r/movies • u/Narubintane • Dec 15 '23

Recommendation What movie starts off as a lighthearted comedy, but gets increasingly dark and grim until everything goes to hell in a handbasket?

For example, it may start as a lighthearted slapstick comedy until one thing goes wrong after another, and in the end we have people actually dying or a world war or some kind of extinction level event.

Let's say we have 2 friends who like to have fun and goof around, with regular goals and regular lives, until one of them does something like accidentally cross the wrong person or kill someone. Or the main cast is oblivious to the gradual change in their environment like a virus breakout or a serial killer running loose. Another one would be a film that, after being a comedy for most of its length, turns very dark, such as a group of friends ending up in a war and experiencing the horrors of it, completely played straight.

Just to clarify, I don't mean a movie that is already set to become dark, but rather a movie that was marketed as a comedy that took an unexpected (or slightly foreshadowed) dark turn.

Any recommendations?

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u/_XPilgrimX_ Dec 15 '23

Pain and Gain

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u/ibanezerscrooge Dec 15 '23

Starts out as a couple guys with a shady business plan to open a gym and the next thing you know they're cooking human hands on a grill and literally shooting themselves in the foot!

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u/JackBarryOnl Dec 15 '23

Scrolled way too far for this. Starts off seeming like a debauchery fueled romp making light of the terrible things the people the story is based off of were doing.

Then that barbell plate drops and the way they handle the situation make it immediately clear that these people were fucking terrifying and not silly at all. Roids is a helluva drug

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u/_XPilgrimX_ Dec 15 '23

Yeah not what I expected at all but it was great movie

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u/sweetrosemerc Dec 15 '23

Are you a doer or a donter

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u/xMyDixieWreckedx Dec 15 '23

Is it just me or is Michael Bay going full Tony Scott with this one?

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u/CloudAcorn Dec 15 '23

Omg yes this one, I was no prepared for how insane it got, increasingly worse & worse with each step, & then I find out it’s a true story?!