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
SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE
Look! Up in the sky! It's our childhood!
If you read comics as a kid, you read some Superman. And, love him or hate him, you knew who Superman was, and, secretly, you probably wished the people around you could be a little more like him. Granted, it's easier to have an unbendable moral code if you don't need to eat and nothing can ever hurt you, but still, you had to respect the guy. And if you are a Comics Dad (tm), I bet your kid knew something about Superman before they could say the word "Batmobile".
Now, I have nothing against messrs. Cavill and Snyder, but that *woosh* you heard in 2013 was every Dad in the world sucking in a breath to exclaim THAT'S NOT WHAT SUPERMAN DOES! IMO, they didn't get it.
You know who got it? Christopher Reeve. And Margot Kidder. And Richard Donner. And, while Marlon Brando didn't totally get it, at least my man got paid. Join us as we spin the Earth backwards to review Donner's 1978 ur-superhero film SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE.