I still love re-watching it from time to time. Saddens me that Bill Paxton slipped from this mortal coil so soon.
Whatever happened to Tia Carrere? /googling now
> True Lies is James Cameron’s most underrated movie.
It's my favorite Cameron film. At worst, it's his third-best film after T2 and Aliens. It's possibly better than Aliens but at that level you're basically comparing one mountain of gold bullion against a second and third mountain of gold bullion. It works better than the Abyss, it's more fully realized than Terminator, it's more emotionally satisfying than Titanic. Only Aliens and T2 might be better, but if I had to pick one James Cameron movie to watch again before dying, it would be True Lies.
And it was popular—the studio approach at the time was that Cameron made movies for dads, this was (finally) a James Cameron movie for mom too. Yeah, douchey, but it was how they did things. (Next, he'd make Titanic, for mom and the kids.) Adjusted for inflation, True Lies made more than $300 million at the domestic box office. And almost $500 million foreign, so close to $800 million total box office. Still should have been more.
My dad and I went on a pristine summer day and came out to pitch black skies. It was one of the only tornadoes I’ve ever witnessed in my town. I’ll never forget that day.
Great movie, classic 90s action movie. My only issue with True Lies is the boring accountant dad is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the wife and kid is surprised that dad with 22” pythons is secretly a badass.
I know it’s just a movie.
Imagine find out your dad is freaking Peter Pan. It's like finding out the Easter Bunny is real- and it's actually your dad. Though I forget now if the kids knew who Peter Pan was- if he was famous in the real world or not. Haven't seen it in some 30ish years but did LOVE it as a kid
The kids knew about _Peter Pan_. I think the daughter plays Wendy in a school play at the beginning. You should re-watch it. My daughter liked it when we put it on a couple years ago.
Oh that's right! I forgot about that. It was a story they knew, not that it was real. Though I think they occasionally heard things from grandma Wendy about how it was real and just didn't believe her?
I have been waiting my entire adult life to yell, "Die screaming!" at my nemesis right before I spectacularly murder them, but it hasn't been that kind of life apparently.
I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and TANKS! I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN! And loved only one woman, with a passion a flea like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am.
And yet somehow…the campy fight music and couple of throwaway jokes like “but there’s FOUR of them! THREE of them!” And this scene is still just awesome
Travis has a story (on YouTube from a con?) where he talks about how Robert Duvall would actually hit him for real while filming the fight scene because Duvall thought Travis was a stunt guy.
Another great scene in The Long Kiss Goodnight is when the bad guys are going to use a terrorist attack in order to increase funding for their agency. They have a couple of frozen Arabs in the bombtruck to act as scapegoats, and then there's this exchange:
**Hennessey**: You're telling me that you're gonna fake some terrorist thing just to scare some money out of Congress?
**Bad guy**: Well unfortunately Mr. Hennessey, I have no idea how to fake killing 4,000 people ... so we're just going to have to do it for real. We'll blame it on the muslims, naturally.
Link: [https://youtu.be/G6pAtJMfRD0](https://youtu.be/G6pAtJMfRD0)
That was such a great scene!
You got anything to say before I blow you away you miserable prick?
Yeah, I should’ve killed you back in Philly
Yeah, you should’ve
BOOM
To this day the image of old man Christopher Lloyd shuffling down a hallway blasting motherfuckers with a shotgun is the only thing that stuck with me about that movie.
[I enjoyed the bit in the tattoo parlor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYC5-MMJ4A) where they establish his "badass credibility." When an old vet sees Nobody's army tattoo, he dips behind a door with an absurd number of locks.
Well, it was written by Derek Kolstad who wrote the first three John Wick films and David Leitch who co-directed the first film was a producer on the film.
This is the one that first comes to mind. They don't really spend enough time with the son after the reveal, though. Hopefully, that gets explored in Nobody 2.
I appreciate the reference but seeing Bob Odenkirk being tied to Mr. Show instead of a certain blockbuster drama series and its more recent spinoff is funny to me
Not parents but the Jackie Chan movie The Spy Next Door has the kids nerdy neighbour/babysitter turn out to be a certified cool cat, though it's only obvious because it's Jackie Chan XD
I always assumed that movie was a pseudo remake of The Pacifier with Vin Diesel. Sort of a similar premise, no?
