Spaw - I'd forgotten about "Miami Vice" and its music. They did a good job.

I think Allan nailed my complaint pretty well about generally "flat" endings - it's an ungodly plot to separate us from our money by letting us think there's still more to come and then casting devilish come-ons in front of our eyes.

When films are structured around music tracks there's usually a definable end. Remember way back in the 60's - on the Smother's Brothers show I think - when they put two minutes of the world's great art to Mason Williams Classical Gas ? In Film school this used to be called Metric cutting (to the beat or meter) and is a real good exercise for beginning editors. Lots of commercials also use this technique. In fact some commercial makers believe music with the tempo of a normal heart beat is more successful at grabbing viewers.

I was more concerned that this flat ending idea would affect music as well. Real open ended type stuff... but wait a minute... isn't that called modern Jazz ... oh well, nevermind.