| Ender’s Game
| Free Birds | Last Vegas | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
| Clearest Title | An amazing book! | Does this have anything to do with Angry Birds? | This has to do with Vegas. | Ender’s Game - it’s a page turner. Point for the recognizable title. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Sci-fi Action
Rated PG-13 for some violence, sci-fi action and thematic material | Animation
Rated PG for some action/peril and rude humor | Comedy
Rated PG-13 on appeal for sexual content and language | Three different genres! Score. 1/3 point each. |
Best Plot
(in haiku form) | World needs a hero
Hires kid with gaming skills
He’ll fight aliens
| Turkeys make a plan
To change course of history
Thanksgiving cartoon!
| Old guy getting hitched
Calls up old friends for Vegas
Senior jokes ensue | Ender’s Game and Free Birds have the most unique plots. 1/2 points each. |
| Best Trailer | PROS: Great book, famous actors
CONS: But if I didn’t know the book, I would think the trailer was kind of boring | PROS: Laughed a couple times, jokes for adults, cute baby turkeys
CONS: No con if you like comedy cartoons | PROS: Famous actors, entertaining trailer, looks better than most Vegas films
CONS: Didn’t laugh that much | Not my favorite week for trailers, but what the heck, let’s give 1/3 point to each film. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Asa Butterfield from Hugo and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. | The voice of Owen Wilson from Wedding Crashers and Midnight in Paris. | Michael Douglas from Basic Instinct, Wall Street, and Traffic. | Michael Douglas is the coolest actor this week. Point. |
| Best Cast | Harrison Ford (Star Wars), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Ben Kingsley (Ghandi), and Viola Davis (The Help) | The voices of Woody Harrelson (Cheers), Amy Poehler (SNL), and George Takei (Star Trek) | Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) and Mary Steenburgen (Elf) | Ender’s Game has a surprisingly strong cast. So does Last Vegas. 1/2 point each. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Writer and Director Gavin Hood also directed Rendition and Wolverine. | Writer and Director Jimmy Hayward also directed Horton Hears a Who! or Jonah Hex. | Director Jon Turtletaub also directed Cool Runnings, While You Were Sleeping, and National Treasure. | Close round, but Jon Turtletaub (While You Were Sleeping - such a good movie) will win the best street cred point. |
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