1.) Dr. Strangelove
2.) Dr. Strangelove
3.) Dr. Strangelove
It’s hard finding movies no one else has mentioned yet.
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Death Becomes Her
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War of The Roses
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… anything by Todd Solondz. Brrr.
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Kevin Smith’s Clerks
A very dry black comedy based on a book written by Evelyn Waugh and adapted by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood
I just about died when Rod Steiger as Mr Joyboy sang,
“Mommie’s little Georgie’s got lobster, lobster.
Mommie’s little Georgie’s got lobster for mommie” :eek:
to the melody of Shortning Bread.
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[li]The Loved One[/li][li]Showgirls[/li][li]Dancer in the Dark[/li][li]Dr. Strangelove[/li][li]Psycho[/li][li]Pulp Fiction[/li][li]Blue Velvet[/li][li]Arsenic and Old Lace[/li][li]Very Bad Things[/li][]Little Otik*[/ol]
Withnail and I…
Coming to America?
… well I liked it
Heh…
oops
In that case, I like… um…
The Shining.
TRIPOST!!!
FOUL! BACK TO YOUR HOLE, IDJIT.
I’m sorry. I think I really do get it this time…
Leaving Las Vegas?
I nominate Brazil.
This is the one I was going to nominate. Dennis Price is about 10th in line for a Dukedom, so he kills off every member of the family who stands to inherit ahead of him (every one of them played by Alec Guiness). It’s that casting and Price’s dry, wry commentary on the proceedings that make it memorable.
I second War of the Roses and Death Becomes Her . Laughed my ass off thru both of them.
Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. Yeah, it’s a series of sketches rather than a single storyline, but the whole thing has a very nightmarish quality.
Spike Jonze has made some good dark comedies.
Being John Malkovich
Human Nature
Adaptation
Brazil, definitely–I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. For years it was my favorite movie.
Delicatessan and City of Lost Children both qualify (the former more than the latter, although I prefer the latter).
Living in Oblivion isn’t as dark as many of those mentioned, but it’s pretty bleak, and oh so funny.
But I agree with the consensus: Dr. Strangelove is probably the funniest movie I’ve ever seen, and it just gets funnier with each rewatching.
Daniel
I thought of another one that is pretty good: Drop Dead Gorgeous. Whacked out small town in Minnesota has trashy girls pinning their dreams on winning a beauty pagent.
Another vote for War of the Roses, especially since it refused to soften even when it had the chance (i.e., when Michael Douglas puts his hand on Kathleen Turner in the very last scene, and she removes it).
Dr. Strangelove is a given.
Murder, He Says is supposed to be a pretty good black comedy, though I haven’t seen it.
Grosse Pointe Blank and Prizzi’s Honor.
There are also some black comedy moments in Sleuth and Deathtrap (really the same movie).
I came here to say Good Burger but then read the OP.
Damn Ye Gods of Fate!
American Psycho
One that I own that has not been mentioned: Bad Santa (dark holiday comedy**.
Three that I don’t own, but still enjoy: Death to Smoochy, Get Shorty, Dave Barry’s Big Trouble (which was unfortunately set to be released September 2001, with a plot involving blowing up a nuclear device on a commercial airliner. It never had a chance.)
Fargo?