6th Floor Blog's Academy Awards

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Subject: 6^th Floor Blog Oscars

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Presenting 6^th Floor Blog's Oscar nominees for must-see movies!

The Dark Knight

It seems like this movie only got recognition because Heath Ledger died after doing an excellent job portraying the Joker, but it was really an excellent movie. I'd even venture to say the best Batman movie ever.

I agree. It was a great movie; suspense, action, excitement. It borrowed from the comics obviously, but it was an original story, and a compelling one.

Quantum of Solace

Spectacular or not, you have to go see a Bond movie.

Action, explosion, gadgets, cars. It's hard to make a bad Bond movie, and that means it's always worth seeing.

The only thing to debate is if you liked the Bond Girl, or if the movie didn't have enough over the top explosions.

Wanted

This is certainly not a serious movie, and as such would never ever be considered a 'great' movie, but I sure enjoyed watching it.

Sometimes complete ridiculousness, like curving bullets, is fun. All the silly stuff they do such as Angelina Jolie (and that's almost enough of a reason to see a movie in it of herself) scooping up the cowering 'hero' with her car., is just zany. Sometimes it's more fun to just say 'screw physics'.

That was my entire college philosophy!

Cloverfield

We may be biased about this one, being in New York, but I felt this was a rather compelling movie, despite all the crazy cult hype.

The problem was people looking for a monster movie or comparing it to Godzilla. It wasn't about the monster, it was about the journey of the characters through the city while the monster attacked.

The reason they didn't just run for the border was a little bit of a stretch, but after you accept that, it was interesting. I enjoyed the different way it was filmed, as if from the camera the guy carried around the whole movie.

Now that was a little contrived. Who would keep carrying the damn thing around at that point? It must've been an awesome camera, but still, good movie.

Iron Man

I liked Iron Man. I know some didn't, but it was a good comic book movie, and he had some excellent cars.

It was half Iron Man, half Tony Stark. I think it was rather well done for an origin story movie. I'd like to see more.

He'll be in the Avengers movie right? When's that come out?

2011.

Damn.

6th Floor Trailers

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Today's contributors are: Ann, Sara, Tabitha, Frank, Billy and Scott.

Subject: 6^th Floor Trailers

The gang is all out at Catalina's after seeing Cloverfield, and we got to talking about the trailers we saw.

“I do want to see Jumper though, that preview enticed me.”

“Yes!”

“I was on the fence just based on the preview-poster we saw, but the preview enticed me too. When does that one open, Valentine's Day?”

“Yup, and actually the role seems very similar to Anakin Skywalker. I wonder if that's why they chose Hayden Christensen.”

Cindy: “Oooh, I love Hayden.”

“Hayden huh? You're on a first name basis with him Cindy?”

Cindy: “Yeah, his first name's Hayden. Everyone knows that. Duh.”

Frank stares at Cindy as she returns to the kitchen, then turns back to the table. “How about 10,000 BC? That looks pretty good.”

“I don't know. It looks kind of bland to me.”

“Bland? I thought it looked rather exciting.”

“The first hero? Kind of pretentious don't you think?”

“Well, it was a long time ago. I wonder if it's the earliest a movie has taken place? Then first hero would be true.”

“Star Wars took place a 'long long time ago'. Could've been before that.”

“So Luke Skywalker was the first hero then? Fine.”

“The girl in 10,000 BC is hot though. I'd see it.”

“I think we're all in agreement on Iron Man.”

“Obviously.”

“Can't wait.”

“I never miss a comic book movie.”

“I'll pass.”

“Yeah, me too.”

“What? It's Iron Man!”

“So? I'd rather see 10,000 BC over that.”

“That blackjack movie didn't look that good. Sort of like that gambling movie with Al Pacino, only probably worse.”

“I agree. Definitely don't want to see that one. What about you Frank? That's more in your neck of the woods.”

“Just because I spend a lot of time in casinos doesn't mean I'll enjoy bad movies that take place in one.”

“Okay, so scratch that one..I think it was just called 21. I can't wait for the new Star Trek movie, but December?!”

