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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 414071" data-attributes="member: 8">TRAINSPOTTING (1996)[ATTACH=full]54946[/ATTACH]Another mid-nineties cult hit I had not watched before, and now that I have I think there&#039;s something about it I&#039;m not &quot;getting&quot;.The protagonist narrator chooses heroin instead of &quot;life, job, starter home, dental insurance etc etc&quot;, and I thought, well if that&#039;s your choice who am I to disagree?After all, if you&#039;re going to use drugs then at least do it because you want it, including the consequences.The story of these characters is very isolated, there&#039;s no connection with time, culture, scene, politics or environment (except for the comment that Scotland sucks) therefore I&#039;m taking that choice to devote their lives to heroin at face value and that also means that this becomes a story without an issue.Of course it&#039;s easy to see that chosing drugs is not a great choice but I think we already knew that in 1996.What&#039;s left of the story is a string of sketches that (imo) can be watched in any order. The reaction to&nbsp; these characters and their actions is basically non-existent.Ewan McGregor is very pleasant to look at even when his character looks sick but Ewen Bremner as Spud is funnier and more likeable.Robert Carlyle plays a hyper-psycho who behaves rudely and violently and gets away with it. Can&#039;t say it looks vey entertaining.There is a kind of smartness and soft-spokeness in this film that reminds me of A Clockwork Orange especially the James Bond geek played by Jonny Lee Miller.The soundtrack is good but how could it not in 1996. Ice MC&#039;s &quot;Think About The Way&quot; is from 1994 (usually it annoys me when the cultural &quot;sound&quot; is not 100% perfect) however, a quick internet search showed a 1996 re-release with exclusive UK mixes. But they used the original 1994 version anyway.Trainspotting stays very much on the surface and it&#039;s never outrageous or dark or funny or tragic enough. But again, it&#039;s very possible that something went completely over my head. The scenes are different enough to keep it interesting and overall I was mildly entertained.There&#039;s some physical action that looks kinda painful even if I consider that we used to be bouncier 30 years ago.[ATTACH=full]54948[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]54949[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 414071, member: 8"] TRAINSPOTTING (1996) [ATTACH type="full"]54946[/ATTACH] Another mid-nineties cult hit I had not watched before, and now that I have I think there's something about it I'm not "getting". The protagonist narrator chooses heroin instead of "life, job, starter home, dental insurance etc etc", and I thought, well if that's your choice who am I to disagree? After all, if you're going to use drugs then at least do it because you want it, including the consequences. The story of these characters is very isolated, there's no connection with time, culture, scene, politics or environment (except for the comment that Scotland sucks) therefore I'm taking that choice to devote their lives to heroin at face value and that also means that this becomes a story without an issue. Of course it's easy to see that chosing drugs is not a great choice but I think we already knew that in 1996. What's left of the story is a string of sketches that (imo) can be watched in any order. The reaction [I]to[/I] these characters and their actions is basically non-existent. Ewan McGregor is very pleasant to look at even when his character looks sick but Ewen Bremner as Spud is funnier and more likeable. Robert Carlyle plays a hyper-psycho who behaves rudely and violently and gets away with it. Can't say it looks vey entertaining. There is a kind of smartness and soft-spokeness in this film that reminds me of A Clockwork Orange especially the James Bond geek played by Jonny Lee Miller. The soundtrack is good but how could it not in 1996. Ice MC's "Think About The Way" is from 1994 (usually it annoys me when the cultural "sound" is not 100% perfect) however, a quick internet search showed a 1996 re-release with exclusive UK mixes. But they used the original 1994 version anyway. Trainspotting stays very much on the surface and it's never outrageous or dark or funny or tragic enough. But again, it's very possible that something went completely over my head. The scenes are different enough to keep it interesting and overall I was mildly entertained. There's some physical action that looks kinda painful even if I consider that we used to be bouncier 30 years ago. [ATTACH type="full"]54948[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]54949[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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