“That’s an old argument among webnerds, but any bitchery in that regard should be directed at the casting director and the movie director. They wanted a Jack Nicholson-style Joker, and what better way to achieve that?”

Unless you worked on the movie during casting you can’t really say that definitively. Jack Nicholson couldn’t have played that part any other way.

The new one is just a better script. And so far it looks like it’s a better movie.