The H.M.S. ABC Project: F

Every day before sitting here to pen the best two-man, Hoosier-dedicated, non-sports blog in the tri-state area, I comb through the family's DVD collection, searching for titles beginning with the day's letter, and yearning to feel inspired (because it's hard to write four-hyphen, five-comma sentences). Today's search yielded the following results: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Finding Forrester (a double F!), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Bueller...Bueller...Edition. I wasn't quite as inspired as I'd hoped.

When Cameron was in Egypt's land...let my Cameron...goooo.

And while I loves me some Bueller as much as any self-respecting American should, does the world really need another 1,000 words on his laissez-faire, carpe diem outlook on life? Let's just say the subject has been had and leave it at that.

Another obvious choice here, at least for me, is Fight Club. But I feel I've already written the defining review on this gem, and decorum prohibits me from going any further. Feel free to comb our archives if you feel gypped.

So what to do? There's another pair of great "F" movies (Forrest Gump & Finding Nemo) that are just as widely seen and boring to talk about, so let's go with one that perhaps you haven't enjoyed yet.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

 Slightly more fantastic than George Clooney's actual life.

I've been meaning to write about this flick for a little while, but kept forgetting. Also, I'm lazy. I keep telling you this. But while I have you, let me just say: I love this movie. If you're at all familiar with Wes Anderson's movies (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic), you surely already appreciate his wry humor and silliness. And his gratuitous use of Bill Murray, who here plays a badger lawyer to perfection. Put it all together and add stop motion puppets? Perfection.

If you're gonna cuss with somebody, you're not gonna cuss with me, you little cuss!,

Colin

(Nix's "F" pick: Fargo)