Quick! Strike while the iron's hot!

[azekeil]

Dare I say it, I'm feeling a bit better! It may, of course, be something to do with the two ibuprofen and two paracetamol tablets I've just taken within 30 mins of each other.. Oh well, only time will tell. Appetite is slowly returning too.

Now, I just wanted to tell you all how much fun I was having re-watching Farscape with kissycat1000. I originally watched most of the first two series, but tailed off when I got into the third series, and of course I missed an episode here and there as well. So I haven't seen all of them by any stretch of the imagination. It may be quite sad of me, but I was moved to tears by the last episode I watched. It was the culmination of a three-episode storyline in the second series, where the final interaction between the leading man and lady plays out in a beautiful and touching manner.

The second Lord of The Rings films I saw at the cinema and was moved to tears by that too - a near-religious experience for me (having grown up on the swords and sorcery fantasy type stuff).

So, what (film/series/other) has moved you recently? Can you explain why?

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[duranorak.livejournal.com]

So, what (film/series/other) has moved you recently? Can you explain why?

Well, lots, obviously. But the most unlikely - and ongoing - one is Hollyoaks.

Yes, the plots are utterly implausible. ("Help, I'm keeping my dead mother in the bedroom until my best friend pulls a girl and comes to my house to try to shag her on the bed, and I'm going mad because the ghost of the guy who used to run the corner shop keeps talking to me, and I wet myself in the student bar and a really posh girl put her jacket around me and took me home" - seriously, this plotline went on for a few months.) But the acting, christ, it's good enough that I believe all of it - even the ghosts and the hallucinations and the stereotypes and the just plain fucking unlikely things that happen.

And I love the characters, some of whose lives I've been following off and on for, like, five or six years or something. And every time something bad happens, or something beautiful and good - but, being how it is, it's usually bad - I'm in floods. Because I believe them. Yes, even the ghosts. :)

I am easily moved, though.

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[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Hollyoaks. Well.. I have watched it from time to time. But I have to admit, I tend to view it in a Baywatch kind of way ;)

[sepheri.livejournal.com]

Babylon 5 had me laughing and crying so many times while watching it.

I watched sesies 4 while I was finishing my uni work over the summer. Due to having broken my fingers when I was suposed to hand it in I found myself finishing it on my own over the summer after all of my friends had already graduated. This meant that I was stuck in the house by myself every day and the only repite I had from work was watching a couple of Bab5 episodes during the breaks I allowed myself.
This meant that the only other voices I heard in a day were the ones of the characters and I got really attacted to them.

Each character is so well crafted with their own strengths and weeknesses that I got totally involved and even miss them now I've finished watching it.

Gods, that all sounds very sad :P
I have a real life now ;)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Lol, glad to hear you recovered ;)

kissycat1000 and ev1ldonut both really like Babylon 5. I've not really managed to get into it too much yet.

[sepheri.livejournal.com]

You have to watch every episode and it doesn't get really good til the end of the first series and really really good half way through the second.

[air-bizkit.livejournal.com]

The Japanese version of "The Grudge" or "Ju-On" as it is correctly titled.

Now, normally horror films don't really freak me out, but this one has a certain something about it that made me sleep that night with the light on.

I think it may have been the virtual lack of special effects, and the way the story jumps around varying points of observation is enough to put your mind on edge to start with. I can't really say a lot more without ruining the plot, but I would definately recommend this one over the Buffy infested Hollywood remake.

[yffy.livejournal.com]

Garden State. I don't know why, but that film made me feel so melancholy. Maybe because it's set in my home state, maybe because I identified with a lot of it, I don't know. The soundtrack alone is enough to make me feel all moody. The ending scene at the airport especially struck a chord with me, because I've been there, done that.

[nemy.livejournal.com]

Farscape is cool.

last thing that moved me was probably the West Wing. I believe President Barlett cut into some right wing religious bigot which a superb piece of oratory.

[bex-sgs.livejournal.com]

'A Beautiful Mind'.

His son suffered the same fate.

Also, when he's in the institute and he's looking in his wrist for the chip 'they' implanted in there.

:/