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Hate em. apart from Tony Curtis in Some Like it Hot? which was played for fun and silly with it but I can't suspend my disbelief enough for most other crossdressing films.
I am with you Bev ! It does not help me, it just feels me with sorrow and sadness
I hate them... I like to stay as positive as I can about transitioning. Also, so far I really can't relate too much with all the drama in those movies.
Actually, when I walk around... I only recieve positive looks from people (or maybe I don't see the bad ones?).
I just finished watching the Gwen Araujo movie, so tragic.
Quote from: Rabbit on December 18, 2011, 06:27:11 PM
Also, so far I really can't relate too much with all the drama in those movies.
Same.
Quote from: lilacwoman on December 18, 2011, 01:52:19 PM
Hate em. apart from Tony Curtis in Some Like it Hot? which was played for fun and silly with it but I can't suspend my disbelief enough for most other crossdressing films.
Ellen Barkin in "Switch" I think is the best. I almost laughed my.... you know whats off ;D
I liked Ma Vie En Rose, and Different For Girls was good too.
Quote from: JoanneB on December 19, 2011, 07:32:55 PM
Ellen Barkin in "Switch" I think is the best. I almost laughed my.... you know whats off ;D
I agree. And I'm in the same as other posters here who just cant watch TG movies. Nothing makes me feel worse than them.
Oh, "The Hot Chick" I'm sorry but that movie was such a turn on. I couldn't stop laughing
There are a few good TG movies like Transamerica... I thought it was a good movie...
I tend to avoid that stuff. I find it often silly or boring in short order.
Quote from: Beverley on December 18, 2011, 01:46:45 PM
How do you feel watching a 'trans' movie?
When I first started. One of my friends wanted to watch "Transamerica"... I was like, "Umm hell no"
I am trans..kinda sorta. But I really don't care to fill my head with the culture or the movies. Drag queens are cool...But transsexual women as a subject in films? Color me bored.
Now this movie I can get behind:
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-4Y3u9UuLxw8%2FTWknyzdOBnI%2FAAAAAAAAC1E%2Fzg4CGAW1YBA%2Fs1600%2Fticked_off_-%253E-bleeped-%253C-s_with_knives.jpg&hash=96de5acf74c2101ebf8add693b7ecaea8c03ccab)
THAT IS MY FAVE ->-bleeped-<- MOVIE!!!
i dont watch trans movies. I live it all my life....whats the point in watching a movie about it.
If I led a support group, the last thing I would be doing is watching trans movies. Talk about overkill
Quote from: Annah on December 19, 2011, 11:40:51 PM
i dont watch trans movies. I live it all my life....whats the point in watching a movie about it.
If I led a support group, the last thing I would be doing is watching trans movies. Talk about overkill
+1
Ya.
I hate them.
They all seem to project a culture and people who are not quite right. I'm perfectly normal so I feel quite offended if someone is portraying me as anything but normal.
As for showing them at a support group, geez. Sounds like a support group from Hell.
Then again I never go to support groups either.
Cindy
Quote from: Annah on December 19, 2011, 11:40:51 PM
i dont watch trans movies. I live it all my life....whats the point in watching a movie about it.
If I led a support group, the last thing I would be doing is watching trans movies. Talk about overkill
I have a whole collection of gay films though. I guess I'm a griffin.
Hi Beverly
Sounds nice and a full day!!
I'm sorry if I sounded negative, I didn't mean it that way. I did go to a support group and they were very good at starting me up in facing life etc. It was once I decided that this was it, I just decided to go out with friends as every other woman does. I do go out with my TG friends but I go out mainly with GG friends to mainstream clubs, bars etc. I go out a lot by myself.
I think I came from not being interested in being treated as TG, I'm just me, and I didn't seem to relate to most of the other woman in the group.
This was not in any way meant to be insulting to any one, and I will not allow a 'war' to start. It is an honest comment.
Cindy
Watching trans-themed films was very helpful to me at the beginning of my transition, because they helped me realise who I was and what was going on.
I think that further along the journey, they're not so relevant, but it depends on what the demographic of the support group is. Perhaps valuable for some, but not for others? Just how I feel at my support group having to sit through lengthy discussions of wigs and makeup. I'm there to meet the people - because the discussions aren't valuable to me personally, but I get that they are very valuable to some.
