10 Films That Should Have Ended Ten Minutes Earlier

10. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2

It's all ended. Harry's beaten Voldemort in an epic wand-fire fight and the wizarding world is free. It's the end of an ten year, eight film journey. Harry snaps the elder wand and he and his friends stare off into the distance. Just imagine what adventures these guys will get up to now they're not tied down to chasing MacGuffins each year.

Imagine no longer. The final scene of the Harry Potter series shows a grown up Harry, Ron and Hermione sending their own kids off to Hogwarts. To fans who are heavily invested in the series then it's a brilliantly emotional ending (hearing Leaving Hogwarts spark up at the end is tear-jerking), but in terms of the film itself it feels rather tacked on. Compared to the chapter in the books on which this is based, it's rather slight, providing none of the insight into the characters that Rowling's ending did, making it nothing more than a bit of good old emotive manipulation.

The real problem is the ageing of early-twenties actors; even for a series that reaches back to more plastic days of CGI it looks unrealistic. You can argue the scene should be in the film because it was in books, but given how varied the series got as an adaptation (Ariana who?) one more scene removed wouldn't have really hurt.