It's that time again

I'm out sick from work. Usually I'd work through it, but unfortunately the nature of my illness involves me having no voice, which makes directing quite difficult. In fact I'm now only able to communicate via blogging. (Although I've managed to communicate with Julia very effectively by just whistling in the same tonality as how I would've spoken something. It's quite a trick, actually.)

Well, it's that time again: time to let one lucky individual put a movie on my Netflix queue. Our last winner, Susana, chose to make me watch Newsies, a 1992 Disney musical about boys who wear vests. Not cool, Susana.

As I recall, Susana unironically liked this film. However, she was probably twelve when she saw it. It's written, directed, and staged like musical theater, instead of like a musical movie; and, considering Christian Bale is the star, he's shockingly unable to dance or sing. Also apparently someone told the screenwriters late in the game that there needed to be a romantic subplot in there, because they phoned that in big-time. This movie also stars Doogie Howser's friend and Ann-Margaret. The biggest disappointment: apparently Robert Duvall had a stroke that only affected the acting part of his brain. Because, oh man, he sucked.

So, here's how it works: anyone not directly related to me can suggest a movie. It can be completely terrible, or you can go the Susana route and pick a movie that only you could possibly like. It has to be available on Netflix, and it has to be a movie I've never seen. (Sorry, Batman & Robin.) Put it in a "comment" to this here blog entry. I'll pick the winner arbitrarily, and it will go on the very bottom of my Netflix queue. I'll see it in a little over 2 years.