3 Movies That Are So Good, You Have to Stream Them on Prime Video This Week
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Prime Video’s most popular movie this past week has been the Spanish romantic thriller Drawn Together, directed by Óscar Pedraza. Based on the book Marfil by Mercedes Ron, the film stars Ester Expósito and Hugo Diego Garcia, and explores the intense attraction between the daughter of a Spanish businessman and her hunky bodyguard. The movie’s critical reception has been less than stellar, but it’s certainly proven a hit with Prime Video subscribers. However, if that doesn’t sound like quite your cup of tea, there’s plenty more to explore on the platform, including some of the most iconic films of all time. So, without further ado, here’s a look at three great movies that we think you should watch on Prime Video this week.
For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video.
1 ‘Blue Beetle’ (2023)
Directed by Angel Manuel Soto, Blue Beetle is based on the titular DC Comics character, following the titular superhero’s origin story. The film centers on college graduate Jaime Reyes, who returns to his hometown and finds a blue alien biotech relic known as the Scarab, which chooses him as its host, granting him extraordinary powers and changing his life forever. Xolo Maridueña stars, with Adriana Barraza, Damián Alcázar, Raoul Max Trujillo, Susan Sarandon, and George Lopez in supporting roles.
Blue Beetle blends family comedy-drama with superhero action, with plenty of humor, heart, and thrills to go around. While it did not perform as well as expected at the box office, the film earned positive reviews from fans and became the most-watched film on HBO following its streaming release. With its spectacular visual effects and grounded characters, Blue Beetle is a fun and exciting coming-of-age superhero film that is also relatively underrated as compared to the more mainstream sensations in the genre.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Superhero Team Should You Join? Avengers · X-Men · Teen Titans · The Boys
Every team is a personality test with a uniform. One saves the world and argues about it the whole way home. One has been fighting for the right to exist since the day it formed. One is still working out who it is while the fighting happens. And one has no powers at all, plus no intention of playing fair. Eight questions decide where you actually belong.
🛡️Avengers(Marvel Studios)
🧬X-Men(Marvel)
🐦Teen Titans(DC)
💊The Boys(Prime Video)
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What kind of power would you actually want? The power matters less than what you would be willing to do with it.
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Why join a team at all? Nobody puts on the suit for the reason they say out loud.
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How do you feel about the people in charge? Every team has a chain of command. Very few of them survive contact.
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What is your role inside a group? Every roster needs the same handful of people to function.
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How do you win a fight you should lose? This is the scene the entire film gets built around.
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What is this work costing you? Nobody does this for free. The bill just arrives differently for everyone.
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How should the world see your team? Half of this job is public relations, and everybody knows it.
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The offer arrives. What makes you say yes? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your team.
Recruitment Is Complete Your Team Is…
Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it would cost you to stay.
The Avengers
You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.
- The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
- You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the real entry requirement here.
- The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement, usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
- When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.
The X-Men
You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.
- This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
- You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
- The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
- You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.
The Teen Titans
You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an inconvenient side effect.
- Every Titan is somebody's sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
- You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you, which is far less lonely than being the only one.
- The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
- The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.
The Boys
You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.
- The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage, patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
- You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed not to mention.
- This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
- You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.
2 ‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994)
Quentin Tarantino’s ’90s crime masterpiece that completely redefined independent cinema, Pulp Fiction is not one but three darkly comedic tales of violence and redemption, presented through a series of vignettes with interconnected elements. The film chronicles three non-linear incidents involving mob enforcers Vincent and Jules; a washed-up prize boxer named Butch; two petty thieves, Ringo and Yolanda; the mob boss Marsellus Wallace, and his wife Mia, all tied together through a series of wild and unfortunate events. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Tim Roth, and Amanda Plummer play the above characters, with Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, and more in other notable roles.
Pulp Fiction is not only a landmark of '90s crime noir but an evergreen classic that has continued to influence independent cinema and crime comedies. The film defined Tarantino as an auteur, cementing his style and brand of storytelling with fragmented narratives, hyper-stylized pulp novel aesthetics, and comic-book-inspired action pieces, all of which have since raised the bar for the genre. Spectacular and graphic, Pulp Fiction is the ultimate visual adrenaline and a must-watch for fans of crime fiction and '90s classics.
3 ‘Hope Floats’ (1998)
The second film directed by Forest Whitaker, this romantic drama, written by Steven Rogers, tells the story of Birdee, a sheltered housewife whose life is torn apart when her husband publicly declares his extramarital affair on a talk show. After Birdee moves back to her hometown with her daughter, she reunites with her old friend, Justin, which sparks various emotional conundrums for Birdee. Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Mae Whitman, and Gena Rowlands star as the key characters.
When it was released, Hope Floats was widely criticized for its heavy melodrama and predictable plot lines. But at the same time, the film has also been praised for Sandra Bullock’s winning performance as the story’s heroine, her on-screen chemistry with Connick Jr., and the soundtrack, featuring country music stars like Garth Brooks. In later years, Hope Floats has been popularly re-evaluated and has had greater success on home media and streaming, and it’s now regarded as a beloved comfort classic by many.
- Release Date
- May 29, 1998
- Runtime
- 114 minutes
- Director
- Forest Whitaker
- Writers
- Steven Rogers
- Producers
- Lynda Obst, Mary McLaglen
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Harry Connick Jr.
Justin Matisse
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Sandra Bullock
Birdee Pruitt
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Gena Rowlands
Ramona Calvert
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Bernice Pruitt
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