Batman was actually first given the "film" treatment as far back as the 1940s. 1943 and 1949 both saw 15-chapter film serials released starring the Dark Knight and then, in 1966, Adam West reprised his role from the joyfully camp television series for the first theatrically released Batmovie. Popular as it was, it would then be more than twenty years before another was released. 1989 brought the first of Tim Burton's two Batman movies - and the first of those that most people are familiar with today. Batman Returns followed it in 1992, with Joel Schumacher taking over directorial duties in 1995's Batman Forever and 1997's Batman and Robin. Eight years later Batman Begins, the first of Christopher Nolan's brilliant The Dark Knight Trilogy, was released, with The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises following in 2008 and 2012 respectively. All of those films have fairly definitive conclusions, but fans like to come up with their own theories about what actually went on in them. And, shockingly, some of them would actually make the movies better. This article is going to take a look at some of those theories and assess just how well they would actually improve their respective movies.
