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Post by mortsahlfan on Oct 18, 2020 19:50:48 GMT
Harry and Tonto
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Buffalo '66
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Post by kolchak92 on Oct 18, 2020 19:53:31 GMT
Dr. Strangelove
MASH
Going in Style (1979)
Sideways
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 18, 2020 20:00:47 GMT
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Fargo
Scream
Network
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 18, 2020 20:03:13 GMT
I second Dr Strangelove. American Psycho comes to mind too.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 18, 2020 20:06:35 GMT
Slightly off course. Leonard Maltin's Movie guide called Sunset Boulevard a "black comedy". I never found anything funny about it. It was a Greek Tragedy. I felt sorry for everyone in the film. It's not Norma Desmond's fault that her cheese has slipped off her cracker. And Max and Joe Gillis are just trying not to hurt her feelings. Well, the money is helpful to Joe, but he still cared for Norma until the end. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 18, 2020 20:07:01 GMT
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest you see Cuckoo's nest as a comedy ?  I was surprised to see that Stalag 17 is listed as comedy on IMDb
anyway ... I would go with Groundhog Day as my "serious comedy" you can only pick one fav.
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Post by Reynard on Oct 18, 2020 20:47:48 GMT
What does "serious comedy" even mean? A movie belonging mainly to some other genre, but that does have a lot of understated humor in it?
Takeshi Kitano's early films, especially Boiling Point, A Scene at the Sea & Kikujiro
Coen Brothers - Fargo, Big Lebowski etc
Withnail & I
Tremors, Night of the Creeps, They Live
The Yellow Submarine
Postman Blues
The Last Detail, As Good as it Gets
I much prefer movies with an offbeat sense of humor to all-out "comedies", if you know what I mean.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 19, 2020 3:05:31 GMT
The Nice Guys
In Bruges
Punch Drunk Love
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 19, 2020 3:09:45 GMT
Slightly off course. Leonard Maltin's Movie guide called Sunset Boulevard a "black comedy". Well that would be my answer if it counts as a "serious" (as opposed to dark) comedy. I found a lot of it quite (darkly) humourous. The voiceover, the grotesque, Joe's "ironic" demise.
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 19, 2020 4:24:44 GMT
I'll add The Big Short as a very well done serious comedy of recent times.
But comedy is in the eye of the beholder - I find parts of Bridge on the River Kwai hilarious - and I think intentionally so.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 19, 2020 5:37:34 GMT
Harry and Tonto One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Buffalo '66 I just seen Buffalo '66 for the first time not to long ago. I liked it.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 19, 2020 15:41:25 GMT
A Serious Man - one of the Coen Brothers lesser known films.
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Post by millar70 on Oct 19, 2020 20:23:12 GMT
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest you see Cuckoo's nest as a comedy ? I was surprised to see that Stalag 17 is listed as comedy on IMDb
anyway ... I would go with Groundhog Day as my "serious comedy" you can only pick one fav. While I would never call it a comedy, Cuckoo's Nest had many truly hilarious moments.......Jack's initial interview with the doctor, the fishing trip, the basketball game, "hotel...." |
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 20, 2020 1:23:32 GMT
Catch-22 (1970)
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 20, 2020 1:35:40 GMT
When I was a kid, never really saw the humor in Ghostbusters. I took it as a semi-serious horror movie.
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