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Thread: Warped Romantic Comedies?
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2015-08-27, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Warped Romantic Comedies?
Ordinary romantic comedies are a dime a dozen, and usually too tepid and predictable to endure.
Can anyone recommend some deviously clever exceptions to the rule? Intelligent, offbeat, and bent like a pretzel?
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2015-08-27, 03:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-27, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Warm Bodies? A romantic comedy with zombies?
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2015-08-27, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-27, 06:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Shaun of the Dead. A romantic comedy with zombies.
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2015-08-27, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Stranger than Fiction. An IRS agent begins hearing his life being narrated. The narrator turns out to be an author struggling to finish her latest novel; she only writes tragedies.
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2015-08-27, 08:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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500 Days of Summer. Not sure that it qualifies as a comedy but it has it's funny moments.
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2015-08-28, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Warped Romantic Comedies?
500 Days of Summer and Death Becomes Her are both good suggestions. I wouldn't really call Forgetting Sarah Marshall "warped" or even particularly offbeat; like most Apatow projects, there's a thin unconventional veneer over a movie that's ultimately almost aggressively normal.
In terms of things that haven't yet been mentioned, the recent They Came Together is a fairly straightforward satire of romantic comedy tropes livened by a generally charismatic cast. Better Off Dead is basically what would happen if a normal '80s John Cusack vehicle was hit by a truck of surreal absurdity on its way to the cliché store. Classic screwball comedies and especially comedies of remarriage usually end up pretty offbeat, even in their earlier incarnations; It Happened One Night, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Topper, The Awful Truth, and even sort of O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
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2015-08-28, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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"The War of the Roses" (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner) is a black comedy look at when the romance turns to hatred.
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2015-08-28, 02:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Grosse Point Blank?
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2015-08-28, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Whole Nine Yards.
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2015-08-28, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-28, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Leon: The Professional
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2015-08-28, 10:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-30, 03:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wedding Daze. That was a weird one, not at all what I had expected from the trailer.
Basically, two strangers that just met decide to marry. But the movie gets way weirder than that. Not sure it's a very good one though, even as a comedy, but it's... atypical at least. Defitinely 'warped' as the OP requested.Last edited by CWater; 2015-08-30 at 03:58 PM.
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2015-09-03, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-09-04, 06:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Most of Pedro Almodovar's catalog.
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2015-09-04, 09:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-09-05, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Punch-Drunk Love. Probably the only time I'll ever recommend a movie with Adam Sandler in it.
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2015-09-05, 08:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-09-07, 11:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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While I wouldn't call them 'warped', the novels by John Green usually add a twist to some of the common romantic comedy tropes. I especially liked Paper Towns.