Not Another Happy Ending.

Rating: 2.5/10

Creator/Director: John McKay

Main Cast: Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber, and Iain De Caestecker.

When I saw the trailer of this movie (I often randomly watch trailers on Youtube), I immediately thought that I'd love it. I love watching mindless/predictable rom-coms. There is just something comforting in knowing how things will end *glares at season 5 of GoT*. I absolutely adore Karen Gillian. And Agent Fitz from Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D is in it. So what could go wrong, right?

Hah, I was wrong.

The premise of the movie is that Jane Lockhart is a author who can only write well when she's miserable. Thus her publisher, Tom Duvall, of a struggling publishing company, makes it his life's goal to make her miserable. But then he falls in love with her. Which obviously conflicts with the whole lets-make-her-miserable scheme. 

Theoretically, this has the perfect makings of a mindless rom-com. Attractive actors, check. Two unlikely people fall in love, check. A problems that stands in the way of them being together, check. A resolution that allows them to be together, check. 

Yet somewhere along the way it goes wrong. What should have been a charming movie that you watched, enjoyed, and promptly forgot about becomes tedious, lengthy, and, frankly, a tad bit boring.

No matter how much I wanted to, I just could not bring myself to care about the characters or the storyline. 

I loved hearing the accents and few of the shenanigans that ensued were funny, but overall this is not a movie that you'd watch a second time. If you manage to sit through it once that is.

The Origin Story

It is a well known fact that I require Netflix the way most people require oxygen. That may be a bit of a exaggeration. But not by much. Today a coworker of mine suggested that I keep a blog of my reviews of my various conquests I suppose you can call them.

This coworker maintains that this is because he thinks I would be good at this. But let's be honest, it's because every time I watch a movie/show and fall in love with it (happens quite often to be honest. Like Marshall Erikson from HIMYM, I give my seal of approval rather freely) I proceed to, for the lack of better phrasing, shove it down other people's throats.

For approximately a week after I find myself enamored by a new movie/show most of my conversations follow this pattern:

"So I started watching this new show/movie, *insert name*. IT IS AMAZING. Aaaaah! I love it SO much. It is so awesome you HAVE to watch it!! *insert a rambling and confusing description of the show* I'm so horrible at explaining it! It is so much better than I'm making it sound! You will love it! The chracters/setting/plotline is so complex and amazing. Aaaaah! You NEED to watch it!"

It is probably abundantly evident why people may find this annoying. Which is why I'm 98.6% sure that this is the reason my coworker has been pushing me to keep a blog.

So here goes nothing.