10 Movies That Should've Scrapped Their Opening Scene

Terminator: Dark Fate obliterated the interest of many fans in record time, when it opened with a flashback sequence where young resistance leader John Connor (Edward Furlong) is shot dead by another T-800 Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent back in time by Skynet, before his mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton) can do anything to intervene.

To take the character around which the entire Terminator franchise revolves and murder him in cold blood in the movie's first three minutes was a bold but ultimately misguided decision, and left a sour taste in fans' mouths for the entire rest of the film.

Now granted, so much of Dark Fate is ultimately about John's death and the impact it has on both Sarah and the wider future, but director Tim Miller could've been a little more tactful about how he wrote John out.

One option would've been revealing John's death much later in the film, after which audiences would've hopefully been on board with the overall vision, or better yet, having John simply be missing in action, leaving his overall fate ambiguous.

Instead, killing John in the very first scene ensured that Dark Fate dripped with cynicism, literally terminating its beloved hero and then speedily attempting to replace him with a new future Resistance leader, Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes). 

While many fans wish the entire movie had been scrapped, it didn't have to be this way if the film wasn't so aggressively intent on wiping John Connor off the map.