Snowflake Challenge Day 12

[turps]

Challenge #12

In your own space, resurrect an old meme. Have fun with it! Which is the goofiest meme you can think of? Put on your party hat and be silly!! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I wasn't sure which one to do from the list, and played a bit, apparently my SciFi character is Worf and I write like Arthur Clarke, no doubt because I plugged in Musketeers in Space for the example. I also looked for one I remembered, what trope are you, and got fannish fluff, so obviously the meme was defective.

But then I got an email from Letterboxd, the site where I log films watched and decided to go for the Kleenex moment and talk about films for a bit.

Kleenex Moment - Pick the top five movies that make you cry, and tell us what the Kleenex Moment is (when do you reliably reach for the hankies).

With the caveat that some of these were very situational and other times, I may not cry at all while watching, but these times stand out.


When Jack slips off the board in Titanic. I was barely holding it together then managed to calm down, and then Rose died and Jack is waiting for her at the top of the stairs and everyone is clapping and looking at it logically I can think, but why doesn't she go to her husband? But one time I watched that and sobbed. In my defence Corey was a toddler, we'd just gone home from an excellent two weeks holiday and I was exhausted. But man, so many tears.

When King Kong was shot from the top of the tower. Again, I was very young, just a kidlet then as this was the black and white version. All I can remember are sobbing snotty tears and my dad laughing and saying it was just a gorilla. Not helping, dad!

On that theme, when I was a young teen my family used to enjoy watching Project X. Why I don't know as that film is traumatising. Goliath's death was just wrong, he saved everyone and got radiated for his troubles and it shows his hand flopping down and why did we keep watching that? I don't understand.

About a million times in A Dogs Purpose and A Dogs Journey. Why I went to see the second one when the first one broke me I don't know, but I did.

Mamma Mia 2. People will know that I love the cinema and go often -- when it's open any way. After mam died Mamma Mia 2 was the first film we went to see after that and I thought I was going to go see something light-hearted. What I got was a film that dealt with the main character dealing with the recent death of her mam. It got to the part where a song was sung about mothers and daughters and I was gone. I sat there barely able to breathe with tears rolling down my face and yeah. I couldn't tell you if that one is totally situational as I've vowed to never watch it again.

I think what this shows me is, I need to stop watching films that feature animals as they often make me cry.


In a previous Snowflake challenge kingstoken offered to make icons, and I asked for a new Hawkeye, either movie or comic, and I got these two beauties, aren't they great?



Oh, it would have been nice to have an icon meme in the Snowflake list. I could have looked for an old one to use if I'd thought about it before.

Thanks also to misbegotten for the fun postcard and pensnest for indulging my bath habits. You're both great ♥

Royal Mail must be bringing in extras to try and catch up with the mail as I got a load all at once again, but what made me laugh was the man delivering and handing over the parcels called me Madam. I mean, it's polite and all but it's not something I expect to hear.

Comments

[sjh2009]

Royal Mail are struggling at the moment. Some areas near me have so many posties off or isolating that some areas haven't had mail since before Christmas!

Those icons are cool aren't they! I guess if you have an icon meme you could do another post and start one!

I'm far more likely to get emotional when animals are involved. *Hugs* about Mamma Mia, that is so understandable!

Thank you for taking part :)

[turps]

Thankfully we've had mail since Christmas, but I can well believe they're struggling so badly. We're getting about two or three deliveries a week, which is better than a month or so ago. I really do feel for anyone working for them, they must be fun off their feet.

They're excellent icons, I was thrilled to get them.

Thank you <3

But yeah, animal films always get me. I should stop watching them really.

[shadowhive]

*sends hugs*

I’ve not actually seen King Kong. I keep meaning to watch the recent one but whenever it’s on tv the timing is off

*hugs again* Oh yeah mamma Mia 2 was so bad with that.mi know I expected it to be light hearted too but to have her be gone🥺

The Hawkeye icon reminded Me of this which I saw on twitter

[turps]

I wouldn't say King Kong is a must-see film, but if you ever do get a chance to watch maybe try just to say you've seen it.

