| Haywire | Red Tails | Underworld: Awakening | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | WINNER
(1 point per category)
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| Clearest Title | This movie is either about baling hay or a situation that gets kind of crazy | Perhaps the nickname of WWII airmen. | Another movie of the Underworld franchise?! | This is a long title, not sure of the plot. | Underworld wins the point for having a recognizable title. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Action/Thriller:
Rated R for some violence.
| Action/War:
Rated PG-13 for some sequences of war violence.
| Action/Horror:
Rated R for strong violence and gore and some language.
| Drama:
Rated PG-13 for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images, and language.
| Extremely Loud wins the point for being the only option without any action. |
Cleverest Tagline
(out of 5 stars) | "They left her no choice."
Sounds intriguing.
2/5
| N/A
Booo.
0/5
| "Vengeance Returns"
Now we're getting better
3/5
| N/A
Booo.
0/5
| Underworld regains the lead in the column for having the best tagline. |
| Best Part of Trailer | Sexy CIA girl kicks some butt. Reminds me of Alias! | Seems historic, action-y, and inspirational. | Kate Beckinsale is back and it seems more epic. | Whew. My goodness. That was a tear-jerker. | Extremely Loud ties the point total back up by having the best trailer. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Gina Carano is actually a real MMA fighter! | Terrence Howard from Iron Man, Hustle & Flow, and Crash. | Kate Beckinsale from Underworld, Click, and The Aviator. | Tom Hanks from Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, and The Da Vinci Code. | Tom Hanks is the definition of the coolest actor. Automatic Point.
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| Best Cast | Michael Douglas (Basic Instinct), Channing Tatum (Step Up), Antonio Banderas (Zorro), Ewan McGregor (Star Wars), and Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) | Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), artists Ne-Yo and Method Man, and Elijah Kelley (Hairspray) | Michael Ealy (Barbershop), Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) | Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side), John Goodman (Roseanne), Max von Sydow (The Exorcist), and Viola Davis (The Help) | Impressive five guys from Haywire. Impressive two girls from Extremely Loud. Each movie with split the point. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Director Steven Soderbergh has also directed Contagion, Ocean's 11, Traffic, and Erin Brokovich. | Director Anthony Hemingway has also directed a ton of TV shows (The Wire, Fringe, CSI) | Directors Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein also directed Shelter. | Director Stephen Daldry The Reader, The Hours, and Billy Elliot. | Wow, Stephen and Steven were each nominated for three Best Director Oscars. They'll each earn half a point for this round! |
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