9 Movies So Annoying They Lose You In The First 60 Seconds

Make no mistake, it has never been harder to keep hold of the average movie-watcher's attention.

That's why a great many of the big-screen blockbuster offerings being pumped into theatres nowadays waste very little time getting right into the thick of the action, throwing a jaw-dropping set-piece or unforeseen swerve at their paying audience out of the gates as a way of forcing them to sit up and take notice.

In the case of these particular flicks, however, instead of making film fans salute and giddy about the prospect of what was to come, the opening minute of action did little more than entirely p*ss off or frustrate those in attendance.

Either due to an entirely unwanted sudden death being pumped into the mix in next to no time or simply exposing crowds to a certain ill-advised effect that quickly left them wishing they'd paid to see something else, these films were lucky to hang onto their viewers in the wake of some highly annoying opening sequence occurrences.

From cult hits that skip over and ignore a rather notable absence from the get-go, to opening crawls that left eyes a-rollin' within seconds, these are those movies that ticked off a lot of fine folks in around a minute flat.

By the time the most recent attempt to steer the Terminator franchise in a new direction properly got underway - after Sarah Connor's intense Judgment Day warning to humanity and the sight of machines storming a beach, of course - fans found themselves being treated to a 1998 flashback involving Linda Hamilton's leading lady and her son John; brought to life by combining Edward Furlong's facial likeness with Jude Collie's body.

Only, far from this being a pleasant trip down memory lane with two digitally-altered Terminator icons at a beach bar, it took less than a minute for Sarah's peaceful reality to be completely massacred by a T-800.

Leaving jaws dangling the world over and many fans - and even Furlong himself - somewhat annoyed at the speed of his demise, the apparent saviour of the human race was quickly dispatched by another version of Arnie's unstoppable machine.

Sure, this definitely gripped fans before they'd even had a chance to properly get comfortable in their seats. But cutting down such a pivotal figure from the franchise so soon into a flick that promised to be a continuation of those first two beloved Terminator tales was always destined to brass off many, as Hamilton herself noted early on.