While it’s true that cliffhangers are much more common on television given the format’s serialized nature, there’s been several iconic films that absolutely gut-punched us with brutal cliffhanger endings and left us desperate to find out what happens next. Some of those endings ultimately wound up being more punishing than others (I am of course referring to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which teased a superhero fight involving Paul Giamatti in a giant mechanical rhino suit that we never got to see), but each one knocked us flat on our backs with anticipation for the resolution. …