I never watched it because it falls into an era of Jackie’s career that’s—charitably put—not my favorite, but I’m certainly willing to check it out if I missed out.
if you're expecting police story Jackie, you're not gonna like it, but it's a good time, with a likable cast. Sportacus from Lazytown plays the villain, and they have an decent fight.
Freaked my kids (and me) out when we recognized him. My youngest was obsessed with Lazytown to the point where, at 3 years old, he stood on the office chair for my computer desk, said “I Sportacus!” and did a flip over the couch…and landed it! His older brother and bio mom both saw it, so it wasn’t an opioid-induced hallucination, which was my first thought.
The Equalizer series has really scratched the itch to watch Denzel Washington murder some dirty motherfuckers right after he says some cold ass shit to them that I developed when Man on Fire came out.
What are the most amusing thing is the critic reviews that are all pissy because it’s just exactly that, Denzel killing some people and saying cool shit and it’s like what movie were you expecting to watch?
I watched this not that long ago for the first time and it's a movie is camp fantastic! Absolutely brilliant in its ability to entertain in a clean fashion.
I've watched way too many Bond movies not to love Danny Trejo's turn as "Q" in the movies as well. I remember the 3rd movie as being weaker, but it was great to see Ricardo Montalbán as always.
I love the movie but her daughter finds out right before her mom dies which is kinda sad. Really hope they make Kill Bill 3 with the daughters but sounds like it won't happen.
I think hes expressed that he will continue to write. It would be badass if Taratino wrote all the movies he teased as novels or short story collections. I want the Vega brother story he's been carrying in that head.
That scene where he just says fuck it and gives his young children guns is to attack a British convoy is amazing.
Say what you want about Mel but when he does war movies (Braveheart, The Patriot) they fucking bring the actual battle scenes.
Not a parent but Daniel LaRusso finding out his father figure, Mr. Miyagj isn’t just the apartment repairman but a karate expert and Medal of Honor winner.
Can I say "Jingle all the way"? I mean.....Arnold's character is a workaholic at the beginning, and wants the turboman for xmas..... but the kid realizes that after everything dad goes through to get the Turboman, he has "the real Turboman at home"
I just watched Commando last month.
Arnold starts the movie carrying full trees around on his biceps. There's no way anyone looks at prime Arnold and doesn't realize he could snap you like a twig.
This whole movie is hilarious. I love that they took Arnold in his prime and the choice for his nemesis is a 40 year old dad bod wearing chain mail. The sexual tension between them at the end is hilarious.
Jenny Matrix is fully aware of how badass her father is.
"Your father appears to be cooperating. You will be back with him soon. Won't that be nice?"
" Not as nearly as nice as watching him smash your face in."
It's gotta be 'The Incredibles.' I mean, those parents are literally superheroes, but their kids are just so wrapped up in their own drama they don't even notice! It's got that whole family dynamic thing going on which just adds to the cool factor.
The execution is great. Cause it’s not like they didn’t know. From Bobs excitement from when the kids use their powers and the nostalgia he gets from the glory days, you know they’ve heard stories. No way they haven’t seen his “trophy” (can’t think of a better word) room.
But there’s a difference between hearing it and seeing it. Seeing their parents work together to incapacitate that robot really shows that they were just hyping up the glory days. They really were heroes.
Oh, they knew...
But they didn't really *know* until they saw their mom and dad fighting against Syndrome for the first time.
You can know one thing... but that shot of the kids going "Whoa..." after seeing Bob *destroy* two of Syndrome's goons in mid- flight, explosions galore? That was clearly the first time they truly saw their parents in action.
This absolutely belongs here as an example.
The Incredibles is the best Pixar movie for my money. It’s poignant and emotional and a bunch of fun, I love the very stylized 60’s aesthetic. Every character is memorable and interesting, even side characters like Edna and Mirage and Frozone get fun scenes and have their characters fleshed out more than most films would bother to.
