“Jody Foster as Clarice Starling. I particularly love the scene where she looks at Buffalo Bill’s victim and you hear her voice crack during the first part of the description, where she is looking at tiny personal details like painted fingernails, but then go clinical and determined when she sees the wounds on the girl’s back. Playing bad@$$ women often veers either towards emotionless and stalwart, or basically aping a 80s action male role. Foster nailed the emotional vulnerability, ambition, and courage of that character in minute, but profound ways. No one compares.”
I am sure if a different actor landed the role, they would have been just as good in most cases.
Agree. Vast majority here is rubbish
*dissapointment
Pretty sure majority that loves those movies..... did not read the books before the movies came out, if they read them at all.
I liked the movies, but one and done for me, felt too much was missing from the books.
To be fair there were a few actors who really brought the Joker to life for the given time/style/universe of the movie. I think Cesar Romero began it with a very silly/goofy Joker as was the theme of Batman 66', Jack Nicholson brought a more eerily funny take to the role and I think set the standard for who the Joker is. (He also has that naturally creepy smile!) Then you have Heath Ledger who REALLY set the bar high for 'who' the Joker is as opposed to what the Joker does...
But honestly, Joaquin Phoenix's performance as the Joker was down right brilliant. There's scenes when they show extreme close ups of his eyes and you can SEE the pupil dilating/retracting as his emotions change. No question that Heath Ledger went to extremes to get into the role, however at the end of the movie I still saw Joker as just another Batman villain. At the end of 'Joker', I remember I just sat there as the credits rolled... my mind in a state of --- over what I just saw. Absolutely incredible...