Comments on: Heath Ledger Is Not the Best Joker

By: Gothic Bug

Gothic Bug — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:39:11 +0000

If you can’t get Mark Hamill to play the Joker, then use him for a voice over.
I guess I’m still the only one that didn’t dring the kool-aid.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:08:35 +0000

I completely agree with this article.
I didn’t even manage to finish the Dark Knight film that I had borrowed off a friend. I was intrigued by the bank robbery at the start but then it started to bore me. Although I kept it on and waited for each and every Joker part, seeing as he is my favourite character, although I was very dissapointed with Heath Ledger’s performance.
I appreciated the way Heath Ledger had changed the Joker, from a phycotic, homocidal lunatic where everything was a joke to a phycotic, homocidal lunatic where NOTHING was a joke.
I mean, change is good but changing something into what it’s not isn’t. The Joker should always keep his crazy scream of a laugh that Jack Nickolson just managed and Mark Hamill perfected. So, all in all, Heath Ledger was not a good Joker. Whatever Mark Hamill looks like, he would have made a better on-screen Joker than Heath Ledger.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:07:55 +0000

By: ALBAN

ALBAN — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:03:47 +0000

fuck you,heath ledger is the best joker of all time,you are nothing,you don’t know anything fot the cinema!!!fuck you roland

By: Roland 111

Roland 111 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:45:29 +0000

Heath sucked not he fault its the director. his makeup sucked to whats with the scares. also where the exploding toys the acid toys the chemical smile gas the over the top laughter . He just a thug in the movie in gay rodeo clown makeup. if he had not died(not making fun of his death) every one would have agreed with me.if it had been bat VS a crazy gangster it would have been great.there is almost no joker is is performance. i would rather to have seen mark hamill any day of the week and twice on Sunday or even jack agian

By: ALBAN

ALBAN — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:29:34 +0000

vaffanculo figlio di puttana con questo articolo di merda,heath ledger e il miglior joker dei tutti i tempi,e tu sei una merda che non fa altro a trovare cazzate,ma tu non fai niente a heath lui era un star e tu sei nessuno,ok merda fottiti e non scrivvi piu cazzate

By: Walter

Walter — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:05:25 +0000

Whoever wrote this article tries to do the impossible: argumenting a matter of taste. The title (“Heath Ledger Joker Is Not the Best”) condemns the text to fail in this task. In my opinion, the Ledger’s Joker is the best. My brother prefers Nicholoson. My nephew says Cesar Romero was best. Who’s right?

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By: Dayton

Dayton — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:09:49 +0000

@Rabbit Fly

I completely agree with your 2 cents. I think both Ledger and Hamill rocked as the Joker, and it’s an apples/oranges comparison.

Sorry if you felt “reeled in” by the title. Both Ledger and Hamill gave amazing acting performances as the Joker, so I didn’t feel that there was much to critique about the acting. Rather, it was the roles that they were given that defined their Jokers, so I wanted to explore how hearing Hamill in AA really exposed a new dimension to his performance that hadn’t fully been explored.

By: Sucker of Fish

Sucker of Fish — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:39:22 +0000

I’m not sure why people even have this argument. Each and every Joker are separate iterations, mutations on a character that started out as a campy fool.

Each Joker is a facet of a many-sided mirror, reflecting something sick yet intrinsic to society.

I loved Nicholson (“Never rub another man’s rhubarb…”)… this was the lovechild of Tim Burton’s sweet, sinful lovemaking to this franchise.

The Batman cartoon I watched from the cusp of my late childhood into my early teens. That cartoon went from childish to deep, and Hamill made his own twisted Joker, the constant tormentor. Brilliant. And he truly was amazing in the Arkham Asylum game.

And Ledger’s performance… shit. The purity of it was amazing, shocking, a performance that people who like tasting the darker side of life could REVEL in. (And what the fuck is with the Crow comparison? Does anyone else NOT see that whatsoever except for the similarities in makeup?)

To play the “Which Joker is better” game is just foolish, because the character will keep changing, each iteration will be different. That’s pretty much the beauty of it.