After a foray into a slew of very unsuccesful, awful movie rental/purchases I'd like to put it out to the forum to suggest some good movies that have come out in the past 1-3 years. It doesn't really matter the genre as long as it's actually a good movie.
300 - look for the youtubes of the cast training, awesome. Their training mission statements was "appearance is a consequence of fitness", excellent.
BEERFEST (!!!!) - particularly good for any Americans who want a tongue-in-cheek "America takes on Europe and kicks it's ass" movie that requires zero mental effort to watch and has a lot of funny moments in. Seriously.