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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 3542067" data-attributes="member: 319">I had huge misgivings about Heath Ledger in the role - and while this shot of Joker hasn't dispelled them, I think it looks great.I have zero interest in yet another movie born entirely out of the director's nostalgia for reading comics while growing up as a kid in the 60s or 70s - there's a big difference between drawing inspiration from something and slavishly copying, and as I didn't grow up reading those comics (in fact, I pretty much got into comics in the last few years, while already in my twenties, as a result of hanging out with a new D&D group containing several bigtime comic geeks), watching them on the big screen in all their corny and cartoonish glory does absolutely nothing for me.Which is why I think what Nolan looks intent on doing - making movies using characters and stories from the comic books rather than making the comic books into movies - is so much better than what Raimi or Singer (after his turn to the dark side last year) have been at.This shot, at least, actually looks like someone who was disfigured in a horrible way, and then embraced it and made it worse by taking on a "clown" persona, rather than someone dressed up like a cartoon character going to a Halloween party, as is too often the case with these movies.</blockquote>