Look Who's Back. It's a German comedy based on a book of the same name about Adolf Hitler magically waking up in modern day Germany. It starts off funny, with Hitler playing the fish out of water who doesn't understand modern society... but then he figures it out, and realizes that he can use the internet and the global social unrest to regain his power.
I just watched that scene and realized that, while the scene takes place in a modern office building, they mixed in the sound of a metal, bunker-like door opening and closing when Hitler makes most of his staff exit the room.
On a similar note: Jojo Rabbit. Starts out on an almost comedian note about a little boy idolising Hitler. It then goes on to be a harsh depiction of the extremely humane facettes (from the best to the worst) of the German people and soldiers at the end of WWII.
That really was the moment the coin flipped on the movie. You realize at that moment that you haven't seen his mother for a while and Noone came to check on him
I was trying to remember the timeliness if they showed up after she dissapears or before and there is a muted confrontation
If they show up after it's even more messed up that they came not to make sure he was safe and taken care of, but to possibly drag him away as well
Oh man that movie made me feel so many things. That bit where his friend drops the rocket launcher by accident and blows up a building had me howling with laughter and then moments later I was in shock at the waste of life etc. One of my all time favourites.
If both sides hate you and want to kill you, you might as well go out looking fabulous. It really took being closeted to an extreme.
On some level his character really helped me understand how isolating and nihilistic it must have been to be gay in America until recently. And how amazing it was that the culture developed such a positive and over the top answer to all that hate.
Oh I bet some very cute high jinks happen with that little mite, lots of adorable falling into Christmas food & accidentally opening a present or two to some affectionate tutting? Right?…right?
Life is Beautiful. A funny and charming man romances a wealthy girl with his wit and cheerful heart and sweeps her off her feet in a series of wacky stunts. They run a bookstore, and have a clever, imaginative son.
The second half of the movie is the concentration camp, with the father desperately hiding his son to keep him alive and lying to the boy about the complicated game they're playing to keep him complacent.
I've only seen my father cry 3 times in my life: when my first love (who lived with us) committed suicide, when my childhood cat died, and at the ending of this film. 😢
Saw that movie in highschool without knowing anything about it before hand and holy shit.
That movie is amazing, it felt like 3 movies in one and was such an experience. It went from really sweet to really sad and fucked up.
“Thank you! This is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English. I don't know! I am not able to express all my gratitude, because now, my body is in tumult because it is a colossal moment of joy so everything is really in a way that I cannot express. I would like to be Jupiter! And kidnap everybody and lie down in the firmament making love to everybody, because I don't know how to express. It's a question of love. You are really -- this is a mountain of snow, so delicate, the suavity and the kindness, it is something I cannot forget, from the bottom of my heart. And thank you for the Academy Awards for the, who really loved the movie. Thank you to all in Italy, for the Italian cinema, grazie al Italia who made me. I am really, I owe to them all my, if I did something good. So grazie al Italia e grazie al America, land of the lot of things here. Thank you very much. And I hope, really I don't deserve this, but I hope to win some other Oscars! Thank you! Thank you very much! Thank you!”
Probably the best acceptance speech of all time.
17 years ago I watched this in high school in my Italian language class. We broke it up over two days and I was a mess going to my next class after the second day. I watched it again years later and while it is a brilliant film it’s also an absolutely heart-wrenching, sucker punch of a film. I’ve never watched it a third time, but do reccomend it to people with caveats. Personally, it’s not the film I would have picked to show in a foreign language class in high school. College? Maybe.
I had to watch this one in school about 20 years ago. I still remember the scene where the Jewish father and his son are able to attend some kind of gathering with higher up Nazis and he has to tell his son to chew his food slowly so as not to give their identities away.
I recall this being the first time I was so devastated by a movie. My dad had to pick me up off my seat in the theater, I felt like I was being scraped up as I just cried my eyes off.
this is literally the one and only film i’ve ever seen where i can genuinely say that this film *changed me* as an entire person.
relevant sidenote: Roberto Benigni’s academy award acceptance is the single best thing i’ve ever seen.
The little boy was so sweet, his voice was sooo cute when him and his father snuck into the room with mic and the boy started calling his mother “mamaaaa” and telling her about his dad being funny, meanwhile the dad was only being funny to shield the kid from the horrors 😭😭😭
*Burn After Reading* feels like it's just going to be this hilarious "hijinks ensue" comedy and while it stays a comedy it goes from slapstick to *dark* in an instant.
The Cohen brothers are the kings of this kind of film. I remember going to see Raising Arizona in the theater with my Auntie back in the 80's and it was not like the goofy dad movies that were all the rage back then
Exactly! As soon as George Clooney's character has the "surprise" with Brad Pitt's character in the closet shit gets dark really fast. Still a funny movie though. Love the ending.
Yeah, honestly this one doesn't even feel dark. The movie is so buoyant with comedy throughout that it's just this "oh shit" moment that quickly pivots back toward the comedic.
