Inception was fun to watch, but I'd be hard pressed to say that it was a better movie than The Social Network. Everything about it was big, bombastic and entertaining, but that was pretty thin disguise for some pretty big plot holes. It's interesting in context of being a movie about making movies, but beyond that I wouldn't go so far as to say that it necessarily deserves particular recognition for anything other than maybe some technical awards (the choreography and construction of the zero gravity fisticuffs was pretty stellar).

All that said, I've yet to see some of the other runners for best movie, but I thought that the Social Network was damned fantastic. I'll be seeing most of the other ones (unfortunately not The King's Speech) when they hit the theater on campus this semester, but right now I don't know how the Social Network stacks up against them. But given the choice between it and Inception? Come on.