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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 

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 

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:


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.