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Which Movie Will the Internet Ruin Next?

Critics and moviegoers agree: Terminator Salvation is so bad that seeing it makes one wish he could travel back in time to warn his former self before spending $12 on a ticket. What went wrong? Over the weekend, CHUD’s Devin Faraci wrote a long post expounding on all the changes to the original script, including the scrapping of a much-better ending after a description leaked to the Internet last year and incited a fanboy riot (the director further discusses the the leaked ending with EW here). And since this comes just two months after Watchmen, which allegedly flopped thanks to Zack Snyder’s insistence on appeasing bloggers who demanded he adhere to Alan Moore’s original comic, it’s enough to make one wonder — which massively anticipated 2009 movie will next have its failure blamed on a director listening to people on the Internet?

Iron Man 2
When tweeting director Jon Favreau released the first boring image from the set, the Internet’s displeasure came swiftly and loudly. Days later, a new, more-exciting photo was released. Coincidence? We certainly hope so! Odds of being ruined by Internet: 8 to 1