They intentionally take a movie of one genre and spin it into a different one. They called The Big Lebowski a crime noir film if Sam Spade was a dropout stoner.
Shallow Grave: Danny Boyle's and Ewan McGregor's movie before Trainspotting.
Three flatmates go through a hilarious series of interviews looking for someone to cover the recently vacated 4th bedroom only for it to go to hell in a handbasket and quite the mindfuck by the end of the flick.
One of my favorite movie quotes comes from film: *But Julia, you're a doctor! You kill people everday!*
Wild, I just remembered this movie existed like 4 hours ago, and was blown away to see that the other male lead was Christopher Eccleston, because I had just watched a clip of him doing at con panel for Who. It’s so odd when random things like your post, right after my random deep dive, line up like this. Synchronicity brings me joy, like they’re cosmic Easter eggs that everything is going the right way ultimately (not really, I’m not superstitious, but I try haha)
I remember watching it for the first time as an adult in the early 2010s. I didn't know anything about it except that it had a cult following. I was blown away at how ahead of it's time it was and how funny and dark it was. I have watched it dozens of times since then.
Absolutely obsessed with this movie! Every time I watch it there’s something new I notice I’ve never seen before, Jim Carrey deserves all the praise possible for this role! He was on almost an unprecedented run from 1994-2004! So many good roles and box office hits!
The Cable Guy was teased as another Jim Carey goofy shenanigan flick, but was actually very dark. People were not expecting the movie to be what it was and it was panned by a majority of viewers at the time. I think it's a decent movie, it just suffered from poor marketing and failed consumer expectations.
I watched The Ben Stiller Show and the comedy is just great, really holds up. His impressions are spot on.
Really made me appreciate his work more, especially directing The Cable Guy
"What you just offered me is a bribe, if convicted you could be fined up to 5,000 dollars and placed in a correctional facililly"
Lol the fact he has a lisp during the entire film still let's the goofy Jim come through, also Jack black is in the film as well
You'll be able to visit the louvre on one channel or watch female mud wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home or play mortal kombat with a friend in Vietnam.
I still didn’t understand the hatred. Yeah it gets a little darker near the end but it’s still pretty funny though out. “Dry land is not a myth! It’s Ricardo. Ricky Ricardo!”
I remember reading the doorbell rings at exactly the halfway point in the film signaling the shift in tone. Tons of subtle clues and meaning hidden throughout. This was also the first film that came to mind for me - cathartic is the only way to describe the end.
When the brother brought the sister to the rich house, I genuinely thought it was going to be a comedy about smart poor people scanning pretentious rich people. The rest of that movie floored me.
Is this the one where he accidentally like...hangs her by her head on the towel hook? I have this movie scene in my memory but not sure if it's this movie.
I figured the focus on shoes was gonna play in at some point… I still was not ready for that shot in the balls when you find out what it was leading to.
My favorite part…Stu was Taika’s flatmate, and just asked him to show up to set one day, to help out as crew…then ended up in the movie… his job in the movie was his real IT job…
https://youtu.be/fxsdkP5iyP8?si=PO6lzDBmzVlN_is6
I know we're all about to pull up youtube to watch the damn video so I'll save you the time and link it here
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8)
wow I haven't thought about Too Many Cooks in almost a decade, thank you for instantly zapping that song directly back into my consciousness with but three words.
I remember seeing it blind in the middle of the night on adult swim thinking it was one of those weird commercial things they did between shows but it just kept going, one of the most surreal experiences I had
Same here. Too many cooks was so weird and random to see live. It added to the creepy unsettling feeling.
It gives me the same vibes as when cable channels got hijacked by max headroom (is that it? I can't remember).
Just this eerie "what am I watching?" Feeling
I loved it
Sorry To Bother You
That movie starts off pretty normal and just gets crazier and crazier. It also didn’t help that I watched this movie knowing nothing about it.
Someone on Reddit said that this movie was the "Waiting" of call centers. I love Waiting, so I decided to watch this movie one day when I wanted a silly comedy.
Excuse me, sir. What kind of call center do you work at?!
Commented this exact same thing. Not only is it one of the few comedies I love, but it was a bit of a wakeup call for me, I was in a dark place, and my brain went “minus the alcoholism, I’m on the road to ending up like pre-apocalypse Gary. Maybe let’s change something here.” And quite quotable.
Scrolled too far to find this. Starts out chaps on a pub crawl and turns into an apocalypse.
I'd also put in a vote for Cabin in the woods, but since that's a parody of horror the direction is somewhat easier to guess than World's End.
Four Lions.
A British film about 4 young Muslim guys who decide to join the Jihad and become suicide bombers, but fairly inept and bumbling ones, like watching a baby learn to walk. Very light hearted until about 2/3 of the way through when one of the guys dies accidentally, and then it's far less fun and games after that.
My favorite scene is where they are solemnly listening to those Islamic nasheeds as they driving to London to blow themselves up and then they change to Toploader’s version of Dancing in the Moonlight and everyone but Barry starts singing along.
