Fantasy Acting League Round Six

Wow, what an anti-climatic week. I have been looking forward to writing up the next Fantasy Acting League for some time, but this installment is the tamest so far. Don’t get your hopes up, guys, no one really scored anything. Take this month as the calm manoeuvering of certain pieces, before the race for the finish line begins. Onto the movies, we are using to score the points this round.

This Round’s Movies

Inside Out
Southpaw
The Choir
Comet
Insidious Chapter 3
Jurassic World
Dear White People
The Burning
Love and Mercy
Hot Pursuit
Knock Knock
The Human Centipede 3
The Legend of Barney Thomson
The Overnight
True Story
Entourage
Maggie

The Team’s Scores

MovieRob – 7 (+0) = 7
Emma Stone – 0
Meg Ryan – 0
Natalie Portman – 0
Chris Pratt – 7
Tom Hanks – 0
Bradley Cooper – 0

Words of WisTIM – 6 (+24) = 30
Shailene Woodley – 0
Zoe Saldana – 0
Jennifer Lawrence – 0
Tom Cruise – 0
Jake Gyllenhaal – 6
Samuel L. Jackson – 0

Sporadic Chronicles of a Beginner Blogger – 0 (+31) = 31
Jessica Chastain – 0
Jennifer Lawrence – 0
Scarlett Johannsson – 0
Benedict Cumberbatch – 0
Hugh Jackman – 0
Tom Hardy – 0

Oracle of Film – 0 (+35) = 35
Jennifer Lawrence – 0
Scarlett Johannsson – 0
Emma Stone – 0
Tom Hardy – 0
Chris Hemsworth – 0
Oscar Isaac – 0

What About the Twinkie – 0 (+36) = 36
Britt Robertson – 0
Jessica Chastain – 0
Jennifer Lawrence – 0
Oscar Isaacs – 0
Jeremy Renner – 0
Chris Hemsworth – 0

Marked Movies – 0 (+36) = 36
Jessica Chastain – 0
Meryl Streep – 0
Naomi Watts – 0
Michael Fassbender – 5
Sam Rockwell – 0
Tom Hardy – 10

Where the Wild Things Are – 6 (+31) = 37
Emily Blunt – 0
Jennifer Lawrence – 0
Julianne Moore – 0
Tom Hardy – 0
Benedict Cumberbatch – 0
Jake Gyllenhaal – 6

Debra Vega – 4 (+41) = 45
Jennifer Lawrence – 0
Scarlett Johannsson – 0
Elizabeth Banks – 4
Andy Serkis – 0
Jeremy Renner – 0
Chris Hemsworth – 0

Drew – 0 (+46) = 46
Natalie Portman – 0
Melissa McCarthy – 0
Cate Blanchett – 0
Channing Tatum – 0
Chris Hemsworth – 0
Tom Hardy – 0

Mr. Movie – 0 (+50) = 50
Sienna Miller – 0
Jennifer Lawrence – 0
Anna Kendrick – 0
Channing Tatum – 0
Samuel L. Jackson – 0
Tom Hardy – 0

Verbal Spew – 0 (+52) = 52
Anna Kendrick – 0
Helen Mirren – 0
Kate Mara – 0
Channing Tatum – 0
Tom Hardy – 0
Chris Hemsworth – 0

1ST PLACE
Cinema Parrot Disco – 0 (+60) = 60
Sienna Miller – 0
Anna Kendrick – 0
Cate Blanchette – 0
Tom Hardy – 0
Sam Rockwell – 0
Samuel L. Jackson – 0

HOW THE ACTORS SCORED

Jake Gyllenhaal – 6 (Southpaw: Lead role – 3; Three Stars – 1; Empire compliments Performance – 2)
Chris Pratt – 7 (Jurassic World: Lead Role – 3; Four Stars – 2; Empire compliments performance – 2)
Elizabeth Banks – 4 (Love and Mercy: Supporting role – 2; Four Stars – 2)

ROUND ANALYSIS

Well, as you can see, I don’t really have too much to talk about. While there were some powerhouse movies on show this month (Jurassic World, Inside Out), it meant very little to our teams. Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks were the only ones to pick up points and I don’t even have a Actor of the Month segment, because no one really scored ay stand-out points. Several people scored seven points (Taylor Schlling, Jonah Hill, Keanu Reeves), but the lack of five star movies (Empire gave Inside Out five stars, but didn’t really compliment any of the cast), meant that there were no show-stopping amount of points springing up from everywhere. It has made this round rather hard to talk about. Let’s give Taylor Schlling Actor of the Round simply because she killed it in Orange is the New Black this month as well. Sounds fair enough to me.

Hey guys… we’ve left MovieRob behind. I am going to slow down and wait for him, k?

As for the teams, well… two people are worth mentioning. One is the titanic start from MovieRob. Finally getting bored of the pretty scenery around the starting line, Movie Rob wanders forward, a little confused as to what we are playing, and decides to go with 007 points. Well, what Rob lacks in speed, he has in style. Meanwhile, Miss Osbiston, Queen of the Subtle, managed to somehow use this mundane round to her advantage. She only scored six points, which while modest, as somehow been enough for her to climb from tenth place, all the way to sixth. The middle of the table was looking cluttered, but Miss Wild Things simply saw this as a quick method to achieve her sudden ascent. That’s the easy part of her claim to victory done with; now all she needs is a burst of points to catch up with Regular Winner, Cinema Parrot Disco.