10 Infuriating Movie Endings That Pissed Fans Off

Splitting films into multiple parts is not a new practice, and neither was it when Peter Jackson announced a three-part 'trilogy' created from one children's book: The Hobbit. As ill advised as this move may have been, for most fans - and studio execs - another three Middle Earth films was a cinematic mountain full of gold.

The reality, however, left viewers with three bloated, tiresome entries into what was once a franchise composed solely of near-perfect films (The Lord of the Rings trilogy). Book-ended by films which at least had a sense of departure and arrival, The Desolation of Smaug ambled its way towards a conclusion that somehow forgot to include the titular desolation. Bilbo and the dwarves arrive at the Lonely Mountain, chase Smaug around the halls and then watch on as he flies towards Laketown with intentions of destruction.

Nobody expected a conclusion going into the middle chapter of a three-part film, but many fans were unhappy at being short-changed by Ed Sheeran's sweet promises of fire. This sequence was briefly concluded during the opening of 2014's Battle of the Five Armies, but having to wait a another year for this only added fuel to the flames.