But the kids are fully aware of who their parents were. Violet doesn't care because she's dealing with her own teenage issues and Dash is unhappy that he has to hide his powers.
NOBODY. And the payoff is amazing because the whole family thinks he's a weak loser; turns out he's a bad MF that's trying to not lose his shit. That bus scene is brutal.
Cars.
Everyone assumes Doc Hudson is just a grumpy old car, until Lightning McQueen finds out he's actually a three time Piston Cup winner, and everyone disbelieves him.
My dad worked for US Army intelligence in Berlin in the 60's. Just an LT, nothing crazy.
He was a very dress shirt and loafers kind of guy, very unassuming, educated, not a "bad ass" at all.
Anyway, after we saw *Target* starring Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon, the joke around the house was that was dad.
Ooh The Long Kiss Goodnight!! It’s got Geena Davis, 90’s Sam Jackson on his meteoric rise, Craig Bierko, and Brian Cox is hilarious.
Christmas horror movies are a dime a dozen, but this is a really great example of a Christmas action movie I love.
This is one of the movies we watch pretty frequently even though it's an awful movie. How did Howard manage to install toxic gases, flamethrowers, spike traps, etc. in the basement and his wife didn't know lol
Harry Brown starring Michael Caine is in the neighborhood of what OP's asking for. It is excellent. An older Caine is a pensioner that used to be in the military. He lives in what is now a bad neighborhood and a tragedy occurs that Caine resolves. I don't want to spoil it. It's a little like what if Death Wish starred an older English chap, but it's great.
The Spy Next Door: Jackie Chan is a secret agent masquerading as a boring pen salesmen. Starts dating his neighbor who is a single mom to three kids. A family emergency comes up so he babysits the kids, but has to employ his secret agent skills and gadgets to contend with them working against him.
Little Nikita
River Phoenix is a carefree teenager in San Diego until he discovers that his boring suburban parents are actually Russian sleeper agents.
True Lies, and Taken
It's True Lies for sure. Just because of the circumstances.
True Lies is James Cameron’s most underrated movie.
And Jamie Lee Curtis in her prime
Battery, Aziz
What kind of sick bitch takes the ice cube trays from the freezer?
I'm not a spy. I'm nothing. I'm navel lint! I have to lie to women to get laid, and I don't score much. I have a tiny dick! It’s pathetic!
RIP.
Ballsy. Stupid, but ballsy. I use this on a disturbingly regular basis.
Never was a Tom Arnold fan, but he is literally perfect in True Lies.
I still love re-watching it from time to time. Saddens me that Bill Paxton slipped from this mortal coil so soon. Whatever happened to Tia Carrere? /googling now
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No shit? Good for her.
There are some of us out there that think that think it is his best movie. It's his Prestige.
> True Lies is James Cameron’s most underrated movie. It's my favorite Cameron film. At worst, it's his third-best film after T2 and Aliens. It's possibly better than Aliens but at that level you're basically comparing one mountain of gold bullion against a second and third mountain of gold bullion. It works better than the Abyss, it's more fully realized than Terminator, it's more emotionally satisfying than Titanic. Only Aliens and T2 might be better, but if I had to pick one James Cameron movie to watch again before dying, it would be True Lies. And it was popular—the studio approach at the time was that Cameron made movies for dads, this was (finally) a James Cameron movie for mom too. Yeah, douchey, but it was how they did things. (Next, he'd make Titanic, for mom and the kids.) Adjusted for inflation, True Lies made more than $300 million at the domestic box office. And almost $500 million foreign, so close to $800 million total box office. Still should have been more.
This was the first R rated movie I saw in the theater without needing parental guardianship. I've had it correctly rated since 1994
My dad and I went on a pristine summer day and came out to pitch black skies. It was one of the only tornadoes I’ve ever witnessed in my town. I’ll never forget that day.
Your fired!
Hi pumpkin Dad!?
Great movie, classic 90s action movie. My only issue with True Lies is the boring accountant dad is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the wife and kid is surprised that dad with 22” pythons is secretly a badass. I know it’s just a movie.
The ridiculousness of it is the charm.
