Never underestimate the ability of a cast of movie stars to sell the hell out of an objectively absurd movie.
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Con Air 1997
Once again, to find positive representation of trans women, look to prison movies! Ahhhh she's so beautiful!! And the men are all so affirming!!! This would have changed my life if I had seen it earlier!!
Aside from that, godDAMN is this movie dumb, silly, glorious fun! Well orchestrated action, some of my favorite actors getting to bounce off each other, a lovely, ludicrous plot, and Sir Nicolas doing just incredible accent work. We love to see it.
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The Trial 1962
An absolutely terrifying movie to watch right now from the vantage point of a law student in the US right now!
Although, this is somewhat (only somewhat) tempered by the fact that I'm effectively transferring to an Irish law school next year, and am planning to become an Irish lawyer and not an American one, and so...immigrate to Ireland. It was always our plan to move to Europe eventually, it's closer to her family and we have friends and etc…
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Dressed in Blue 1983
My secret shame growing up was that I desperately wanted to be a transsexual stripper in Baltimore, the nearest fleshpot. But I couldn't say that to parents or classmates or guidance counselors. And when it came down to it I made the nearly fatal error of attempting to continue as a man.
If I had been brave enough to flee to Baltimore when I was 13, to fully embrace myself, I hope I would have ended up something like these…
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
Just feels like an entire TV series crammed into a movie, just want to scream at them to slow down. Whedon's influence here is wayyy too strongly felt, really culmination of the times. As my wife put it, "this is like, a really bad Marvel movie."
Credit where it's due, everything Babu Frick is delightful, including C-3PO exclaiming "Babu Frick! Why, he's my oldest friend!" Hell yeah queen
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