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innerSpaceman · 06-02-2006, 08:56 PM

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:]

Spoiler:

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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06-02-2006, 08:56 PM	#251
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	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:] Spoiler: It was a funny, quirky road trip movie. Felicity Huffman's character, Bri (short for Sabrina) is a week before her final sex change operation when she finds out she has a teenage son, in trouble with the law across the country in New York. Bri goes back east from L.A. to bail him out of jail, and ... they end up driving cross country back to Los Angeles together. Bri does not come clean with the lad. The kid finds out she's a "he" when Toby glances out the rear view mirror at a roadside pee-stop. Worse, Toby finds out Bri's really his dad, Stanley, when Toby is brazenly coming on to Bri (brazenly as in stark naked) at her/his parents house in Phoenix (where they end up stranded after their car is stolen by a peyote shaman conman hitchhiker). 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. . Last edited by innerSpaceman : 06-03-2006 at 01:32 PM.
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