If you’re going to the movie theaters this weekend, watch out! Nerds across the world will be invading multiplexes to watch the latest MCU movie, Deadpool & Wolverine , which promises more gratuitous cameos, more raunchy jokes about sex acts you’ve never heard of, and more lame Ryan Reynolds one-liners than a sane person can handle. If you want to avoid all of that, well, I really can’t blame you. Fortunately, Netflix has a library full of great, underrated movies to watch this weekend.
The following three films are as different as can be, yet they all promise to deliver two hours of quality entertainment that is worth your time. Uncle Buck (1989) I miss John Candy. The beloved actor has been gone for 30 years now, yet he is still missed by millennials like me who grew up watching him in such comedies as Armed & Dangerous , Spaceballs , Who’s Harry Crumb? and of course, Planes, Trains and Automobiles .
His best-known role is arguably in Uncle Buck , where he plays the titular role with such good humor and warmth, you feel as if he’s part of your family. The plot is pretty simple: the black sheep of the family, Uncle Buck Russell, needs to babysit his three young nieces and nephews while his brother and his smarmy wife are out of town. Since this is a John Hughes film, you’ll see plenty of Chicago suburban locations, talented young child actors like Macaulay Culkin, and a sugary ending that ties things up a little too neatly.
(You hate your mother? Just hug it out .