10 Exact Moments That Made Fans Hate Movie Franchises
1. The Final Shot - The Cloverfield Paradox
2008's Cloverfield was never meant to become a franchise, but after J.J. Abrams reworked a script called The Cellar and turned it into 10 Cloverfield Lane, it did just that, spawning a dedicated fanbase in the process.
A second sequel - The Cloverfield Paradox - dropped on Netflix earlier this year, bringing an insane amount of hype along with it. The depth of the Cloverfield universe’s lore is truly remarkable for just a few movies, and fans were understandably excited to see how Paradox would mesh with the first two instalments.
Unfortunately, the movie was bad. Even worse, those major, definitive connections to the wider Cloverfield universe never came. All we got were a few cute easter eggs, and a lazy explanation about a multiverse. This was disappointing, but still, the film's trailer had explicitly promised that fans would get to "find out why" the original film's monster attacked New York, and so - even as Paradox neared its end - there was still hope that we'd get some rock-solid connective tissue to the first movie.
But... we didn't. The final shot of The Cloverfield Paradox is of a single, enormous Cloverfield monster poking its head above the clouds before a cut to black. This creature couldn't possibly be the one from the original film due to its immense size, so essentially, Paradox had baited fans with the promise of answers for 100 minutes straight, only to pull the rug out at the last second and leave us with even more questions than we started with.
Needless to say, people were p****d off. Teasing excited fans and then delivering a tacked-on, ambiguous ending was a sleazy move, and the poor response to Paradox has left the future of the franchise up in the air.
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