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18 Jul 2004, 09:47
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Trainspotting
I read the book during my holiday, it was shite. Is the film as incomprehensible as the book ?
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18 Jul 2004, 09:51
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Re: Trainspotting
The movie was by far the worst piece of shit I ever saw...
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18 Jul 2004, 09:54
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Re: Trainspotting
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The movie was by far the worst piece of shit I ever saw...
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I liked it but there again thats me.
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18 Jul 2004, 10:06
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Re: Trainspotting
I thought the film was great when I saw it 6 years ago.
Don't know what I'd think of it now.
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18 Jul 2004, 10:16
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Re: Trainspotting
Unfortunately I saw the movie after all the hype. It's overrated (by some) but it's still mildly enjoyable on some level.
If you've got nothing better to do for two hours, and had a copy beside you I'd recommend giving it a watch. Just don't expect anything amazing.
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18 Jul 2004, 11:02
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i still want to buy it, but it's 30 euros in a store where the average DVD costs like 8 euros.
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18 Jul 2004, 11:48
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Re: Trainspotting
Prediction of Deepflow liking this due to sense of belonging and unity with characters
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18 Jul 2004, 13:10
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Re: Trainspotting
I thought it was a great movie.
It is bad that I thought this thread would about actual trainspotting? :/
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18 Jul 2004, 13:46
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Re: Trainspotting
watched the movie then read the book. i thought the book was great (takes a while to get used to the way its written) was better than the movie but the movie is still good
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18 Jul 2004, 15:14
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Re: Trainspotting
The movie is good if you like to watch a lot of shit people being shit and doing shit things. You'll probably feel dirty at the end of it. There are a few quite funny scenes in it though.
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18 Jul 2004, 15:18
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Re: Trainspotting
The book had a couple of funny moments but as you say, it's a lot of shit people being shit and doing shit things.
~Vaio~
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18 Jul 2004, 17:16
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Re: Trainspotting
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Originally Posted by Vaio
I read the book during my holiday
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18 Jul 2004, 17:48
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Re: Trainspotting
The movie is great (us.imdb.com is backing me this time) and my brother is currently reading the book, and he found it quite exilarating.
I enjoyed it a lot more than clerks, d´ya hear me dante?
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18 Jul 2004, 17:52
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Trainspotting is the best british movie of all time and one of the top 10 best movies ever, case closed. Go back to your fancy fake shitey hollywood pictures starring Jennifer Lopez Bruce Willis and Keanu ****ing Reeves and come back when you actually like a properly told and acted story
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18 Jul 2004, 17:54
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Re: Trainspotting
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Trainspotting is the best british movie of all time and one of the top 10 best movies ever, case closed. Go back to your fancy fake shitey hollywood pictures starring Jennifer Lopez Bruce Willis and Keanu ****ing Reeves and come back when you actually like a properly told and acted story
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18 Jul 2004, 18:13
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Re: Trainspotting
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I enjoyed it a lot more than clerks, d´ya hear me dante?
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Since you're wrong a great deal of the time this news pleases me somewhat.
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18 Jul 2004, 18:18
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It's a movie about real people and I assume the book is about real people.
I know the sort of ****ers that hang in parks with air rifles, that would shoot up and people that live in shit slums like that, and the ****ers that would fight in pubs.
Hence I thought it was a brilliant movie as it showed people the side of society that does exsist of shit people doing shit things and it happening, not many movies would have the balls to make something watchable out of the scum of society in general.
It even had a few nice touches emotionally as well with two of the characters in the movie having their life bombshelled.
As for the book I haven't read it but I'd believe it'd be compelling to anyone who keeps their eyes wide open.
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18 Jul 2004, 18:20
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Re: Trainspotting
i think its a good movie, i feel a sense of belonging and unity with the characters.
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18 Jul 2004, 18:23
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Angry Young Man
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Re: Trainspotting
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Originally Posted by Evergreen
It's a movie about real people and I assume the book is about real people.
I know the sort of ****ers that hang in parks with air rifles, that would shoot up and people that live in shit slums like that, and the ****ers that would fight in pubs.
Hence I thought it was a brilliant movie as it showed people the side of society that does exsist of shit people doing shit things and it happening, not many movies would have the balls to make something watchable out of the scum of society in general.
It even had a few nice touches emotionally as well with two of the characters in the movie having their life bombshelled.
As for the book I haven't read it but I'd believe it'd be compelling to anyone who keeps their eyes wide open.
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I also ruined his sig quote possibilities by adding for once.
The characters are more real than any i can remember in any other film. Money just cant ****ing buy that
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18 Jul 2004, 18:23
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Re: Trainspotting
I liked the Death Wish movies as the 'sort of ****ers that hang in parks with air rifles, that would shoot up and people that live in shit slums like that, and the ****ers that would fight in pubs' ended up being shot
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18 Jul 2004, 20:44
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so f*cking zen
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Re: Trainspotting
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The characters are more real than any i can remember in any other film.
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What about "21 grams"?
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18 Jul 2004, 20:47
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Re: Trainspotting
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It's a movie about real people and I assume the book is about real people.
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Hence I thought it was a brilliant movie .
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That's why I thought it was a shit movie. Why on earth would you want a film to enshrine the average and mediocre? If I want to watch people like that then I'll go to a pub in Govan - when I watch a film, I'd rather be treated to something 'larger than life' rather than the banality in which some people exist.
Why on earth do you want to watch "real people" (if that trite expression even means anything)?
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18 Jul 2004, 20:51
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Nod when you go to the pub in Govan can i come to watch what happens plsta?!
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19 Jul 2004, 11:20
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Re: Trainspotting
The movie is better, some of the book's chapters are clearly unnecessary.
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19 Jul 2004, 11:33
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Re: Trainspotting
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Why on earth do you want to watch "real people" (if that trite expression even means anything)?
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Because you can relate (on some level)?
One of the reasons (for instance) that the Royle Family is quite funny to me is because I have relatives who spew the same sort of idiocy as them. Watching people who I have nothing in common with wouldn't be amusing/etc in the same way. That's why a lot stand up comedians do obvious observational humour ("You ever noticed how airlines..."). Would "Did you ever notice how when you're making a billion dollar business deal your supermodel girlfriend keeps bugging you on the phone...." be funny in the same way?
edit : Obviously I can't relate to heroin addicts in the same fashion, but on the "real-people" point.
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19 Jul 2004, 12:03
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Re: Trainspotting
I've never seen the film, but I thought Deffeh hated "drug films"
edit: Oh nevermind I've just read that it is anti-drugs or something.
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19 Jul 2004, 12:06
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It's probably fine because it showed the negative consequences or something.
Basically if one of the characters in a movie takes drugs and there is some sort of personal tragedy as a result then it's OK because that's what happens in real-life.
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19 Jul 2004, 12:21
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Angry Young Man
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Re: Trainspotting
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I've never seen the film, but I thought Deffeh hated "drug films"
edit: Oh nevermind I've just read that it is anti-drugs or something.
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Its not a glorification of drugs. Tommy, the only straight one of the lot (if you exclude begby but hes just a ****ing psycho) tries it after breaking up with his girlfriend and is the only one to die of it. He contracts aids or something.
21 grams was so unbearably poor. So i didnt bear it, and walked out.
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19 Jul 2004, 12:23
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Re: Trainspotting
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I liked the Death Wish movies as the 'sort of ****ers that hang in parks with air rifles, that would shoot up and people that live in shit slums like that, and the ****ers that would fight in pubs' ended up being shot
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19 Jul 2004, 13:17
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Re: Trainspotting
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21 grams was so unbearably poor. So i didnt bear it, and walked out.
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