Your Dad's Favorite Movies

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Voyage. Welcome to watch this tonight. I'm your host, Dan Bettimore.

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I'm a producer, writer of film
and television and now a podcast producer.

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And despite having every streaming service,
I never know what to watch. So

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anytime I watch something good, I
talk about it on the show. This

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way, you'll never have the same
problem I do. I watch this tonight,

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there's always something good to watch.
Let's get started. Today on the

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show, we're doing your dad's favorite
movies. So I'm a big fan of

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these kind of films. I've discussed
them on here many times. It's a

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very specific genre. Most of these
movies are kind of bad, so when

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they make a good one, my
dad watches it a good fifteen to twenty

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times. A lot of the good
ones you've probably already seen. So I

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went deep to try to find you
some off the beaten trail recommendations. And

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I gotta say a lot of this, honestly, like one of my big

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aspirations professionally is to create just I
just want to make one of these movies

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that my dad can watch and actually
really get into. So it was interesting

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kind of going down the rabbit hole
here. I think I found three recommendations

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that you might not have seen and
that I think are definitely worth seeing,

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and our movies that your dad would
like. My first recommendation is Braven.

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Braven is available for free on the
Roku channel on Freeview, which is basically

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Amazon, so you can watch it
on Amazon. The premise is a logger

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and his father head to their hunting
cabin hoping for a quiet weekend. Instead,

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they find themselves and a killer be
killed Standford Survival when they encounter a

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gang of ruthless drug traffickers. So
the secret sauce. The reason this movie

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is good is it's directed by a
guy named lynn O Ding who's the stunt

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coordinator for The Equalizer and director on
Jack Reacher on Amazon and Cobra Kai and

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and he is probably a big part
of why the movie is like better than

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it had any right to be,
kind of thing like it's a low budget

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film, but it's so well made. It's seventy seven percent around Tomatoes,

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Like, you know, people liked
this movie. There was a review by

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a guy named Brent McKnight from The
Last Thing I See and he said,

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quote, Braven Scratch is a very
particular itch for those longing for the types

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of beefy Father protects his brood pictures
Schwarzenegger and Stallone turned out in the eighties,

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and Jason Momoa chucking axes at batties
is always a welcome sight. Flickering

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Myth said, Braven is the kind
of nineties punch in the mouth genre fans

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fight tooth and nail to find nowadays, and even Variety liked it. Bridy

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said, to put it simply and
gratefully, Braven is the sort of unpretentious,

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thoroughly professional popcorn entertainment that brings out
the best and everybody involved. The

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La Times liked it, they said
director at Lino dings stunt background serves them

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well. The stripped down action fights
and stunts work here feel like the real

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deal instead of effects, heavy marvels
of editing. So you know, it's

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interesting. Mamoa actually almost We sort
of had a little flirtation with him on

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a movie that I made called The
Virginian. We sent it to him,

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you read it, it was like, yeah, it's kind of interested,

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but he has a lot of notes
and then we were like, great,

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we'll we write the whole thing whatever
we wants to do. And then it's

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like Yeah, no, he's just
not gonna do it. But we had

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like a little flicker there. You
know, I actually have a lot of

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connections to this movie. So Ara
cal Plane, who was the production manager

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for almost every movie that I've made, did that same function in this film.

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Stephen Lange, who was attached to
a movie that I almost got made

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would have been an awesome movie.
He is in this movie. And the

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story for the film is by a
guy named Mike Nylon, who is Nicholas

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Cage as manager and a guy that
I interacted with a bit when we almost

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made a movie with Nicolas Cage.
So I sort of know a lot of

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the people involved in this. And
again, this could have easily turned out

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to be kind of a junkie schlockey, not very good movie, and it

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turned out great. It's really fun. So if you like those again,

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a classic dad movie this Woe.
My dad calls me up and he's like,

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hey, I watched this movie with
Jason Momoa. It's got a weird

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title. It was really good.
So yeah, that's Braven. Number two

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pick is Appaloosa. Appaloosa is sort
of old school Western. It was but

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was made relatively recently with Ed Harris, Fige Mortensen, Jeremy Irons, Rena

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Zellweger, very classic premise, small
town being terrorized by some Dirk guy local

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rancher Randall Bragg, who killed the
town's marshal and two deputies when they came

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to his ranch to arrest some guys. So the town hires lawman and peacekeeper

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Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch
to protect and regain control of the town.

