| Dead Man Down | Oz the Great and Powerful | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
Clearest Title | There will be violence in this movie.
| There will be a yellow brick road in this movie.
| Oz, as in the wizard? If so, point for most recognizable title.
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Best Genre and Rating | Action/Thriller
Rated R for violence, language, and a scene of sexuality. | Action/Fantasy
Rated PG for sequences of action and scary images, and brief mild images. | Two different ratings, so 1/2 point each. (But I’m always excited to see a PG live action film!) |
Best Plot (in haiku form) | Girl blackmails a guy
Tells him to kill a bad man
Lots of explosions | The Wizard of Oz
Where did the wizard come from?
Here’s his backstory. | I guess prequels can be kind of clever. Point for Oz.
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Best Trailer | + Seems well-done, nice video editing
- Kind of boring
- It looked good, but it didn’t make me want to watch it | + Dazzling effects
+ Fun prequel about the Wizard of Oz
- But why isn’t this the musical Wicked? | Oz had a better trailer. Oz will win the point.
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Coolest Lead Actor | Colin Farrell from Phone Booth, Daredevil, and Horrible Bosses. | James Franco from Spider-Man, 127 Hours, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. | Hmm, this is a tough choice. I’ll let these gentlemen split the point.
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Best Cast | Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) and Terrence Howard (Crash) | Mila Kunis (That 70s Show), Rachel Weisz (The Mummy), Michelle Williams (Dawson’s Creek), and Zach Braff (Scrubs)
| Close race again. I think Oz squeaks by with a point for Best Cast.
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Best Street Cred For the Production | Director Niels Arden Oplev has also directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
| Director Sam Raimi has also directed Evil Dead and the Spider-Man trilogy.
| Both men have street cred, but Sam will get the point.
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