What movies do not have any instances of comic relief?
Note: This isn’t about how movies should always inject some type of humor or that the movie would have been better if it had and so on.
Here are two buzz-kill flicks that I defy anyone to point out even one attempt to lighten the mood.
Monster’s Ball. Has a depressing story line for everyone. Suicide, racism, untimely death, child abuse and not one attempt to yuk it up for the viewers.
House of Sand and Fog. Depressing film that leaves you down. Great performances by all of the leads. No humor to be found at all.
Again, please don’t bring up the, “Well why would you want to add a few pratfalls in either of those films?” etc.
There are films that contain no music (something usually present in one form or another). Are there films that have no instances of humor?
<insert required reference to movie made as a comedy (most likely one made the Wayans or Farrely brothers), but poster is being clever in their disdain for it by saying it had no humor in it>
There, I got it out of the way, so don’t even think about doing it yourselves.
It’s not a movie, but “Battlestar Gallactica” tops my list. Most seriousest show I’ve ever suffered through.
I’ll second “The House of Sand and Fog” for the big screen.
This game becomes easy if you go back to the fifties. It was a grim time with grim movies. There isn’t anything remotely humorous in “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” “The Hustler,” or “On the Waterfront,” to name a few off the top of my head (odd that two of those have Jackie Gleason).
I only saw “Se7en” once (I’ve not had the guts to see it again), but I do remember Brad Pitt sitting in his car in the rain (wasn’t it always raining?) trying to read Cliffs Notes of the Great Novels Morgan Freeman’s character was always making reference to. It was mildly amusing.
Grave of the Fireflies is about as sad a movie as I can imagine myself watching all the way through, but there were still some things to smile about, especially in the way Seita and Setsuko happily lived together after being thrown out by the aunt. There was a lot to smile at, at least – which then made the ending worse.
I don’t remember anything resembling humor in Eight Mile. I know for a fact that Eminem doesn’t so much as smile at any point in the movie, let alone laugh.
I came in to mention Dancer in the Dark. There’s no humor (no one is intenionally being funny) in it but there are amusing parts but I think it still counts.
8 Mile has Cheddar Bob in it, who is meant to be a comic character and the rap battles are all about humorously cutting down your opponents.
Seven has some dark sarcastic humor in it as well.
Platoon has some funny parts about base life. The rednecks who follow Barnes are sometimes played for laughs.
When Jack and his fiance meet Tony Almeida’s obnoxious girlfriend. Tony apologizes for her rude behaviour, and Jack deadpans (naturally): “No, she’s very nice”. His delivery was perfect.
What can I say - you get your yucks where you can find them.
And yeah, Push You Down, I should have specified intentional laughs. God know the show had enough of the other kind.