We had a heinous weekend when it came to movie-watching. Usually we veg out on Friday or Saturday night (um, sometimes both nights, I must admit) and watch something from Netflix after Drew goes to bed for the night. It's cheap, easy fun. But man, we've got to fix up our queue. The last few movies we've rented have sucked, big time.

After slogging through the thoroughly unfunny "Miss Congeniality 2" (the first one had some funny bits, I admit) on Friday and then attempting "Van Helsing" on Saturday (Oh my God, how did that movie get MADE? I should've know, but I wanted to at least TRY watching it), we've installed a ten-minute rule on all DVD-watching.

If ten minutes go by and the movie is just sucking -- I keep looking at the time or cringing at the unfolding story -- we get the option of turning off the movie. I wish we'd done this for "Miss Congeniality," and I'm damn glad we did it for "Van Helsing." Life's just too short.

In other viewing news, we watched the first half of the fascinating documentary "Inside 9/11" on the National Geographic channel, and I was simply amazed. Sure, hindsight is 20/20, but why didn't the CIA do its job and connect at least SOME of the dots? I learned a lot, and want to read more about all this.

The second half runs tonight, and I really hope we can stay up 'til 11 p.m. to see it all (it's hard staying up that late when you get up at 4:30 a.m.!). There's always the ol' VCR -- we had to tape the last hour last night. Great stuff. Anyone else watch it?

Also, anyone seen any good flicks we can add to our Netflix queue? Later.