8 Sci-Fi Movies Built On A Lie

Obviously, the headline act of the 2014 do-over of Godzilla was the titular King of the Monsters. But still, the pre-release buzz led us all to believe that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson were to be the other main players alongside Big G.

Instead, those no-good sons of b*tches lied to us all by going and killing off Cranston's Joe Brody in the film's opening act.

This was a Bryan Cranston whose star had never shone brighter, with Godzilla hitting cinemas barely six months after the stunning Breaking Bad had come to a close. Cranston had become one of the most familiar faces in the acting world, and so him anchoring Godzilla as a father-son duo with Taylor-Johnson's Ford Brody seemed like a masterstroke.

Not only did killing Cranston's character so ridiculously early in the movie shock audiences, it made viewers feel like they'd had the rug pulled out from under them. And not just that, Aaron Taylor-Johnson didn't have enough presence to hold the film together, with not even an impressive turn from Elizabeth Olsen able to save Godzilla from Taylor-Johnson's painfully wooden performance.