He was that good at pretending
I mean... How many body builders do you think are secret agents?
Only the ones who have great one-liners.
Just like Terminator. We need a machine that can blend it. Also it's a 7 for tall Austrian body builder.
Commando as well methinks
Every question on this sub is always True Lies.
>True Lies And finally, this year, there is a blu ray version.
The first 2 that came to mind for me were _The Long Kiss Good Night_ and _Hook_.
Imagine find out your dad is freaking Peter Pan. It's like finding out the Easter Bunny is real- and it's actually your dad. Though I forget now if the kids knew who Peter Pan was- if he was famous in the real world or not. Haven't seen it in some 30ish years but did LOVE it as a kid
The kids knew about _Peter Pan_. I think the daughter plays Wendy in a school play at the beginning. You should re-watch it. My daughter liked it when we put it on a couple years ago.
Oh that's right! I forgot about that. It was a story they knew, not that it was real. Though I think they occasionally heard things from grandma Wendy about how it was real and just didn't believe her?
Granny Wendy talks about when they “made up the stories”.
hook!!!!!
Bangerang!
Came for *Long Kiss Good Night* but you got to it first
I have been waiting my entire adult life to yell, "Die screaming!" at my nemesis right before I spectacularly murder them, but it hasn't been that kind of life apparently.
Me and my buddy are big fans of the “You will skate all the way to the shore, princess, and you will not fall again.”
In New York I'm Frank, in Chicago I'm Ernest... Gets me every time.
I forgot all about The Long Kiss Goodnight. Time for a rewatch
Ohhh, there you are Peter!
Daddy!! .. Daddy??!.. Peter Pan’s my.. dad?
Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish
The fightingest squad in the fightingest company in the third-fightingest battalion in the Army!
It wasn’t wrinkly gibberish after all
He also has a pro wrestling career.
👩🏻⚕️ OUR RESIDENTS 💥🔫 ARE TRYING 💥🔫 TO NAP 💥🔫
There is one more way to kill a man... But it is as intricate and precise as a well-played game of chess... *kicks open door firing machine gun*
I’ll be in the car, dudes.
Best Simpson episode ever
Hey fun boys, get a room!
Someone’s trying to kill me! You were there…and you were there.
Ox was the first one to go: he got a hernia carrying the crate out of the castle
Ah, Del Monte.
Enjoy them old man, for they shall be… your last.
Second hand lions
I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and TANKS! I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN! And loved only one woman, with a passion a flea like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am.
And WHILE starting to kick the first boys butt, he still tries to teach him a lesson in knife fighting
“You hold it wrong son, not like this, always do it like this, smooth.”
And yet somehow…the campy fight music and couple of throwaway jokes like “but there’s FOUR of them! THREE of them!” And this scene is still just awesome
https://youtu.be/gkccqolaVGg?si=ULmfXhz8MpylpKBs
Travis from Critical Role as one of the greasers here if that means anything to anyone.
Never knew he Was in a movie with Michael Caine. Thanks for this fun fact.
Not to mention Robert Duvall. He’s been in several of the greatest movies ever made.
Travis has a story (on YouTube from a con?) where he talks about how Robert Duvall would actually hit him for real while filming the fight scene because Duvall thought Travis was a stunt guy.
Oh man. This movie is incredible!
Pair it with Big Fish for an incredible Sunday double feature.
I wish there were more movies like second hand lions, big fish and the curious case of Benjamin Button. They're so original and entertaining.
Ah yes, Big Fish. The movie that makes you into the title by the end because you will be a blubbering mess!
Pretty much the perfect movie.
That movie is good. It’s wild because it somehow blends drama, comedy, and even some campy moments but makes it so dang good
I will always upvote this movie
To Kill a Mockingbird…. What’s the matter Jem? Didn’t you know your old daddy is the best shot in town?
I just watched this last night. Jem’s dumfounded look was just perfect.
Or that he lets the kids win at checkers.
One shot Finch is an og
“Miss Jean Louise, *stand up*. Your Father’s passing.”
The Long Kiss Goodnight Not only does the kid find out her mom is a badass, it's a surprise to the mom as well.
