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Top 10 Movie Endings That Made Fans Rage Quit


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this list we’re looking at movie endings
that severely alienated their fan bases
we’ll be limiting ourselves to films
that are part of an established
franchise or based on an existing
property there will be spoilers on the
way so consider this your warning number
10
Fantastic Four there’s nothing quite
like watching a bad movie trying to set
up for a sequel fans and critics alike
had many problems with Fox’s second stab
at creating the famous Marvel team most
of which had to do with dialogue
characterization and the film’s villain
know when your world is destroyed and
I’m all that’s left then it will be
enough but a worthwhile ending could
have given audiences a glimmer of hope
and something to look forward to
however that’s not what happened after
an underwhelming CGI battle complete
with a giant light beam in the sky the
team returned to their dimension to soak
in the glory they’re forced and cheesy
camaraderie is bad enough and the lack
of chemistry between the leads just
makes it worse it’s fantastic
yes it is number nine War of the Worlds
this action sci-fi film was eagerly
anticipated by fans of HG Wells classic
novel first adapted for the screen in
1953 and the relentless onslaught of the
big bad alien starts out promising only
enough however when they’re suddenly
killed off by germs it brings the climax
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to top it off the movie inexplicably has
the heroes teenage son show up after
seemingly dying earlier on even
Spielberg himself doesn’t like how the
film wraps up stating quote I never
could figure out how to end that darn
thing while the ending is similar to the
book there are some things that just
worked better on paper from the moment
the invaders arrived breathe out air ate
and drank they were doomed number 8 the
Dark Knight Rises
some fans had problems with the entirety
of the 3rd act in Christopher Nolan’s
Batman finale and while those are valid
concerns it’s the last shot that brings
up the most issues after Bruce
sacrifices himself to save Gotham City
Alfred takes a well-earned vacation to
Florence it’s there that he spots the
very much alive Bruce having lunch and
gives him a knowing smile it’s a nice
callback to an earlier scene but it
completely falls apart once you think
about it how did Bruce survive and isn’t
it entirely improbable that they would
be IPAT restaurant on that specific day
and that specific time we know it feels
more cinematic but it still doesn’t make
any sense I’m sorry
thank you number 7 Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull yeah the
aliens Indiana Jones was never a
stranger to supernatural forces having
encountered face-melting
arcs and chalice guarding ghosts but
when I came to introducing aliens to the
franchise it was a bit too much for some
to handle after finally reaching the
hidden chamber the adventurers returned
the Crystal Skull to its skeleton and
this event conveniently leads to the
death of the villains and the heroes are
able to escape
while Indy had dealt with the strange
and bizarre in the past they were all
steeped in the history of this world and
for many fans the aliens just didn’t fit
with this universe space not into space
into the space between spaces number six
the mist fans of Stephen King’s chilling
novella probably went into this
expecting the same ending but they were
sadly mistaken after being trapped in a
grocery store by horrifying creatures
shrouded in mist David is able to escape
with his son and three others but with
no gas and only four bullets he decides
to shoot them to save them from a
monstrous fate he does so only to have
the military show up moments later to
rescue them while the novella is still
bleak it at least ends with a silver
lining having David in the group
travelling into an unknown future in
search of safety but this this is just
mean and many moviegoers felt cheated
[Applause]
number five I am Legend based on Richard
Matheson’s 1954 novel this film
featuring Will Smith was actually the
third time the book had been adapted dr.
Robert Neville spends his time capturing
and experimenting on the vampiric dark
seekers in search of a cure
the theatrical ending has Neville
sacrificed himself with a grenade to
save Anna Ethan and the cure but in the
alternate ending which is more in line
with the spirit of the book he learns
that the dark seekers are only attacking
Neville because he’s killing them off
and want to protect their own to them
he’s the monster many fans felt that the
theatrical ending was formulaic added
just so the movie could end on a bang
number four Star Wars Episode eight the
last Jedi fear leads to hate and hate
leads to anger but so does a
disappointing ending the infamous
conclusion to the last Jedi divided fans
and had some slamming Disney as the
franchise dark side they criticized
several aspects of Luke’s
characterization but what truly enraged
them was how his story ended with kylo
Ren and his forces bearing down on the
heroes Luke showed up just in time to
distract his former Padawan did you come
back to say you forgive me to save my
soul no the force projection is a neat
trick but also results in the hero’s
demise
many fans argued that this death was
anticlimactic and would have had a much
greater impact had he actually joined
the fight in person
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number three Superman the very first
Superman movie was a hit in 1978 and
showed for the first time that comic
books could be made into successful
films
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but while the movie was well-received
overall the ending was truly baffling as
with Louis dead from an earthquake
Superman flies around the planet in
regardless of the fact that that just
wouldn’t work and would instead cause
more destruction this was never an
ability Superman possessed in the comics
it made no sense and made Superman so
powerful he could just rewrite history
hi don’t bother I think it’s dead number
two Planet of the Apes rebooting a
classic is always going to be tough
especially one with such an iconic
ending in the 1968 film Charlton
Heston’s character discovers that the
titular planet is really earth far in
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tim burton’s adaptation tried to rival
this with a new shocking twist that
makes no sense whatsoever after
defeating general Thade Mark Wahlberg’s
Leo escapes Ashe flower to return to
Earth only to find that the Lincoln
Memorial is now for general Thade
he traveled back to his own time from
the Year 5021 so why is there a monument
to fade
why have apes replaced humans this
ridiculous ending is now infamous giving
20th Century Fox good reason to reboot
the franchise a decade later
before we unveil our topic here are some
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boy you returned for me
winter is coming last y’all gonna come
down there you can kill me yes I’ll be
number one the Matrix Revolutions one
surefire way to disappoint fans is to
completely confuse them which is exactly
what the Wachowski siblings did with
this final installment there are heroic
moments like neo defeating Agent Smith
and the citizens of Zion celebrating the
end of the war but the film closes on
more questions than answers with neo
sacrifice the machines take his body but
what will they do with it why does the
Oracle feel that they’ll see him again
and what about the rest of humanity
still plugged into the matrix sadly none
of these would be answered and a
franchise that started with one of the
most renowned sci-fi films of all time
would end in a muddled mess will we ever
see him again I suspect so
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