ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Considering that most (fictional) stories end with a happy ending, and in many cases, this only actually occurs because of some lucky event or major mistake the enemy just happened to make etc.

Or the main character/hero just happens to gain some super awesome power right at the end, seeming out of his donkey (nowhere).  Those are just the generally the crappy ones, although it does happen quite often.

I generally don't really have a preference, as long as it's a good ending.  "Good" referring to the quality of the ending, not "happy".

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:whatever the characters deserve.
inglourious basterd? it's a sad ending i presume. but everyone deserved it and it's still an awesome badass movie.
district 9 was a happy ending (in my view) and it wasn't satisfying at all.(the movie was still good though)

it's all depends on how they wrote it and how you see and feel it.

So I take it you don't like sad endings?  Because most truely sad endings the people don't deserve it.  If they fully deserved it, then a lot of the time, it it's really a sad story (eg.  if you're a serial rapist who went around raping people, and you got stabbed dead in the end... that's not really a "sad" story).