| Broken City | The Last Stand | Mama | Silver Linings Playbook | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
| Clearest Title | What does this title suggest? Don’t know. | What does this title suggest? Don’t know. | What does this title suggest? Don’t know. | What does this title suggest? Don’t know. | Ambiguous titles. Silver Linings will get the point because of awards attention. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Crime/Drama
Rated R for pervasive language, some sexual content, and violence. | Action/Crime
Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout and language. | Horror
Rated PG-13 for violence and terror, some disturbing images, and thematic elements. | Dramedy
Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity. | Mama actually gets the point for not being Rated R! |
Best Plot
(in haiku form) | Mayor hires man
To do secret work and stuff
But he’s a bad guy? | Arnold is Sheriff
He talks, shoots guns, blow things up
I don’t know the plot | Couple’s adoption
Gives them two creepy daughters
Their dead mom comes back | Man needs therapy
Meets girl in therapy too
Quirky love blossoms. | Broken City and Silver Linings Playbook sound like they have the best plot. 1/2 point each. |
| Best Trailer | + Crime drama with twists
+ Zeta-Jones is in it!
+ I was engaged the whole time | +Schwarzenegger is back
+ His accent is awesome
- Seriously, no clue about the plot | + Looks spooky
+ Guillermo del Toro is a producer
- Another possessed child film | +Was pretty funny
+ Seems dramatic, but not cheesy
+ The Lumineers played in the trailer | Silver Linings Playbook was one of the best trailers I saw in the past year. I’m going to see it in the theaters tonight. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Mark Wahlberg from Boogie Nights, The Fighter, and Ted. | Arnold Schwarzenegger from The Terminator, Total Recall, and True Lies. | Jessica Chastain from The Help, Zero Dark Thirty, and The Tree of Life. | Bradley Cooper from Alias, The Hangover, and The A-Team. | Schwarzenegger? He’s back! He’ll win this point. |
| Best Cast | Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago), and Kyle Chandler ("Friday Night Lights") | Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) and Johnny Knoxville (Jackass) | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) | Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games), Robert De Niro (Raging Bull), Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), and Chris Tucker (Rush Hour) | Broken City and Silver Linings Playbook will also split the point for best cast. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Director Allen Hughes also directed The Book of Eli. | The rewriter for the screenplay Jeffrey Nachmanoff also wrote The Day After Tomorrow. | Director Andrews Muschietti made a short film called Mama, and got to make this one. | Writer and Director David O. Russell also directed The Fighter and Three Kings. | David O. Russell wins this point easily. |
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