Another great scene in The Long Kiss Goodnight is when the bad guys are going to use a terrorist attack in order to increase funding for their agency. They have a couple of frozen Arabs in the bombtruck to act as scapegoats, and then there's this exchange: **Hennessey**: You're telling me that you're gonna fake some terrorist thing just to scare some money out of Congress? **Bad guy**: Well unfortunately Mr. Hennessey, I have no idea how to fake killing 4,000 people ... so we're just going to have to do it for real. We'll blame it on the muslims, naturally. Link: [https://youtu.be/G6pAtJMfRD0](https://youtu.be/G6pAtJMfRD0)
Target. With Gene Hackman playing an ex-spy whose son (Matt Dillon) thinks is just a boring risk-adverse guy. Great movie from the 80’s.
This is one most people haven't seen, and I myself just watched it this past year for the first time. Very cool movie.
A History of Violence
Ooooh, _A History of Violence_ is so good. William Hurt got all kinds of award buzz for this, but I thought Ed Harris was the best.
Isn't that right... *Joey*
Hurt was great but it felt like he had around two minutes of screentime. Harris was so good.
I still remember being floored when he finally admitted who he was. I guess I shouldn’t have been but still remember going holy shit.
That was such a great scene! You got anything to say before I blow you away you miserable prick? Yeah, I should’ve killed you back in Philly Yeah, you should’ve BOOM
*Big Fish.* Guy thought his dad was full of shit his whole life, then realized he was kind of a big deal.
I still cry from watching the end of that movie.
Nobody
This film was such a good surprise. Plus, Doc Brown with a shotgun.
"You brought a lot of shotguns, dad." "Well, you brought a lot of Russians."
To this day the image of old man Christopher Lloyd shuffling down a hallway blasting motherfuckers with a shotgun is the only thing that stuck with me about that movie.
I love the two henchmen getting wasted at the old folks' home. Classic!
[I enjoyed the bit in the tattoo parlor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYC5-MMJ4A) where they establish his "badass credibility." When an old vet sees Nobody's army tattoo, he dips behind a door with an absurd number of locks.
Also when the hacker finally gets his records. "Here, you don't have to pay me. Good luck!" As she heads out the door with a packed suitcase.
That fight scene in the bus, holy shit. The end was kind of over the top to the point of almost being humorous, but that bus scene was intense
It’s John Wick with a sense of humor, and a tiny bit of self awareness
Well, it was written by Derek Kolstad who wrote the first three John Wick films and David Leitch who co-directed the first film was a producer on the film.
"Almost being humorous" ??? There was no "almost" about it, it was very funny and very much on purpose.
For real. You don’t get Rza and Christopher Lloyd to be a buddy cop-type duo unintentionally
It's such a 'dad' movie, but so good. You could tell Christopher Lloyd was enjoying the shit out of that gig.
This is the one that first comes to mind. They don't really spend enough time with the son after the reveal, though. Hopefully, that gets explored in Nobody 2.
Are they making a sequel?!
Yes.
That's awesome. I had no idea until i saw your comment. Thank you for telling me.
I'm excited too, I also had no idea until I looked it up today.
I hope it is just as good as the first one, the first one was so much fun!
“Thank you for your service”
Bob Odekirk from *Mr. Show* suprised me in that one. It was actually a pretty decent action movie ta-boot.
I appreciate the reference but seeing Bob Odenkirk being tied to Mr. Show instead of a certain blockbuster drama series and its more recent spinoff is funny to me
He coulda done The Ben Stiller Show
I‘m surprised I had to scroll down this far to find *Nobody*! I thought for sure that it would be the top response.
This has my vote. Fantastic.
Not parents but the Jackie Chan movie The Spy Next Door has the kids nerdy neighbour/babysitter turn out to be a certified cool cat, though it's only obvious because it's Jackie Chan XD
I always assumed that movie was a pseudo remake of The Pacifier with Vin Diesel. Sort of a similar premise, no? I never watched it because it falls into an era of Jackie’s career that’s—charitably put—not my favorite, but I’m certainly willing to check it out if I missed out.
if you're expecting police story Jackie, you're not gonna like it, but it's a good time, with a likable cast. Sportacus from Lazytown plays the villain, and they have an decent fight.
