I came into this thread just to post that
Love and Other Drugs does this, too, and really pissed me off. I came to see the romcom in the ads, not this maudlin crap.
That’s another movie I meant to see and never got around to. I generally like Greg Kinnear, and I heard good things about the film. I heard it got kind of freaky and made Bob Crane look like a complete creep.
Do you mean George Roy Hill?
No, he’s right; Goldman says it pretty much word-for-word in his book.
Psycho.
Starts as a crime drama which makes you think the movie will be focused around Janet Leigh embezzling $40K from her employer in Phoenix and dodging the law to hook up with her boyfriend in California.
To make a long story short… she never makes it.
The trailers I saw were all about Begnini acting cute with his boy.
Shallow Grave
Goes from sarcastic sit-com to psychodrama, and you’re not quite sure how you got here from there.
Well, don’t leave us hanging, man … what happens?
Cocktail is a fun but predictable mentor/student fill about learning a fun trade until things go horribly wrong for each of the main characters.
The Descent, although its two genres aren’t as far apart as a lot of others in this thread. The first (better) half was all atmospheric and psychological. The second half was just straight-up horror. The exact moment of transition about made me jump backwards through the wall, though.
I have to disagree about Hot Fuzz, it was a comedy from start to end. The actiony ending was just an in joke rather than a change in tone.
It’s fantastic. John Carpenter is Willem Dafoe’s second most creepy role, surpassed only by his Bobby Peru.
scree! Scree! Scree!
Little Miss Sunshine has many comedic moments, yet there is an undertone of sadness running through it the whole time. It leaves me with a lump in my throat by the end even after all the laughs.
I did indeed - thanks for the catch. And it would indeed be one of the Coens’ stranger efforts!
The cover of The Usual Suspects makes it look like some sort of screwball comedy, even the title sounds like it. If you ignore the VERY opening scene (with the fire), the first 15-30 minutes is actually rather funny, with the guys in jail and a small bit of the initial deal with the guy in California and stuff. Then it ditches that pretty damn fast.
Sunshine
[spoilers]Starts off 2001 but ended Alien[/spoilers]
**Little Miss Sunshine ** is one of those “Sundance Film Festival ‘comedies’”. Sort of like Sideways or Garden State. They really aren’t funny.
These are films I would consider just all around hybrids, rather than films that transition from one genre to another.
Films I came in to mention.
WHAT???
OK phew…
Films I didn’t think of but would count
Another one. But only in retrospect. As a kid, it didn’t phase me. But as an adult I’m like, WTF?
Ooh I have to check this out now. Actually I was going to check it out anyway but forget about it.
Subject for a new thread: What are Willem Dafoe’s creepiest roles? (His appearance in Streets of Fire made as much impact as Ray Liotta’s in Something Wild–the first times those remarkable visages hit the big screen.)
I’d put in a vote for Gas in eXistenZ. Would you let him do to you what Jude Law let him do? That’s a movie that changes tone: From Weird to Even Weirder. Then, Oh, You Thought That Was Weird!