Which Joker do you think is better?

gurneyhalleck1 said:

Anyone who reads the comics and is a real fan would recognize that Ledger's Joker is the most accurate, hands-down....incredible....

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I've read Batman comics since about 1957 or so. I much prefer the Nicholson version. The Michael Keating Batman (and movie) was much closer to the original concept and thought process.

But this is the United States. You can prefer whatever you wish.

Firecycle said:

Eh.. Not really.

Romero played a zany and overblown Joker, which fit in with the zany and overblown 1960's Batman show, but he was overshadowed by the Riddlerfor pete's sake. He did a good performance, but I don't think there was anything he did that Mark Hamil's Joker didn't do better.

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Zany and overblown?

That's precisely why his was the best Joker!

I also started reading Batman in the late 1950s and to me this is the closest characterization which resembles the original comic book figure. But to each his/her own ...

As much as the press were saying that the ledger version of the joker was not like the comics, in contrast he was actually more like the comics he had the comic joker's obsession with knives and obsession with chaos.

Firecycle said:

Eh.. Not really.

Romero played a zany and overblown Joker, which fit in with the zany and overblown 1960's Batman show, but he was overshadowed by the Riddler for pete's sake. He did a good performance, but I don't think there was anything he did that Mark Hamil's Joker didn't do better.

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Overblown?

I would say they were exactly alike.


But to each his/her own.

Archie and HonestTruth,

Have you seen evolutions in Joker between the 1950s til now? I am aware there are darker and more mature variations done especially in the collaborations featuring writers such as Alan Grant, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Jeph Loeb, Doug Moench IIRC?

But overall, what Joker dominated, the campier Joker or the darker more twisted images of Joker?

I've seen clips of them but the movies were of no particular interest to me. I am mindful that the OP asks which movie version of the Joker was best. My reply was a reference to the best of all time. And, of course, I stick with my choice.