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You know a movie ending can make all the difference. You might be watching something that is a little weird, maybe you aren't really "getting it" then the movie ends with a flourish and BAM! it was a GREAT movie, you tell your friends to see it. Sometimes the opposite happens. You are into it, you care about the characters, you want them to get what's coming to them. Then bam the credits roll. What?!? Did they live or die? What about the money? That wasn't real was it? That movie is the equivalent of an interesting and elaborate joke who's teller forgets the punchline. That sux.

Why am I telling you this? I was reminded tonight about a movie who's ending (to me) ranks up there with the very best of them, I mean, it knocks it out of the park. The Bourne Ultimatum. It pulls it all together, the good guys are doing OK, the bad guys are getting theirs, it has that narration quality of wrapping up the loose ends, then the music kicks in, the words the beat the memories of previous Bournes, and then . . . the hero. That's what I'm talking about!

So, can you think of a movie ending that just nails it for you?

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