Ah, yeah I get your point. Well, who knows, it's coming out soon and we can always hope to be pleasantly surprised with what they did to him.

In reply to this comment by Kreegath:
I'm not saying either Joker hasn't done bad things, that's really what they do for a living, being comic book badguys and all. However, that a villain has done bad things doesn't necessarily make their persona characteristics dark, emo goth with a sad undertone.
That's where my problem with this trailer lies, just like with most of these hero movies as of late. They don't bother to enhance or subdue the established characteristics and/or personality traits of the villains/heroes, they simply change them altogether to fit in the darker, brooding mold that seems to be so popular nowadays.
What I am saying is that based on that preview, the Joker they portray seems no different from any other villain depicted in major film releases the last couple of years. Basically, and this is again only based on what's seen in that trailer, the two things noticable that sets aside him as the Joker from Mr. Generic is the trademark face paint (although a butchered paint job in this case, as I speculated they were probably forced to add it to make it clearer that it in fact is the Joker) aswell as his name. That in no way means I'm advocating they make the Joker exactly the same in every movie, but if they're going to use the Joker the least they could do is use the Joker and not some (un)original character extremely loosely based on the Joker.

In reply to this comment by Shepppard:
..the dark emo side of the joker? You DO know the joker is a complete homocidal maniac, he blew up one of the Robins AND his mother, and crippled barbara gordon (Batgirl) by showing up to her house, knocking on the door, waiting til she answered and shot her point blank, with a smile on his face the entire time.

There really isn't a villian that GETS more dark then the joker..

>> ^Kreegath:
Don't like the new Joker at all.
Just like with everything else nowadays they just had to make him more emo goth dark, completely detached from all other incarnations of the Joker. Kind of sad to see him reduced to a generic, misunderstood, dark villain with a sad, troubled past. Probably kept the name solely for name recognition's sake, which led to them being forced to add the face paint. By the look of it, however, it's clear the instructions on how to apply said face paint wasn't specific enough.
Then again, this video might not accurately portray the Joker of the new movie. Or, I'm simply not the target audience.


..the dark emo side of the joker? You DO know the joker is a complete homocidal maniac, he blew up one of the Robins AND his mother, and crippled barbara gordon (Batgirl) by showing up to her house, knocking on the door, waiting til she answered and shot her point blank, with a smile on his face the entire time.

There really isn't a villian that GETS more dark then the joker..

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
Too early to say. I haven't seen Ledger's performance yet.


Exactly, we're just looking at his performance from the trailers. It's not a very good comparison right now. Jack's performance still remains the best, until I see Heath's. I can't go on word of mouth.

heh.
barely recognized the name, so while scanning for a little background, i come across a list of other artists, that have since covered her signature tune:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_vie_en_rose#List_of_other_notable_artists_who_have_performed_.22La_Vie_en_Rose.22

pretty damn impressive and varied list, eh?
including... jack nicholson?!

*findthumb

Edit:

I cant believe this has got no votes in a day! No one think this is cheeserific? Jack Nicholson sings the who? Maybe my idea of wonderfulness is way off

You shouldn't tell me that. It will only encourage me to do more nefarious things with tags. Like add "poop".

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Heheheee! That was lolly.

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Heheheee! That was lolly.

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William Shatner, Robin Williams, Christopher Lloyd (in Taxi), Jack Nicholson, Dudley Moore, and Brian Boitano.

shatner was always one of his best.
and the nicholson "a little paranoid" line is perfecto.

*80s *standup

Jeff Goldblum is awesome. He's like the Jack Nicholson of Acting.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

American soundbite politics bites. There is no way to distill anything meaningful into a 30 second ad or 3 minute news segment. I agree that this is corny and phony, but no more so than Hillary's Jack Nicholson ad or her 3:00 ad or McCain's geriatric rave for that matter. Long thoughtful discussions just don't sell enough hamburgers.

he does other people too

In the immortal words of Jack Nicholson in 1989 - "Better be sure."

The funny thing about Heath's performance is that he seems to be imitating Jack Nicholson's portrayal of Joker. In the teaser they released previously he sounds exactly like old Jackie boy.

Very excited about this as well. I thought they did a pretty good job with the last one.

I would love to see Jack Nicholson tripping on... oh wait.

All joking aside this video is pretty interesting.