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Trainspotting sequel

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  • Registered Users Posts: 31 Paulieniceguy


    Danny Boyle to make Trainspotting sequel with original cast in middle age



    Link.

    Watched it for the first time in years the other day and I'm so excited about No2..


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    It's film I never expected to be made after reading the book when it came out. Which I enjoyed but could have lived without. So I expect changes and hopefully to the ending, the book ends
    pretty much the same as the 1st one with renton holding the cash and I doubt it will have a broken cock scene
    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,509 ✭✭✭passremarkable


    Missed the original during the week. Anywhere else showing it soon ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12 grumpyScotsman


    Tickets booked to see it Saturday. Can't wait!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭Jan_de_Bakker


    bobbyss wrote: »
    What accent does McGregor, Bremner and Carlyle have in real life? I think they are all Scottish. Miler, I think, is English.

    In the original book what accents are they? Glasgow/ Edinburg? Leith?

    Do they reproduce this accent in the film?

    In Trainspotting McGregor speaks the same, I think, as he does normally but I don't know which accent he has. But have the others, Bremner and Carlyle adapted their accent for the film?

    Are there any Scots out there who can say if they are good at the required accents especially Miller as he is English?


    I read the book years ago, pretty sure it was Edinburgh ..


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    I read the book years ago, pretty sure it was Edinburgh ..

    it is all based in leith in edinburgh


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭Vertigo100


    Just out. Really enjoyed it. Spud is the star of the show.

    Loved the last scene.


  • Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭sanna


    What accent does McGregor, Bremner and Carlyle have in real life? I think they are all Scottish. Miler, I think, is English.


    In the original book what accents are they? Glasgow/ Edinburg? Leith

    ]Do they reproduce this accent in the film?
    In Trainspotting McGregor speaks the same, I think, as he does normally but I don't know which accent he has. But have the others, Bremner and Carlyle adapted their accent for the film
    Are there any Scots out there who can say if they are good at the required accents especially Miller as he is English?


    Film is set in Edinburgh, Ewan Bremmer is from Edinburgh, Robert Caryle from Maryhill, Glasgow and McGregor is from Perth. Johnny Lee's accent speaking as a Scot was believable


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,901 ✭✭✭Sugarlumps


    Saw it last night, bang average.


  • Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭DepecheHead101


    I loved it. A lot less snappy than the first one, really. People won't be remembering dozens of lines from it and a lot of the comedy is toned down but it's very well done and even the flashback stuff is done in a very self aware way. Without spoiling anything one line from it is "you're a tourist in your own memories." That about sums it up.

    Spuds the man, too. It sort of becomes his film, which I wasn't expecting.

    The last 10 minutes of it give the last 10 minutes of the first one a run for it's money. It's pretty spectacular.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Stojkovic


    Saw it last night.
    Excellent.
    9/10.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14 mch82


    I really enjoyed it. Like most Danny Boyle films it looks and sounds great. The flashback scenes and the split screen stuff work well and the toilet scene is very funny. It really comes together well at the end.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    It was great, and I wasn't really expecting it to be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 300 ✭✭Robineen


    3.5 out of 5 for me. Liked it, didn't love it. Not sure why. Will write a more thorough review when I've thought about it a bit more.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Didnt expect them to pull it off but I loved it. Just the right balance of pathos, humour and nostalgia. Split my sides laughing at the scene in the club with all the flags and loved the visual touch of the shadow on the wall when Mark goes home first.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,723 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Just home from it, very much enjoyed it have to say!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    Great film.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,965 ✭✭✭threeball


    Crowds out the door in Galway tonight. Never seen such queues for a movie. Not a bad movie but the soundtrack is a big disappointment following on from one of the great soundtracks of all time in the original.
    I was so disappointed in the soundtrack I came away thinking less of the movie than i probably should.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,723 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Wasn't 30 people in Oranmore!


  • Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭jennyhayes123


    I enjoyed it. More than I expected


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Well, I loved it! Love the visual flair Boyle brought to it. Loved the visual jokes - Renton bypassing the scuzzy nightclub toilet; later smiling at the driver of the SUV. Loved the extra dimensions brought to Spud & Begbie's character. Loved the Rubberbandits. Loved the soundtrack. Loved the reprising of the 'Choose Life' monologue.
    I actually left the cinema with tears in my eyes.
    I know it plays on fans' nostalgia for that time but I still felt that the characters were real enough, even if the plot was a bit flimsy, to sustain it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,815 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    It's a pure nostalgia-fest with countless throw-backs to almost every major fasset of the original film. The amazing thing is it's not for a second tiresome or in anyway forced. Like the above I came out of the cinema with a mile wide grin.

