Such a *beep* excuse for a "comedy"

I honestly can't tell if you're serious. They never make fun of people with cancer. It's a comedy. But it's not they're saying "Hah cancer!" It's a poignant, sometimes funny tale of a man who finds out he has cancer and has to come to grips with the possibilty of dying at a relatively young age

Will Reiser actually survived cancer, and wrote this screenplay based on his experience.

People die every day. No one lives forever, I liked how they dealt with this disease.

Ammovies, I find it odd how you can wish the makers of this movie a 'long and painful death', whilst in the same sentence talk about losing your uncle to cancer, and how disgusting it is to make a comedy from it. It seems like a contradictory set of moral standards.

I think most people in their lives either get cancer of lose someone to cancer, and each experience and each person deals with it differently. I've lost two family members to cancer, and I know the emotions involved.

For me, this movie worked because it didn't patronise the viewer, by suggesting that everyone takes on the same emotions that perhaps you or I do. We all take bad situations differently, and sometimes humour is a strong emotion in dealing with such situations. Selfishness is another human trait that this touches on, which I felt this movie dealt with quite appropriately.

The interesting aspect of this movie is how Joseph Gordon-Levitt's girlfriend initially seemed like the most caring of the lot, yet it turned out that the openly selfish friend who was using JGL to pick up girls was actually more involved in his life and feelings than she ever was. It was the same with his mother, who initially seemed to be overbearing, was just showing natural emotions to her son.

I don't think it's within anyone's right to say whether it's appropriate or not to use humour as a way of dealing with any kind of serious issue.

Perhaps time and your own life events have twisted your memory about this movie, but this movie in no way makes fun of cancer. The comedy in this move, comes from the fact that life can still have its good moments, in a time when serious things such as cancer, is also happening.

Many people who see nasty stuff everyday, such as funeral directors, police officers, EMTs, ER Doctors, etc develop a dark sense of humor to deal with things. *If* a movie was made, making fun of cancer (and done right), it would fall under the category of dark comedy.

The only humor in the movie at the "expense" of people with cancer is with other people reacting to cancer, like his mom trying to manipulate the nurse into turning up the thermostat with "my son has cancer" or Seth Rogen doing the same to get laid. Cancer itself or people with it are never made fun of. You did not watch the movie if you can't see that. Even if it was, that'd be fine if it was done decently because humor is often a defense mechanism and it might have given you some well needed insight into people with cancer, like your uncle, the screenwriter had cancer and wrote this about his experience.

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You're either a troll or really stupid, probably both.

The movie is based on Seth Rogen's friend's experience with cancer (Seth Rogen is pretty much playing himself).

They didn't make fun of the disease they very much did the opposite, the humor was added in places where it made sense.

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