Trainspotting sequel

J Mysterio

El Duda wrote: »

Watched this at the weekend. As someone who had a slight obsession with the first film, I was skeptical about getting the bad back together for a sequel. The first one is as iconic as films get for me. It is a slice of my 90's upbringing and I can almost recite it word for word.

This was just a needless sequel that was mildly entertaining at best and a complete mess at worse. I was really disappointed with it.
The best bits were the bits with spud. Renton didn't feel like Renton to me at all. The original Trainspotting is still, imo, the only notably good performance of Ewan McGregors career and he fails to recapture the character. Begbie was overdone almost to point of parody.
One thing that summed up my dislike of the film was the scene mentioned above in bold. In the original, the thing that made the glassing scene work was how blasé and care free Begbie was in chucking that pint over his shoulder. It came across like he does that, or similar at least once every week. It didn't seem a big deal at all. No one who was with him even seemed that shocked in the original film. It is not a nostalgic memory that he would be screaming and singing about.
I was just so forced and contrived. A lot of the callbacks worked but that was just awful. It's like they couldn't think of anything memorable to put into the new film so Danny Boyle is just masturbating to his own greatest hits album.

Spot on.

Lorelli!

Watched it at the weekend. Thought it was alright and I enjoyed it but it was just missing something that the first one had and a few scenes felt a bit try too hard.

tylercheribini

I enjoyed it but then again I had zero expectations for it. Im glad they just didnt try and recreate the original which would have been impossible to do anyway and just scream pathetic, mid life crises.

One_Of_Shanks

Thought it was poor enough to be honest.

The original was utterly fantastic. This one wasn't on the same planet.

SkySter

The original was ground breaking. This wasn't. It was like a tired old band who were once cool reforming for one last pay day.

nc6000

This was shown on Channel 4 last night. I was actually surprised at how bad it was.

Tammy!

nc6000 wrote: »

This was shown on Channel 4 last night. I was actually surprised at how bad it was.

I thought it was alright but I was watching it with my husband and his friend and they were talking throughout the whole film. The only time they stopped talking and got distracted by the film was when the sex scene came on and after that they went back to talking

Mantis Toboggan

I really liked it, obviously not a patch on the first but I thought it was a solid film given the circumstances.

errlloyd

I've rewatched it a few times, but probably didn't have the same attachment to the first one as many of you. Liked it a lot.

branie2

I thought it was very good

TinCool

it's a good trip down nostalgia road. It certainly did not have the same impact on me when I watched the first one when I was in my mid teens at the time. Very hard hitting in those days for so many reasons. It had a lasting affect on me and not a movie that has faded in my memory over the course of the years. I've watched it a handful of times over the years and still remember most of it. The follow up, like I said a nice nostalgia trip to revisit the old characters, entertaining, but that's about it.

Sudden Valley

I found it an okay movie with a few great scenes. Especially liked their explaination of the origin of the trainspotting title. Definitely found it to have a less hopeful ending than the original.

Thargor

Sudden Valley wrote: »

I found it an okay movie with a few great scenes. Especially liked their explaination of the origin of the trainspotting title. Definitely found it to have a less hopeful ending than the original.

If it was

Begbies father asking them if they were Trainspotting in the derelict train station that was in the original book.