    I'm a big fan of Walshe's and was harking for a sequel for years. So happy the film has only been made now. Just feels right.


  • Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    I don't know how anyone could come out of that film grinning. The despair of the characters was really difficult to watch. Fantastic film, but definitely not a feel good nostalgia-fest. The nods to the original were good though and there were some hilarious scenes.
    And I loved the soundtrack.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭C. Montgomery Gurns


    r. Loved the Rubberbandits. it.

    Was that what that rubbish Sick Boy was watching was? As if it wasn't enough with people sharing their clueless political opinions on FB they intrude on feckin Trainspotting :pac:

    Loved it myself, although having read both the books I feel they might have done better lifting a greater portion of the plot from the book Porno (the first Trainspotting is essentially straight from the book with many parts omitted, as the film would be literally 3.5 hours long if they got the whole book in). There are plenty of basic elements of the Porno plot but a lot of details changed (the passages from Spud's writings are directly from the books).

    One thing I was wondering, did
    Sick Boy and Renton actually do heroin again? Or was it just a dream sequence? In the surreal world of Trainspotting it would make perfect sense that they would argue about the damage heroin had done to those around them and say **** it let's hit it again, but the scene was fairly trippy and outside reality. It doesn't seem to be Sick Boy's scene to end up a junkie, but then again even in the first film he was able to keep his use relatively recreational and switch off whenever he wanted


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    I really didn't like the way "First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal." was said about 50 times near the end by spud and veronika.
    The soundtrack as a CD would not be a patch on the first one but the music was used very well throughout the film. especially the last song (the on used in the trailer).
    Some great scenes in it and begbie really walks the line from being cartoon character to absolutely menacing but manages to pull it off.
    Spud is amazing in it and it is a great ending.
    The flash backs of when they were kids was brilliant.
    So many positives that are even better on further reflection...the "choose Life" rant although force really tugged something inside me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 300 ✭✭Robineen


    Going against the flow here a bit but I thought Ewen Bremner overacted a bit in the film, felt a bit cartoonish at times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Robineen wrote: »
    Going against the flow here a bit but I thought Ewen Bremner overacted a bit in the film, felt a bit cartoonish at times.
    You can't really say he overacted in this when the character's best scene is this in the original.


    Thought he stole the entire film tbh. Great character arc considering he's the comedic foil.

    Had so many positives but Franko getting his relenting son into the family trade was fantastic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 300 ✭✭Robineen


    You can't really say he overacted in this when the character's best scene is this in the original.

    In that scene, he had intentionally loaded up on amphetamines to purposefully mess up the interview and keep his social welfare. It's not a great comparison. In T2, I found him a bit cartoonish when he was not supposed to be under the influence of anything, just in general.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭Vertigo100


    the use of lust for life was fantastic as well. The little tease then the perfect ending. I actually thought people in the cinema were going to burst into applause. No one moved for a few minutes.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Was that what that rubbish Sick Boy was watching was? As if it wasn't enough with people sharing their clueless political opinions on FB they intrude on feckin Trainspotting :pac:

    Loved it myself, although having read both the books I feel they might have done better lifting a greater portion of the plot from the book Porno (the first Trainspotting is essentially straight from the book with many parts omitted, as the film would be literally 3.5 hours long if they got the whole book in). There are plenty of basic elements of the Porno plot but a lot of details changed (the passages from Spud's writings are directly from the books).

    One thing I was wondering, did
    Sick Boy and Renton actually do heroin again? Or was it just a dream sequence? In the surreal world of Trainspotting it would make perfect sense that they would argue about the damage heroin had done to those around them and say **** it let's hit it again, but the scene was fairly trippy and outside reality. It doesn't seem to be Sick Boy's scene to end up a junkie, but then again even in the first film he was able to keep his use relatively recreational and switch off whenever he wanted

    I thought it was a dream sequence, or at least 8t didnt actually happen


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