The wild thing about that movie is that people assume it’s absurd 3 Stooges comedy and nothing like how real Islamist terrorists are but Chris Morris based a lot of it on recorded conversations he listened to during his extensive research.
I feel like most of these missed the point. Either it wasn’t a full on lighthearted comedy to begin with or was funny through most of it but had some tension. My suggestion is
Good Morning Vietnam
Robin Williams flick. Its literally comic skits and silliness in the first 2/3 then well, the Vietnam War in the end
Came here to say this. Loved this movie. I can still remember watching it in the theater with a handful of other audience members, all of us laughing and enjoying the comedy. And then slowly but surely, the laughter stopped happening. And the movie got darker. And then we reached the ending.
I was laughing my ass off at most of that movie, but yeah , >!Beria’s trial came across as very… rapey, for lack of a better word!<
>!the way he’s begging and just gets dragged out and shot!<
Beria deserved worse honestly. He was such a sick bastard, that *Stalin* went into full panic mode when he heard his daughter had been left unattended around Beria. The British embassy was later housed in Beria's old villa and during excavations to refit the plumbing, they found the corpses of several young girls under the garden. Even in an evil system, Beria was on another level of evil.
Especially the moment where >!Steve Buscemi starts shouting. He'd been such a comedic character throughout the movie, and then very suddenly he's as serious as a shot to the head. !<
Still maintains that comedic charm though. Mostly via NoHo Hank. But still. What a great show. Favorite moment may be the scene of hank opening the boxes in the final season gets to the third box "why am I still opening these?"
And the super random one off episode where he fights the jui jitsu instructor and his daughter. Adds very little to the series plot, but the whole episode is just hilarious and perfectly “wtf”.
Really any adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
A bunch of bored, testosterone-laden teens fuck around the streets of Verona poke at each other until shit gets real and fast.
Falling Down.
If I remember correctly the advertising was focused on the “revenge of the common man” against the absurdities of modern life (A la office space).
In reality it went down a rabbit hole of violence and mental health issues for protagonist, while the audience slowly realizes that all of his righteous indignation ultimately turned him into the bad guy. Brilliant film, and Michel Douglas does a great job throughout.
Full Metal Jacket. Boot camp is hilarious to start out with until you see the mental toll it takes on Private Pyle. The movie steadily descends into madness after that.
As teens the bootcamp quotes were traded as funny mp3s and ring tones in school, only years later I actually watched it and realised how bootcamp is only half of it, the Vietnam scenes really caught me off guard.
Observe and Report. The stark changes in tone are even more pronounced with the comparisons to Paul Blart which came out around the same time.
Marketed as a comedy, half the movie is a comedy, and then the rest is a slightly comedic take on Taxi Driver.
Being John Malkovich (1999) - It starts pretty absurd with some big, silly, almost Python-esque laughs but by the end it becomes a more darkly ironic existential nightmare.
Shaun of the Dead
Maybe it's just me but this movie gets pretty dark towards the end. Not going to leave you in tears like some of the other movies mentioned here but can catch you off guard if your expecting just a silly zombie movie.
Boogie Nights. While not exactly a light hearted comedy, it has a much more fun-comedic tone and continue to get darker and darker as the story progresses.
Doesn’t quite answer your question but an opposite example is Dusk Til Dawn. Starts off as this dark and gritty crime drama then turns into this hilariously whacky, goofy and action-packed horror flick
Yep. The scene where George Clooney comes back to see what QT’s done to the hostage is more horrifying than the second half IMO.
Incidentally I watched that when it was first released, in a cinema in Costa Rica, and the women behind us had brought their toddlers to watch it with them. Unreal.
Someone on reddit recently said something that really stuck with me, that it is "a Quentin Tarantino movie until >!Quentin Tarantino's character dies!< and then it becomes a Robert Rodriguez movie."
Don't know why I put the spoiler tag in, you all know it.
SLC Punk made the audience pay a big price in the end. Old Boy (while not a comedy) was quirky/charming/funny until it ran up and kicked the audience in the balls.
The Terry Gilliam movie Brazil.
Starts out as humorous farce/satire, but turns darker and darker until - well - the bleakness of the story overwhelms everything that went before.
"Very Bad Things" is the extreme version of this, but it really goes all the way, past the point where it's fun to watch, so proceed with caution on that one.
"Miracle Mile" is pretty close to what you're looking for, and the less you know specifically about that before you watch it, the better.
"Miracle Mile", that's a deep cut. A great movie that I've been lucky enough to see on the big screen. I wouldn't say it starts out as a lighthearted comedy. It's more of a romance that takes a very, very, very dark turn. And I love the ending!
Molly's meltdown always got to me, even as a kid, just because the voice actress (Tammy Grimes) emotes so beautifully, but the older I get, man, the harder it hits.
"And where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am *THIS*!"
Young Adult.
Woman goes back to her hometown to try and win back her high school lover who just had a baby. There's some darkness/bite there, but nothing too crazy.