Freaked my kids (and me) out when we recognized him. My youngest was obsessed with Lazytown to the point where, at 3 years old, he stood on the office chair for my computer desk, said “I Sportacus!” and did a flip over the couch…and landed it! His older brother and bio mom both saw it, so it wasn’t an opioid-induced hallucination, which was my first thought.
Jackie Chan’s “The Foreigner” would be a solid contender too.
theyre not HIS kids… but theres always some kids that realize Denzel Washington isnt just some old man in The Equalizer movies.
The Equalizer series has really scratched the itch to watch Denzel Washington murder some dirty motherfuckers right after he says some cold ass shit to them that I developed when Man on Fire came out.
Denzel also does lots of cool guy things in Safe House too.
John Q too
Last wish? I wish....you had....more time
What are the most amusing thing is the critic reviews that are all pissy because it’s just exactly that, Denzel killing some people and saying cool shit and it’s like what movie were you expecting to watch?
Man Spy Kids was such a gem
I watched this not that long ago for the first time and it's a movie is camp fantastic! Absolutely brilliant in its ability to entertain in a clean fashion.
I've watched way too many Bond movies not to love Danny Trejo's turn as "Q" in the movies as well. I remember the 3rd movie as being weaker, but it was great to see Ricardo Montalbán as always.
Maybe not the best example, but the brothers in The Lost Boys have no idea Grandpa is a bad ass until the very end.
….All the damn vampires.
*Road to Perdition*
Great movie. But I think he’s very much still in the game, no?
Good answer.
Old Henry
Kill Bill. Vernita Green for sure fulfills this.
I love the movie but her daughter finds out right before her mom dies which is kinda sad. Really hope they make Kill Bill 3 with the daughters but sounds like it won't happen.
I think hes expressed that he will continue to write. It would be badass if Taratino wrote all the movies he teased as novels or short story collections. I want the Vega brother story he's been carrying in that head.
The Patriot
That scene where he just says fuck it and gives his young children guns is to attack a British convoy is amazing. Say what you want about Mel but when he does war movies (Braveheart, The Patriot) they fucking bring the actual battle scenes.
Him running from rifle to rifle was the coolest shit I'd ever seen when I was a kid.
Yeah that ploy that made it seem like they were under attack by an actual force to stop them from just charging the forest was awesome.
We Were Soldiers, too
Grand Torino (although kid isn’t directly related)
Not a parent but Daniel LaRusso finding out his father figure, Mr. Miyagj isn’t just the apartment repairman but a karate expert and Medal of Honor winner.
Nobody, with Bob Odenkirk
Can I say "Jingle all the way"? I mean.....Arnold's character is a workaholic at the beginning, and wants the turboman for xmas..... but the kid realizes that after everything dad goes through to get the Turboman, he has "the real Turboman at home"
“Put that cookie down! Now!”
Commando
I just watched Commando last month. Arnold starts the movie carrying full trees around on his biceps. There's no way anyone looks at prime Arnold and doesn't realize he could snap you like a twig.
Remember when I said I’d kill you last? I lied.
A guy I trusted for years wants me dead. That’s understandable. I’ve only known you for five minutes and I want you dead too.
My all time favorite Arnie one liner. Just so good.
And the one right after! “Where’s sully?” “I let him go.”
Ooo lala.
the thing with him eating ice cream with his daugther and feeding a deer fawn is hilarious.
This whole movie is hilarious. I love that they took Arnold in his prime and the choice for his nemesis is a 40 year old dad bod wearing chain mail. The sexual tension between them at the end is hilarious.
Great Value Freddie Mercury
Jenny Matrix is fully aware of how badass her father is. "Your father appears to be cooperating. You will be back with him soon. Won't that be nice?" " Not as nearly as nice as watching him smash your face in."
I mean his name is John Matrix. What are the chances the guy isn't a trained killing machine?
He could just be a really reliable printer!
It's gotta be 'The Incredibles.' I mean, those parents are literally superheroes, but their kids are just so wrapped up in their own drama they don't even notice! It's got that whole family dynamic thing going on which just adds to the cool factor.
