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Ranking the parents from worst to least bad


1. Golf Dad. This dude needs his kids taken away asap. If he calls his 9 year old daughter a b!tch and a motherf$##r in public while knowingly being filmed, I cant even imagine how bad he is behind closed doors. I wanted to see his fat a$$ die of a heat stroke.

2. Loser Basketball Dad. Even though he doesn't verbally berate his son like the other dads in the movies, his actions are every bit as deplorable. From lying to get the coach fired to hoping the kid on the opposing team broke his shoulder, he constantly takes out his inadequacy issues on other people.

3. Football Dad. As crazy abusive and controlling as he is, it's obvious he's doing what he thinks is best for his son and not living out his own dream. He's really no different than an average parent you'd see on a high school football team. Stupid, misogynistic and has a rigid views of manhood.

4. Loud-mouthed Basketball Dad. Only ranks this high by default. He's loud, obnoxious and even smells like sh!t through the TV screen.

5. Tennis Mom. As an Atheist, my biggest criticism of her was that she's kind of a religious nut. She's the only parent that wants her kids to live a balanced life (they even sleep over at their friends house and are shown eating fast food). She tells her kids that rankings aren't as important as being the best person you can, complements them for being soft and even-keeled, and gave them constructive comments when they lost. In contrast, the other parents even lost their sh!t when their kids won. And as someone into older women, I found her to be somewhat attractive.

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1. Golf Dad is definitely tops!! He made me absolutely SICK and my heart ached for little Amari. How can you treat your baby girl that way, over a SPORT, no less?? Funny how she won when he WAS NOT AROUND. The whole time I watched it I was thinking that even Tiger Woods couldn't play his best, with such a jack*ss hovering over him!!!

2. Football dad. A financial success but all around JERK. It was hard seeing the pain in Justus's face as he berated him. Justus seems like a good kid, doesn't deserve that.

3. Loud Basketball dad - all the reasons you listed as well. Including the sh!t smell.

4. Tennis Mom. She's 4th for me because she's insidious, seems like the type who will guilt trip her sons in subtle ways later, which does even deeper damage.

5. Loser basketball dad - all the reasons you listed, as well as, boring as heck.

6. I'm adding:
1. Amari's Mother.....as a mom I don't know if I could handle my baby being treated like that, even by her own father. How do you just sit idly by? Sadly, it's probably largely financial reasons, as well as, he probably intimidates the wife to a degree too. Sad situation for everyone involved.

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1. Golf dad is a disgusting human being who shouldn't have a child under his control
2. Football dad is a power tripping *beep* with no respect for other people
3. Basketball dad (red face) was shocking but at least he reserved most of his hate for the ref
4. Basketball dad #2
5. Tennis freak actually had some positive things to say to her kids, so wasn't too bad at all. No screaming at them, no tearing them down. She is a bit of a nutter but gave them a few bits of good advice -- they are the most likely to succeed!

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I'd rank them like that too.

Golf Dad easily the worst person. I can't believe he let them record him acting like that to a little girl. He needs to be taught a lesson.

Football Dad is a $#%#$ jerk. Felt bad for Justus.

Basketball Dad was obnoxious. Who does he think he is?

Basketball Dad 2 was insidious. And he compared the team to the holocaust and the coach to Hitler. Like, woah.

Tennis Mom was crazy religious but she was super nice to her kids. Hands down the best of the helicopter parents.



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1. Golf dad - Easily the worst and there are some really bad ones here. His motives were are the most deplorable IMO. He basically wants his 8 year old daughter to get sponsored, become rich, and take care of him financially. He complained on camera that in this day and age he isn't allowed to beat his kids like Tiger Woods was beaten or something to that effect. As a few of you already stated, I don't think this guy should have kids in his care.

