Movies From Back in the Day: The Dad Collection
My dad is not a golf dad.
He is not a business-suit dad who irons his clothes.
No, he's a doer, with hard, tough hands from 40 years of factory work. A man who cashed in his vacation days to pay for his young daughter's ear operations. When I first saw this -
I wasn't "Hey, what an intense scene! Great acting!" I was more like "OMG - Dad?" He's a teddy bear, but a hard-ass teddy bear. He's the man who will go out of his way to buy the special expensive conditioner his daughters just have to have - and yet once accidentally put his fist through a glass coffee table. The kind of man who cleans his fingernails with his buck knife and uses his barrel arms to clap his roughened hands onto the back of a boy I bring home as he says, "Come on young man, let me show you my gun collection."
Yeah . . . that guy?
Is my dad.
So suffice to say my bonding with my dad didn't really involve the typical Hallmark-card scenario. No, we bonded over cheeseburgers, chocolate milk, and action movies.
So here are a few of my faves:
First, the ultimate in father-kid entertainment fun:
Admittedly, my sister was a bigger fan of Predator than I was, but I still enjoyed it. Not as much as Commando, but it was watchable.
By now you've sensed the trend, so let's finish off the Arnold category with my other favorite:
First, the ultimate in father-kid entertainment fun:
Admittedly, my sister was a bigger fan of Predator than I was, but I still enjoyed it. Not as much as Commando, but it was watchable.
By now you've sensed the trend, so let's finish off the Arnold category with my other favorite:
Can we please take a moment to recognize this movie takes place in 2017?
Finally, something a bit different than the others. This movie is more recent and my dad, brother, and I went to see it in the theater together and I wasn't thrilled to be seeing it, but then was surprised how delightful I found it.
Finally, something a bit different than the others. This movie is more recent and my dad, brother, and I went to see it in the theater together and I wasn't thrilled to be seeing it, but then was surprised how delightful I found it.
This is sweet, I love that you love your dad. Does he read your blog? :P
ReplyDeletePS I totally shook Arnold's hand one time. I bet it was really memorable for him, getting to meet me.
i'm going to be one of those moms bonding over action movies with my daughter because i LOVE action movies. predator was a great one.
ReplyDeleteI would probably bond with my kids over horror movies. Well, until they were old enough, probably just my favorite comedies. :)
DeleteYour dad sounds like a good guy! I wasn't a fan of action films until my late teens, having grown up on oldies with happy endings and musicals. Now I love them!
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