10 Infuriating Movie Endings That Pissed Fans Off

2. Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008)

With Harrison Ford returning to the beloved Indiana Jones series, in 2008's Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the furore reached pitch fever as the excitement emulated the tone and fervour of the masses who had queued in anticipation nearly a decade earlier for the return of another (similarly fated) George Lucas franchise.

Though the film coined the term 'nuking the fridge' (a reference to The Fonz's infamous 'jumping the shark' sequence in Happy Daze) as a new way to denote the point when a film series hits its lowest point, it was the ending that drew the most ire and sent some of the most dedicated fans packing. In the tomb of the titular crystal skull, its owner reanimates and all hell breaks loose in the form of thirteen aliens, a flying saucer and an inter-dimensional portal.

Audiences generally lost their minds over the out-of-this-world nature of this conclusion, suffering a wilful amnesia that allowed them to forget the Ark of the Covenant ghosts and immortal Grail Knight seen in the series' prior entries.

Granted, the supernatural elements of the series were traditionally more of an Earth-bound, historical magic, treading closer in tone to fantasy than science fiction, but for all the film's faults (including questionable CGI and Shia Labeouf), it was not a bad effort all round.

Nonetheless, with another Jones entry on the horizon - and Lucas, Ford and Spielberg on board once again - the whips are indubitably being wound tight.