Best Jack Nicholson film.

[silverlining]

Cuckoo's Nest is a great film but for me The Shining is an easy choice from the ones I have seen which is most but not all.

One of my favourite films and he is great in it.

 

Mars Attacks! very unlucky to miss out.

 

Always found it quite interesting that King famously hated Jack's performance in The Shining, because he felt the whole point of the story was a man slowly losing his sanity to a malevolent, haunted place.

 

And King's observation was that Nicholson looked fucking deranged from the very beginning, which I do have some sympathy with, even if I do think it's a great film and a great performance.

 

It's also telling how many films he has been very good in, but I have never really wanted to watch twice.

And quite a few - like Prizzi's Honour, Chinatown, Reds, The Two Jakes, Witches Of Eastwick, Ironweed, The Bucket List etc - that I have never even wanted to watch once, and haven't.

 

I'd probably go for OFOTCN, but he's pretty amazing in The Pledge too, especially his last 10 minutes or so as he goes totally mad.

 

But I do agree that he is very often simply playing versions of Jack. No bad thing though, my favourite actor of all time is Clint Eastwood, and he's always a version of Clint Eastwood.

[Sut]

Anyone who is a fan of Nicholson should try to read Easy Riders, Raging Bulls about Hollywood in the seventies. He's one of the major characters in the book.

[The Flâneur]

Being that Chinatown is probably the most masterbated upon screenplay of all times, that one.

[grazywalker]

Performance wise I just thought he was fuckin ace in A Few Good Men . That scene in the coutroom when he realises he is losing and just does not know how do react to it and goes into that speeach is just brilliant

[Lee909]

No love for the Joker.

I know his performance was surpassed by Ledgers in many ways but he was excellent for me.

It's hard to compare both performances because of how the characters were written.

 

 

A few good men was excellent aswell.

[polymerpunkah]

Chinatown is a great movie, not so much because of Nicholson's performance, which is excellent, but because it's a great story, well-told.

 

Nicholson actually plays the straight man for all the eccentric characters he bumps into.

 

If you haven't seen it, you're missing one of the best movies ever made IMO.

[Mendoza]

Fuck

 

Jack Nicholson 'retires from acting due to memory loss' | Film | theguardian.com

[Josef Svejk]

Shame.

 

Since I didn't vote earlier, I'd say The Pledge is a very good shout. I love About Schmidt, too.

 

That's apart from the earlier classics, of course: Chinatown etc.

[Champ]

Fuck

 

Jack Nicholson 'retires from acting due to memory loss' | Film | theguardian.com

 

'Apparently.' Although, at 76, realistically, he cant have too many more years of work ahead of him. Someone mentioned David Attenborough the other day...these people shouldnt get frail and die

[PestiRed]

Best films with Jack Nicholson in them - Chinatown, Postman Always Rings Twice, The Departed, Easy Rider and The Shining

 

Films that are only watchable because Jack Nicholson does a "Jack Nicholson" performance in them - Witches of Eastwick, Anger Management, Batman

[Carvalho Diablo]

Best films with Jack Nicholson in them - Chinatown, Postman Always Rings Twice, The Departed, Easy Rider and The Shining

 

Films that are only watchable because Jack Nicholson does a "Jack Nicholson" performance in them - Witches of Eastwick, Anger Management, Batman

 

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

[VladimirIlyich]

While it wasnt exactly his best,I really enjoyed him in The Bucket List.

[Bjornebye]

The best film he was in is The Departed

 

His best performance however is One Flew Over the FF (Cuckoo's nest)

 

Also think he was boss in a few good men.

[Lee909]

The best film he was in is The Departed

 

His best performance however is One Flew Over the FF (Cuckoo's nest)

 

Also think he was boss in a few good men.

 

If you like yhe Departed, you should watch the original Infernal Affairs.

[The Golden Eel]

Chinatown by a short head from The Shining, but that may be different tomorrow depending on how the mood takes me

[Bobby Hundreds]

Easy rider his stoner performance. Though its not cool or iconic in as good as it gets he was fucking great.

 

Oh and nicholsons joker pisses all over heath ledgers, for me the only satisfaction I got from ledgers performance was that I knew he was dead.

[PestiRed]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

 

Good shout, how did I forget that?

[Stickman]

How come no one has mentioned his singing performance as the doctor in Tommy????...

 

Ok if not that then it has to The Cuckoo's Nest which for me towers over his other great performances......

[Paul]

Chinatown ever so slightly over Cuckoo's Nest for me. It's one of his most restrained performances in an absolutely genius film.

[kalasoma]

Chinatown is an excellent film. Nicholson is brilliant in it.

Jack Nicholson is iconic and brilliant in Cuckoo's Nest. Cuckoo's Nest is an excellent film. But his performance in this movie just edges it. It was a tough choice. I thought about voting for the Shining too.

[Mook]

"Where do you suppose she lives?"

[lifetime fan]

Recorded that and FMJ last night.

 

The wife is going to learn what a good film actually is tonight.

[Mook]

One flew over the cuckoo's nest towers over every other film ever made as far as I'm concerned, an absolute masterpiece.

[Shitty Arse]

One flew over the cuckoo's nest towers over every other film ever made as far as I'm concerned, an absolute masterpiece.

I agree.

It's my favourite film of all time. A masterpiece.

[lifetime fan]

Won all 5 top Oscars iirc.

 

Best film.

Best Actor.

Best Actress.

Best Director &

Best Screenplay.