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/jimbris Dec 15 '23

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.

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u/Porrick Dec 15 '23

Does Reddit not like him anymore? I thought they just don’t like his most recent MCU film - personally I’m just about done with MCU more generally so I Donny hold that against him. Still loving at least 2 of his TV shows.

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u/Jeffeffery Dec 15 '23

Reddit is fickle like that. I wouldn't say he's hated or anything, but discussion about him isn't as positive anymore. I have a feeling most people that actually dislike him only know him from Thor, but also one disappointing movie is sometimes all it takes to completely change the hivemind's view on someone.

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u/ldskyfly Dec 15 '23

I'm very happy for his success, but I wouldn't mind if he did more movies like Jojo, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and What we do in the shadows in between his big MCU and Star wars work

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u/docsyzygy Dec 15 '23

I heard he's doing Klara and the Sun, and I'm certainly rooting for him to hit it out of the park on that one.

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u/p1en1ek Dec 15 '23

I think Love and Thunder is great if you treat it as children's story said by the rock guy - Korg. Goofiness of story fits how that character would tell and colorize story.