| Chappie | Unfinished Business | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
| Clearest Title | Don’t know what “chappie” means. | Business that needs to be finished...a little more clear. | SEQUEL! | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel |
Best Genre
and Rating | Action Sci-Fi
Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity | Comedy
Rated R for some strong risqué sexual content/graphic nudity, and for language and drug use | Dramedy
Rated PG for some language and suggestive comments | Two comedies, two rated R movies...maybe not the best diversity. 1/3 point each. |
Best Plot
(in haiku form) | World has cop robots
One robot thinks for itself
They want to kill it | Three men. Business Trip.
Have to act like “Hangover”
For their plan to work. | Make second hotel.
Old folks come to India
Love happens. Humor. | I guess thinking robots is the best plot. Point. |
| Best Trailer | PROS: Like the movie “I Robot,” seems like a epic adventure of artificial intelligence.
CONS: The trailer has five different trite lines like “If they make that robot, the world will end!” | PROS: Charming cast.
CONS: I didn’t really see humor or plot in the trailer. | PROS: Charming cast. And sequel of beloved film.
CONS: Sometimes sequels aren’t as good as the original. | But the Indian Hotel had the best trailer. Point. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Hugh Jackman from X-men and Les Miserables. | Vince Vaughn from Dodgeball and Wedding Crashers. | Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire. | Hugh Jackman wins this point, but it was close. |
| Best Cast | Sigourney Weaver (Avatar) and Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) | Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton), Dave Franco (Now You See Me), Sienna Miller (American Sniper), and James Marsden (X-men) | Maggie Smith (Harry Potter), Judi Dench (Skyfall), Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Richard Gere (Pretty Woman) | Maggie Smith and Judi Dench automatically win this point. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Writer and director Neill Blomkamp also wrote and directed District 9 and Elysium. | Director Ken Scott also directed Delivery Man. | Director John Madden also directed Shakespeare in Love and Proof. | John Madden, the football coach? He’ll split the street cred point with Mr. Blomkamp. |
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