Perhaps it's cathartic relief, but I've often found overtly serious films offer unintentional comedy in one way or another. Critics praise them! Cinephiles adore them! Whereas I'm laughing like Leslie Nielsen after catching Platoon (1986).
Tommy Wiseau's The Room (2003) is a go to nominee according to the net, but I never even bothered with that. Therefore, here are a few that immediately come to mind which also span from this century; otherwise, I'll be here forever listing films from before then:
Baise-moi (Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000)
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)
8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002)
The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute, 2006)
Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (David Fincher, 2011)
Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
Nymphomaniac Vol. I & II (Lars Von Trier, 2013)
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016)
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017)
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)
Lords of Chaos (Jonas Åkerlund, 2019)
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, 2020)
Karen (Coke Daniels, 2021)
The Scary of Sixty-First (Dasha Nekrasova, 2021)
We're only into the second quater of 2023 and we're spoilt for choice with the likes of The Whale and Babylon already. Going to be a bumper year by my reckoning.
5 comments:
Shame and Her are perfect examples of this 😆
Gotta also mention Battlefield Earth as an obvious but equally perfect example.
How did I forget about Battlefield Earth?
Always find it hilarious whenever I read online comments how Shame and Her really resonated with them.
Really should’ve listed at least one Shyamalan film, in hindsight.
The Last Airbender maybe?
Can't front, I did quite like that Devil movie he wrote.
Was thinking of either The Happening or Lady in the Water. Never watched The Last Airbender.
Generally like some of the premises to Shyamalan's films, I just find them executed poorly and heavy-handedly. Latest film is a perfect example.
Didn't mind Devil either. That director also helmed As Above, So Below, which I'm a fan of.
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