Man I loved his show. Sadly it no longer plays in my area. I would always think to myself, “Man there can’t be that many new listeners. Can there?”
I think the comedy in “Big Trouble” comes from Jack Burton, (Kurt Russel), who believes he’s the hero of a John Wayne Action movie, when he’s really the sidekick and nobody in the movie has the heart to tell him.
I saw “Beetlejuice” in the theater, not knowing anything about it, I didn’t figure out it was a comedy until they got to the afterlife civil service area. Then later, when Michael Keaton showed up, it got hilarious.
I am not sure it was a “comedy.” It’s a satire which isn’t always the same thing.
Friend of a friend told me when he saw Pulp Fiction at the movie theater the couple behind him came to that realization about half way thru the film.
Gremlins.
Sure, it’s a fun adventure/horror movie, but it was supposed to be a laugh out loud absurd take on horror, and I, amongst many (from what I can recall at the time), didn’t realise that. The sequel is far more overtly comedic, deliberately so that audiences could go back to the first and see it for the level of comedy it was intended as.
Not a movie but if you were reading comic books back in the eighties, you might remember Sidney Mellon. I’ll admit, to my embarrassment, that it took me several months to realize it was a joke. In my defense, you really could hear people saying the same things he was.
I love my dead gay son!
I don’t think they were “comedies”. But both movies had a lot of comedic elements to them.
I always have a problem with what I call “Sundance Film Festival comedies”. Quirky indy films like Garden State or Little Miss Sunshine or any Wes Anderson film that I’m told are supposed to be comedies (or comedy dramas I suppose). I enjoy them, and they are really good films, but they don’t seem particularly hilarious.
Harold and Maude. I was really appalled in the first five minutes. Then it started to dawn on me.
So, not a movie, but I definitely didn’t understand that Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman was meant to be particularly comedic until I listened to the Lenny Henry-performed audiobook. Especially the old ladies in Florida and Anansi himself are way too easy to take seriously when read instead of heard in character voices.
I didn’t know anything about the Coen Brothers when I saw “Fargo”, only that the movie was good, and I was hesitant about laughing at certain scenes.
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As for murders in Brainerd, MN in 1987, IIRC their police blotter did have two - an elderly man who was beaten in a home invasion, and a young woman who had a baby and left it somewhere to die. :mad:
“I mean, this is Ohio. If you don’t have a brewski in your hand you might as well be wearing a dress.”
Heathers is one of my favorite movies. I think it’s one of the greatest dark comedies ever made. 
I had the same problem. “What do you mean it’s ‘campy’, dad?”
“Lost In Translation” with Bill Murray - I just asked my husband this question, and this is the movie he came up with. I questioned him even now - “That movie is supposed to be a comedy?!?” Yup, Google says it is a comedy-drama. Hunh. Shouldn’t you laugh at a comedy once or twice?
Peter Jackson’s Forgotten Silver was premiered on New Zealand TV as a documentary. A lot of people took it at face value.
If you see (as I did) “Escape from LA” before seeing “Escape from New York,” it’s easy to just read it as yet another cheeseball 90s action movie. If you see NY first, it’s pretty obvious that LA is an intentional genre parody. It’s also a masterpiece (although the Bruce Cambell sequence is a little too camp).
The Princess Bride, as a ten year old kid, didn’t seem any more comedic than a lot of the other 80s-era fantasy adventure films, like Willow or Labrynth or The Neverending Story. As an adult, yeah, that there’s a comedy.
Given the final third, I’d say the producers had the same problem…!