| Dredd
| End of Watch
| House at the End of the Street
| Trouble with the Curve
| WINNER
(1 point per category)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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*.
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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).
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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.
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