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Friday, August 11, 2006

The dog didn't eat it

Okay...

So you know when you have an idea and you think "that'll be great, and everyone will join in and it will be the best blog post evah", and when you actually do it, it turns out to be, well, a bit shit?

Ages ago I got some of you to nominate your favorite tranny movies ever. Then I got you all to vote on your favorites. Then I got you to talk about why you liked them. The idea was to compile it into a great big all-singing all-dancing website feature.

Well, it didn't really work. For a number of reasons...
  • Some pretty shameless vote rigging (whatever way you turn it, Cathii, The Matrix is not a tranny film!) ;-)

  • A patchy response to the request for feedback (some of you took the time to write back some great stuff, others... meh)

  • When I sat down to write reviews of each film, I found out: I'm not a good film review writer.
All of which added up to making the whole thing a bit of a chore to compile together. I've had several cracks at it, but it just wasn't working. I'm sorry!

But, there were a lot of nominations, and there was a great response when it came to the voting stage...

So, as voted by you, and here for you to pick holes in and argue over, is...

The Top 10 Best Tranny Movies of All Time
  1. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

  2. Some Like it Hot

  3. The Crying Game

  4. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

  5. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

  6. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar

  7. Ed Wood

  8. Moulin Rouge

  9. Boys Don't Cry

  10. Tootsie

Anonymous Stephanie Delacey  Oh, I didn't vote for any of them!! 
Blogger Ciara  Any list that doesn’t have Tiresia on it is frankly lacking. Ok so you shouldn’t watch it on your own and without a stiff drink, you may not sleep after it and it is in subtitles but it’s quiet simply the best TS film ever. 
Blogger Pandora Caitiff  Yeah, that looks about right

And even non-trannys like Priscilla!

Should have asked some z-list celebs to comment. I'm sure Paul Ross and Justin Lee Collins would have done it for free :D 
Blogger Cathii Scott  That wasn't vote rigging.... It was merely "creative campaigning"! (or at least I will hold to that line til the Feds show up!)

Seen every one of them on the list except for Some like it hot and Moulin Rouge (I really can't stand Nicole after her performance in "BMX Bandits") For my money Boys don't cry is the superior film on that list. The only film there to show trannies (in this case an f2m) in any other light than either the comic character or the sultry suductress.

Having said that, Rocky Horror still ROCKS!!!!

VOTE 1
Vote MATRIX! 
Blogger Sandie Dee  Matrix should be a tranny film! Except that I hate Trinity 'cause I know I can never look like that... but I wish I could!! Mind you, if the Matrix were real ;-) Could one of you computer geniuses please team up with a biologist quick and make a VR programme that will let me *be* Trin please :-) 
Anonymous Stephanie Delacey  "And even non-trannys like Priscilla!"

Exactly why I didn't like it. Camp for straight people. 
Blogger Charlee Brown  For some reason, I feel I'm gonna get lynched for this, but what about the Birdcage? 
Blogger Becky  La Cage Aux Folles (the original French version) is in the top 20, somewhere! 
Blogger Cathii Scott  And the Matrix?????? :p 
Blogger Becky  Having a director who may or may not be a tranny (I read all the stuff I could find about him and even that fact seems debatable) does not a tranny movie make! :-P 
Anonymous NH  I see my two nominations (and as a lapsed tranny, I was still asked and gladly put my ha'penneth in) didn't make the top 10, but one isn't that well remembered and one is a bit of a sideways nomination:

My first was "Just Like A Woman" with Julie Walters; it's very predictable and cheesy and not very well written or directed but it's the only one where the tranny doesn't totally camp it up or want a sex change. He just likes the clothes, OK?

My second nomination was "Carry On Cabby" which not only contains the first dragging up as a disguise situation (I tell you, the girls won't like it, Sid), when Kenneth Connor has to go undercover at Glamcabs, but that Glamcab uniform was very nice indeed and you get a great scene of our dragged up Ken having to keep his cool when all the other girl cabbies are getting changed. It perfectly encapsulated the agony a tranny goes through when trying to pass... 
Anonymous Alli' Cat'  'bout bloody time!
;-) 

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