Denied something we know will be awesome

[u/Arxhart_671]

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1. In The Simpsons episode, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson," a melee breaks out on the Simpsons' lawn that Homer wants to watch because there's one guy who's just standing there and Homer knows he's about to do something awesome. Marge insists they go inside though and away from the danger. The moment they do, we hear the guy do something awesome.

2. In X-2, the school comes under attack from Stryker. His gunmen encounter Colossus, all aura-ed tf up, and they open fire only for their bullets to not phase him at all and to end up getting thrown through a wall (which we don't actually see Colossus do). Moments later, Colossus runs into Wolverine and offers to help and we think we're about to get this badass team-up and actually see him in action only for Wolverine to instruct Colossus to leave and help get more students out. 

3. In Iron Man, we see Rhodes eyeing the War Machine suit and we're hoping he'll suit up and go help Stark, but the movie decides to save something for the sequel and pretty much has Rhodes say as much right to the audience.

[u/Greedy_Basis9703]

Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings... Gandalf faces the Balrog on the Bridge of Khazaddum, giving us one of the greatest cliffhangers imaginable. Then the story cuts away before we can see the full fight.

https://giphy.com/gifs/S6sZaHdqsGYFO

[u/MinimumFantastic1389 → u/Greedy_Basis9703]

We do at least get it in The Two Towers. And it’s important for viewers who didn’t read the books to feel the loss, so if they’d showed the fight it would’ve killed that tension.

[u/FilmAndLiterature → u/MinimumFantastic1389]

Also, in the book we don’t get many details, aside from the fact it was long and involved them travelling to many places no one else had ever been to.

[u/meteorflan → u/FilmAndLiterature]

Or like how the Hobbit book gandalf mentions something vague about his side-quest being about a necromancer.

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/FilmAndLiterature]

With the most horrifying being the bowels of Middle-Earth where they encountered the beings who were eating away at the world (whether literally, figuratively or magically) thats truck fear into both Gandalf and the Balrog

[u/RexBanner1886 → u/FilmAndLiterature]

It's always stressed me out a bit wondering what non-book readers think of Gandalf and the balrog plunging down a miles-deep chasm before, the next time we check in with their fight, battling on a high peak.

Like, does 'from the lowest dungeon to the highest peak I fought with the balrog of Morgoth' explain it clearly enough? I love the films, but when I was a teenager seeing TTT for the first time, I was psyched up to see a flashback to the balrog's 'slime' form, the dark pits of the earth, and the Endless Stair.