Sorry Gemini Man but the biggest movie releasing this weekend isn’t something most people will see in theaters. While El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is getting a theatrical release, its true home is streaming Netflix. Watch Jesse Pinkman’s tense and thrilling journey to freedom from the comfort of your own home. After all, it is the follow-up a TV show, but a TV show that already had cinematic levels of quality on the small screen. Really, what’s the difference?
Watch these movies before El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
Felina
Obviously you should watch all of Breaking Bad to understand what’s going on in the Breaking Bad movie. But if you’re short on time and already sort of know the beats of Walter White’s rise to drug kingpin, refresh yourself with the current status quo by watching the now six-years-old series finale ‘Felina.’ El Camino takes place immediately after this.
Need For Speed
El Camino follows Jesse’s desperate search for freedom, a search that began with him desperately driving away in an El Camino. Before we knew about his solo film though, the joke was that this scene was the secret lead-in to Need for Speed, an inexplicable movie based on the plotless racing game that Aaron Paul starred in.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
El Camino looks like a great movie that continues the events of a great TV show. If you want to see a bad movie that has barely anything to do with a great TV, watch The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Forget the overarching alien mythology, this overblown monster of the week episode is anti-fan service at its finest.
The Getaway
There’s a whole tradition of cinema following troubled man hitting the open road to escape their past and find new freedom. That’s America. Steve McQueen is the iconic actor who embodies this ethos, and you’ll find no better example of it than in Sam Peckinpah’s crime classic The Getaway.
Drive
Another no-nonsense story about a crime man and his car, Drive helped introduce these neo-noir thrills to an entire new generation. The soundtrack! The scorpion jacket! The sheer amount of cool actors who need to play off of Ryan Gosling’s blank face. Alongside greats like Oscar Isaac, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman, Carey Mulligan and Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston himself has a fantastic turn here.
Better Call Saul
Breaking Bad may have ended six years ago but fans didn’t have to wait for this movie to spend more time in Vince Gilligan’s criminal New Mexico. For years the prequel spin-off Better Call Saul has been following the moral descent of Heisenberg’s eventual criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. It’s a great show, arguably better than Breaking Bad, because it has so much more Bob Odenkirk.
Scarface
Breaking Bad is great but Walter White has definitely become the kind of anti-hero that chuds misinterpret as the real hero and worship as a result. And the king of college dorm room poster dudes is Tony Montana. But Scarface is also great and an absolute must-watch if you’re even remotely interested in the psychology of criminals and the violence they cause.
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