It’s date night, and while you’d rather watch Inception for the third time than Life as We Know It, your girlfriend might disagree. But then again, she might think the latter is such a turd of a flick that you might as well stay home and pop in a DVD. Just as much as Ed Wood was convinced of his own greatness, chick flicks still think they’re modern. If the genre is to salvage itself, perhaps it should consider there pointers:

Based on actual rentals, Paul Blart: Mall Cop topped the list of the most-rented movie of 2009, logging more than 4.5 million Redbox rentals, and proving definitively that the country is doomed. I bet if Reagan were here to save us Gran Torino would have been #1.