A-to-tha-Zizzle: F

Howdy, y'all!  Today is Thursday, which means the weekend is one short day away! Wohoo!!  I'm also thrilled because Saturday night I'm going to see Lady Gag! Wohoo! Can't wait. 

Anyhoo, onward with the alphabet game.  Today's magic letter is F, as in:

Ferris Bueller's Day Off


One of the best teen movies EVER made.  Matthew Broderick is fabulous as Ferris, the teen who outsmarts his parents to spend a day away from school doing nothing but having fun. 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High




Right up there with the best high school movies of all time.  I love Judge Reinhold. (Don't worry boys, Phoebe Cates is in it, too.) 

Father of the Bride


One of my favorite wedding movies.  Steve Martin plays the tightwad, frustrated father of the bride well.  Diane Keaton is great, and I think Kimberly Williams (now -Paisley) is adorable!

A Few Good Men


You can't handle the truth!  Tom Cruise before he went all Scientology-weird.  Jack Nicholson as one of the best villains ever.  Great story line.  Good stuff.

First Knight


Richard Gere (YUM) steals the lovely Guinevere (Julia Ormond) from Arthur (Sean Connery - again, YUM).  You really don't need a plot more involved than that.  Good movie, though.

Footloose

Kevin Bacon moves into a backwoods Bible belt town and teaches them that hey - it's okay to dance. 

Fried Green Tomatoes


One of the best flashback films I've ever seen.  The cast is excellent, and the storyline is wonderful.  Love love love it.  The novel is pretty good, also.






Sorry I sort of skeezed on this post, but I am pressed for time, and I really just want to chill on the couch and watch everything on my DVR (although at this point it would take roughly four days of non-stop watching to catch up) since I've been so busy with school and life that I haven't had time to watch Glee, American Idol, NCIS or any of the Kennedy specials.  Summer's almost here....summer's almost here....
Y'all have an awesome evening!

John Hughes lied to me

Before the angry mob forms with pitchforks and torches, let me explain.

I love John Hughes.  I think he was awesomely talented, and his movies in the 80s taught me everything I needed to know about high school. 

However, that being said.....

He completely lied about romance.  By doing so, he set me up to be hugely disappointed throughout the majority of my teen years.  Why do I feel this way?  Well, let me break out the evidence:



Exhibit A:

Sixteen Candles

Thanks to this film, I believed the hottest, richest, most popular boy in school would break up with his hot blonde girlfriend to go out with me - the lowly, awkward sixteen-year-old.

LIE!

Exhibit B:

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Thanks to this film, I believed I there existed such a teenage boy who was so cool that he and his dorky best friend would skip school, steal friend's dad's car, break me out of school and take me to the city for the day on an adventure filled with museums, baseball, ritzy restaurants, musical numbers, swimming and serious conversation.....but surprisingly all done within school hours.

LIE!

Exhibit C:

Breakfast Club

Thanks to this film, I thought all it took for the social walls in school to be broken down was one day in detention, and it was okay for rich girls to date leather-clad, pierced punks and weird girls to date jocks. 

LIE!

Exhibit D:

Pretty in Pink

Thanks to this film, I believed the popular teenage guy would suddenly develop a conscience, stand up for what's right and not give in to peer pressure from his buds.

LIE!


I rest my case.