This Weekend, Watch This
Best of 2010
By Curt David
October 1, 2010
Every week, the This Weekend, Watch This column analyzes the titles, taglines, trailers, and casts of the movies opening that weekend. Below is a chart of the top five winners in each of those categories so far this year. Any movie still to be released in 2010 has a chance to make it onto the chart by the end of the year.
| 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place |
| Best Title | Vampires Suck | Furry Vengeance | Hot Tub Time Machine | She’s Out of My League | Kick-Ass |
| Best Tagline | “Two agents. One City. No Merci.”
-From Paris with Love
| “An Epic of Epic Epicness”
-Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
| “The Ultimate Tool”
-MacGruber
| “What Doesn’t Kill You...is going to marry your brother”
-You Again
| “Innocence Dies. Abby Doesn’t”
-Let Me In
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| Best Trailer | Easy A | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I | Salt | MacGruber | Clash of the Titans
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Kick-Ass
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| Best Actress | Angelina Jolie (Salt) | Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil: Afterlife) | Betty White (You Again) | Queen Latifah (Just Wright) | Diane Lane (Secretariat) |
| Best Actor | Steve Carrell (Date Night, Despicable Me, Dinner for Schmucks)
| Johnny Depp (Alice and Wonderland, The Tourist) | Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, Due Date)
| Bruce Willis (Cop Out, RED)
| Will Ferrell (The Other Guys, Megamind)
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| Best Cast | Valentine’s Day | The Expendables | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I | Little Fockers | Death at a Funeral |
Notes:
1. The Best Title is the only category not based on the This Weekend, Watch This (TWWT) columns, as those columns give the point for the clearest title and not the most clever title. (Hence, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is a very clear and recognizable title, but Vampires Suck is a more clever title.)
2. As probably the only person on the planet that critiques every single tagline from every new movie release, I am most confident of this category for the Top 5 of 2010.
3. The Best Trailers are based on just that, the trailers. They may not turn out to be the best movie (cough, Clash of the Titans, cough), but the trailers made you want to see the movie none the less.
4 & 5. The acting categories might deserve an explanation as they do not judge the best acting performances in a movie. Each week in TWWT, one lead actor from each new release is picked and one of those actors is chosen as that week’s “Best Lead Actor.” Out of the (soon to be) 52 actors chosen in 2010, the top five actresses and actors that ‘get someone wanting to see a movie the most’ are given the award at the end of the year.
6. Best Cast is for the highest number of good and/or famous actors in a movie.
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