12 Most Hated Blockbuster Movie Endings

Hand in hand with the first two X-Men movies, Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 were absolutely vital in establishing that big screen superheroes were here to stay in the early 2000s. Unfortunately, both series hit significant stumbling blocks once they reached their third instalment - and there's a particularly bitter sting to Spider-Man 3, as it's the work of the same director who made the excellent first two.

We all know the list of Spider-Man 3's cardinal sins. Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker gets the symbiotic alien black suit, which turns him emo; there are too many villains what with Thomas Haden Church's Sandman, Topher Grace's Venom and James Franco's Harry becoming the new Green Goblin; and for some unfathomable reason it occasionally turns into a musical.

However, where director and co-writer Sam Raimi really screws the pooch is in the conclusion, when - out of nowhere - Harry Osborn's butler, who we've almost never heard speak before, suddenly reveals that the wounds which killed Harry's father Norman Osborn were self-inflicted, meaning that, contrary to what Harry has spent years believing, Spider-Man didn't kill his father.

Never mind the question of how the butler could possibly know that, given he didn't witness the incident and presumably isn't a qualified forensic pathologist; why would he wait two full movies to tell Harry the truth, when he could clearly see that his young master was going Goblin?