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I hate Netflix right now

tanteva

tanteva

Mistress of Mayhem
I need to vent!

SPOILER ALERT!
IF YOU PLAN TO WATCH MY OXFORD YEAR ON NETFLIX - DON'T SCROLL DOWN.












I wanted to see a nice romantic comedy. Picked Netflix's new My Oxford Year. Yes, I checked it: it's listed as a romantic comedy. Also rewatched the trailer now after watching the movie ... not a sign that it's not a regular rom com.

It was horrible! Why is there trigger warnings for basically everything but sad effing endings?!! I've been crying like an idiot. It's 1am here, and how on earth am I supposed to get some sleep now. I hate sad endings. I can handle that it's a bit sad along the way, but there must be a happy ending.

I said before I picked a movie "Should I go for love or murder?" I should have picked the next episode of Midsomer Murders instead.
 
Oh my dear so sorry to hear about your bad experience, I hope that you will be able to get some sleep. I haven't able to sleep for the electric storm, but soon I'm gonna head off to bed.
Don't trust the classifications, the same thing happened to me recently with a retro film (The New Hampshire Hotel 1984), it was classified as a romantic comedy, and well, after 20 mins. I was already wondering what kind of psychopath had classified it as a comedy, and two thirds of the way through the film it was clear that it wasn't a romance, I finished watching it wishing I had never watched it, the worst movie for me, letting along Creature from the black lagoon (1954).
 
I don't know if you've watched a movie called Young woman and the sea (2024)? it's a good movie, I really enjoyed watching it. It's not romance, or comedy but biographical.
 
By the way thank you so much for the warning, I had the movie in my list to watch, I've deleted it, I hate sad movies, there's enough suffer on Earth, at nowadays it's enough to turn on the news to get a daily dose of drama, movies should serve to take us away from reality and bring us some joy. I hug you from a distance.
 
pachimac said:
I was thinking of watching Midsomer Murders - is it good?
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If you like British crime, it is. It's the best British crime show in that cozy way like only British crime can be. Watch one episode, they are all like seperate movies. There's a murder (or like 4-5) in a small village & Barnaby solves it. No gory details. Just a classic puzzle to solve.
 
GraceJ said:
By the way thank you so much for the warning, I had the movie in my list to watch, I've deleted it, I hate sad movies, there's enough suffer on Earth, at nowadays it's enough to turn on the news to get a daily dose of drama, movies should serve to take us away from reality and bring us some joy. I hug you from a distance.
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Exactly! I really need to escape reality these days & need to have my happy endings. Also, I'm extra sensitive, I think, when it comes to cancer (which was what created the sad ending in this movie) ever since I lost my sister to it.
 
tanteva said:
If you like British crime, it is. It's the best British crime show in that cozy way like only British crime can be. Watch one episode, they are all like seperate movies. There's a murder (or like 4-5) in a small village & Barnaby solves it. No gory details. Just a classic puzzle to solve.
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That sounds right up my alley!
 
tanteva said:
Exactly! I really need to escape reality these days & need to have my happy endings. Also, I'm extra sensitive, I think, when it comes to cancer (which was what created the sad ending in this movie) ever since I lost my sister to it.
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I too try to avoid the theme, because my dad passed away for cancer, so I won't torture myself watching that movie, thanks for the warning.
 
tanteva said:
If you like British crime, it is. It's the best British crime show in that cozy way like only British crime can be. Watch one episode, they are all like seperate movies. There's a murder (or like 4-5) in a small village & Barnaby solves it. No gory details. Just a classic puzzle to solve.
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MM is one of my all-time favorite shows. Have been watching it for years. Makes me feel like I'm living in England again, except we didn't witness a murder while living there. Thanks for the info on My Oxford Year. I'll pass! There's enough real-life sadness in the world for me these days. :sad2:
 
tanteva said:
I need to vent!

SPOILER ALERT!
IF YOU PLAN TO WATCH MY OXFORD YEAR ON NETFLIX - DON'T SCROLL DOWN.












I wanted to see a nice romantic comedy. Picked Netflix's new My Oxford Year. Yes, I checked it: it's listed as a romantic comedy. Also rewatched the trailer now after watching the movie ... not a sign that it's not a regular rom com.

It was horrible! Why is there trigger warnings for basically everything but sad effing endings?!! I've been crying like an idiot. It's 1am here, and how on earth am I supposed to get some sleep now. I hate sad endings. I can handle that it's a bit sad along the way, but there must be a happy ending.

I said before I picked a movie "Should I go for love or murder?" I should have picked the next episode of Midsomer Murders instead.
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Well, I had it on my list, but I'm going to take it off now, and not because you've spoiled it because I'm totally glad you posted as much as you did because I've been there, done that, and have the tear stained t-shirts to prove it. It's not a comedy when one of the heart throbs dies at the end, UGH!!! Thank you for sharing! I'm actually on a Midsomer binge myself right now. I'd never watched it before, got a 7 day free-Acorn trial to finish the 3 seasons of Murdoch Mysteries I hadn't seen and then got hooked on Brockenwood Mysteries from New Zealand, and then Doc Martin, followed by Black Snow, Whitestable Pearl, Darby & Joan, & now I'm on Season 16 of Midsomer. Love having them on while doing anything scrap related.
 
pachimac said:
I was thinking of watching Midsomer Murders - is it good?
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I'm totally hooked, I'm on season 16 LOL. I have them going while scrapping and it's fun seeing actors from other British shows like Call the Midwives show up or a really young Orlando Bloom in an early one. Always more than one murder and while gruesome sometimes, they spare the gruesome details. I have yet to figure out 'whodunone', but then I've never played Clue either but they are incredibly intertwined with a bunch of possible characters. I enjoy the Britishisms and different pronnciations and needless to say sometimes have to put on closed captioning to pick up what was said. LOL Honestly I'm totally hooked on AcornTV period.
 
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