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Ed Harris wanted to make an old
school Western like three ten Ayuma,

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My Darling Clementine. This is according
to Wikipedia and the man who shot Liberty

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Balance, rather than a revisionist approach, which is kind of cool. And

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again, what makes it a dad
film, right, It's not trying to

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say, like, let's reinvent the
Western. It's like, I want to

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just do a good version of a
classic Western. And the real thing that

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makes it special is his character's friendship
with Vigo Mortenson in the movie, and

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Harris said, though they've been hanging
out for years, they're not too intimate,

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but they know each other aside from
in sports or being a cop.

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I can't think of any other situation
where a friendship like that is called for

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and Vigo, Mortenson said, I
like to ride horses, and I like

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westerns, but there are a lot
of bad ones. What set this one

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apart is just how the characters are
a little more guarded. Seventy six percent

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around tomatoes. Just a really good
classic western. You know, obviously a

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very few of them made anymore.
Too great actors, It's so fun to

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see those guys together, and they
have such a fun vibe their friendship.

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It's so enjoyable to just hang out
with them. So definitely encourage you to

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check that one out. And then
the last one I'm going to suggest as

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a great dad movie is The Next
Three Days, which I think is pretty

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underrated. So it's Paul Haggis film, Russell Crowe Elizabeth Thanks, the remake

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of a French movie. Basic Premise
is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at Laar

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Brennan is sentenced to life in prison
for murder. Three years later, her

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young son Luke ceases to acknowledge her
during prison visits. Her appeal fails.

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She was seen leaving a parking lot
where her boss was bludgeoned with a fire

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extinguisher. Her fingerprints were on the
murder weapon. The victim's blood was found

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on her coat, so she thinks
that she's screwed. It's gonna be prison

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forever. She attempts suicide and her
husband played Marsa Crowe, becomes determined to

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break her out of prison, and
he calls up Liam Neeson and he's like,

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Liam, you know about these dad
movies? And Liam Neeson plays the

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guy who wrote a book about prison
escapes, and he basically says, this

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is what you do. So it's
just a regular guy who has to figure

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out how to break his wife out
of prison. So that's kind of a

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fun premise. The French film,
it was really obvious that the wife is

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innocent. In the American version,
Haggis really invests in like ambiguity, which

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is interesting and makes you sort of, I think, process it a little

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differently. Haggis based the lead character
himself and just sat down and said,

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all right, I have to break
my wife out of prison. How would

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I do it? And he's just
started researching, like how do you break

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into a car? How do you
do this? In that you know?

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And and so by making Rustle Crows
character and every man, the challenge that

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he faces feels bigger, right,
and and so that's the fun of it

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is you sort of think, Wow, if I was in this situation,

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could I do what Rustle Crowe did. That's what makes it a fun movie

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to watch. Craigs didn't like it
that much. It got a fifty percent

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around Tomatoes. He said it was
implausible, which, of course it's implausible.

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It's super implausible. But I think
that's what makes it fun, you

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know, and you know, overqualified
cast Elizabeth Banks really really good in the

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world role the wife. It's it's
again a classic, like your Dad.

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Three o'clock in the afternoon, this
is playing on like TNT. He's like,

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all right, cool, the next
two hours for doing this, Let's

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get a beer, let's complain about
the applausible elements. So those are three

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pretty different movies, but I think
they all fall into the umbrella of dad

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movies. The Next three Days,
Appaloosa and Braven. You know, I

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think the thing about dad movies is
that it's a movie that it's comfortable,

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right, It's like laying on the
couch at your house that you grew up

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in. That's what a dad movie
is to me. And I think any

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of these movies throw it on.
You know, you know you're gonna get

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something that's like satisfying and sort of
I don't know, it makes you feel

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reassured in a weird way. I
think all three of these movies kind of

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do that. I would love to
hear what's your favorite kind of dad movie?

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What was your dad's favorite movie?
Tell me that. I think this

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is something that a lot of people
have probably experienced, so I'd be interested

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to know. If you have any
perspective on it. You can always reach

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Some cool stuff coming up. Um, there's a show on Hulu about

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a class of FBI agents across three
different time periods that looks really interesting.

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So I'm probably gonna do that next
week. UM. I'm, you know,

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always open to suggestions. You can
always reach out to me. But

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that's the show for today. Until
next time. Bye bye,