@jyh - I didn't have as strong a reaction to the movie as David did (though I did enjoy it, and ended up watching it once with him and Echo and once with my girlfriend), but Inception did make me go back and reread Borges, first in Andrew Hurley's translation and then in the Spanish, and anything that can make me go back and dust off a seriously mothballed language has got to be good. For what it's worth, I think the two are similar only insofar as that they start with a relatively simple (but neat) idea, work that idea through to its logical conclusions, and then leave matters where they are. I don't think it would make my Top Ten, but it's a pretty good movie.

For what it's worth, and while I haven't seen all of the movies nominated, the one that really left an impression on me is Winter's Bone. I couldn't really say why that was: it's a pretty unrelentingly grim little movie, and it bears - thankfully - more or less zero relationship to the life I've lived or the people I know, but I'll find myself thinking about it every now and then, which is more than I can say for most films.

I enjoyed watching The Social Network, but ultimately it didn't do a lot for me. It's very well-made, and well-acted, and well-written, but there were a lot of things about it that just didn't ring true to me, and it seemed to be trying just a little too hard to be a Citizen Kane for the internet generation.

PS: David is sincere in his love for Rick Astley, too. Pass it on.