| Amelia | Astro Boy | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Saw VI | Winner
(1 point per category)
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| Clearest Title | This title suggests a biography of either Amelia Earhart or Amelia Bedelia.
| This title suggests a boy, in space. | This title suggests circuses, vampires, and freaks, oh my. | This title suggests either the sixth installment of the Saw franchise, or a foreign film (Saw vi?) | All titles are pretty clear, only one isn't boring. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant gets the point! |
Best Genre &
Rating | Biography/Drama
PG
| Animation/Sci-Fi
PG
| Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Action, Thriller
PG-13
| Horror
R
| Cirque du Freak should lose a point for all those genres. Saw VI gets a point, because it is almost Halloween. |
| Best Tagline | Defying the impossible. Living the Dream. | Have a Blast | Meet Daron, he's sixteen going on immortal. | The Game Comes Full Circle. | You all agree with me that Cirque du Freak has the only creative tagline, right? Point. |
| Best Part of Trailer | Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, and inspirational music. | Its strange resemblance to the Amelia trailer. | The trailer decently showed the fantasy, horror, comedy, and action genres working together. | It was creepy (like the last five Saw trailers). | The Amelia and Cirque du Freak trailers made me contemplate spending 10 dollars on them.....1/2 point each. |
| Lead Actor | Hilary Swank from Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby. | Freddie Highmore from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and August Rush. | Chris Massoglia from things you've never seen. | Tobin Bell from all the Saw movies. | Hilary Swank and her two Best Actress Oscars win this round. |
| Best Cast Member | Richard Gere (aka the guy in Pretty Woman) and Ewan McGregor (aka Obi-Wan Kenobi). | Kristen Bell, Nicolas Cage, Sam Jackson, Charlize Theron, Eugene Levy, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, and Donald Sutherland (well, their voices at least). | John C. Reilly (Chicago and Step Brothers), and Salma Hayek wearing a beard. | Tanedra Howard won the reality show Scream Queens to earn a role in the movie. | It would be easy to give Astro Boy the point for this round.... so I will. |
| Best Street Cred for the Production | Writer Ronald Bass won an Oscar for writing Rain Man. | Director David Bowers has been involved with the animated movies Prince of Egypt, SharkTale, Chicken Run, Balto, and FERNGULLY!!!!! | Writer Brian Helgeland won an Oscar for writing L.A. Confidential and was nominated for writing Mystic River.
| Director Kevin Greutert edited the first five Saw films. | This is a tough one. I think the Oscar AND the nomination gives one more point for Cirque du Freak. |
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