> > Chris Nolan's Joker is a nihilist! Which was pretty damn cool. In a scary > and horrifying way.
I just thought he was a sociopath. Or am I just splitting hairs? :) Heath Ledger was good enough to erase the Jack Nicholson Joker trauma, but > am I the only one wishing Gary Oldman was playing a bad guy rather than the > sea-green incorruptible Commissioner Gordon? Jack Nicholson Joker trauma? I thought Jack was a great Joker. He was just right for Burton's Batman universe, which was heavily comic-book influenced, and he played a larger-than-life character to perfection. Ledger's Joker is different because the universe is different. It's darker, less synthetic. And the Joker's wild ways and gratuitous violence are just right for it. It would be unfair to either to compare the performances. Or to diss Cesar Romero and Mark Hamill along the way. As for Oldman, I think he's stuck in an under-developed character. Gordon has potential, but I'd love to see someone like Tommy Lee Jones take it on. Oldman, however, would probably make a fascinating Riddler. -- Sumant Srivathsan sumants.blogspot.com
