Creative - Smeative, I want an ending for my movies

Is there anything worse than getting into a movie, enjoying it immensely and then, just when one would expect an exciting and informative climax, one that ties up all the loose ends that were dangling up to that point...the director uses his creative license and stops the movie right there?

I'll answer my own question and say YES! There is something worse.

I hate to resort to what some might believe to be a vulgar allegory but the worse case scenario and allegory I came up with was SEX.  That's right...SEX! 

No one I know would say that sexual intercourse without a climax is any good, let alone GREAT.

So why is it that the people who produce the Academy Awards thought that "No Country for Old Men" was worthy of any nominations at all?

I actually believe that most movie lovers are as myself.  They are not that complicated with respect to the movies they love.  If someone likes one particular movie over many others they have seen it's because that movie touched them in a special way or it spoke to them about life, how it is in reality or in their dreams.

Most of us want to see the bad guy get what's coming to him.  A lot of bad guys in "No Country for Old Men" did get what they deserved but the baddest of the bad; we simply do not know his fate by the time the movie ended. We are not sure what happened to the two millions dollars in cash that was the reason for all the bloodshed. We did not see the main character's wife die.  It was only suggested...not revealed.  We saw the main character or some body that looked like him laying in the open doorway of a seedy motel but we didn't actually see how he came to that end and who did it.  It was only implied from a great distance.  There was just too much that we would like to have known but instead, we came away scratching our collective heads and wondering..."What the heck just happened."

If I had more than two thumbs, I'd turn them all down as a rating for the movie. 

I think they should try it again, only this time, give us what we want, not what you think we should get for our money.

I'm mad as can be about it too but all I can do is vent and all that does is make me feel just a tiny bit better. I know it's not helping anyone else who paid good money to see it unless that feel better by being in a crowded boat.

And one more thing...I wish I understood what that story Ed Tom Bell told there at the surprise ending had to do with anything so far as the plot line of the movie went. Was that what passes for a metaphor down in Texas?