Nicholson's best ?
I only know that it's very underrated...
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yes the movie is underrated but its not Jack's best
8/10 for this film
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I watched this film again the other day for perhaps the fourth time in my life and once again tried to understand it. I still can't. I get that Jack swapped identities with a dead man and the police and his wife caught up with him, but I never understood why he did what he did, what the purpose of the girl was, and whether she was on his side or whether she set him up. It is still not clear to me. However, the scenery is wonderful, the direction is brilliant and the acting is amazing. It's not one of Jack's best films but it's definitely worth watching because it does make you think in the end. (by the way a lot of Jack's films are slightly confusing. Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, The Border, The Pledge.) FEP and Chinatown are both wonderful films, though. Don't watch The Pledge, not even Jack could make that film good.
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his best movie is easy rider, i think
the passenger and shining are good too
i think he's great in this. one of antonioni's best too.
sharePassenger is up there.
I don't understand why Nicholson thinks the Joker is his other best performance. It's great, but The Shining is so much better! I would personally nominate Passenger or Chinatown to go along with The Shining instead of Batman.
After all, it was the Shining which introduced a new kind of "movie monster," a new kind of insanity, which was never repeated by Jack, but opened the door for him to begin playing a stock insanity character which is still prevalent today. Jack often plays roles of insanity, and Batman was one of these- while it was good, fun, and deliciously dark as Tim Burton's characters often are, I just don't see how it holds a candle to The Shining.
Jack likes The Passenger and really likes Antonioni. He did not like Stanley Kubrick, or at least he did not enjoy working with him because Kubrick was harsh and merciless to achieve his vision- I think this is why Jack doesn't give The Shining its due credit as his finest performance...because the experience was miserable. MIserable experiences are often what lead to an artist's best work, I think.
Of course not his best, though he does a tough job. The problem is the director Antonioni who uses top actors, but fails to deliver himself. I think it is a good movie, but could have been better (7/10).
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It's among Jack's top five best films. For me, The Passenger gets better each time I see it.
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Nicholson's best movie and one of his best performances :).
shareYes, his very best movie.
As for his best performance...nah, that belongs to One Flew.
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