Then you slowly build up how damaged and unwell the main character is and it's devastating.
Edit: a word
Nah, Hot Fuzz has a consistent tone throughout. In the end, it’s >!not even as grim as he first suspected. It’s not calculated murder for nefarious reasons, just the neighbourhood watch trying to make sure they win again.!<
The World’s End even more so. You think there’s something wrong with Gary beyond how he’s acting, almost for sure it was drugs. Then it gets really dark for a lot of the characters, and no real happy ending unless you are a math genius who lives in a shack off the grid in Montana and love sending packages to strangers
Click with Adam Sandler. This scarred me when I was 12.
Starts off as a guy just trying to watch some titties bounce in slow motion and then suddenly he’s dying in the street while it’s pouring rain, calling after his estranged wife.
Edit: Horribly misleading trailer and marketing that misrepresented the film as a feel-good comedy.
Watched it recently when I saw it on HBO and thought of it immediately with the question. It gets really real, real fast, and reminds me to evaluate my work-life balance and not to be on "autopilot" mode.
Look Who's Back. It's a German comedy based on a book of the same name about Adolf Hitler magically waking up in modern day Germany. It starts off funny, with Hitler playing the fish out of water who doesn't understand modern society... but then he figures it out, and realizes that he can use the internet and the global social unrest to regain his power.
Loved the part where the publishing guy re-enacts the Hitler Rants scene from Downfall
I just watched that scene and realized that, while the scene takes place in a modern office building, they mixed in the sound of a metal, bunker-like door opening and closing when Hitler makes most of his staff exit the room.
On a similar note: Jojo Rabbit. Starts out on an almost comedian note about a little boy idolising Hitler. It then goes on to be a harsh depiction of the extremely humane facettes (from the best to the worst) of the German people and soldiers at the end of WWII.
Ugh yes. Seeing the feet. Damn. Brutal to watch after laughing through a big chunk of it…
That really was the moment the coin flipped on the movie. You realize at that moment that you haven't seen his mother for a while and Noone came to check on him
Also why the SS agents came to the house.
I was trying to remember the timeliness if they showed up after she dissapears or before and there is a muted confrontation If they show up after it's even more messed up that they came not to make sure he was safe and taken care of, but to possibly drag him away as well
That went completely over my dad’s head. He called me after seeing it “Good movie but why did he hug that corpse?”
Oh man that movie made me feel so many things. That bit where his friend drops the rocket launcher by accident and blows up a building had me howling with laughter and then moments later I was in shock at the waste of life etc. One of my all time favourites.
Sam Rockwell at the end with his outfit with the feathers etc. He stole the show in that film.
If both sides hate you and want to kill you, you might as well go out looking fabulous. It really took being closeted to an extreme. On some level his character really helped me understand how isolating and nihilistic it must have been to be gay in America until recently. And how amazing it was that the culture developed such a positive and over the top answer to all that hate.
This is a great one.
There is an italian version with Mussolini, they are both good and depresing about how real could that be.
Gremlins was marketed as a Christmas movie about a family that gets a super cute mystical pet. Things do not go well with the new family pet.
Oh I bet some very cute high jinks happen with that little mite, lots of adorable falling into Christmas food & accidentally opening a present or two to some affectionate tutting? Right?…right?
Life is Beautiful. A funny and charming man romances a wealthy girl with his wit and cheerful heart and sweeps her off her feet in a series of wacky stunts. They run a bookstore, and have a clever, imaginative son. The second half of the movie is the concentration camp, with the father desperately hiding his son to keep him alive and lying to the boy about the complicated game they're playing to keep him complacent.
I went into this movie knowing nothing of the plot. I came out a changed man. The tank. That fucking tank.
Papa, we won!
Don't do this to me.
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I've only seen my father cry 3 times in my life: when my first love (who lived with us) committed suicide, when my childhood cat died, and at the ending of this film. 😢
Saw that movie in highschool without knowing anything about it before hand and holy shit. That movie is amazing, it felt like 3 movies in one and was such an experience. It went from really sweet to really sad and fucked up.
Roberto Benigni, the director and star, is the first Oscar Best Male Actor winner for a non-English language movie.
I loved his reaction when he won
“Thank you! This is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English. I don't know! I am not able to express all my gratitude, because now, my body is in tumult because it is a colossal moment of joy so everything is really in a way that I cannot express. I would like to be Jupiter! And kidnap everybody and lie down in the firmament making love to everybody, because I don't know how to express. It's a question of love. You are really -- this is a mountain of snow, so delicate, the suavity and the kindness, it is something I cannot forget, from the bottom of my heart. And thank you for the Academy Awards for the, who really loved the movie. Thank you to all in Italy, for the Italian cinema, grazie al Italia who made me. I am really, I owe to them all my, if I did something good. So grazie al Italia e grazie al America, land of the lot of things here. Thank you very much. And I hope, really I don't deserve this, but I hope to win some other Oscars! Thank you! Thank you very much! Thank you!” Probably the best acceptance speech of all time.
