| Draft Day
| Oculus | Rio 2 | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
| Clearest Title | FOOTBALL! | OCULUS! (?) | SEQUEL TO RIO! | Sequel to Rio wins the first point. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Sport Drama
Rated PG-13 on appeal for brief strong language and sexual references | Horror
Rated R for terror, violence, some disturbing images and brief language | Animation
Rated G | Oh la la, Three different genres and plots! 1/3 point each. |
Best Plot
(in haiku form) | Football Manager
Gets fired if bad draft day
He’ll need a good plan
| Bad mirror kills folks
Two siblings try to kill it
Cause mirror killed mom | Last two blue macaws
Find more birds in Amazon
Action and Singing | Mirror horror plot. I haven’t seen that one yet. Point. |
| Best Trailer | PROS: Looks well-acted
CONS: The whole trailer had people in a room talking about draft day | PROS: Not your typical horror trailer, because it was about an evil mirror!
CONS: None (you only think a killer mirror is dumb when the trailer is over) | PROS: Seems like a funny cartoon for kids, and adults would enjoy it too
CONS: None that I can tell | Rio 2 has the best trailer. Point. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Kevin Costner from Dances with Wolves and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | None that I recognized yet | Voice of Jesse Eisenberg from Zombieland and The Social Network. | Kevin Costner wins this point. |
| Best Cast | Jennifer Garner (Alias), Denis Leary (Rescue Me), Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist), and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs | None that I recognized yet | The voices of Kristin Chenoweth, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Tracy Morgan, Will i Am, and many more. | Draft Day and Rio 2 split this point. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Director Ivan Reitman also directed Ghostbusters and Dave. | Writer and Director Mike Flanagan also edited a lot of tv series. | Writer and Director Carlos Saldanha also directed three Ice Age movies. | And Draft Day and Rio 2 will split this last point as well. |
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