17 Movie & TV Payoff Moments That Paid Off Jack Squat

Sometimes Hollywood leaves you hanging in a big way.
17 Movie & TV Payoff Moments That Paid Off Jack Squat

Movies and shows are all about big moments. Entire story arcs (and sometimes even cinematic trailers) are about building to a big, satisfying fight scene, or confrontation, or other amazing moment. The thing is, sometimes that huge buildup results in a literally anticlimactic moment that leaves you feeling ripped off.

We asked our readers to tell us about the most disappointing, overhyped climaxes in Hollywood history. And gave cash to our favorite examples.

Oh, right: Spoiler Alert.

WHEN THE KRAKEN IS RELEASED IN CLASH OF THE TITANS, IT IS GIVEN A LENGTHY AND MENACING OPENING SEQUENCE EXCEPT INSTEAD OF THERE BEING AN INTENSE BATTL
17 Movie & TV Payoff Moments That Paid Off Jack Squat
17 Movie & TV Payoff Moments That Paid Off Jack Squat
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17 Movie & TV Payoff Moments That Paid Off Jack Squat
Breaking Dawn: Part 2 worked up to an epic battle. Vampires decapitate one another and a wolf eats a chick. Cue collective sigh as the audience realiz
A L IENS At the end of THIS TIME I'S WAR Aliens, I was SO STOKED to see what the next filn would do with the AS SSTERNEY EME M BER :080W CARRLL EUTER
CRACKEDcO SUPERNATHRAERI RNATURAUPER Amara, also known as The Darkness, is one of the most powerful evil beings in the show, capable of fatally woundi
In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Supreme Leader Snoke is supposed to be a master of the Dark Side and a mind reader: Yet Kylo Ren kills him before he gets
CRACKED COM At the end of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, the remaining characters are trapped inside a house, surrounded by flocks of killer birds. How
All the marketing campaigns for Iron Man 3 indicated Tony Stark would be facing one of his biggest enemies, The Mandarin. Even teasing the 10 Rings of
CRACKED.COM Sleepless in Seattle We spend the whole movie waiting for the two main characters to meet. Not only is their meeting disappointingly brief
If you watched The Grey trailer and were stoked to see Liam Neeson punch a wolf to death, you might be disappointed. The film ends just as Neeson and
Near the end of Alita: Battle Angel, we see Alita rising through the ranks in Motorball to seek revenge against Nova, who killed her boyfriend Hugo. A
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Kill Bill builds the tension between Beatrix Kiddo and Bill over the course of two films. It ends with a battle that lasts a few seconds. Kiddo uses t
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