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Rank your top 5 Jack Nicholson characters

Posted on 10/19/18 at 6:34 am
Posted by BranchDawg
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Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 10/19/18 at 6:34 am
Mine would go:

1. Col. Nathan R. Jesup (A Few Good Men)
2. Melvin Udall (As Good as It Gets)
3. Joker (Batman)
4. Jack Torrence (The Shining)
5. Randle McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Also, feel free to make this a Jack Nicholson gif thread. That's honestly my goal here anyway.

Posted by Eric Nies Grind Time
Member since Sep 2012
25506 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 7:19 am to
Dang...top 5 Nicholson is tough. He has the best top 10 of any actor ever.

1. Shining
2. Cuckoo's Nest
3. Five Easy Pieces
4. A Few Good Men
5. As Good as It Gets

Tempted to put Chinatown...because that is my favorite movie of all time but left it off. Left off Joker because I think maybe Ledger's performance knocks it down a tiny bit.
Posted by TIGERSTORM
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Member since Feb 2009
4830 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 7:23 am to
Chinatown
A Few Good Men
Cuckoo's Nest
Shining
Hoffa

Narrowing it down to just 5 was hard. I picked Hoffa but could easily have another 3 or 4 there.
Posted by bluestem75
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2007
5102 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 7:26 am to
What is there to rank? He always plays a version of himself either manic or non-manic.
Posted by madmaxvol
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Member since Oct 2011
22140 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 7:52 am to
1. Randal McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2. Garrett Breedlove (Terms of Endearment)
3. Jack Torrance (The Shining)
4. J.J. Gittes (Chinatown)
5. Frank Costello (The Departed)
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
76185 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 7:58 am to
jesup
joker
torrence
mcmurphy
hoffa
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
23241 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 8:29 am to
What? No love for President James Dale?

Posted by Major Dutch Schaefer
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Posted on 10/19/18 at 8:47 am to
quote:

feel free to make this a Jack Nicholson gif thread




Posted by Baloo
Formerly MDGeaux
Member since Sep 2003
49645 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 9:38 am to
Not by quality of movie, just quality of Jack:

Nathan Jessep (A Few Good Men)
Daryl van Horne (Witches of Eastwick)
JJ Gittes (Chinatown)
Frank Costello (The Departed)
McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Posted by BRich
Old Metairie
Member since Aug 2017
2972 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 10:12 am to
1. Jake Gittes (Chinatown AND The Two Jakes -- love how he gets to be the same character many years later)

2. Randle McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
3. Jack Torrance (The Shining)
4. George Hanson (Easy Rider)

5. Robert Eroica Dupea (Five Easy Pieces)

Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
27322 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 10:16 am to
How is B.A. Buddusky not on here:

"I hate this frickin' detail!"
Posted by The Midnight Rider
Where the River Empties
Member since May 2015
1576 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 10:40 am to
quote:

Rank your top 5 Jack Nicholson characters

1) Jack Torrance
2) The Joker
3) Colonel Nathan Jessup
4) R.P. McMurphy
5) Frank Costello
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
76185 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 10:42 am to
quote:

Chinatown


that knife to the nostril thing....
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
42244 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 1:04 pm to
quote:

He has the best top 10 of any actor ever.


Eh. That's definitely debatable.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
42244 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 1:08 pm to
JJ Gittes is #1 for me. But just going through his filmography, there aren't nearly as many movies of his that I really like than I thought there was.
Posted by bee Rye
New orleans
Member since Jan 2006
34571 posts
Posted on 10/19/18 at 7:16 pm to
quote:

Eh. That's definitely debatable.


I’d have to debate on whether or not he makes the top 10 of top 10’s
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