Personally I always hated the "gift basket" suggesstion until last year we got one....

It was in a bucket of popcorn (from Blockbuster) with candy and a gift card for 2 free movie rentals in it....
It was a "famlily" gift and really fun... we rarely rent movies for all of us, but did and spent the night watching the mvoies andmunching on candy and popcorn......

It would depend on his interests but if its for someone you do not know well, you can't go wrong with that or even movie cash.....