| Fifty Shades of Grey | Kingsman: The Secret Service | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
| Clearest Title | Based on the smut novels | Sounds like a spy movie | 50 Shades of Grey is a more popular |
Best Genre
and Rating | Sex
Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue, some unusual behavior and graphic nudity, and for language | Action
Rated R for sequences of strong violence, language and some sexual content | Definitely two different genres. 1/2 point each. |
Cleverest Tagline
(out of 5 stars) | Guy and girl have sex
There’s no true love in movie
Just sex. Don’t watch it. | Young white guy from hood
Recruited by Bond-esque spies
Humor. Gadgets. Guns. | Kingsman easily wins the best plot point. |
| Best Part of Trailer | PROS: None
CONS: Borderline domestic abuse scenes (or so the news says) | PROS: Clever plot about teenager becoming elite spy
CONS: Maybe too much of a mix of real action, and parody, and why is it rated R? | Neither trailer was super good, but Kingsman was better. Point. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Jamie Dornan from Once Upon a Time. | Colin Firth from The King’s Speech and Pride and Prejudice. | Colin Firth. Point. |
| Best Cast | Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River) | Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), and Michael Caine (The Dark Knight) | Kingsman. Point. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Director Sam Taylor-Johnson also directed Nowhere Boy. | Writer and Director Matthew Vaughn also wrote and directed X-men: First Class and Kick-Ass. | Matthew Vaughn also has more street cred. Point. |
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