10 Perfect Movie Endings That Sequels Ruined

10. Terminator 3 Makes The Victory In Terminator 2 Meaningless

Directed twelve years after T2, helmed by a journeyman director, and featuring a lead whose best days were long gone, T3 isn€™t entirely awful - it€™s just entirely pointless. The established universe of the first two Terminator films was simple, clean, and effective. There may have been some obvious logic problems with the universe (why not just go get John Connor€™s grandparents?) but if you ignored these then the stakes were high and the film resolved the loose ends beautifully. There was some great sequences right at the end of T2 featuring Arnold and Edward Furlong that flirted with the questions of what constitutes humanity, and at the same time Judgement Day was avoided in a way that made sense. It was pretty much perfect science fiction filmmaking. In T3, though, it was revealed that the ending of T2 was all for nought, and in fact the Judgment Day that everyone was fighting to prevent was simply €˜inevitable€™. This is a jarring revelation because it means that the final scenes of T2 (well of the whole movie in fact) were meaningless. It didn€™t help that this shocking piece of news is also uttered in some of the clunkiest dialogue ever delivered in a major motion picture. Even though T3 made a profit, it has to be asked - was the money worth ruining the legacy of a film that finished as perfectly as T2? Fans would probably say no. Executives would probably say yes.