I haven't seen Inception yet, but I'm trying to keep an open mind about it. To the point where I've actually been somewhat excited to see it.

I mean, here's the thing: I kind of actively disliked The Dark Knight for reasons I've probably elaborated on before, The Prestige annoyed me, and Batman Begins was kind of just there. So in terms of Christopher Nolan, he's batting 0 for his last 3 with me. At the same time, though, I recognize that he has tons of talent (i.e. Memento) and that he's capable of producing something that I might actually like...

So yeah. The movie opened to some great reviews, plus it hasn't had a bunch of people proclaiming that "this isn't a superhero movie, this is art" which annoyed the hell out of me when The Dark Knight came out. Plus it has a pretty excellent cast (mostly Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who is pretty awesome. DiCaprio is really hit or miss with me), and all that has canceled out my disappointment with Nolan's last movie to place my expectations at a very reasonable position, which is good.

Then I logged into IMDB and saw that it was ranked as the #3 film of all time.

Not that I should be giving IMDB's top 250 much credence anyway, but still... a good majority of the films on the list are of pretty good quality. So when The Dark Knight climbed to #1 back when it came out, it made me expect some sort of unrivaled masterpiece that, while perhaps not the best film of all time, might stand as one of the best of my generation. Yeah, that didn't work out.

I'm now expecting the same thing from Inception, despite my full awareness of the stupidity of the IMDB top 250. I can't help it.

Dammit.

Oh, and because I'm bored, here's my rankings of the 2010 films I've seen so far this year. To sum it up, I've seen a lot of crap this year for God knows what reason.

1. Toy Story 3
2. Shutter Island
3. Hot Tub Time Machine
4. Macgruber
5. Iron Man 2
6. Shrek Forever After
7. Youth In Revolt
8. Greenberg
9. Runaways
10. Sorcerer's Apprentice
11. Spy Next Door

Number three and four were guilty pleasures Iron Man 2 and Greenberg were huge disappointments, and for the other films on the bottom of my list... I don't even know how I saw most of these.