10 Movie Cliffhangers Nobody Cared About

10. Baby Godzilla Hatches - Godzilla (1998)

Sony originally had very high hopes for Roland Emmerich's 1998 Godzilla film, which they envisioned as the first entry into an epic blockbuster trilogy.

Assuming it turned a hefty profit, of course.

To that end, Godzilla '98 ended with a rather lousy setup for a sequel, where following Godzilla's death, a single one of its eggs is revealed to have survived in the ruins of Madison Square Garden. In the final shot, the egg hatches.

As cliffhangers go, it's pretty damn lazy, basically suggesting that a sequel would restore the status quo with another 'Zilla running rampant. Perhaps had we seen a few surviving creatures hatch, hyping up a sequel with way more giant monsters, this might've better energised audiences.

Instead, following Godzilla's underperformance at the box office, Sony opted not to proceed with a sequel. Instead, the storyline was picked up in the Godzilla animated series, which while better-received by fans, struggled to find an audience due to competing with both Pokémon and Digimon.