Jack was dead on with what role? The role of the joker in the original batman is not how the joker is. The joker doesn’t crack jokes and laugh like an idiot and wear tons of makeup and goofy outfits and have “bang flag” guns.
The real joker was demented and psychotic. He is a deceiftul backstabber, and will kill anyone who even as so much looks at him wrong. Oh, and he doesn’t become obsessed with women. Hell in the first 5 minutes of the new movie, he off’s 5 or 6 guys that are aiding him in the bank robbery. His smile isn’t from a toxic chemical spill but rather him cutting the sides of his mouth open.
Jack Nicholson can not be attributed to the franchises success (or lack thereof). Tim Burton made great films, and always will. Did you notice how retarded they got after Batman Returns? It’s not because Nicholson wasn’t in it…