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Call it whatever you’d like – dadsploitation, old-man vengeance and on-screen midlife crisis come to mind – but with Neeson having expanded beyond the Taken films into similarly pitched affairs like Non-Stop and Run All Night, and other ageing male movie stars like Kevin Costner (3 Days to Kill) and Sean Penn (The Gunman) trying to out-Neeson the man himself, this is more than just a franchise of films.
Why Liam Neeson's dadsploitation films shut out women Kevin Lincoln 2015
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While easy to poke fun at, dadsploitation has thoroughly revived the action genre from its ’80s heyday, when Arnie, Sly, Chuck Norris, Van Damme and Steven Seagal were one-man wrecking crews taking out whole armies with crossbows, machine guns and brute force.
The rise and rise of the middle-aged action man Ben Jhoty 2024
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Have we found a name for this genre yet, this revival of movies where aging badasses with very particular sets of skills go on kill-fests to protect their loved ones? “Dadsploitation”? “Father Kills Best”? I think I like my friend Matt Prigge’s description: “Peppy Fogey Fighting Romp.”
January 9, 2015