People seem to be complaing about this in the Matrix thread though. Also, it takes a lot of faith from the sstudio as the only way to do this with any confidence is to film them together.
Paul, if the story didn't have some sort of conclusion, people would be yellign the movie seemed incomplete or that it was selling out to promote furure films. If ending stories is hackneyed, then i suppose stretch plots out over several movies, even if it's unecessary (as here) must be the wave...