How odd ... I just finished watching TransAmerica, too.

Right this minute, in fact. And with 'Travelin' Thru' still playing over the end credits as I type this, I also vow to gravetravel knowing it's better than that lame Pimp song.


I didn't have the baggage of knowing Felicity Huffman from anything else, so I had no problem with her in the role. I know it might have been more "authentic" for a man to be playing the main character ... but only if the man had gone thru the whole sex change thing (short of the oh-so-final dicksideout part). The character was 79.6% woman, so I think Huffman fit the role to a T.


I really liked the movie. And I didn't even have a problem with over-the-top mom, since that was clearly the high-farce portion of the film that was meant to be a break from more serious, more slow-paced fare that characterized the bulk of the movie.

Not that the remainder of the film was humorless. The pic was laced with some pretty funny stuff. Haha, my favorite line was when Toby (Felicity's son in the movie), unexpectedly attending a trannie party, is amazed at the geniuneness of a female-to-male transexual, and the 'guy' says back to him, "We walk among you."



[plot points revealed:]



The movie was very entertaining. It didn't hurt that, due to some people who've come into my life of late, I've had transexualism on my mind a bit.

It didn't hurt that the kid who plays Toby (Kevin Zegers) is an unbelievable HoTTie. (nor that he plays a gay hustler in the film .... hubba hubba)


I can totally see why Huffman was nominated for, and won, so many awards for this performance. And wow, I can even see why a Dolly Parton song was nominated for an Oscar ... and was robbed.




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Just finished watching the ADigitalMan versions of the Star Wars saga (all 7 movies, including 'Episode II.V: The Clone Wars') and it occurred to me that I have seen this series more times than I should have. I have a friend on the opposite end of the spectrum who is proud to have never seen a single SW movie. While I find the whole "defining oneself by something you didn't do" a little stupid, I also worry that I notice where all the changes are in this fan-edit series.

Watching the series in Lucas' order (I-VII), I find myself wondering why the worst two movies are the first and last...

I just finished watching one of my all time favorite movies on TCM: 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'. Call me a sucker but I love Frank Capra. If you haven't seen this film, rent it. It's so awesome. And surprisingly timely.

Makes me tear up every single freakin' time I watch it.

:)

We watched another Frank Capra film last night - in honor of you, my dear GC. We watched "You Can't Take It WIth You". What character did you play again? Somehow, I decided it was the Russian. I'll have to go look.

Mr. DePinna (the guy in the toga). He was actually split into 2 characters for the movie: Mr. DePinna and Mr. Poppins. For the sake of exposition, they introduced the Poppins character for the movie...
Did you like the movie? I love Capra...
:)

I loved the film! Capra knows how to tell a story.

I introduced my 12 year old daughter to Simon Birch tonight. Hadn't watched it in a long, long time.

Finally saw 'The Family Stone'. I loved it.:D

Out of curiosity, have you read the book? It is one of my favorites and as a result I couldn't really stand the movie (I know, I should view them as separate things but it has just enough of the book in it that I couldn't do it).

It was a great movie. Not what I expected. Did you think it was a comedy going into it?