17 years ago I watched this in high school in my Italian language class. We broke it up over two days and I was a mess going to my next class after the second day. I watched it again years later and while it is a brilliant film it’s also an absolutely heart-wrenching, sucker punch of a film. I’ve never watched it a third time, but do reccomend it to people with caveats. Personally, it’s not the film I would have picked to show in a foreign language class in high school. College? Maybe.
I've seen it a couple of times as a kid with my family. Couldn't ever make my self watch it as an adult. Beautiful movie. But so so sad.
I had to watch this one in school about 20 years ago. I still remember the scene where the Jewish father and his son are able to attend some kind of gathering with higher up Nazis and he has to tell his son to chew his food slowly so as not to give their identities away.
Buongiorno Principessa! Break my freaking heart!
I recall this being the first time I was so devastated by a movie. My dad had to pick me up off my seat in the theater, I felt like I was being scraped up as I just cried my eyes off.
this is literally the one and only film i’ve ever seen where i can genuinely say that this film *changed me* as an entire person. relevant sidenote: Roberto Benigni’s academy award acceptance is the single best thing i’ve ever seen.
The little boy was so sweet, his voice was sooo cute when him and his father snuck into the room with mic and the boy started calling his mother “mamaaaa” and telling her about his dad being funny, meanwhile the dad was only being funny to shield the kid from the horrors 😭😭😭
*Burn After Reading* feels like it's just going to be this hilarious "hijinks ensue" comedy and while it stays a comedy it goes from slapstick to *dark* in an instant.
The Coen borthers are great for that.*Barton Fink* is another of theirs that goes off the rails.
John Goodman’s character was top notch
The Cohen brothers are the kings of this kind of film. I remember going to see Raising Arizona in the theater with my Auntie back in the 80's and it was not like the goofy dad movies that were all the rage back then
Exactly! As soon as George Clooney's character has the "surprise" with Brad Pitt's character in the closet shit gets dark really fast. Still a funny movie though. Love the ending.
I genuinely think that was the funniest part of the movie, though.
*You think that's a Schwinn...*
So what did we learn from all this? Fuck if I know...
Guess we learned not to do it again... Fuck if I know what we did...
Best representation of government officials ever
Yeah, honestly this one doesn't even feel dark. The movie is so buoyant with comedy throughout that it's just this "oh shit" moment that quickly pivots back toward the comedic.
What did we learn?
I don't know sir.
I guess we.. learned not to do it again. Fuck if I know what the hell we did though.
Almost any Coen brothers film has some smaller act spiral out of control and engulfs those that triggered the event and many around it.
Fargo. Holy shit.
Oh Yea?
Ya, you betcha
They intentionally take a movie of one genre and spin it into a different one. They called The Big Lebowski a crime noir film if Sam Spade was a dropout stoner.
Such a great movie, and it gets better with repeated viewings.
Shallow Grave: Danny Boyle's and Ewan McGregor's movie before Trainspotting. Three flatmates go through a hilarious series of interviews looking for someone to cover the recently vacated 4th bedroom only for it to go to hell in a handbasket and quite the mindfuck by the end of the flick. One of my favorite movie quotes comes from film: *But Julia, you're a doctor! You kill people everday!*
Wild, I just remembered this movie existed like 4 hours ago, and was blown away to see that the other male lead was Christopher Eccleston, because I had just watched a clip of him doing at con panel for Who. It’s so odd when random things like your post, right after my random deep dive, line up like this. Synchronicity brings me joy, like they’re cosmic Easter eggs that everything is going the right way ultimately (not really, I’m not superstitious, but I try haha)
Truman show probably.
It definitely got very dark at the end with the boat scene
Fuck, man, when >! his boat runs into the "sky" and he starts punching it !< , it gets me every. time.
I remember watching it for the first time as an adult in the early 2010s. I didn't know anything about it except that it had a cult following. I was blown away at how ahead of it's time it was and how funny and dark it was. I have watched it dozens of times since then.
Absolutely obsessed with this movie! Every time I watch it there’s something new I notice I’ve never seen before, Jim Carrey deserves all the praise possible for this role! He was on almost an unprecedented run from 1994-2004! So many good roles and box office hits!
The Cable Guy was teased as another Jim Carey goofy shenanigan flick, but was actually very dark. People were not expecting the movie to be what it was and it was panned by a majority of viewers at the time. I think it's a decent movie, it just suffered from poor marketing and failed consumer expectations.
The murder trial going on in the background with Ben Stiller is hilarious!
I still quote the “I think he was… Asiannn”. Nobody in my family knows this reference.
What language was he talking....
Asian.
I watched The Ben Stiller Show and the comedy is just great, really holds up. His impressions are spot on. Really made me appreciate his work more, especially directing The Cable Guy
The password is nipple
It's just skin Stephen
It'th jutht thkin, Tthephen.
Down down down! The Red Knight's going down!
