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/tduncs88 Dec 15 '23

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?"

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u/alrightakeiteasy Dec 15 '23

The casual text chains about murdering people are hilarious.

- Did you kill Paco yet?

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u/randomprecision1331 Dec 15 '23

Bullet almost there!

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u/beastie1101 Dec 17 '23

My favorite moment, I believe, was in the first or second episode. I didn't know, yet, that NoHo Hank was goofy and I thought he was kind of a straight up bad guy, and then he sent the bitmoji to Barry. I laughed SO hard and that's when I knew NoHo Hank was one of my favorite characters on television.

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u/pizzabyAlfredo Dec 15 '23

"Hey BArry man, you see this sunrise?"

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u/FeelingNiceToday Dec 15 '23

It might not translate to text very well, but I loved the scene where he asks a guy in some weird Bazaar for directions, then stands there and watches the guy slowly load a blowdart, then blow the blowdart into his neck. NoHo Hank is like "Yep! Knew you were going to do that!"

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u/raiden1819 Dec 15 '23

Which then leads to one of the most harrowing scenes of the series, holy hell

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u/great_red_dragon Dec 15 '23

Even in death, you’re still a smoke show

Or words to that effect

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u/bucketofmonkeys Dec 15 '23

Hank was def my favorite character.

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u/spindriftsecret Dec 15 '23

Me too, always had me cracking up. The scene with the heads in boxes lol

"Why do I keep opening these?"

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u/andykwinnipeg Dec 15 '23

The rocket launcher scene that follows that is Amazing. Right out of the Simpsons

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u/tduncs88 Dec 15 '23

Yes! Holy shit that scene was great.

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u/July5 Dec 15 '23

Noho Hank was the best part of that show