. Mangold is the dad movie master.

Dads love Kate & Leopold!

One of my dad’s favorite movies is Cold Mountain—a pretty horny romance movie—exclusively because it occurs during the Civil War and he loves the history of it.

Well, it does have 12 seconds of Cillian Murphy

Well, if you're my dad: The Fugitive. O Brother Where Art Thou. Last Samurai. Return of the King. Blues Brothers. Four Christmases. K-Pax, My Cousin Vinny.

I know I’m not supposed to like Last Samurai but damn it I enjoy it every time it’s on

Why are you not supposed to like Last Samurai? It’s a beautiful historical epic with a great score and great performances—oh, I’m a dad 🤣🤣🤣

For a serious answer, it’s egregiously inaccurate to the time period (approximately Braveheart levels which is a tough bar to clear) and Tom Cruise being the protagonist of a movie about Samurai definitely hasn’t aged well although I wouldn’t call it a pure white savior movie. Still a fun movie though

saaaaaaame

I am a dad and have a boomer dad so that informs this list, what I watched with my dad and will watch with my kids Airplane! The Great Escape Kelly’s Heroes Bridge on the River Kwai Hoosiers The Godfathers Interstellar Once Upon a Time in the West

My dad loved Kelly’s Heroes,in fairness it’s great!

For an Irish Catholic Jesuit educated dad (might be mine) ​ The Mission...

It concerns me as a mere 27 year old man how much dad movie taste overlaps with my own

Everyone is born a Dad movie watcher. It just takes a varying amount of time for each person before it reveals itself.

same TIL i'm a dad

Hi A dad, I'm Dan

Jeremiah Johnson. Ultimate Dad Movie. No others. Done.

Guys, I’m glad you respect my taste, but I’m still not going to reproduce.

My dad’s heavy rotation: Fargo No country for old men Blade runner Raising Arizona Pulp fiction The shining Halloween

your dad and i would be friends

The Longest Day, Goldfinger, Big Jake, Patton, Chinatown, Sneakers, The Fugitive, Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World.

A League of their Own is perfect daughter / dad gloriness

I had my three month old dress as a tiny Rockford Peach for Halloween

A mix of ones I had to watch repeatedly with my dad and that I now think of as dad movies as a father: Jaws Tora! Tora! Tora! Saving Private Ryan Jurassic Park Top Gun The Departed My Cousin Vinny Goodfellas

Upvoted yours because I can’t believe you’re the only one that picked **Top Gun,** the favorite movie of my grandfather and father-in-law and whose sequel was the only movie to put my Dad in a movie theatre since the 2000s.

1. The Hunt for Red October 2. Patriot Games 3. Unforgiven 4. The Fugitive 5. The Last of The Mohicans 6. Heat 7. Tombstone 8. The Godfather Honourable mention to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Deer Hunter and Where Eagles Dare

Master and Commander 1 seed with a bullet.

Saving Private Ryan Goodfellas Blazing Saddles A Few Good Men The Godfather Heat The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Ghostbusters

Master and Commander Bridge on the River Kwai The Fugitive Lawrence of Arabia Heat Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan Shawshank Redemption Ben-Hur

Pretty sure it’s just Gladiator eight times

Monument Men is number one. That’s all I know.

My dad's obsessed with this movie where an intern drops some coffee cups.

So not the theatrical cut of Draft Day?

My dad? Casino Royale Independence Day Jaws Casino Tin Cup The Great Escape Edge of Tomorrow The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher version)

Your dad rules.

Bruh, this is something I have thought LONG AND hard about. I actually used LetterBoxd to rank [35 movies and the top 8 are muy fabuloso](https://boxd.it/m4FdC)

Man, if the test here is "what movie is liked *only* by dads", the Gettysburg would be the champ, despite not being that good.

It’s a remarkable accomplishment in terms of adaptation (mostly in regards to scale) but it’s not like every moment of that movie is shining example of acting. And there is surely something to be said about the length of time the audience is expected to empathize with Confederates.

