| Furious 7 | Matchbox | WINNER
(1 point per category) |
| CLEAREST TITLE | Sounds like the seventh Fast and Furious movie! | Sounds like the first ever Matchbox Cars movie! | Point for Matchbox. |
| BEST GENRE & RATING | Action
Rated PG-13 for prolonged frenetic sequences of violence, action and mayhem, suggestive content and brief strong language | Action
Rated PG-13 for extra prolonged frenetic and manic sequences of violence, action, and mayhem, but not as much suggestive content because these films are being targeted to impressionable youth. | Point for Matchbox. (Also, none of the good guys are shown smoking). |
| BEST PLOT (in haiku form)
| Bad guy wants revenge
Group survives by racing fast
Things blow up. Fast cars. | Good guys want revenge
Drive thousand diff’rent car types
Merchandise tie-in! | Matchbox point. |
| BEST TRAILER
| PROS: More crazy car stunts. The seventh movie in a popular series.
CONS: None if you saw the sixth one and liked it. | PROS: So many car stunts. First of what is sure to be a series. Hints at a Micro Machine spin-off movie.
CONS: Absolutely none. | Matchbox point. |
| COOLEST LEAD ACTOR
| Paul Walker from Into the Blue, Eight Below, and these Furious movies. | Curt David from the Box Office Prophets website. | Paul Walker will win this point. |
| BEST CAST
| Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, Dwayne Johnson, and Kurt Russell. | Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Rodriguez, Freida Pinto, Taraji P. Henson, and Jennifer Garner | Matchbox’s star power will win this point. |
| BEST STREET CRED | Director James Wan directed Saw and some other horror movies. | Co-directors Steven Spielberg and James Cameron have directed other things before. | And the co-directors will win this point. |
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