| Beautiful Creatures | Escape From Planet Earth | A Good Day to Die Hard | Safe Haven | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
Clearest Title |
Those two words don’t usually go together.
| This sounds fun. | Another Die Hard movie?! | Generic title. |
Die Hard is a popular movie! Easy point.
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Best Genre and Rating | Fantasy
Rated PG-13 for violence, scary images, and some sexual material. | Animation
Rated PG for action and some mild humor. | Action
Rated R for violence and language. | Romance
Rated PG-13 for thematic material involving threatening behavior, violence, and sexuality. | My favorite week is when there are four different genres! 1/4 point each. |
Best Plot (in haiku form) | Girl will turn 16
She likes boy. She is a witch
Is she good or bad? | There are aliens
Humans captured them on Earth
They need to escape! | A Die Hard movie
John McClane teams up with son
Russians are bad guys | Girl moves to new town
Based on Nicholas Sparks book
Love but there’s secrets. | Escape from Planet Earth has the best plot, hands down. Tentacles down. Point. |
Best Trailer | + Beautiful set and costumes
+ There’s witches and magic
- But it reminds me of the Twilight movies | + The premise of this movie is exceptional
+ There’s a couple of clever moments too
- I didn’t laugh that much though | + A Die Hard movie with cool effects
- Horrible dialogue
- That was the worst edited trailer I have ever seen | + Romance movie for Valentine’s Day
- Generic Will-a-secret-tear-apart-true-love plot
+ But taking your date to this movie will help your cause | No trailer grabbed my heart. I’ll give each movie 1/4 point. |
Coolest Lead Actor |
Viola Davis from The Help and Doubt.
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The voice of Brendan Frasier from The Mummy and George of the Jungle.
| Bruce Willis from The Sixth Sense, Die Hard, and Pulp Fiction. |
Josh Duhamel from Transformers and Life As We Know It.
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Bruce Willis may not win this round too many years longer, but he’ll get the point this week.
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Best Cast |
Emmy Rossum (Phantom of the Opera) and Emma Thompson (Love Actually)
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The voices of Ricky Gervais, Jessica Alba, Sofia Vergara, and many more.
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Final Destination 3)
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Julianne Hough (Dancing with the Stars)
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This is a close call, but I believe Beautiful Creatures will get the point.
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Best Street Cred For the Production |
Director and Writer Richard LaGravenese also directed and wrote P.S. I Love You and Freedom Writers.
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Director Cal Brunker also worked on Despicable Me and an Ice Age movie.
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Director John Moore also directed Max Payne and The Omen.
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Director Lasse Hallstrom Chocolat and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
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It’s Valentine’s Day- let’s spread the love. Another 1/4 point each.
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