I had no idea the mam would be gone. I still like parts of the film and love most of the music. But yeah, couldn't watch it again.

That Clint and Bucky comic is fabulous!

[shadowhive]

I’ll let you know if I ever do (ironically a trailer has gone up for a new Kong film today, vs Godzilla)

Yeah it was a little underhanded. People had wondered if she was cause she wasn’t in the trailer much, but I dismissed it and was sad she was

Yay!

[majorr]

Titanic gets me every single time, and I've seen that movie too many times to count. I've had that same thought about her husband! But I'm guessing it was because Jack was her soulmate and she settled for that other dude. . . . I feel bad for that guy. lol

[turps]

It's funny what you think about when the film is over. I feel bad for her husband too as they seemed to have had a long and happy life together. But I guess you're right, Jack was special.

And I'll still get teary-eyed when she sees him again *g*

[ephemera]

(For me the situational one was the end of Stardust, right after J and I split up, and the "every time" one is Firefly the movie.)

Royal Mail are under so much pressure at the moment - we're getting post about twice a week at the moment, and mostly pretty late evening, and I'm still getting a trickle of messages from people who are just now getting Christmas cards posted in good time (mail from here to south / west London seems to have been a lot slower than international or up to you!)

[turps]

I can see how Stardust would have affected you at that time, and Serenity is a guaranteed tear-jerker.

I feel for people working for Royal Mail. It must be a daunting task to get everything delivered on time, and like you, we're still at about two or three deliveries a week at best.

The mail survey I'm doing is interesting because I have to note when I get letters sent to me containing computer tracking chips, and often the people running the survey query the fact the letters get to our local depot but then don't get delivered to my house until three days later. The service must be on its knees right now.

[pronker]

Those are indeed marvelous icons!

King Kong and Titanic are tear worthy; the music swells and the tragic events happen and there go the weepy eyes ...

[turps]

I was thrilled to get such lovely icons.

Yep, the music really adds to the tragic events. The pull at our heartstrings like masters.

[tjs_whatnot]

Okay, I'm totally doing the Kleenex one, but have only thought of three films so far, I'll come up with more as I continue reading people's posts.

Thanks for sharing. ♥

[turps]

My Kleenex list was mostly, did the film have animals in it? Did they die? If so, add it. Honestly, I need to stop watching them already.

You're welcome. I hope you can come up with more films for yourself.

[frausorge]

It's really hard when something ambushes you with a theme that hits close to home. I'm sorry you were surprised with MM2.

And animal death is terrible too. We had to read Where the Red Fern Grows in middle school and I cried so much.

[turps]

The thing with MM2 was Shauna, Kayleigh's girlfriend at the time, tried so hard to tell me the plot as she'd already seen the film before I went. It just never clicked when she kept asking me did I want to know what happened, that she was trying to tell me something important. She tried though.

Animal death is horrible. I've cried often about in books too. It's how I'm always surprised Watership Down is so popular, because man, that's a heart-tugger.

[turlough]

Those are great icons!

Madam Terri has a certain ring to it, I think ;-D

[turps]

They really are great icons. The one of Clint on his own is very much the mood kind.

Ahahah, Madam Terri just sounds wrong. I felt a thousand years old when he said it.

[brandywine28]

I'm sorry about your Mamma Mia 2 experience. Something so similar happened to me right after my dad died, with the movie Armageddon. That scene where Liv Tyler is holding her hand up to the monitor? I was crying so hard I think the other people in the theatre thought I was having a fit or something.

I should've walked out the second Ben Affleck started in with his animal cracker schtick. God, I wish I had. :)

[turps]

That scene in Armageddon is brutal anyway, add in your dad just dying, no wonder you reacted as you did.

It was horrible when it happened in the theatre too, as walking out at that point seemed impossible, like everyone would have been looking.