I need to know about Batman and movies

[andrewducker]

Last night Julie ended up catching 2/3 of Pretty Woman, and then came and told me how much she disliked the plot. And then we discussed it, and the most fun solution to improving it was to make the male millionaire a young Bruce Wayne. Because if you're going to make a silly white knight story in which a woman is saved from a terribly life, you might as well have her saved by Batman (and have him learn that he could do positive things for society with his money, as well as beating up thugs).

Which left me wondering - what other movies would be improved by replacing one of the characters with Batman?

And what, if any, movies would be made much worse if you made the male character Batman?

Comments

[altamira16]

I am not sure if I ever saw When Harry Met Sally, but I am pretty sure that it could be worse if Harry was Batman. Sleepless in Seattle would also probably be worse with Batman. I never saw Forrest Gump, but I think it would be worse if Forrest was Batman. Can you think of any Tom Hanks movie that would be better if Tom Hanks was replaced by Batman?

I have never seen Magic Mike, but I am pretty sure that the main character's strip tease would be much better if he was Batman.

Legend might be better if the Tom Cruise fairy, Jack, was replaced by Batman.

Would Labyrinth be better or worse if we replaced the goblin king with Batman? I am not sure how Batman would do the songs, but he could definitely pull off the whole distant and enigmatic aspect of the role.

[dalglir]

Labyrinth with Batman ftw. That would be Epic.

[dalglir]

Aha! This sounds like something akin to Dalglir's Zombie Improvement Index in which films are rated bŷ how much they could be improved with the addition of Fast Zombies.

I like the sound of the Batman Improvment Index better (_everything_ is better with Batman. And bacon.) but would still have to err on the Zombie Improvement Index personally as I particularly like zombie movies.