| Brick Mansions
| The Other Woman | The Quiet Ones | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
| Clearest Title | Seems profound for a movie title | Seems less profound for a movie title | Also not the most profound title | Haven’t heard of any of these movies, 1/3 point each. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Action
Rated PG-13 for frenetic gunplay, violence and action throughout, language, sexual menace and drug material | Comedy
Rated PG-13 on appeal for mature thematic material, sexual references and language | Horror
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, sexual content, thematic material, language, and smoking throughout | Three different genres, three similar ratings, 1/3 point each. |
Best Plot
(in haiku form) | To avenge dad’s death
Need gun fights and explosions
And needs some parkour
| Guy cheats on his wife
She and both his mistresses
Take revenge on him | Guy and professor
Study demon possessed girl
Then routine horror
| Yawn. Typical plots gets 1/3 points each |
| Best Trailer | PROS: The founder of Parkour is an actor in this movie (and unfortunately one of Paul Walker’s last movies)
CONS: I didn’t really get a sense of plot | PROS: Beautiful women, and I laughed once
CONS: Implausible plot focusing on infidelity (a pet peeve of mine) | PROS: Has the guy from Hunger Games
CONS: I didn’t really get the plot from the trailer, other than spooky things happen
| This is not my week- none of the trailers wowed me. So… 1/3 point each. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Paul Walker from the Fast and the Furious movies. | Cameron Diaz from There’s Something About Mary and Charlie’s Angels. | Sam Claflin from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. | Paul Walker will win this point. |
| Best Cast | RZA (the founder or the Wu-Tang Clan) and David Belle (the founder of Parkour!) | Leslie Mann (17 Again) and Kate Upton (the model) | I didn’t recognize anyone else yet. | Close one, but Leslie and Kate will win this point. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Writer Luc Besson also wrote The Fifth Element, Taken, and The Transporter. | Director Nick Cassavetes also directed The Notebook. | Writer and director John Pogue also wrote The Skulls. | Luc Besson will win the point. |
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