Still prefer that original over the more recent...starting with Nickelson as Joker. Keaton was a better Bruce Wayne than Batman, but I still liked him in the character. More the first edition than the later ones with Jim Carey, DeVito and all. Those seemed to be more focused on bringing box office names in for ticket sales. The first was a very unique cartoonish feel which was cool.
The new ones have many great aspects, but they were too long had a weird cinematic technique I didn’t care for that seemed to draw out the story too long for no reason. The last one in particular.
Heath Ledger had one of the great villain performances of all time in this version of the Joker. I like this series too, and obviously it has much better special effects and such. During the last one I realized how much they stretched these out unnecessarily 2.5-3 hours each
Heath Ledger’s version of The Joker was the only time I ever found the character scary. Nicholson was too campy for my taste.