Movie T2 Trainspotting

[JP Sauce]

Figured this could do with it's own thread.

The original is one of my all time favourite movies so I'm very excited for the sequel.

20 years after the previous film, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Scotland to make amends with his friends, Daniel "Spud" Murphy (Ewen Bremner) and Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson (Jonny Lee Miller), whilst avoiding the psychopathic Francis "Franco" Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who has recently been released from prison.

In cinemas February 23rd.

Who else is looking forward to this?

 

[Footypie32]

I kinda wish they'd left it alone. The original was such a classic. Reckon it will be a disappointment.

 

[Falchoon]

Hopefully the schoolgirl survived Chigurh's coin toss.

 

[Kickin Goals]

I haven't watched the original in a very long time, might give it a watch and see if I get excited for this.

 

[bourbons]

Will see it for sure. Pretty amazing that they've got the original cast back, although I suppose most of those guys aren't exactly booked solid.

 

[PoppedCorn]

I believe they go into making pr0n to get some coin??

 

[Marlowe]

I believe they go into making pr0n to get some coin??

That's the book, this one is supposed to very different.

I am quite excited for it, judging by the trailer it looks like it has some real Danny Boyle flair (something Steve Jobs really lacked).

 

[Neese]

Hoping the soundtrack will be as awesome as the original. One of my fave soundtracks.
I too need to watch the original again

 

[Elvis]

Trainspotting is very probably my fav movie. I am slightly worried by the sequel, but whatever it is, it shouldn't affect the legacy of the first. I guess I will know Feb 23

 

[Sammymoite]

Cannot wait. Cannot farken wait.

Regardless of whether or not it matches up to the original, I still reckon Boyle has and will deliver the goods in its own special way.



Just a little something to get everyone in the mood born slippy.. What a track

 

[hamohawk1]

Just saw the film. Well worth seeing and provides a gentle transition with scope to probably go a third.

 

[Plugger35]

I saw this recently as well.

It was better than I expected, it's been a long time since I've seen the original so it's hard to compare them but I reckon it goes pretty close to matching it.

Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller were great, the best scenes featured them, Robert Carlyle was good too but you needed subtitles to understand him.

Just saw the film. Well worth seeing and provides a gentle transition with scope to probably go a third.

I doubt they'd make a third film, this one wrapped things up pretty well and I don't see what the point of making another film would be other than money.

 

[hamohawk1]

I saw this recently as well.

It was better than I expected, it's been a long time since I've seen the original so it's hard to compare them but I reckon it goes pretty close to matching it.

Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller were great, the best scenes featured them, Robert Carlyle was good too but you needed subtitles to understand him.



I doubt they'd make a third film, this one wrapped things up pretty well and I don't see what the point of making another film would be other than money.

There are a few unsolved things. The 100k from the deal and the book deal of all their stories to be distributed. But i can easily accept and understand if they dont want to make a third.

 

[DapperDon]

There are a few unsolved things. The 100k from the deal and the book deal of all their stories to be distributed. But i can easily accept and understand if they dont want to make a third.

The 100k is with the girl (can't remember her name).

I took it as Spud becomes Irvine Welsh, so we know what becomes of the book deals.

I really hope they don't do a third.

 

[Plugger35]

The 100k is with the girl (can't remember her name).

I took it as Spud becomes Irvine Welsh, so we know what becomes of the book deals.

I really hope they don't do a third.

I think she give the 100k or at least some of it to Spud's missus and kid because he said he hadn't been able to make them happy due to being a smackhead.

I also hope they don't do a third film, they did a great job with this sequel and it was good to see where the characters ended up 20 years later but to make another film would be overkill and the risk of tarnishing the legacy would outweigh whatever could be gained from it.

I don't think Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor and the rest of the cast are the sort of people that would want to pump out another sequel just to make money.

 

[DapperDon]

I think she give the 100k or at least some of it to Spud's missus and kid because he said he hadn't been able to make them happy due to being a smackhead.

