My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad: Bad Ass Movie Dads

06/08/2012 11:00 am by

The movies have seen their share of fathers who, in some form or fashion, are  genuine bad-ass mother-scratchers.  I dare you to pick a fight with these guys.

John McClane -Die Hard

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Like regular dads everywhere, John McClane was content to be just a regular guy. He worked hard as a NYC cop and he was gonna work harder to keep his family together. “The last thing he wanted was to be a hero, but he didn’t have a choice.” Thanks to Mr. Cowboy, we dads have all caught ourselves at one time or another staring at a skyscraper wondering if we could handle our very own Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis the way he did. Total bad-ass.

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Justin lives in Kentucky, is crazy about his wife and daughter, and wrote this short bio while Get Off Of My Cloud streamed from a laptop two workstations down from his.

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  • Lynnette

    If young Christopher Plummer hinted that I should consider leaving a convent for him, I would BURN IT DOWN. And look for the biggest book of carnal sins to avoid, then use them all.

    • Justin

      {an excerpt from Lynnette’s new book “Fifty Shades of Plummer”}

  • http://lisasff.wordpress.com/ Lisa

    Liam Neeson in Taken.  That is totally a bad ass dad.

    • SuzyQuzey

      With a whiny stupid kid hardly worth rescuing.

      • http://lisasff.wordpress.com/ Lisa

        Suzy, true, but *he* was still bad ass.

    • Justin

      It was on my first list, Lisa, but I took it off because I haven’t seen it!  Need to though because I hear he’s pretty bad ass in it. 

      • http://lisasff.wordpress.com/ Lisa

        You totally need to see it, if only for the one scene where he’s on the phone with the kidnapper…  they’re making a sequel, I see?  

    • http://diefrau.blogspot.in/ die Frau

      My husband and I saw that movie before we had kids. After it was over, I turned to him and said, “Sweetie, if that ever–” and without missing a beat, he cut me off and said, “Yes. Without question.”

      God help any future daughter we have.

  • Snarky_Amber

    Jack Ryan is also one bad-ass dad. Harrison Ford should play all bad-ass dads.

    • Justin

      No doubt on both points.  He’s even bad-ass in Regarding Henry.  He can’t turn it off…’cept maybe Mosquito Coast.  He was just a hard-ass in that.

      • http://lisasff.wordpress.com/ Lisa

        And he wasn’t bad in Frantic either…  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=525936928 Ed Horch

     Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper), in “True Romance”.

    “Sicilians were spawned by…”

    He got himself killed to avoid telling them where his kid was.  THAT’S badass!

    • Justin

      Total bad-ass move.  Notwithstanding his pre-execution racist rant, of course. 

  • MDub2000

    “These hills are alive with the sound of bad-ass” is getting a standing ovation from me right now.

    • MollyGMartin

      Agreed!  And good call on Atticus Finch.  The all-time great.

      • Justin

        Ha!  I’m glad you enjoyed that, ladies!  Coming from two bad-ass writers like yourselves, I’ll take that as a compliment. 

  • http://diefrau.blogspot.in/ die Frau

    How about Furious Styles in Boyz n the Hood? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1421203905 Tim Vogt

    Ben Cartwright on bonanza! Every one of his sons became a badass like him…Little Joe, Adam…and of course…Hoss! They all fought all the time.
    And if you’re saying he doesn’t count because he’s a TV dad, you’re just being lame.