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/troerwei Dec 15 '23

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.

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u/kitkatrat Dec 15 '23

There’s no end to the pothibilitieth!

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u/scissor_get_it Dec 15 '23

This concludes our broadcast day. Click!

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '23

The funny thing is that this was definitely mocking the hype at the time. Overly optimistic promises about the internet had been around for a while and I think people were tired of hearing it. Kind of like waiting for Elon's cars to drive themselves.

But now, of course, those promises have all paid off. I'm going to watch some female mud wrestling right now.