3 Movies That You (Probably) Didn't Watch But Should

Grace Wabegijig - June 5, 2018

DISCLAIMER: These films are all great in my opinion. Mine. Meaning that, okay, sure, they aren't all the greatest of films. None of them are Oscar-winners, only one is Oscar-nominated, but regardless, I'm going to be sharing this list of films that I think came and went with many having never seen of them. And by "many having never seen them" I am of course referring to the fact that every time I speak of these films I am met only with quizzical expressions, complete with eyebrows drawn up in concentration as they, whoever 'they' may be, attempt to remember the film that 'they' definitely have never heard of.

1. Logan Lucky (2017)

Everyone loves a good heist movie, right? They usually require a generous amount of action to keep an audience entertained, which Logan Lucky does well. And rarely do they input a generous amount of humour, which Logan Lucky does even better. The director describes the feel of the movie to be 'anti-glam' in opposition to the likes of famed heist film Ocean's Eleven. "Nobody dresses nice. Nobody has nice stuff," he further explained in Entertainment Magazine. "They have no money. They have no technology. It's all rubber band technology." So it makes for quite the interesting take, being a movie about Oh, and, for those who enjoy Channing Tatum and his conventional attractiveness, he's in it. Additionally, for those of you who enjoy Adam Driver, and all his rather unconventional attractiveness, he's also in it.


2. Baby Driver (2017)

Shaun of the Dead. Hot Fuzz. The World’s End. These titles ring any bells? All three, comprising The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, were written by one Edgar Wright, a damn good filmmaker who, in his most recent directorial project, created Baby Driver, an action crime film about a music-loving getaway driver. Let's be honest, the best scenes in action films are the car chases, right? Well, Baby Driver is chocked full of car chases, all of which will make you wish that you too have been the getaway driver for Kevin Spacey and his criminal underlings since you were a child. Don’t worry, you’ll get it once you watch the movie. The soundtrack is great, too, obviously. The music is the driving force of the film. (Insert dad laughing at his own joke gif here.)


3. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Before the disappointing sequel, one of the biggest let downs that affected me on a deeply personal level last fall, there was Kingsman: The Secret Service. Unlike its successor The Golden Circle (2017), the first Kingsman film was amazing. It pays homage to the spy film genre, drawing inspiration from and making several references to various Bond films. In my opinion, however, it was better. It was a spy film that wasn’t exhaustingly serious; it was actually funny. And I recognize that I speak from a bias standpoint -- the moment the camera panned upwards to reveal the face of lead actor Taron Egerton, I was gone -- but the movie is very enjoyable. Handsome men in suits? Highly stylized fighting scenes? Humour throughout? Colin Firth, known gentlemanly actor who stutters over nearly all his lines, executing the best, and extremely gory and violent, action sequence of any film ever? (Debatable, and probably wrong, but still.) This film has it all. Well, everything but a good sequel.

Well, that wraps up my lengthy list of three movies that you should have seen in theaters but are probably only hearing about now. They’re worth the watch, trust me. Or don’t. Either way, you’re probably going to end up on a Netflix binge this summer and accidentally watch one too many less-than-mediocre films. Might as well select a title that you’ve been recommended to watch by some rando in the school paper.


Bonus: The House of Small Cubes (short film)

Liek if u crie every tim . Please watch, only 12 short minutes on Netflix. Will 10/10 make you cry like the first five minutes of Up (2009).