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In Reply to: classic cases of miscasting posted by ishmael on February 26, 2002 at 12:04:16:
Many people feel that Nicholson stole the show in BATMAN, but as someone who has read a fair number of Batman comics, my opinion is that this was a dreadful miscasting and really ruined the movie for me. One of the trademarks of the comic book Joker was that he was always tall and skinny. Nicholson obviously doesn't qualify, and I found his performance far less than compelling also.You could try to make a similar case for Danny De Vito as The Penguin in BATMAN RETURNS, but it would be a poor argument, I believe, because the problem with The Penguin in that film wasn't DeVito, it was the implementation of the character in the story. The Burgess Meredith character from the TV show was much better and more in keeping with the traditional comic book version of the Penguin. In BATMAN RETURNS, we are treated to a bunch of symbolism centered around a gross and unappealing character. Artistic crap.
Todd
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far surpassing what the previously selected but unavailable Robin
Williams could have accomplished. Jack captured the quintessence
of The Joker, IMO, easily parlaying back and forth between the insanely
exuberant and zany bright side of the character to the darkly
psychotic, murderous one. Williams would have come across well
on the bright side, but would falter on the dark one (in a vaguely
analogous way when Jerry Lewis tries to come across as serious, but
unintentionally comes off as funny). In my view, Jack brilliantly
captured the sardonic look, laugh and wit of The Joker. - AH
I have disliked all of the modern BATMAN flicks. I do think that Nicholson was the only good thing about BATMAN. His Joker was inspired. I would have to say that Michael Keaton, one of my all-time favorites, was terribly miscast as Bruce Wayne/Batman. He certainly was scary in Pacific Heights but was unconvincing in the Batman role.I thought Val Kilmer was the best choice, despite being a bit too young for the role. Too bad the Kilmer effort was wasted on such grade Z fare.
Yes, I also liked the Kilmer Batman the best, even though it was probably a bit of a miscasting. Technically, Clooney was the best casted Batman in terms of physical size and appearance. He turned out to be somewhat underwhelming on the big screen in this role, however.Todd
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