I like it like I like it.

Do or do not, there is no try - so saith Yoda.  I agree.  If you're going to make a movie, then don't try to make a movie, make a movie with a beginning, middle, and an end.  Otherwise kindly turn your video camera off and listen up.  I've noticed a lot of movies lately shying away from any sort of finality.  Even movies as great as Inception suffer from it, as the top spins at the end and fades to black, maybe she's in a dream still, maybe not.  Most of the time, I want a movie to end with something that amounts to "TADA!" I want the film maker to tell me his or her story; I don't need to feel like I have to supply the ending because the one provided was sufficiently ambiguous as to be able to be taken various ways. 

Ultimately, I want to judge a film.  In order to do so, I need the Titanic to sink and Jack to die so the story can move on to its terminal point.  Perhaps my preference for story finality is one of the key reasons I love the Lord of the Rings trilogy so much.  Now there is an ending worth talking about.  Hell, truly there are about 27 endings in LotR - pretty much every mouse that farted somewhere in Middle Earth got a send-off into the sunset of sorts in the last installment.  They don't always have to be triumphant, happy endings either.  I can cope with Scorsesian "everyone dies in the last 2 minutes of the flick" sort of endings just as well. 

This whole issue is not limited to movies either.  Most long time fans of The Sopranos were, like me, more than a bit frustrated at how the series "ended" after 6 seasons.  Does Tony end up dead? Jailed? Does he live happily ever after?  You sure won't get a clue from the series finale.  Resolution, people!  The next time I'm sitting on the edge of my seat with a bowl half full of popcorn and the screen fades to black and the credits start to roll without any resolution, there will be hell to pay!