Had a movie weekend, and ended up buying a discount for half price rentals at the local video store, so expect a lot of Last Movie Seens for the next month.

The Runaways: disturbing little pic. Kristen Stewart has found the one role she can play perfectly: coked-out Joan Jett.

Inception: Finally. What a great movie. Its entertaining just skimming the top level (which is what I ended up reviewing on my blog), but you can talk about the other levels and interpretations for hours (I know, my wife and I did).

Best In Show: Came highly recommended, but I don't know why I keep trying these Christopher Guest movies. I don't really enjoy them in the end. Sure, a couple of the characters end up being funny sometimes, but overall I always find it a letdown. There's just not enough plot.

Birds of America: This was right across the aisle from Best In Show, and it had Matthew Perry from "Friends" on the cover, so my wife wanted to get it. It had some entertaining parts, but like all of these independent movies my wife and I pick up, it always ends up being half family drama that is too close to reality for me to find entertaining. Not necessarily my reality, but long scenes at dinner tables where no one talks is true to life, but I don't watch movies to watch people not do things.

But in order to appease xhonzi (and ourselves), we're planning on taking the mother-in-law to Inception this week so it will be the Last Movie Seen.

SIDENOTE: We got to the theater for Inception a minute or two late, figuring that there would be trailers to cushion our time. Our theater doesn't show the trailers before Inception, so we and everyone else in the theater walked into a movie that throws you right into the middle of the movie. I literally walked out and to the concession desk and said "I know I'm supposed to be confused by this movie, but am I supposed to be this confused?" The answer was "yes, you are."