My DVD player's trying to tell me something

Explain to me why my DVD player won't let me watch Romcoms? OK, I know they're a bit girly and I'm not, but I happen to LIKE Notting Hill, ok? What has my machine got against me watching it? It USED to let me watch it... why does it now go into a terminal sulk at the first taste of the Hugh Grant disk, sit there for hours giving a "reading" message but no further, have to unplugged and taken to the kitchen and abused, before it'll spit the disk back? Is it commenting on my general blokeyness; overblokeyness; UNblokeyness even? What's the story here?