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Movies with zero comic relief

posted 13 years ago by chasing_dogmas
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What are some movies that remain bleak throughout? I'd say Se7en is one. Sure we have that scene in the apartment ("Just a soothing, relaxing, vibrating home huh?") but I wouldn't say it's all that funny - nor the part where Mills briefly talks about shaving off a nipple.

Anyway you get the idea. Here are some movies without comic relief:

- Se7en
- John Carpenter's The Thing
- Alien
- Irreversible
- Requiem for a Dream
- Blade Runner

Your turn.

[–] RequiredFields 8 years ago

The Constant Gardener
City of God
Epic Movie

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[–] [email protected] (690) 8 years ago

At one point in Se7en, R Lee Ermey calls his crew "Ladies and Germs." It's just a toss-off line, he's not in a lather or anything.
It's kinda funny.

[–] BourbonKing (5788) 8 years ago

Dinner for Schmucks

[–] TheMan18 (13184) 7 years ago

Actually, I would say this movie had at least SOME comic relief in the sense where Brad Pitt's character was acting tough and aggressive, this did elicit a few chuckles out of me on a number of occasions.

[–] TheUltimateHippo (2250) 7 years ago

Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
The Fly
2001 A Space Odyssey (although the "you need to sit down and take a stress pill" was pretty close)

[–] fleischwolf (294) 7 years ago

That's not really comic relief. That's something a character would say in real life. Comic relief would be Mills slipping on a banana or falling into a swimming pool. And then he would flail about screaming that he can't swim. Sommerset would roll his eyes and look at the camera with a "What you gonna do" look and shrug his shoulders. And then when Sommerset would try and help him out he would fall in too. Oh, what could have been.

[–] Stratego (31075) 4 years ago

You're wrong. Comic relief is "a relief from the emotional tension especially of a drama that is provided by the interposition of a comic episode or element".

[–] LeWildPlatypus (772) 6 years ago

The Conversation
Eraserhead
Dunkirk

[–] MichaelJPollock (808) 6 years ago

The first Terminator.
...ah OK, maybe that iguana scene...

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 5 years ago

Silence of the Lambs
Psycho
2001 A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Heat