[Spoilers!] Dark Knight

[Bardock]

My rankings have always been Tommy as Two-Face > Jim as Joker > Devito as Penguin > the rest. Jack Nicholson is a great actor, but that role stunk. It didn't scare me, it just annoyed the fuck out of me and was inaccurate. =/

I'm going to have to disagree about Tommy as Two-Face. First of all, he didn't adhere to his character's core principle: his coin. In the mansion scene when they are attacking Bruce, he flipped it until he got the answer he wanted. Two-Face always abides by the decision of a coin, no matter what side comes up. There was no duality whatsoever within his character. Sure, there was attention to the number "two," everything he owned was done two different ways, and he constantly referred to himself as "we," but his character was a singular psychopath. There was one personality, and that was it.

Eckhart's Two-Face, however, although not given a chance to take his own spotlight, adhered closer to that concept. He was the "White Knight" of Gotham that was finally brought down by the death of Rachel, and twisted by the Joker.

Carrey's Riddler, while entertaining as hell, was Carrey being Carrey. This was also my problem with Nicholson as the Joker, because it was Jack being Jack. Riddler was a controlled intellectual with a taste for the thematic. Carrey still was able to portray that, but he was very much a nut case.

I also could go on about the flaws in Liam Neeson's character, but I'll leave that out.


The point is, Joker stole this movie, plain and simple. He was very much a controlled chaos, manipulating everyone exactly where he wanted them, even when his ferry experiment failed.