I think it's fine to make fun of everything, including tragedies. And especially made up tragedies, like a movie. It depends on the intent of the joke. Whether you find it funny or not is subjective anyway. There are good jokes about the holocaust, so I don't see why there can't be good jokes about a movie. Now, whether the particular joke they were asked to do was good, that I don't know. But in principle I think you can make jokes about everything.

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It is fine to make fun of everything. I'm interested in the practical critiques of Brokeback mountain cowboycraft, whatever that may be. Requiring uninterested people to do the same is stupid.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 hours ago

I don't think anybody was required to do anything. If Ledger doesn't want to do it for any reason, that's fine. I'm not arguing you have to joke about everything. The comment I replied to said that you shouldn't joke about a tragedy and that's something I disagree with.