FILMS I MISSED 2022 EDITION

It's that time of the year again. My annual list of movies that missed, an idea I had when started this site to this instead of a Best of Year list, but I do those now. But that won't stop me from making a list of films I missed in the year 2022. The list this year was hard for me to make this year as I managed to watch a lot of film this year so I didn't miss some films.

While this is my list, I have laid down some ground rules for myself. Firstly, these films must have played in a cinema in the United Kingdom. I am based in England and sometimes films that have had a big release in America, they sometimes don't get release until the year after.

Secondly, these must be cinema releases. This is not an elitist reason and I do not want to put VOD and DTV films down, this is because I can watch a film released on streaming at anytime I want so I can't miss it. Anyway in alphabetical order, here's some films I missed.

AMBULANCE

Love his work or hate his work, Michael Bay is an interesting film director. I mean that not in an ironic way as well. His over the top and chaotic style is interesting, he knows how to do big crowd pleasing moments and his style of filmmaking has been what has been described as an atypical American blockbuster for a while. His films aren't perfect, Armageddon falls apart in the third act and I feel like I would unintentionally quoting somebody else's work when talking about the Transformers films.

But I did want to watch his most recent film, Ambulance. The basic premise is that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is a former Army vet who needs money for medical bills who helps his brother Jake Gyllenhaal pull of a bank heist. Unsurprisingly things go wrong and the two hijack an ambulance and now being chased across Los Angeles. I like movies with car chases and having an entire film be a long extended car chase appealed to me. With Michael Bay's trademark "Bayhem" it would've been an exciting film. I have seen clips of the drone shots used in the making of the film which probably looked cool in the cinema and might be a peak into the future of action filmmaking.

BONES AND ALL

Timothee Chalamet's slow burn cannibal romance road trip movie. Hey, if they can invoke Badlands and do something new with the road trip genre and look beautiful while doing it, I'll eat that up. Maybe not what there having but still.

DC LEAGUE OF SUPER PETS

I love superhero films and I love animated films, yet I'm surprised there are so few animated superhero films. I know DC have there direct-to-video films and we have Across the Spider-Verse coming this year, but I feel like you can adapt more out there characters to animation and would some good variety to the genre. DC League of Super Pets seems to add to that. It has an animation style that looks different from the norm and the film has a good voice cast behind it. I know it has the problem that most animated films have where they put in too many famous people in it and it leaves out professional voice actors, which I feel like should be a good balance in that department. But yeah, wished I got to watch this.

FALL

A thriller with a simple premise and clearly registered stakes. It would've made me nervous in the cinema. While it isn't what you'd call a must see movie, it just seemed like it would be a good programmer.

FUNNY PAGES

Now this film might speak to me. I'm a comic book nerd and when I was a teenager and this film does capture what I was like at that age. It also reminded me of films like Ghost World, so it has a good chance of being funny but also dark as all hell. Again looks fun.

SHE SAID

I really did want to see this film. One of the first big studio films about the #MeToo scandal with focus being the investigation into Harvey Weinstein by the New York Times. Journalism movies are always engaging for me. I was travelling when this came out so I never managed to get to see it and not a lot of other people as well, judging by the box office numbers.

SMILE

Horror was doing gangbusters this year and I managed to watch good amount of horror films, but Smile was not on my radar and I didn't get a chance to see it. The premise of the film seems apprpiately creepy and it does sound like it's borrowing elements from a variety of J-horror films like Ring, which I do enjoy. I hope to see if this film will put a smile on my face.

THE BAD GUYS

This animated heist film looked great. Dreamworks is obviously taking cues from Spider-Verse in the more exaggerated animation style with a good touch of cell shading. But The Bad Guys seems be going their own style. It's also weird that the two animated films on this list both have Marc Maron in them. Just realised that.

THE LOST CITY

Romancing the Stone is a great action-adventure movie, it is also a great romance movie. It is the best Uncharted movie and there was an Uncharted movie that came out in 2022 but I didn't see and it's not going on the list because I wanted to see The Lost City. This looks like a fun action comedy film that evokes films like Romancing the Stone. That's why I wanted to watch it, but it wasn't playing where I lived at the time.

THE MENU

This film looks like it's either going to be darkly comedic or go into some twisted areas judging by the trailer. Also judging by the trailer is that Nicholas Hoult is probably going to be the highlight of the film as well.

And those where the ten films I missed in 2022. One day I might catch up with them all but for now I'm excited at what is coming this year in 2023.