I'm at two with nature

Actually, I'm at odds with popular movie taste... something that happens more than I would like.
I've seen two "blockbuster" or "hit" movies this season, Toy Story 3 and Inception, and reacted to both them differently from the mass bloc of American moviegoers.
I found Toy Story 3 dull and overwrought and Inception straightforward and slow.
Why did I react differently? I can't tell. I think, in the case of Toy Story 3, that it may be because I didn't see Toy Story 2 and was therefore less invested in the characters.
Or maybe it's because that movie was clearly imbued with a sense that "everything will be OK" from the first shot onward and undercut any real sense of danger the characters faced.
Or perhaps it's because I couldn't figure out why toys want to be played with. It's something that's never explained (at least in part 3), so I couldn't grasp what regular human emotional response would equal the feelings toys have from not being played with.
As a guy whose hopes and dreams are pretty far off from what I consider the standard or "American regular" type of crown achievement, I found it odd that no toy mirrored my own plight of feeling different than the others. The toys, I thought, should find a purpose that's wholly intrinsic and not reliant on being hoisted in the air by some asshole who makes PEW PEW PEW gun-shooting sounds. WOULDN'T THAT BE A BETTER MOVIE???

As far as Inception goes, it was a fine sci-fi flick. And I've explained it to several co-workers, who I now think, must have been in the bathroom for the film's expository sequences or are dumb.
Seriously, one girl said to me, "My theory is that whoever is not in the dream level is in the one above it, but still asleep." Here's a tip: You can't count it as a theory if it's a plot point, e.g. my theory of the Empire Strikes Back is that Darth Vader reveals to Luke the dark secret of his parentage.
I'd also like to point out that I made a movie during my sophomore year of college called "Chimera" that dealt with people meeting up in each other's dreams and dying/killing. My roommate Shane was in it. So thematically, I'd covered this issue before (albeit in a very limited way). Inception isn't bad, it's just not that mind-blowing.