The documentary She's A Boy I Knew was and is still very worth watching, for me, as a reminder that the person you're transitioning into is yourself, and that may not resemble any other trans woman. It's easy to get caught up in group dynamics and peer pressure.
Good question. I guess my tastes have changed. I hadn't really thought about it.
I used to like some cross-dressing movies (they're almost all comedies) in which the main character crosses the gender line to get a job or get into the dream school or whatever. Those characters weren't transsexuals. It's kind of annoying that they get to go back to their nice normal life at the end of the movie (and I don't), but I don't mind watching these films occasionally, even now.
I tend not to like transsexual movies. It used to be, I always wanted to see them, but then I didn't want to watch them twice. I wasn't particularly unhappy with Boys Don't Cry, but Brandon Teena was kind of a jerk. Anyway, I won't watch it again. I didn't care for Normal at all (a couple of non-trans people have raved about it to me), and I really hated Transamerica. Soldier's Girl was pretty good but so depressing.
I've seen a few of the more recent documentaries, and I'm never happy with them. That one whiny guy on Boy I Am spoiled that movie for me, and I didn't like any of the people in Transgeneration. Yet I still felt honor-bound to watch the whole damned series.
I don't go out of my way to watch transsexual movies anymore. But I have to admit that I'm curious about the new Glenn Close movie, partly because I like Close's work and partly because the setting is my era of specialty. But I don't think I'll see it.
I wouldn't mind seeing a docudrama on Lou Sullivan, though.
Being someone who is still so confused about my gender, and one who is recovering from emotional shutdown, movies like these are sometimes the only way I can explore myself and what I'm feeling. I feel for those of you that can't watch these films for one reason or another. Currently movies are the only way that I can cry or even feel anything other than anxiety.
I don't understand why there are some who react so negatively towards TG movies. Like, I get that some of you feel like you're "living this", but I suppose some people are just absolutely sensitive to certain things like this. :)
I personally find them fascinating and while certain things hit close to home for me, there are just A LOT of things that I can't relate to and I like that a lot, because it allows me as the viewer to see a fresh perspective on transition and what being T means to others. I'm also a huge fan of TG Documentaries as well, since a few of them revolve around a large of variety of people and how they handle things on a daily basis.
I say you ladies should give them a chance once you feel comfortable enough!
I like transdocs so much more: She's a Boy I Knew, Blue Without Red, No Dumb Questions. I really enjoyed those. If you haven't heard of them you should check them out. They are not depressing. They are directed by the trans people themselves and are very poignant, humorous and all round a good watch. I don't like films, and I certainly didn't like Normal. It was so depressing. Cisgendered people just can't direct a good trans film. (An obvious exception would be Ma Vie en Rose.)
I agree with Beverly. I think that hits my core concern/dislike
I hate the send ups of TG people, Little Britain and the like. Even the Mony Python, I'm a Lumberjack sketch has been used around me. Albeit not recently.
Oh god we watched monty python the other night and the "i want to be a woman and have babies" bit in the ampitheatre made me a bit uncomfortable. I wouldnt care to see mrs doubtfire again either. Boys dont cry I thought was a well done film but the difference for me is that its a sersious look at the hardships transfolk face rather than a joke that i feel like im the butt of.
I watched what ever I could get my hands on. A lot did not fit me but it was all I had back than I don't own any of the movies personally. The documentaries helped me the most i would say. I do see how it (movies) could be hurtful though. I seen transamerca wish it did not have a lot of the other stuff in it.
Quote from: Beverley on December 18, 2011, 01:46:45 PM
How do you feel watching a 'trans' movie? I was at my local TG group recently and they decided to change the format so we all brought some Xmas stuff (pies, sandwiches, etc) and they decided to show a movie for entertainment. The movie was 'Normal (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338290/)'. It was about a farmer in a small mid-west town transitioning. I lasted about 15 minutes before I walked out and went and sat somewhere else until it was over.
I hate watching such stuff, everyone else seemed to enjoy it. As for Tootsie or Mrs Doubtfire.... ::)
How does everyone else feel about such movies?
Beverley
Just feel like you - am too self-conscious and will NOT get a rise out of that sort of 'entertainment'.
Like make a movie about some autistic, which has been done, and get all hang about it. No thanks - not for me.
That stuff is just too close to bone for a lot of us I guess, and I'm one of them. This whole trans thing ain't funny, and in particular when handled by cis-folks just for doing something 'new' or different yet again.
Axélle