2. Loser basketball dad - This guy wasn't so bad at the start of the documentary, but oh man did that change. The comment about wishing the other player broke his elbow was disgusting. When he equated the firing of coach Maier to the holocaust and fall of Hitler, he just made himself look so dumb and ignorant. He seems to be rubbing off on his kid too which is scary.

3. Football dad - This guy really got off on putting down his own kid. From what we saw, I'd say that his son didn't even want to play football, but was probably scared to tell his dad. He berated his son for like 5 minutes on camera (who knows how long that actually went) for wanting/having a girlfriend at age 15 because she will eventually dump him. I think this guy has something against women, just a feeling. I'd be surprised if the son wants anything to do with his father in the future.

4. Frosted tips basketball dad - Can't believe I'm putting this guy 4th, but the three above deserve their places, so 4th it is. He got banned from attending all games from his son's jr. year. You've really got to be an *beep* to accomplish that. This guy started off one of the worst, but really toned it down by the end. I think he loved his son and wanted what was best for him.

5. Tennis mom - I am with the majority on this one. I didn't like how she spoke for her kids most of the time. Neither had a voice of their own throughout the documentary. A little weird, but at least she wasn't abusive towards any players, kids, refs, coaches, etc.

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I was creating a list in my mind as I watched the documentary. Funny there should be a thread about it.

1. Football Dad. I actually thinks he tops the golf dad. Or, at least the situation and how it affects the child was worse in this case imo. Football Dad refused to ever admit a misstake and he feels like he has probably physically hurt his kid lots of times. Also, this was the kid who were least interested in his sport. He seemed truely depressed.

2. Golf Dad. Well most of the things said about Football Dad also goes for Golf Dad. He only gets no 2 spot since I think hes daughter also has some fun in her life, she didn't seem as depressed. These two were by far the worst parents, however.

3. Angry Basketball Dad. At least it felt like his son had friends and they could support him in his dad being unreasonable. The screaming though, that was horrible. I have no memories of any parent ever being as loudmouthed in my youth while playing matches.

4. The Second Basketball Dad. Didn't realize he and his son were part of the documentary until a long way into it. He was just a bit weird, but the comparison to the holocaust was distasteful. Oh... and I just remembered what he shouted at the opponent who hurt his arm. Oh he was terrible as well. Perhaps worse than the angry basketball dad now that I come to think of it...

5. Tennis Mom. The sons didn't seem to like tennis at all, but at least she was not as aweful as the competition in this ranking. Hence the last place, and the title as "least bad".

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Accurate list. I agree with the rankings.

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It's football dad is the worst by far just because he doesn't get that his kid clearly doesn't have the passion for the sport and is just an out right bully.

Then it's the basketball dads based on simply running off coach and not having aby clue how good their kids are (the younger one got a scholarship to Idaho St...wowwww).

Unlike most I think the golf dad isn't awful yea mumbling under your breath that your daughter is a bitch is terrible but you can see from the documentary that she has the drive needed to be successful.

Best is obviously tennis mom she's just kinda weird and like a hippie lol.

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Unlike most I think the golf dad isn't awful yea mumbling under your breath that your daughter is a bitch is terrible but you can see from the documentary that she has the drive needed to be successful.

Fine. Calling her names under his breath and out of her earshot is one thing, but when he said to her, "if you don't [whatever it was], I'm going to smack you in the mouth...." he lost all respect. If he could say that miked and with a camera crew following him, god only knows what he does when no one is watching.

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1. Golf dad. Being a dad of 3 daughters myself, it was way beyond my comprehension how he can treat his little girl like that, it was very difficult for me to watch his scenes, literaly my heart started pounding fast and I wanted to jump inside the TV on the golf course and beat the *beep* out of that guy.

2. Football dad. The guy is a prick and also drove me nuts, get a life you *beep* let your boy be what he wants to be. You are destroying the confidence of your own son, don't you see it? what an idiot.


The other 3 parents also suck for the reasons people already mentioned on this thread, I just wanted to vent on these 2 that really pissed me off..

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