Jack's Joker is better. When I watched Dark Knight, I was not even pleased. New Joker even sounds like a douche. He only laughed like once. So, how exactly was he "dark and psychotic" ? All Heath did was cut a dudes mouth, kill a Batman imposter, bomb a hospital, and threaten two ships. What did Nicholsan Joker do? He set the whole fucking town into gas, everybody was running and shit. The town was being run by Nicholson Joker.

"Well, Heath Joker was amazing! Hands down! He was so scary whereas Nicholsan Joker was just some lame typical villain playing dressup!"

- In response to that, I'd like to first appoint how much of an idiot you are, and how much more of an idiot you could get by saying that. Nicholsan's Joker was even more trickier. "Hey, shake my hand, wait--- HAHAHAH THIS GUY IS FRIED"

Would Heath's Joker trick people like that? Tch... no, all he would do is talk about some bitch ass story about his past. Joker is not supposed to talk about his shit in public. In fact, the only person he has told is Batman and Harley Quinn.

Jack Nicholsan's Joker laughing at your ass being tossed around and tricked is much more pressuring and better yet, fearful. You'd think to yourself, "This guy's laughing at me dieing, holy shit, what if I get him mad? I don't know what to do... holy shit what is running through his mind? If I get him mad, he could torture me slowly and alive for all I know!! This guy doesn't look like he wants money.. it looks like he wants to... oh hell I don't even know what he wants to do to me but I sure wouldn't like it."

Heath's Joker holding a knife at you, you'd just think "Okay, this guy has the makeup, he looks psychotic, he dresses messy, I mean look at his face.... he's surely scary. I think he's like a terrorist or something. What does he want from me? If I get him angry, he'll probably just shoot me to a quick death What does he want, my money? I got money if he wants it"

Dark Knight's Joker sucked. I'm gonna be blunt. And I'm 17, I'd like to announce that I am NOT TRYING to blend in and be all hip n' cool and say Heath was better because everybody else thinks so.

Dark Knight sucked in general... great effects and weapons but it lacked Batman's essence. Even the Batman: The Animated Series was better.

However, I think Mark Hamill's Joker was the best of them all, with the perfect laugh and voice.

Jack Nicholson was the best ever! Those of you who tend to disagree are so uncultured and will go for the newest thing just to appear hip and cool! Heath just played the part of a psycho, and flaunted it; whereas, Jack plaid the part of a person who viewed himself as normal and took himself very seriously (as evident in his vanity) and thought the world that he lived in grotesque world and felt that it was his mission to improve upon it. However, it was well know before his transformation into the Joker that he was an "A-1 Nut Boy" something that he could deal with until somebody pushed him into that "vat of chemicals" which transformed him, which gave his madness a landing strip.

When he, Jack, barged into the Guggenheim..cough, Flugelheim improving the paintings, it was his way furthering his ambitions in a symbolic way that he would change the world into what he deemed as "abnormal" to "normal". His arrogance and vanity, which was the heart of his insanity, would eventually under mind his high IQ at the end before almost bringing Gotham to its knees. As anyone who watched this 20 year old flick, Ol' Bats and Vick came very close to becoming pavement meat.

If Jack Nicholson plaid the scarecrow back in '89, he would still be incorrectly analyzed and deemed less of an actor in comparison to the actor who portrayed the "Scarecrow" so horribly in "Batman begins".

None of these characters in the new so call rebooted "Batman" movies have any real motives and are placed in the films for fan expectations which somtimes can lead to trying to please everyone, but instead noone . However, Nolan's interpretation should be compared with Schumacher's rather than Burtons! Burton wanted to reinvent, whereas, the other side show phonies had other plans. Schumacher wanted to camp things up which destroyed the Batman movie franchise, and Nolan just went through a bunch of super hero movie scripts and replaced the characters with ones from the Batman comics, but lacked creativity in his portrayal of them. Both of his movies are so lame that a Danny Elfmanesque score would fall completely flat. And the music for these new "Batman" movies were just too somber and further sucked the life out of the movies.

Anyone could have played heath's Joker! The makeup and acting was horrible! I think it was just an ego trip for him that he could even attempt to hold a candle stick to "Jack Nicholson". Jack jumped over that candlestick by the way. But in the end, it was God who decided who plaid the best "Joker'! However, though "The Dark Knight" is considered Ledger's tombstone and legacy as an actor, I am sure not only will it fade as people start waking up against things that suck (like the new Star Wars and Jonesy movies) which I think Heath and these two "Crapman" movies can be included in this lot, but he won't be immortalized with "He outdone Nicholson's Joker", but instead we'll eventually be accustomed to " we just wanted to see this movie because the guy who played the Joker in it died before it came out" That's what all of the kiddies are saying! ... Whoop dee dooo! I think that Heath was a far superior thespian in his portrayal as a adulterous homosexual instead.

Jack Nicholson would have probably faded away for not his excellent performance from 20 years ago that generation "Why", and some detractors from generation "Hex" cannot celebrate because these are the people who have no concept of fun other than playing "Crock Box" all day. And they think that they know everything because the Internet has turned everyone into critics, journalist and film stars. At least Jack's arrogance is inspirational and not putrid. Uhhhhh! This society needs an enima...tooot!

Heath Ledger did a good job as an alternate Joker. No doubt that he did an excellent job. But the joker is a character that is very well explained and understood.
The joker, according to Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the creators of the character, is a diabolically comical, prop-carrying murderer, constant laughing murderer.
Jack Nicholson's Joker, even though lavish and attention grabbing, tends to keep to himself and not speak too much of his life or complain, which is what psychopaths do, they keep their private lives to themselves. Ledger's Joker is too bitchy: "You know how I got these scars? Well, my father took a knife, and he was beating my mother one night" Yada yada yada. He sounds like a Maury episode. He is too serious. Too terrorist influenced with the putting bombs all over the place in hospitals and too “SAW” influenced with putting people in ships and forcing them to see who will blow the other up. Nicholson's Joker tried to kill a large amount of people with a carnival parade and balloons and music, more clownish. At the end of the 1989 movie, when Batman had the Joker cornered on the tower, he pulls out nerd glasses and says: "you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses would you?" joke-cracking till the end. What does Ledger do at the end when Batman captures him? He starts rambling some inner-reflective consciousness bull about how he and Batman are actually alike and bla bla bla. Not the Joker. And Nicholson's "boxing-glove gun" when he hits the TV, he even had funny dangerous props. That is the real joker. Not some emo complaining psycho “I miss mommy” child services case.