Top 5 Father's Day Movies!!!

In honor of Father's Day this Sunday I have decided to post my top 5 movies with the best daddies, some are miss understood but they are still your father. A team of movie buffs watched hours of film to find the perfect 5 so here they are...

5. A Christmas Story (1983)

Trailer Time!!! 

This is a personal favorite of mine since I was a child. The best part of the movie was when Ralphie finally got his BB gun. Through the whole movie he ask everyone but his father played by the master Darren McGavin. You might know him from Billy Madison playing his father. In A Christmas Story McGavin doesn't even have a name he is referred to as Old Man. It just tickles your heart that the Old Man was the one that came through in the end. A true classic.

4. The Shining (1980)

 Creepy Trailer!!!

One of my few favorite Kubrick movies and one of the best bat shit crazy dads out there. Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a writer that just wants to provide for his family. He gets this great idea to go to an old hotel and write away. But the hotel is haunted and he goes bananas and tries to kill his family. I still think it was because he got a tie for Father's Day again. What can you do? The end is the best!

3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Crazy Trailer!!! 

This movie scared the living hell out of me as a kid. It look so real and there really isn't any blood in it. Jim Siedow should have got father of the year in my opinion. He was just a single fun loving father trying to keep this rag tag bunch together in hard times. If it was a mom played by Sally Field it would be an Oscar winner. Damn politics. The guy just wants to be left alone and make some good ole chili. MMMMM good ole chili.

2. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

 Old School Trailer!!!

I know it is really called Episode V but it will always be Empire to me. Darth Vader is like any father you know. He wants his only son to take over the family business. Can you blame the guy it took him years and a lot of sacrifice to get where his is in the galaxy. He is a single father that had some troubles and lost his children, but he build his life back up to show everyone they were wrong. Sure he is really into his religion but who isn't. This is another case where if it was a woman like Julia Roberts it would be a great come back story. By the way it is the best Star Wars movie ever.

1. The Stepfather (1987)

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I know it is called Stepfather but there isn't a father's day movie unless you count that crap movie with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. Trust me this one is better. The Stepfather is played by the amazing Terry O'Quinn, that's right it is Locke from a little show called Lost. His performance in this is great and out of control. He plays a serial killer that marries into a family and then gets sick of them and kills them, what more could you ask for in a film. He just wants the perfect family and each one is a let down. Poor crazy ass step dad. This should be watch with the family to show that you should never disappoint dad or make him grill on Father's Day because it sucks.

That concludes my list for this Father's Day. If you have some favorites please feel free to let me know.

Till next time...   

Hey, Eraser Head

 

House Party (1990)

Directed by Reginald Hudlin

Today I bring you a movie that is right up there in my top ten all time funniest movies. It is the 1990 classic House Party. I have to say that this movie brings up great memories from my child hood. I owned a copy on VHS - See kids a VHS is what we use to watch movies on back in the '80's and '90's. They were like giant tapes - Damn, see kids tapes were something we could record music on and make mix tapes for the ones we loved. Where the hell was I? 

House Party was watched at my friends house every weekend it seemed. We would eat bad food and drink and watch this amazing American classic. We still quote the movie today and I am pushing my mid thirties.

The flick was directed by Reginald Hudlin who went on to make Boomerang and The Great White Hype. Both of which are fine films in their own right. He also wrote it and it was the subject for his thesis for film at Harverd University.

It stared Kid-N-Play or Christopher Reid and Christopher Martin. Playing their best friend is Martin Lawerance, very young mind you, as Bilal the house party DJ. It also had a very young Tisha Campbell and the members of Full Force. But the real stand out is Robin Harris as Pops. He steals the show in one of his few starring roles as Kid's dad. We miss you Robin Harris.

The movie is a simple plot, Kid gets into trouble and has to sneak out to Plays house party. It follows the adventures of Kid as he tries to get to the party. The film also follows the quest of Pops who is trying to catch his son that defied him. This movie is very layered as it has Play trying to keep his cool as the kids destroy his house and Bilal has a problem with a party guest that bumps his DJ table. What will happen as the funny happens all over the place.

Like I said this movie is very special to me as it is to my friends that watched it many weekend nights ago. 

House Party spawned many sequels and even a little movie career for Kid-N-Play with a cartoon show added in for good measure. I only recommend House Party 2 for future viewing.

Please give this '90's classic a chance and check out House Party on VHS, by the way I went through at least two copies of this film on VHS. A true forgotten classic and an American classic. 

Till next time...

10/10

Video Junkie Extra:

This movie was written for Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff back in the day. But for some reason they didn't get to make it. Kid-N-Play were a last minute substitute. Thank God that they were not in this movie it would have ruined my teenage years.