Why these 2? well, ebcause they're similar in terms of awesomeness, cool story, mind-blowing action scenes and pure eye candy in terms of special effects. See, that's what I look forward to in a movie. If I want to see an emotional, heart-breaking story about an elderly couple or something like that, I can read a novel. Special effects are something so uniquely related to movies that it makes me want to get the most out of it.
Inception is this incredibly cool story about a specialized team who sets out to inflitrate an idea in the mind of a person, via his dreams. Obviously, the person's dream is filled with badass, gun-wielding, mercenary-looking proyectiosn of his mind, so the main characters spend the whole movie either runnin or firing back, which is awesome.
The Matrix, as I'm sure you know, is somewhat similar in terms that it takes place in the mind of a person, some sort of collective dream created to keep us from rising against the machines, who are the baddies this time. Neo (the main character) realizes this, awakens and then proceeds to learn all sort of cool fighting skills in order to kick some machine ass in the form of Agents, which are the police in this collective dream we call the matrix. Did I tell you how awesome is that?