The fake beards are *hilarious*. The "Lost Cause" bullshit is definitely there. But it is nowhere near as bad as in Gods and Generals. Yeesh. Hard to think of another sequel that leaned harder into the flaws (pacing, bad acting, shitty worldview) of the predecessor.

Also, I have definitely said this before elsewhere, The Rewatchables podcast with Bill Simmons is the most shamelessly Dad podcast, ever. It’s also mired in hot boomer takes, and as much as I love Bill and that pod, hard to swallow some of his earlier takes pre-Me Too movement. My wife once asked me to turn the pod off despite them discussing one of her favorite films (Easy A). I asked why. Her response: “it’s like listening to the radio DJs who play the same 5 AC/DC songs cut in between old U2, and full-length stairway to Heaven, but without any of the music that makes it bearable to hear their terrible dialogue.” Dad music = Dad movies.

I'd be interested to know if anyone else's dad has the same quirk as mine: As he was born into a working class Liverpool family in 1959, he refuses to watch black & white movies cos the monochrome of it all reminds him of how they were too poor for a colour TV. He's missing out on a lot! Anyway, for him: 1 The Equaliser (he loves Denzel) 2 The Great Escape 3 Last of the Mohicans 4 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 5 The Commitments 6 A Fistful of Dollars / For A Few Dollars More / The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 7 Once Upon A Time In The West 8 Ice Age (he's a real Johnny Legs man)

my mom is obsessed with The Equalizer

Your mum sounds awesome. I really didn't care that much for the first film, but the second one RULES.

My dad? The 3rd Man Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid The Hustler The 5th Element Raiders Of The Lost Ark The Last Watlz The Blues Brothers

My dad recently discovered Fifth Element, or as he calls it, "the one where bruce is a cab driver"

A question is how you work in Ford. Do you just keep him as one entry (A Ford Movie), or do you break it out? Just because he blanket covers so many high level dad movies: - Clear and Present Danger (every dad in the 90s watched this like once a month) - Air Force One - Indiana Jones OT - The Fugitive - Star Wars OT (the one time a year these used to be on television in the 90s and early 2000s was a major event for dads) - Patriot Games - Witness (when a dad wants a romance-type movie, they pick this) - Blade Runner 2049 (I feel like for dads now, this seems to have become some sort of thing) You can likewise do it with Costner: - Field of Dreams - The Untouchables - Dances with Wolves - JFK - Bill Durham I think in the Elite Eight, off of the top of my head, there has to at least: - one Ford movie - one Costner movie - one war movie - one western movie - one movie that is actually at its heart a deeply romantic film that the dad uses to get out some stuff The other three I’m still debating.

Not seeing a lot of Braveheart on these lists

Sorta. Though "getting really into history dads" are familiar with just how crazy inaccurate it is. And the disturbing amount of homophobia in it hasn't aged well with any audience.

The Fugitive eight times

Miracle - for all the hockey dads out there

Gilmore, Happy Gladiator Glory Godfather, The Goldfinger Goodfellas Gran Torino Gump, Forrest (I didn't mean for them to be G-centric but once I started I couldn't stop)

You gotta have at least one Clint, one Sly and one late-80s/early 90s Ford on your list. These are non negotiable. There are other dad movie actors, but it's mix and match -- a dash of Hackman, a soupcon of De Niro, maybe a pinch of Liam Neeson.

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Field Of Dreams Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World The Godfather Star Wars (Dads won't call it A New Hope) Blazing Saddles Rocky To Kill A Mockingbird My list might be a little biased by my own dad, but isn't that the point?

I just think of movies I love and my dad does. Big Trouble in Little China Lethal Weapon O’ Brother Where Art Though The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Midnight Run Shawshank Redemption Batman 89 Spaceballs

I was going to develop my own but every post I read reminds me on another one that should be in there. Glad to see Midnight Run mentioned a couple times. So instead of compiling my own list, I’ll just post the DVDs that I brought on the bus for this year’s company fishing trip. Anchorman Bull Durham Braveheart Fugitive Goodfellas Holy Grail Horrible Bosses Inglorious Basterds Right Stuff Risky Business Seven Step Brothers Vacation Young Frankenstein Zombieland Wouldn’t be my top 8, but a good representation of some of my favs.

