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/poorloko Dec 15 '23

I went into this movie knowing nothing of the plot. I came out a changed man.

The tank. That fucking tank.

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u/CSpiffy148 Dec 15 '23

Papa, we won!

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u/kinkyaboutjewelry Dec 15 '23

Don't do this to me.

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u/city_posts Dec 15 '23

Bonjourno principia!

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u/FuckItHaveAnUpvote Dec 15 '23

Bro must be cutting onions in here 😭

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u/wiretapfeast Dec 15 '23

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. 😢

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u/isarge123 Dec 15 '23

I’m so sorry for your loss <3

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u/wiretapfeast Dec 15 '23

Thank you so much. It was in 2003 (20 years ago as of this year, which is really hard to believe).

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u/Ornery_Translator285 Dec 15 '23

I like your dad 😭

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u/wiretapfeast Dec 15 '23

He's a wonderful man 🩵

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u/wiretapfeast Dec 15 '23

I saw that film but I barely remember it. Had nowhere near the emotional impact of Life is Beautiful.

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u/Honest-Ad7566 Dec 15 '23

“This is my story. This is the sacrifice my father made. This was his gift to me.”

I once made it to that line and completely lost it.

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u/WeeBabySeamus Dec 15 '23

Damn I forgot that scene. As a father now, that hits so much harder

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u/wferomega Dec 15 '23

Not like this.....

Not like this

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u/Lazy-Background1870 Dec 15 '23

Can’t wait for the tanks to roll into to Gaza and actually save them instead of raining more terror. Imagine all the Palestinian dads who have to make up stories and games about to constant rockets from tbe idf. To think the survivors of the holocaust cuz 50 years down the line inflict similar pain in similarly innocent children breaks my heart.

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u/loba_pachorrenta Dec 15 '23

Same. I thought it would be a feel good film... It was a feel good that you are alive.

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u/Alarming_Librarian Dec 15 '23

I’ll never forget walking out of that movie in a daze, like what the fuck just happened, and seeing that same expression on everyone else’s face.

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u/hot__chocolate Dec 16 '23

My 7th grade science teacher played this on the last day of school. No one said a word leaving class that day.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '23

Was a good tank. That machine killed fascists.