Matt D From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9502 posts, RR: 51 Reply 1, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 963 times:
MSYtristar From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 6242 posts, RR: 51 Reply 2, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 956 times:
"Throw Mama from the Train", with Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito...a classic!
Mirrodie From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 7421 posts, RR: 65 Reply 3, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 949 times:
YES! Both are excellent films that are also on my shelf!
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Goingboeing From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4875 posts, RR: 19 Reply 4, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 945 times:
From 1995 - "To Die For" with Nicole Kidman as a newscaster who convinces a teenager to kill her husband. I think I was the only one in the theatre who "got" it.
MBMBOS From United States of America, joined May 2000, 2561 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 939 times:
"Very Bad Things" is a whole lot of fun. You get to watch a bunch of characters get their cumuppins - and they all deserve it.
"After Hours", which was directed by Scorcese is also very good.
"War of The Roses" is a great dark comedy for anyone who has gone through a nasty breakup.
Aa61hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59 Reply 7, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 932 times:
Garnetpalmetto From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5244 posts, RR: 55 Reply 8, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 932 times:
I love Dark Comedy. Sorry, as much as I love it, Blazing Saddles is NOT a dark comedy. Put me down for Strangelove as well. "Mr. President, we cannot allow for there to be a mine shaft gap!"
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Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51 Reply 9, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 920 times:
Little Shop of Horrors. The scene between Orin Scrivello D.D.S. (Steve Martin) and Arthur Denton (Bill Murray) is classic.
DesertJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7673 posts, RR: 18 Reply 11, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 918 times:
Royal Tenebaums is a great movie... I have it on DVD.
Strangelove is a classic too.
Rushmore is another pretty good dark comedy, written by Wes Anderson like the Tenebaums
Stop drop and roll will not save you in hell. --- seen on a church marque in rural Virginia
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12715 posts, RR: 80 Reply 12, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 889 times:
I loved how 'Heathers' gleefully subverted the whole US teen/school genre.
Love the Tennebaums.
Dr Strangelove too.
'Election' skirts around darkness, but a great film.
'American Pyscho', thought to be an unfilmable book (which happens to be a favourite read of mine) but the 2000 film did a fine job, brought out what the book was really about, not a gorefest, but a savage satire on 80's yuppiedom.
'Go' Nicely dark in places.
While not a comedy as such, 'Natural Born Killers' is satire, Ollie Stone pitched it as 2 weeks of US TV in 2 hours, mind you, he was on mushrooms, wine Jack Daniels and Meixcan weed while making it, why am I not surprised by that! Even Robert Downey Jr thought there was way too much excess on the set.
Homer71 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2209 posts, RR: 17 Reply 13, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 888 times:
Miami Blues (1990) with Alec Baldwin was pretty quirky...
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Mt99 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 6354 posts, RR: 7 Reply 16, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 865 times:
Kay From France, joined Mar 2002, 1884 posts, RR: 3 Reply 17, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 852 times:
Fargo
and some others by the Cohen brothers, I forget the name of that 80's movie where everybody dies WITHOUT knowing what really happened. Try to follow:
- a jealous husband hires a killer to kill his wife and her lover
- the killer kills the husband instead and takes the money
- the lover finds the body and thinks the wife did it because she chose him
- he goes to her to thank her, but before they talk he gets shot by the killer who's been following him and thinks the guy has proof against him
- the wife chases the killer down thinking it is her husband (who's actually dead) and shoots him down through a wall
- the killer shoots her back through the wall and dies. She dies too, still thinking it is her husband on the other side of the wall.
so FOUR characters die each one thinking something different. Hilarious. Cohen brothers..
DesertJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7673 posts, RR: 18 Reply 18, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 845 times:
Another good Coen brothers flick is "The Big Lebowski"
Not really sure that it is a dark comedy in the tradition of Fargo, but a funny trip nonetheless.
John Turturro's portrayal of Jesus, the Mexican ex-pedaphile bowler is hilarious.
"You don't fuck with the Jesus."
Stop drop and roll will not save you in hell. --- seen on a church marque in rural Virginia
Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51 Reply 19, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 842 times:
Raising Arizona is another good Cohen Brothers film as well, and pretty quirky like most of their films.
Ryanb741 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2002, 3219 posts, RR: 17 Reply 20, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 822 times:
I agree with Fargo - that was great. O Brother where art thou? was surprisingly dark in places, although I wouldn't say it was a dark comedy. Basically the Cohen Brothers are the masters of this genre.
I used to think the brain is the most fascinating part of my body. But, hey, who is telling me that?
Mr Spaceman From Canada, joined Mar 2001, 2780 posts, RR: 15 Reply 22, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 819 times:
Hi guys.
> Kay, I'm going crazy trying to figure out or remember the movie that you're describing. Sorry I don't have an answer.
> DesertJets, the movie "The Big Lebowski" is an amazing movie. One of my all time favorites! The Cohen brothers really put it together with that one. Jeff Bridges - aka "The Dude" played a great roll.
That movie is a DARK COMEDY.
Nothing like lines that say ......
"Hey man, they pissed on my carpet!"
"Nobody Fu*ks with the Jesus. I'll take that gun and shove it up your ass!!
*** "I'll suck your co*K for a thousand. He can't watch unless he pays me a hundred".
I Love that movie.
> Srbmod, the movie Raising Arizona is untouchable. It is such a mellow/funny movie. I know that if you ever need to just sit back & kick your boots off, watch Raising Arizona, and you will be a happy man. F*cking GREAT movie!!!
Gentlemen. are we not forgeting another excellent Cohen brothers movie that is a DARK COMEDY? Yes we are.
"Brother Where Art Thou?" with George Clooney (spelling?). That movie was an absalute riot!!! I Love the Cohen brother's work.
TheGov From United States of America, joined Apr 2003, 400 posts, RR: 3 Reply 24, posted (9 years 5 months 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 809 times:
To go for the older dark comedies, try these:
"Mother, Jugs and Speed"
"Harold and Maude"
My vote for modern classic goes to "Heathers". Boy is it dark.
Always a pallbearer, never a corpse.
25 Kay: The big lebowski haha! yeah I thought of that one, but it's not dark "the carpet, kinda held the room together, you know" unbelievable. And john goodm
26 L-188: Doctor Stangelove M*A*S*H Both the series and the movie. Actually if you get the DVD sets of the TV show you can turn the laugh-track off. It is a who
27 Homer71: "I forget the name of that 80's movie where everybody dies WITHOUT knowing what really happened" I think that movie was Blood Simple (1984) "I'll suck
29 UALPHLCS: Heathers. You can't get Darker than that. My mother asked what it was about one time and I said, "teen suicide." She asked if it was a sad movie, and
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