so called comedy movies like Romancing the Stone literally end up turning into something else like intense action dramas.
Romancing the Stone, it involves Cuban soldiers kidnapping people, jewel thieves risking their lives for stupid treasure in a different strange country. Plus a Cuban soldiers fighting you to the death after he gets his hand bit off by a croc over a stupid long long treasure.
It has been some kind of evolution of movies and series that a large number of viewers want to watch comedy or romance or both in one called romcom, while producers seem to prefer making more and more dramas.
Even in movies that do have comedy or romance in it, the relation between comedy, romance and drama shifts ever further towards more and more drama.
But movies announced as plain drama do not sell so well, because viewers who want comedy or romance will not watch them, or at least not as often and that's why drama movies are now declared to be comedy/drama or romance/drama as soon as there's just one scene in it that could be considered funny or romantic.
well whatever.
while comedy movies and their sequels like Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile are great as comedy adventure movie, they soon turn pretty quick into intense dramas with scary violent moments such as the crocodiles and a villain getting burned alive and falling to his death in Jewel of the Nile.
and back then while I was a kid in the mid 1980s, I thought Ruthless People was a funny comedy because of a silly kidnapping, but then these days I read up on the movie and find out there's other stuff going on in the movie which shocks me