I'm not anyone to suggest anyone else's opinion is wrong, but having MacGruber and Easy A rated higher than True Grit?
Yes, no question.
You see the older I get the harder it is for comedy to work on me. Comedy is made to seem like the easiest genre to tackle and it's not. I watch a lot of comedy films, television, and listen to mostly comedic podcasts. Hitting a joke that actually makes me laugh out loud - literally, not in the throw away internet sense - is very difficult. Those two films pulled it off and for that I rightfully applaud them.
True Grit was good, but I've seen the Cohn Bros. do far better. It was a cut-and-dry Western that didn't stick with me after the credits rolled. Nothing wrong with Westerns, it's just that this one didn't blow me away. Fine to watch, but I had zero urge to tell anyone I liked it or to think about the film further.
As far as Inception goes, I don’t know how anyone couldn’t see that ending coming or understand how the “tension” wasn’t seen as just laughable overkill.