| Dark Skies | Snitch | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
| Clearest Title | This sounds foreboding.
| This sounds like the typical one-word action film.
| Both movies have generic titles. Half point each.
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Best Genre
and Rating | Horror
Rated PG-13 for violence, terror throughout, sexual material, drug content, and language...all involving teens. | Action
Rated PG-13 for drug content and sequences of violence. | Both movies have different genres! Half point each.
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Best Plot
(in haiku form) | Normal Family
Scary things and strange events
Horror aliens? | Son wrongly in jail
The Rock needs to lay smackdown
To get son justice
| I thought this week wouldn’t be original, and then I wrote the word “alien.” Point for Dark Skies. |
| Best Trailer | - Similar elements of other horror films with families
+ But the last five seconds seemed cool (aliens?)
+ This trailer was fine, most horror trailers are awful. | + Looks like a high quality action film
+ The Rock seems a little more vulnerable in this role
- I’m sure this plot must have been done at least once before | Snitch’s trailer made me a little more interested in seeing the movie. So point.
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| Coolest Lead Actor | Keri Russell from Felicity, Waitress, and Mission Impossible 3.
| Dwayne Johnson from the WWE, The Scorpion King, and Get Smart.
| I respect both of these actors a lot. Seriously. Half point each.
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| Best Cast | J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man)
| Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise), Melina Kanakaredes (Providence), and Benjamin Bratt (Miss Congeniality)
| Snitch has the more well-known cast. Point.
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Best Street Cred
For the Production | Writer and Director Scott Stewart also wrote and directed Legion.
| Writer and Director Ric Roman Waugh has done stunts for a ton of action movies.
| Scott has directed another famous film. Point for him. |
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