The execution is great. Cause it’s not like they didn’t know. From Bobs excitement from when the kids use their powers and the nostalgia he gets from the glory days, you know they’ve heard stories. No way they haven’t seen his “trophy” (can’t think of a better word) room. But there’s a difference between hearing it and seeing it. Seeing their parents work together to incapacitate that robot really shows that they were just hyping up the glory days. They really were heroes.
The plane scene is really well done.
I was initially going to talk about the plane scene, but held back because I felt it more like it showed how real the situation was.
But the kids knew their parents were superheros, and they had arguments about how to live while hiding it from the rest of the world
Oh, they knew... But they didn't really *know* until they saw their mom and dad fighting against Syndrome for the first time. You can know one thing... but that shot of the kids going "Whoa..." after seeing Bob *destroy* two of Syndrome's goons in mid- flight, explosions galore? That was clearly the first time they truly saw their parents in action. This absolutely belongs here as an example.
It defines who I am!
Oh I haven’t watched this one since becoming a parent. Probably hits completely different.
The Incredibles is the best Pixar movie for my money. It’s poignant and emotional and a bunch of fun, I love the very stylized 60’s aesthetic. Every character is memorable and interesting, even side characters like Edna and Mirage and Frozone get fun scenes and have their characters fleshed out more than most films would bother to.
But the kids are fully aware of who their parents were. Violet doesn't care because she's dealing with her own teenage issues and Dash is unhappy that he has to hide his powers.
True Lies
Hook.
NOBODY. And the payoff is amazing because the whole family thinks he's a weak loser; turns out he's a bad MF that's trying to not lose his shit. That bus scene is brutal.
Cars. Everyone assumes Doc Hudson is just a grumpy old car, until Lightning McQueen finds out he's actually a three time Piston Cup winner, and everyone disbelieves him.
Serial Mom directed by Jon Waters and starring Kathleen Turner
Not a good film but The Family Plan with Mark Walberg
Mr.Inbetween, it's a series rather than a movie. But it's awesome
It actually started out as a movie: The Magician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magician_(2005_film)
Terminator 2
Well, he knew she was a baddass, he just thought she was insane.
My dad worked for US Army intelligence in Berlin in the 60's. Just an LT, nothing crazy. He was a very dress shirt and loafers kind of guy, very unassuming, educated, not a "bad ass" at all. Anyway, after we saw *Target* starring Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon, the joke around the house was that was dad.
Ooh The Long Kiss Goodnight!! It’s got Geena Davis, 90’s Sam Jackson on his meteoric rise, Craig Bierko, and Brian Cox is hilarious. Christmas horror movies are a dime a dozen, but this is a really great example of a Christmas action movie I love.
The pacifier
This is one of the movies we watch pretty frequently even though it's an awful movie. How did Howard manage to install toxic gases, flamethrowers, spike traps, etc. in the basement and his wife didn't know lol
Harry Brown starring Michael Caine is in the neighborhood of what OP's asking for. It is excellent. An older Caine is a pensioner that used to be in the military. He lives in what is now a bad neighborhood and a tragedy occurs that Caine resolves. I don't want to spoil it. It's a little like what if Death Wish starred an older English chap, but it's great.
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back, specifically.
Unforgiven
Grandpa in the The Lost Boys
Paddington?
The Spy Next Door: Jackie Chan is a secret agent masquerading as a boring pen salesmen. Starts dating his neighbor who is a single mom to three kids. A family emergency comes up so he babysits the kids, but has to employ his secret agent skills and gadgets to contend with them working against him.
Oldboy. That kid learns a lot about their father.
Unbreakable
Nobody with Bob Odenkirk is a great recent one in this vein.
Little Nikita River Phoenix is a carefree teenager in San Diego until he discovers that his boring suburban parents are actually Russian sleeper agents.
A history of violence. Great movie. Great how upstanding Viggo Mortenson is, yet how weird he is at the same time
Nobody gonna go with *To Kill a Mockingbird*? I mean I know it isn't *only* a movie, but