If we... do not fight to the death... they will kill us both... DADA DA DA DA DADADAAAA DADADAAAAAAA ooooooooAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Ugh…there were no utensils IN medieval times hence there are no utensils AT Medieval Times would you like a refill on that Pepsi?
"What you just offered me is a bribe, if convicted you could be fined up to 5,000 dollars and placed in a correctional facililly" Lol the fact he has a lisp during the entire film still let's the goofy Jim come through, also Jack black is in the film as well
“You know my sister is a speech therapist.” *”Tho?”*
"You're gonna have to do *better* than that, Steven!....Steven...SSSSS.... My lisp is gone!" \*Falcon PAUNCH* "You THtupid thon of a bitch"
I think it’s view of the internet is also prescient
You'll be able to visit the louvre on one channel or watch female mud wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home or play mortal kombat with a friend in Vietnam.
There’s no end to the pothibilitieth!
I still didn’t understand the hatred. Yeah it gets a little darker near the end but it’s still pretty funny though out. “Dry land is not a myth! It’s Ricardo. Ricky Ricardo!”
Parasite (2019)
The moment the doorbell rings, it becomes a borderline horror film
The shock of the person going down the stairs may be one of my favorite moments in a packed theater. Everyone gasped.
It's such a 180 shift in tone. The family is having a good time and suddenly everything is falling apart around them.
The shadowy figure in the stairwell.
I remember reading the doorbell rings at exactly the halfway point in the film signaling the shift in tone. Tons of subtle clues and meaning hidden throughout. This was also the first film that came to mind for me - cathartic is the only way to describe the end.
dude, i laugh at most horror movies and that doorbell scene was unwatchable uncomfortable for me. ughh makes me feel nervous thinking about it.
The first film I thought of too. I had no idea what the movie was about and the second half was an absolute surprise.
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Many films intentionally are made to depict and mimic real life
It definitely takes a dark turn, but I don't think it starts out as a "lighthearted comedy".
When the brother brought the sister to the rich house, I genuinely thought it was going to be a comedy about smart poor people scanning pretentious rich people. The rest of that movie floored me.
Jessica, only child, Illinois, Chicago
Very Bad Things - all fun at a bachelor party until Piven accidentally kills a hooker
Is this the one where he accidentally like...hangs her by her head on the towel hook? I have this movie scene in my memory but not sure if it's this movie.
Yes. The classic "bury a hooker in a desert" bachelor party.
First thing coming to mind. Was hilarious to high school me, then bam, down a the rabbit hole and I'm depressed at the end.
I love this movie. The ending is hilarious.
Cameron Diaz is fun in this
" The ending is hilarious " ..................bruh !
Came here to say this. It descended to the point where I practically had to cover my eyes for the very last scene. Perfect answer to OP’s question.
Three Kings (1999)
That's a good one!
“When it comes to the Kuwaiti gold, you’ve got to infiltrate the dealer, to find the supplier.” Oh, wait, think I might be mixing up my Cube 🤔
Hey! Stop fucking with Korean Jesus! He ain’t got time for your problems. He’s busy. With Korean shit!
Jojo Rabbit - Movie was pitched as boy has a friend! It's Adolf Hitler! Movie then goes through a lot (without spoiling anything)
I figured the focus on shoes was gonna play in at some point… I still was not ready for that shot in the balls when you find out what it was leading to.
“What’d they do, mama?” “What they could.” One of ScarJo’s best performances.
When they came into frame the last time, I lost it.
Imaginary* friend
But like, did she have hidden horns or nah?
So dark and also so funny. Def a weird juxtaposition.
I wish Taika would go back to his roots and make more offbeat comedy tackling dark subjects.
We are warewolves not swearwolves
My favorite part…Stu was Taika’s flatmate, and just asked him to show up to set one day, to help out as crew…then ended up in the movie… his job in the movie was his real IT job… https://youtu.be/fxsdkP5iyP8?si=PO6lzDBmzVlN_is6
Taika tackles dark subjects masked in absurd comedy. Even Ragnarok is super dark when you strip away the comedic elements.
Most of Taika Waititis films are like this. Reddit has recently fallen out of love with the guy but he makes fucking sneakily brilliant films.
Too Many Cooks
It takes a lot to make a stew
A pinch of salt, and laughter too
I know we're all about to pull up youtube to watch the damn video so I'll save you the time and link it here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8)
Especially when it's me and you
This is the answer. Goes off the fucking rails.
wow I haven't thought about Too Many Cooks in almost a decade, thank you for instantly zapping that song directly back into my consciousness with but three words.
I remember seeing it blind in the middle of the night on adult swim thinking it was one of those weird commercial things they did between shows but it just kept going, one of the most surreal experiences I had
Same here. Too many cooks was so weird and random to see live. It added to the creepy unsettling feeling. It gives me the same vibes as when cable channels got hijacked by max headroom (is that it? I can't remember). Just this eerie "what am I watching?" Feeling I loved it
> I haven't thought about Too Many Cooks in almost a decade *No way it's been....* 2014 Damn.
