This Weekend, Watch This
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Dredd | End of Watch | House at the End of the Street | Trouble with the Curve | WINNER (1 point per category) | |
Clearest Title | I’ve never heard of these combination of letters before. | I wonder if watch is a time telling device or a job shift of looking at something. | Very clear description of this location. A little spooky. | Does every title this week want to be unclear? | I’ll give the House the point. It has to be a horror film, if not, I’ll award the other three movies the point instead. |
Best Genre and Rating | Action/ Sci-Fi
Rated R for strong bloody violence, language, drug use, and some sexual content. | Drama/Thriller
Rated R for strong violence, some disturbing images, pervasive language including sexual references, and drug use. | Horror
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, thematic elements, language, some teen partying, and brief drug material. | Drama
Rated PG-13 for language, sexual references, some thematic material, and smoking. | Not a weekend for the kiddos. Each movie will get 1/4 of the point. |
Cleverest Tagline (out of 5 stars) | Judgment is coming.
3/5 - Oh, maybe I have heard of Dredd before. Judge Dredd, right? | Every Moment of Your Life They Stand Watch.
3/5 - Creepy. | Fear reaches out... for the girl next door.
3/5 - Shouldn’t fear be doing something a little more scary than reaching? | Whatever Life Throws At You
4/5 - Almost cheesy, but then it’s about baseball, so its pretty clever | I’m sentimental today. The baseball/life tagline will win the point this round. |
Best Part of Trailer | It looks fun, but I felt a little confused afterward. | Looks like the most well-done version of COPS ever. I liked the "your mom" joke. | It was a good horror trailer and Katniss! | Predictable...but also predictably looks good. | I don’t know, team. They were all so different, none were horrible. 1/4th points all around! |
Coolest Lead Actor | Karl Urban from The Bourne Supremacy, Doom, and Lord of the Rings II. | Jake Gyllenhaal from October Sky, Donnie Darko, and The Day After Tomorrow. | Jennifer Lawrence from The Hunger Games, Winter’s Bone, and X-Men: First Class. | Clint Eastwood from Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, and The Bridges of Madison County. | X-men and The Hunger Games have influenced my life more than the famous Clint. Jenny gets the point for the coolest actor in this column*. |
Best Cast | Lena Headey (300) | Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air) and America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) | Elisabeth Shue (Back to the Future II and III) | Amy Adams (Enchanted), John Goodman (Roseanne), and Justin Timberlake (The Social Network) | Trouble with the Curve clearly has the best cast (no offense, other casts). |
Best Street Cred For the Production | Director Pete Travis also directed Endgame and Vantage Point. | Writer and Director David Ayer also wrote Training Day and The Fast and the Furious. | Writer Jonathan Mostow also directed Terminator 3. | Director Robert Lorenz was assistant director for Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, and The Bridges of Madison County. | And all four Directors can split the street cred point too. |