I also hope they don't do a third film, they did a great job with this sequel and it was good to see where the characters ended up 20 years later but to make another film would be overkill and the risk of tarnishing the legacy would outweigh whatever could be gained from it.

I don't think Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor and the rest of the cast are the sort of people that would want to pump out another sequel just to make money.

Yep you're right. Forgot she gave some to ex-missus and the kid.

 

[hamohawk1]

Did anyone else get sucked into the film and expect Renton to actually die?

 

[Plugger35]

Did anyone else get sucked into the film and expect Renton to actually die?

Not really, even though he came close to it towards the end.

It would have killed off any chance of a third film if he did die.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Thought it was nicely done. The same amount of time has passed in real life as in the movie so if you were a fan of the original you relate to the characters now having kids of their own and a changed view on life. Begbie hasn't changed though. Still a brilliant nutcase of a character. How gorgeous is Anjela Nedyalkova who plays Veronika. Like a young Monica Belluci.

 

[estibador]

Just watched this. It was a great nostalgia trip, which was mostly all it was intended to be judging by the recurring homage paid to the original. I probably wouldn't have much interest in watching a third if they tried to string it out though.

The original was pretty much my coming of age movie. I must have watched it about 20 times when I was 18 - it was the go-to entertainment for my group of first year uni friends if we were hitting the beers or smoke and had nothing else to do. I probably haven't seen some of those guys for close to 20 years so this was pretty poignant watching in more ways than one.

The actual move wasn't a patch on the original though imo. Most of the highlights were nostalgia related (I used to have the 'Choose Life' poster below hanging on my student village bedroom wall so I loved Renton's modern spiel about it, even if it felt a little forced in the context of that conversation) and really the development in Begbie's character was the only noteworthy thing the sequel brought to the table that wasn't reliant on the original. He was fleshed out into a truly menacing character with a bit more depth in this one.

 

[Kram]

One of my flatemates had that poster.

Thought this movie was ok.

 

[JP Sauce]

I loved it.

The original is possibly my favourite movie ever, so I was unsure of how a sequel 20 years after the original would go. But for me it hit all the right marks, with just the right amount of nostalgia/flashbacks. I loved the fact that 20 years on they're all still useless shit campaigners. It would've been unrealistic to expect anything else.

 

[rumply]

Had my reservations but they did a good job & I will enjoy watching this again, the scene in the toilets when they both realise who's in the next stall was a classic moment. For me this flick is in the same basket with The Color of Money & GF3 in that they all were not entirely necessary to complete a story after the mastery of the originals but now it's been made, I can enjoy it for what it is.

& I wouldn't mind them doing a 3rd in another 15-20 years if everyone is still around (including me!).

 

[estibador]

Really, half, if not all, those characters should be dead in 20 years after the life they've had. Maybe Renton the exception.

Spud and Sick Boy have been addicts their whole lives, and Begbie is surely due to meet with a misadventure at some stage after picking a fight with the wrong people.

 

[kickazz]

My review from the "Last Movie you saw" thread below. I too saw Trainspotting in my uni days and have often come back to it. Loved it then, love it now. Loved the soundtrack. Have only seen T2 once so the review is "first impressions". I'm sure I'll be re-watching this one.

Trainspotting 2

Loved it. As much as we find the trials and tribulations of youth make for great entertainment; the extra twenty years has given these characters more depth, more context. The good thing is that you come away believing it to be a true depiction of how they'd turn out.
The ugliness of the parts of Edinburgh these folk inhabit is a sight to behold. The cinematic licence and metaphors used by Boyle are still spot on.
And in a way there are times i think the movie takes the piss out of the audience just a little bit, with its take on nostalgia, at times sweet, at times brutal. A scene at a dodgy bar where the song "no more Catholics left" is sung among many a sectarian Protestant favourite takes the idea of not being able to move with times to a very darkly funny extreme.

Funny, dark, nostalgic, defeatist. No matter what they do, friends will always be friends.

Four stars.