TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
Mike and Dave are two Gen X Dads who grew up watching movies because there was nothing else to do. Tooky is a Millennial dad-in-training who grew up with the internet, and thus never needed to watch ROAD HOUSE on cable. Mike (a standup comedian) and Dave (an improviser and occasional academic) will present Tooky (comedian, social critic and dad-in-training) with a new (old) movie every week and answer the important questions: Are white people ok? When did Nic Cage become a whole thing?Are these movies good, or are Mike and Dave wallowing in toxic nostalgia? Every Tuesday, TDM promises to bridge the generation gap, one dad movie at a time.
Intro/outro music: "It's Almost Late Night" from the album WE HAD A GOOD RUN by Dave Rabinow, available at www.daverabinow.com
TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
THE DEPARTED
It's hard to make a movie.
It's even harder to make a movie that accurately depicts a specific place and set of characters.
That said, if you DO make a movie in which you hope to portray a particular place and people, it's perhaps important to get actors who sound like they're from that particular place and time. That said - this movie is extremely Dad friendly, featuring such notable Dads as Nice President Dad (Martin Sheen), Angry Yelling Dad (Alec Baldwin) and Generational Icon Dad (Jack Nicholson). Other Dads represented: Film Dad ("It's based on a Hong Kong cinema classic!"), Boston Dad ("Look, it's the ugliest City Hall in America!"), and Scorcese Dad ("Sure, it's not Raging Bull but it's better than The Irishman!"). We do a Big Boston Dig into Marty's 2006 Best Picture winner THE DEPARTED.