10 Crazy Movie Endings You Didn't Believe

9. The Dark Knight Rises

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Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy is held up on a pedestal by so many, with Christian Bale's Batman the Batman for a generation of film fans.

The thing is, despite how fantastic all three of those movies are, the closing moments of the trilogy left moviegoers frustrated and in disbelief at how this iconic trilogy came to an end.

Given how Nolan's triumvirate of Bat pictures had been constructed to be as based in reality as possible, the ending of The Dark Knight Rises slapped its audience across the face with how the film expected us all to just nod and agree with what we'd seen.

It was ridiculous enough that Bale's Caped Crusader could possibly get a nuclear bomb far enough away from Gotham in time to not decimate the city, but then we're meant to believe that Batman had somehow managed to eject himself from the Batwing and still be alive.

Fast forward to poor, overworked Alfred finally getting to take a vacation to Florence, and there we have a smug and alive Bruce Wayne, who doesn't even mutter any sort of apology to his long-time father figure. But even that's not it for The Dark Knight Rises, for we're then expected to swallow the notion that Bruce was happy to hand over the entire Batcave and its toys to John Blake - a fella he'd only just met.

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