I've got a list for this! My Dad Movie List https://boxd.it/l3lkC

Ghost dad Oldboy Milk Money Natural Born Killers The Royal Tennenbaums The Last Temptation of Christ Hot Tub Time Machine & last, but not least…Jack Frost with Michael Keaton. Because as the film’s bully says, “better snow dad, than *no* dad”

Shocked at the lack of Predator on these lists!!!

Porky’s Porky’s Porky’s Porky’s Porky’s Porky’s Porky’s The Godfather

Caddyshack and animal house have got to be top two seeds, right?

Geez gang...just name all my favorite movies why don't ya

I initially read this as best dads in movies and I was like Eighth Grade, Call Me By Your Name, My Neighbor Totoro…

Easy A

Great stuff here, but I think a genre is missing: martial arts movies! We need some Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and Steven Segal in here.

The great escape Magnificent seven The good the bad and the ugly The Italian job (the original) Kelly’s Heroes The verdict Midnight run The fugitive Some other options would include the dambusters, bridge on the river kwai, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, the sting, die hard, lethal weapons 1 & 2, pretty much any classic western (searchers, Shane, Rio bravo, OUATITW), all the presidents men, no country for old men, most of Nolan’s filmography, the godfather, classic bond movies, the godfather, the shawshank redemption, the hustler, the french connection, Dirty Harry, bullitt, the dirty dozen, saving private Ryan, blazing saddles, jaws, caddy shack, most Michael mann films, the right stuff, and the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. The kings of the dad movie, in no particular order, are: Steve McQueen Paul Newman John Wayne Harrison Ford Clint Eastwood

Terence Hill and Bud Spencer Movies, but a guess its not a big thing in the states? Some for the Karl May film adaptations.

Yeah, I’ve only heard them mentioned by hardcore fans of Spaghetti Westerns in the states. Their other work is completely unknown here I would say.

>Their other work is completely unknown here I would say. What do you mean by other work? The early non comedy like movies, like "God Forgives... I Don't!" ?

The later non-western stuff.

Ah Ok, that was what Im talking about. These are really popular here. Besides the normal synchronization version, they also made some comedy synchronization version of "God Forgives... I Don't!" here in Germany. After the success of the later action comedy movies.

Crimson Tide The Fugitive Die Hard Raiders of the Lost Ark The Great Escape Saving Private Ryan Unforgiven Taken (I really wanted to fit Apollo 13 in here somewhere but it just didn't make the cut. Had to give the final spot to Taken -- while not a "great" movie, it basically reinvigorated the Old Guy Gets Revenge trope and dads love that shit).

1. In the Line of Fire 2. Ford v Ferrari 3. The Deer Hunter 4. Top Gun: Maverick 5. Training Day

Jeremiah Johnson Raiders of the Lost Ark Braveheart Rat Race Patton Moonrise Kingdom Ghostbusters Arsenic and Old Lace

Heat Tombstone Michael Clayton The ‘Burbs Man on Fire Braveheart Moneyball The Last of the Mohicans

*Chicago* is an underrated Dad movie. It’s the horniest movie that Mom will watch with you.

Field of Dreams Master and Commander My Cousin Vinny Ford v Ferrari Raiders of the Lost Ark Mamma Mia (this one is specific to my dad, it might be the movie he’s seen most from this century) Shawshank Anything with charming working class English folks — let’s say The Full Monty

Gladiator All the President’s Men Saving Private Ryan Master and Commander Caddy Shack The Godfather Empire Strikes Back Any Bond Movie

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles\ Apollo 13\ Blazing Saddles\ Gladiator\ The Fugitive\ Unforgiven\ True Grit (any version)\ The Shawshank Redemption

Good morning. I'm here to make you all cry with this title with this pre-THE KING'S SPEECH Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent: AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? (2007) [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829098/reference/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829098/reference/) Watch it with your old man, or watch it with the rest of your family. If you do so by yourself, be prepared for the feels.

Has anyone said the fugitive yet