10 Movies That Had The Balls To Do It Better (AND WANTED YOU TO KNOW)

When it came to adapting the back-half of the final Twilight book, Breaking Dawn, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg was faced with a major conundrum.

You see, Stephenie Meyer's novel ends on something of an anti-climax, eschewing the expected final battle between the Cullens, their allies, and the villainous Volturi entirely.

Well aware that this idea simply wouldn't work cinematically, Rosenberg came up with a rather ingenious compromise - staging a final battle that's simply a premonition of what could happen if the Volturi didn't back down.

At the end of Breaking Dawn - Part 2, we witness a shockingly brutal final "battle" with numerous grotesque casualties on both sides, typically of characters who actually survived to the novel's end.

But at the end of the fight, we pull back and learn that Alice (Ashley Greene) was simply showing the vision to Volturi honcho Aro (Michael Sheen), in turn causing him to walk away and ensure the battle never happens.

Though to non-readers it likely felt like a cheap cop-out, it was actually a pretty smart way for the movie to effectively admit that the novel's climax was thunderously lame and offer up something a bit more exciting - even if it never actually transpires in reality.

Granted, the truly ballsy thing would've been having the final fight play out for real, but that also would've seen literal riots in cinemas worldwide.