Bigger Than Life...It's Breaking Bad before Breaking Bad

First off, I'm going to say, I liked this movie. Why? Probably because I enjoyed Breaking Bad and this movie is so much like it. I'm going to go off on a tangent, but did you see Better Call Saul? It's not that bad of a spin-off, in my own opinion. And Tuco is back? That is my favorite character in the series! Anyways, back to the prompt. There are a lot of similarities between Bigger Than Life and Breaking Bad. First off, they are both teachers, just Walter White was a chemistry teacher and Ed Avery is a history teacher. Both of them have side jobs, White with the carwash and Avery with the taxi cab company. And the thing that is pretty much the biggest kicker: there is a "miracle drug" that is enacted that saves their life and then turns them into monsters in their own kind. With Walter White, it was hysteria and being power-hungry with the meth that turns him into a monster that is a threat to his family and himself, but with Ed Avery, it was the hysteria (again) and the addiction of the drug with the addiction to the cortisone that (much like Heisenberg) makes him a threat to his family and himself. There was also a masculine uncle that makes the lead character look much less masculine. The only thing that was different was that there was no Jesse Pinkman that was yelling "bitch" every few minutes. I kind of wanted to see that in Bigger Than Life, but it is what it is.