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18 Movie & TV Payoff Moments That Paid Off Jack Squat

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Movies and shows are all about big moments. Entire story arcs (and sometimes even cinematic trailers) are about building to a big, satisfying fight scene, or confrontation, or other amazing moment. The thing is, sometimes that huge buildup results in a literally anticlimactic moment that leaves you feeling ripped off.

We asked our readers to tell us about the most disappointing, overhyped climaxes in Hollywood history. And gave cash to our favorite examples.

Oh, right: Spoiler Alert.

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WHEN THE KRAKEN IS RELEASED IN CLASH OF THE TITANS, IT IS GIVEN A LENGTHY AND MENACING OPENING SEQUENCE EXCEPT INSTEAD OF THERE BEING AN INTENSE BATTL

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18 Movie & TV Payoff Moments That Paid Off Jack Squat

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You'd think the final battle between the main character and the primary antagonist being led up to over eight films would be pretty epic. Instead, in

18 Movie & TV Payoff Moments That Paid Off Jack Squat

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Boy, I can't wait to see how David Dunn uses his 19 years of crime-fighting experience to take on Mr. Glass and The Horde NICHT GLASS CINEMAS TANAR Ge

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18 Movie & TV Payoff Moments That Paid Off Jack Squat

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Breaking Dawn: Part 2 worked up to an epic battle. Vampires decapitate one another and a wolf eats a chick. Cue collective sigh as the audience realiz

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A L IENS At the end of THIS TIME I'S WAR Aliens, I was SO STOKED to see what the next filn would do with the AS SSTERNEY EME M BER :080W CARRLL EUTER

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Entry by Chan Teik Onn

CRACKEDcO SUPERNATHRAERI RNATURAUPER Amara, also known as The Darkness, is one of the most powerful evil beings in the show, capable of fatally woundi

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In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Supreme Leader Snoke is supposed to be a master of the Dark Side and a mind reader: Yet Kylo Ren kills him before he gets

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CRACKED COM At the end of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, the remaining characters are trapped inside a house, surrounded by flocks of killer birds. How

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All the marketing campaigns for Iron Man 3 indicated Tony Stark would be facing one of his biggest enemies, The Mandarin. Even teasing the 10 Rings of

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CRACKED.COM Sleepless in Seattle We spend the whole movie waiting for the two main characters to meet. Not only is their meeting disappointingly brief

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If you watched The Grey trailer and were stoked to see Liam Neeson punch a wolf to death, you might be disappointed. The film ends just as Neeson and

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Near the end of Alita: Battle Angel, we see Alita rising through the ranks in Motorball to seek revenge against Nova, who killed her boyfriend Hugo. A

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CRACKED CON As the movie is titled Batman V Superman, fans would've expected a huge battle between the two heroes. However the fight lasts less than t

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GOLDFINGER For such an iconic villain, we expected his final showdown with James Bond to be awesome. Nope, Bond just blows open a window on the plane

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Kill Bill builds the tension between Beatrix Kiddo and Bill over the course of two films. It ends with a battle that lasts a few seconds. Kiddo uses t

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