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Glen or Glenda?

Glen or Glenda?

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: APOLOGIA FOR TRANSVESTSEXUALISM-TITES
Review: Vingettes of men in pain (and lace panties) is thoughtful, provacative, and incredibably stupid. Bela Lugosi occasions to warn, "BE VARE. BE VERY A VERE!" Hidden beneath the filmakings idiocy is a true message: some guys (probably all of them) like fine clothing. Big Deal! So why do we discriminate? We wear suits to work if we work in an office. So why can't men where a nice kilt here and there? My boyfriend has nice legs and I don't get to see them very often; but I know they're there. So I think this is not a bad message film, just a bad film of a message.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Egads!
Review: Well for those of you who are tired of quality films with rich storylines, try this on for size. Glen or Glenda is an autobiographical documentory based on, starring, and directed by none other than Edward Wood Jr. His hot, real-life girlfriend is along for the ride as well playing the innocent fiance who's man enjoys dressing like a woman. Bela Lugosi is in the film too, but he only occasionally speaks to the audience from a chair in his library.

In this film you can learn all types of words like 'transsexual', 'homosexual', 'bisexual', and 'hermaphodite'. Listen to doctors and psychiatrists of the day explain such strange tendacies as straight men dressing as women and the mysterious world of sex change operations. There is a loosely knit plot here somewhere, but it gets lost in all the medical terms and strange character interludes.

For those who enjoy drugs while watching a film may well understand this movie more than a sober person. Enjoy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: So Bad it's Cathartic
Review: Well. We've all seen the movie Ed Wood with the lovely Johnny Depp: this is one of the films that is featured in Ed Wood. As an aspiring actor it is heartwarming to find that life goes on at so many levels of competence that even a dead gerbil could make SOME kind of career in the movies. What do we like so much about old bad movies? It's a kind of escapism to watch them. This film is great fun, but not just to laugh AT, but because it's so amateurish it's actually comforting - though Glen's dream sequence in the second half of the movie is nothing short of incredible. Zombie-walking was one of his trademarks, and you see it a lot throughout the dream sequence. There is a cumbersome and didactic narrative, lots of stock footage with dialogue dubbed over, the worst acting I've seen almost anywhere - especially from Miss Fuller, Bela Lugosi in ther just for the sake of it, and on top of that the whole thing has such a patchy and imbalanced structure that it's almost impossible to make sense of it as a whole. For fans of the movie Ed Wood, or for fans of really bad movies from the 50's, or for trannies looking for a laugh, this is movie is a real hit.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: incredible, wow! outstanding
Review: Yeah, well, maybe not! Still one of the most entertaining films i've ever seen! I get way more laughs out of Ed Wood films than most of the so called "comedies" that hollywood puts out. Great way to spend a saturday night, have a "b" grade double feature with your favourite spouse and favourite snacks!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: incredible, wow! outstanding
Review: Yeah, well, maybe not! Still one of the most entertaining films i've ever seen! I get way more laughs out of Ed Wood films than most of the so called "comedies" that hollywood puts out. Great way to spend a saturday night, have a "b" grade double feature with your favourite spouse and favourite snacks!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Words said without meaning never to heaven go.
Review: Yes, it's really badly made, and worse than that it's pretentious, but in amidst all the rubbish is a genuine man fighting to get out and say something about his own life, rather than retreating into half-truths and escapism. Many many many many many well paid, oscar-laiden directors will never even do this.


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