10 Movies That Pissed You Off Straight Away

10. John Connor Dies - Terminator: Dark Fate

Terminator: Dark Fate may have received broadly positive reviews from most critics, but the fan response was considerably more vitriolic, and it all stemmed from the movie's arguably sacrilegious opening scene.

The film kicks off in Livingston, Guatemala, where Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and her son John (Edward Furlong) are living the easy life some three years after the events of Terminator 2, where they categorically stopped Judgment Day.

However, the scene quickly turns ugly when the pair are attacked by a T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent back through time by Skynet, which promptly murders John and leaves the scene.

As impressive as the digital de-aging effects throughout the scene are, fans were left furious that John Connor, the future resistance leader whose survival the entire franchise was centered around, was killed off a whole three minutes into this new sequel.

It felt like a betrayal of everything the series was about, and it didn't soothe angry fans that the rest of the film was concerned with introducing a new John Connor surrogate, Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes), clearly intended to replace him as the new protagonist of the franchise.

It spectacularly backfired, of course, as Dark Fate was a colossal box office bomb, killing any prospect of a direct sequel as surely resulted in much fan schadenfreude.