Cool, now I get to have a nightmare tonight
I end up watching this every few months it feels like.
Colossal. Got pretty dark.
Jason Sudeikis was pretty terrifying in that movie.
This was going to be my answer. It started off so fun, rom com vibes, and then just darrrrk. One of my favourite little known movies.
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All movies do...
The Voices. Possibly the most disturbing movie you'll ever watch with talking animals in it.
Came to say this one. The moment he wakes up and his apartment has changed is very dark and genuinely saddening.
I couldn't get this out of my head for months after I saw it!
Sorry To Bother You That movie starts off pretty normal and just gets crazier and crazier. It also didn’t help that I watched this movie knowing nothing about it.
I was not prepared.
Someone on Reddit said that this movie was the "Waiting" of call centers. I love Waiting, so I decided to watch this movie one day when I wanted a silly comedy. Excuse me, sir. What kind of call center do you work at?!
I just thought it was going to be about a telemarketer. But it was so much more.
The World's End
Commented this exact same thing. Not only is it one of the few comedies I love, but it was a bit of a wakeup call for me, I was in a dark place, and my brain went “minus the alcoholism, I’m on the road to ending up like pre-apocalypse Gary. Maybe let’s change something here.” And quite quotable.
Scrolled too far to find this. Starts out chaps on a pub crawl and turns into an apocalypse. I'd also put in a vote for Cabin in the woods, but since that's a parody of horror the direction is somewhat easier to guess than World's End.
This was the first thing that I thought of. That movie was not as much of a lighthearted endeavor as the other two parts of the Cornetto trilogy.
Four Lions. A British film about 4 young Muslim guys who decide to join the Jihad and become suicide bombers, but fairly inept and bumbling ones, like watching a baby learn to walk. Very light hearted until about 2/3 of the way through when one of the guys dies accidentally, and then it's far less fun and games after that.
My favorite scene is where they are solemnly listening to those Islamic nasheeds as they driving to London to blow themselves up and then they change to Toploader’s version of Dancing in the Moonlight and everyone but Barry starts singing along. The wild thing about that movie is that people assume it’s absurd 3 Stooges comedy and nothing like how real Islamist terrorists are but Chris Morris based a lot of it on recorded conversations he listened to during his extensive research.
I feel like most of these missed the point. Either it wasn’t a full on lighthearted comedy to begin with or was funny through most of it but had some tension. My suggestion is Good Morning Vietnam Robin Williams flick. Its literally comic skits and silliness in the first 2/3 then well, the Vietnam War in the end
Great answer.
The very end of Death of Stalin is a hard heel-turn from the rest
Came here to say this. Loved this movie. I can still remember watching it in the theater with a handful of other audience members, all of us laughing and enjoying the comedy. And then slowly but surely, the laughter stopped happening. And the movie got darker. And then we reached the ending.
I was laughing my ass off at most of that movie, but yeah , >!Beria’s trial came across as very… rapey, for lack of a better word!< >!the way he’s begging and just gets dragged out and shot!<
Beria deserved worse honestly. He was such a sick bastard, that *Stalin* went into full panic mode when he heard his daughter had been left unattended around Beria. The British embassy was later housed in Beria's old villa and during excavations to refit the plumbing, they found the corpses of several young girls under the garden. Even in an evil system, Beria was on another level of evil.
Especially the moment where >!Steve Buscemi starts shouting. He'd been such a comedic character throughout the movie, and then very suddenly he's as serious as a shot to the head. !<
The tv series Barry. Oh look, a cute rom Com with a bit of an edge. Wait… wtf? What the fuck? What. The. Fuck.
Still maintains that comedic charm though. Mostly via NoHo Hank. But still. What a great show. Favorite moment may be the scene of hank opening the boxes in the final season gets to the third box "why am I still opening these?"
The casual text chains about murdering people are hilarious. \- Did you kill Paco yet?
Bill Hader is so good in it. It's one of my favorite HBO shows of all times. Some really great directing as well.
And the super random one off episode where he fights the jui jitsu instructor and his daughter. Adds very little to the series plot, but the whole episode is just hilarious and perfectly “wtf”.
Really any adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. A bunch of bored, testosterone-laden teens fuck around the streets of Verona poke at each other until shit gets real and fast.
The Dressmaker — I was not prepared for the turns it took
Falling Down. If I remember correctly the advertising was focused on the “revenge of the common man” against the absurdities of modern life (A la office space). In reality it went down a rabbit hole of violence and mental health issues for protagonist, while the audience slowly realizes that all of his righteous indignation ultimately turned him into the bad guy. Brilliant film, and Michel Douglas does a great job throughout.
Fresh (2022) starts off as almost a rom com and then >! Bam! Sebastian Stan is cutting off your ass to sell to wealthy cannibals !<
Full Metal Jacket. Boot camp is hilarious to start out with until you see the mental toll it takes on Private Pyle. The movie steadily descends into madness after that.