“Ahh!! Trekkie!” Frank makes the sign of the cross at Sara.

“Hey, just because I like Star Trek doesn't mean I'm evil. Put that away.”

“I'll go see it with you Sara.”

Frank points his hands at Ann.

“Does the sign of the cross ward off atheists? I don't think so...I certainly don't feel repelled.”

“Don't the Star Trek movies usually suck anyway?”

“Only every other one I think.”

“So is this one due to be good or bad?”

“I don't remember. I'm hoping good.”

“I think we can all agree that we want to see Get Smart at least.”

“Of course. I love Steve Carell.”

“Definitely. When's that come out?”

“Not until June unfortunately. I always loved the show growing up.”

Cindy: “What show?”

“Get Smart.”

Cindy: “Smart? I don't think we have that beer Scott.”

Cindy rolls her eyes at Ann. “You could've told him that.”

6th Floor Blog goes the the Movies.....twice!

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Subject: 6^th Floor Blog has been to the movies

As always, movie posts may or may not contain some sort of spoiler moment. Cloverfield was very predictable and they actually tell you the ending at the beginning, but Sweeney Todd was a little more surprising.

“I can't believe we saw two movies this weekend.”

“It really cut into our drinking time.”

“I only had one beer this entire weekend!”

“Wow. You must be going through withdrawal or something.”

“The one beer was a 24oz actually, so was really two.”

“Let's get out of here, get a drink?”

“Have to wait for Sara and Ann to finish up in the bathroom.”

“I'm surprised Ann made it through the whole movie with that gigantic-size soda.”

“She's lucky the movie was short. 84 minutes or something.”

“That is pretty short. I think it was a good length though.”

“Yeah. Longer would've been too long.”

“I don't know how that camera lasted even 84 minutes with them using it as a flashlight, and all the night vision while in the subway. Must be a killer battery.”

“Maybe they had replacement batteries and just didn't show it to us. Could show up in the deleted scenes on the DVD.”

Ann and Sara return from the bathroom, and the six of them start filing outside.

“Much better. So did you guys decide if we should do something else now?”

“We decided we're going to get a drink, since it's been a dry weekend and Billy's going through withdrawal.”

“Big surprise.”

“Guinness withdrawal can be pretty rough.”

“We going back to Catalina's, or you want to just head over to that bar there.” Ann points at a bar across the street.”

“Let's check that one out. We can always bail and go to Catalina's since it's on the way home.”

“I was pleasantly surprised with Cloverfield. It was depressing seeing my old work building in the background when they took off in the helicopters, but other than that it was cool.”

“I was kind of annoyed that they pretty much told you how the movie was going to end at the beginning.”

They go into the bar, which is fairly empty, and order drinks and actually find an empty table to sit at.

“There were other ways it could end, but yeah, that was pretty much how they set it up at the beginning with those notes.”

“I like how they kept them in Manhattan and not escaping. It was a lot better than a lot of horror movies that are so unbelievable that they keep missing the escape opportunities.”

“The camera bouncing all the time was starting to become rather annoying though. I was thinking 'just focus the picture and stop shaking the camera!' about 15 minutes in.”

“That's true. They had some cool camera angles though, when he puts the camera down.”

“Yeah, really makes you focus on what they're saying to figure out what's going on.”

“They were pretty good about not making it too gory too. Not like Sweeney Todd.”

“Sweeney Todd was a little more artistic than gross though with the gore.”

“That last scene probably would make a cool wax statue.”

“Gross Billy.”

“It was too much singing for me. One or two of the songs were funny though.”

“The cannibal one.”

“I knew you were going to say that. I thought to myself, this is gross and about eating. Billy's probably loving it.”

“I was surprised I liked Sweeney Todd though. Johnny Depp is pretty good at switching roles.”

“Too gory for me, even if it was artsy. I actually preferred Cloverfield and I certainly didn't think I would enjoy that more. I do like Johnny Depp though.”

“I didn't like Sweeney Todd that much either. I probably shouldn't have seen two movies, and had popcorn at both of them after losing my job though.”

“Eh, I'll buy you the first beer to make up for it.”

“Sweet, free beer!”