| The Roommate | Sanctum (3D) | WINNER
(1 point per category)
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| Clearest Title | Based on my experiences with roommates, this movie would have to be a horror movie. | How have I never heard this word before in my life? Sounds like an internal organ or a sci-fi movie. | Nope, it's like the word sanctuary- a sacred place. Not clear though, so The Roommate scores today's first point. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Thriller
Rated PG-13 for violence and menace, sexual content, some language, and partying.
| Thriller
Rated PG-13 for language, some violence, and disturbing images.
| BOOORING! Can't we get some different genres up in here? Each movie will split this point. |
Cleverest Tagline
(out of 5 stars) | "2,000 colleges. 8 million roommates. Which one will you get?"
I like it a lot! Definitely adds realistic creepiness to the psycho roommate in the movie.
4/5 stars
| "The only way out is down"
I don't get how that helps you get out of the cave back to safety.
2/5
| 2,000 colleges. 8 million roommates. I get the guy who is addicted to Dawson's Creek and Nyquil. (The Roommate wins best tagline). |
| Best Part of Trailer | The change from the innocent first 60 seconds of the trailer to the trippiest last 60 seconds of the trailer. Oh, and hot college girls killing people. | It nicely tells you the entire plot of the movie (but now I don't know if I even have to watch the movie anymore). Oh, and hot underwater disaster scenes. | Neither of these trailers stand out, I just want to watch The King's Speech. I guess they'll split the point again. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Leighton Meester from Gossip Girl and Country Strong. | Ioan Gruffudd from Fantastic 4 (Mr. Fantastic) and King Arthur (Lancelot). | I could go either way, but I think I'll give Ioan the point because he played iconic characters. |
| Best Cast | Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights), Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Alyson Michalka (Easy A), Frances Fisher and Billy Zane (both from Titanic). | Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!) and Alice Parkinson (you don't know her, but she looks like Emily Deschanel from Bones). | My teenage sister is really excited about the cast from The Roommate. It'll win the point for this round. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Executive Producer and writer Sonny Mallhi has also produced The Strangers, Shutter, and The Lake House. | Writer Andrew Wright is an accomplished underwater explorer and helped produce the IMAX movies Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep. | Andrew has produced films for James Cameron and has made over 40 documentaries making me certain that the visual effects will look good in Sanctum. Point. |
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