As teens the bootcamp quotes were traded as funny mp3s and ring tones in school, only years later I actually watched it and realised how bootcamp is only half of it, the Vietnam scenes really caught me off guard.
I remember that! "I didn't know they stacked shit that high!" Didn't last too long on my phone
The Lobster
Clerks 3
Observe and Report. The stark changes in tone are even more pronounced with the comparisons to Paul Blart which came out around the same time. Marketed as a comedy, half the movie is a comedy, and then the rest is a slightly comedic take on Taxi Driver.
Death To Smoochy
Pleasantville
I wouldn't say it gets dark and grim, so much as it gets *serious*. Great film though.
Being John Malkovich (1999) - It starts pretty absurd with some big, silly, almost Python-esque laughs but by the end it becomes a more darkly ironic existential nightmare.
A lot of people forget that the first part of Poltergeist is very light and silly. It’s almost a sitcom.
Shaun of the Dead Maybe it's just me but this movie gets pretty dark towards the end. Not going to leave you in tears like some of the other movies mentioned here but can catch you off guard if your expecting just a silly zombie movie.
Boogie Nights. While not exactly a light hearted comedy, it has a much more fun-comedic tone and continue to get darker and darker as the story progresses.
Doesn’t quite answer your question but an opposite example is Dusk Til Dawn. Starts off as this dark and gritty crime drama then turns into this hilariously whacky, goofy and action-packed horror flick
Yep. The scene where George Clooney comes back to see what QT’s done to the hostage is more horrifying than the second half IMO. Incidentally I watched that when it was first released, in a cinema in Costa Rica, and the women behind us had brought their toddlers to watch it with them. Unreal.
Someone on reddit recently said something that really stuck with me, that it is "a Quentin Tarantino movie until >!Quentin Tarantino's character dies!< and then it becomes a Robert Rodriguez movie." Don't know why I put the spoiler tag in, you all know it.
SLC Punk made the audience pay a big price in the end. Old Boy (while not a comedy) was quirky/charming/funny until it ran up and kicked the audience in the balls.
The Terry Gilliam movie Brazil. Starts out as humorous farce/satire, but turns darker and darker until - well - the bleakness of the story overwhelms everything that went before.
Guarding Tess did this. It's so fun and cute and snarky then WHAM. It's a pretty abrupt shift into dark and grim.
"Very Bad Things" is the extreme version of this, but it really goes all the way, past the point where it's fun to watch, so proceed with caution on that one. "Miracle Mile" is pretty close to what you're looking for, and the less you know specifically about that before you watch it, the better.
"Miracle Mile", that's a deep cut. A great movie that I've been lucky enough to see on the big screen. I wouldn't say it starts out as a lighthearted comedy. It's more of a romance that takes a very, very, very dark turn. And I love the ending!
Pain and Gain
The Sound of Music
Scrooged. The future segment kinda f*cked me when I was a kid.
The Last Unicorn - cartoon - must be for kids - right?
Molly's meltdown always got to me, even as a kid, just because the voice actress (Tammy Grimes) emotes so beautifully, but the older I get, man, the harder it hits. "And where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am *THIS*!"
Young Adult. Woman goes back to her hometown to try and win back her high school lover who just had a baby. There's some darkness/bite there, but nothing too crazy. Then you slowly build up how damaged and unwell the main character is and it's devastating. Edit: a word
Sorry To Bother You. Seven Psychopaths. Hot Fuzz.
Seven Psychopaths was exactly what it was from start to finish. And it was GLORIOUS. The perfect followup to In Bruges.
Nah, Hot Fuzz has a consistent tone throughout. In the end, it’s >!not even as grim as he first suspected. It’s not calculated murder for nefarious reasons, just the neighbourhood watch trying to make sure they win again.!<
Yeah, I'd say Sean of the Dead has a much bigger descent into bleakness as his plan goes further wrong.
By the time it was about his mother it got definitely hard to watch and have "fun".
The World’s End even more so. You think there’s something wrong with Gary beyond how he’s acting, almost for sure it was drugs. Then it gets really dark for a lot of the characters, and no real happy ending unless you are a math genius who lives in a shack off the grid in Montana and love sending packages to strangers
Martin mcdonagh movies don't count lol
Click with Adam Sandler. This scarred me when I was 12. Starts off as a guy just trying to watch some titties bounce in slow motion and then suddenly he’s dying in the street while it’s pouring rain, calling after his estranged wife. Edit: Horribly misleading trailer and marketing that misrepresented the film as a feel-good comedy.
Watched it recently when I saw it on HBO and thought of it immediately with the question. It gets really real, real fast, and reminds me to evaluate my work-life balance and not to be on "autopilot" mode.
Fuck that movie. Mom and I went to go see it to decompress a few weeks after Dad’s heart attack (he survived) and got one hell of a bait and switch.
Not horrible film, horrible marketing. It was a total bait and switch making you think you were going in for a comedy and nothing else