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Summary: Fairly intense portrayal of addiction
Review: THis is a film worth watching if you're interested in the reality of addiction, and how it makes people almost incapable of overcoming their problems. It's also got some humorous bits.
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Summary: TRAINSPOTTING/SHALLOW GRAVE RESERVOIR DOGS/PULP FICTION
Review: OK NOW, WE DONT HAVE TO BE THE EINSTEIN OF MOVIES, BUT AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN APPRECIATE TRAINSPOTTING AND PULP FICTION FOR WHAT THEY REALLY ARE? THESE ARE GREAT GREAT MOVIES THAT MADE THE HEADLINES 'TODAY', BUT WOULDN'T BE THE BIG HITS THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT THE SHALLOW GRAVES AND RESERVOIR DOGS PAVING THEIR WAY. THEIR ACCEPTANCE, BY THE AVERAGE MOVIE GOER, WAS FORCED INTO OUR TOP FOURTY WORLD, BECAUSE OF TODAY'S SO CALLED 90'S, A-TYPE, RISK TAKING YUPPY WANNABEES. THESE MOVIES SHOW US HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO APPRECIATE WHERE PEOPLE LIKE TARANTINO AND BOYLE CAME FROM. WE NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THE TRUE CLASSICS THEY HAVE CREATED. THEY WERE AROUND LONG BEFORE TODAY'S SUPERFICIAL MOVIE MANIACS GOT INVOLVED.
REMEMBER THE SCENE WHERE THE FRIENDS JUMPED OUT OF THE CUBBORDS IN TRAINSPOTTING AND WHEN THE GUY WAS SHOT BY ACCIDENT, IN THE CAR, IN PULP FICTION..............WATCH THE ORIGNALS AND SEE MY POINT.
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Summary: Choose going straight?
Review: This movie is about spoiled british young men, and throughout the movie the appeal is that it's OK to be irresponsible if you are young, because at some point you will magically be able to choose "going straight", and choose a life like "me", and grin and lead a successful life.It would be horrible for the society if teenagers watch this and regard Renton as their role model, without realizing that this kind of "success story" is only possible in movie. and if your parents are so rich that you can play through your life.
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Summary: Well, you make the choice?????
Review: In the moive it look like real life you know. In the moive they have no color on there faces you know. Everybody playden a great part they got so into in it look's like there are durg user. I went bravo on that you know if you seen the moive. The moive makes you think about takeing drug. It will make you poor in that kind of way you can't get a job and you look very thin like you are not eating you know. They sould show this moive to drug user maybe it will change them in a way so they will stop useing any drug's and so on. In the moive I think they hardly eat at all. In the moive they drink and smoke that's not go for you, you know. In the moive people are sleeping with each other. Don't you guy's believe in one guy and one girl thing???? Makeing drug to live on that's not good for you and the way you live. Anyaway at the end they are in a room and they are saleing this drug to some guy and they sale it and they make there money they went out to drink and this guy bump into this guy and he hit him in the face and kick him in the face and so on . They went back and got sone sleep and one of the guy's got up and
took the money with him and he was got to start a new life.
THE END!!!
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Summary: Just Plain Brillant
Review: This is the first movie ever most of my friends and I can agree on as being a great movie. No one I know has bashed the movie. Being a big Ewan McGregor fan, I attempted to find a movie where I can satisfy my hunger to watch Ewan and my friends can actually deal with watching over and over with me. Not once has one of my friends complained about it being poorly done. Everything about this movie is just wonderful.
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Summary: No words for this kind of amazement...
Review: If there was ever any hidden desire inside me to do heroin(which is on my list of evil drugs) it is beyond gone by now. Ewan McGregor is fantastic, as always, and the other actors do a great job as well. I wasn't at all expecting humor in this one, but I found it...dark, often disgusting humor, but still oddly funny. My main problem with this movie? I began to feel like I was a junkie quitting myself. I began to feel nauseous, like I was seeing things, and generally unwell and unlike myself. This movie is so incrcredibly sad, but its ending makes you smile. My rating? Bloody brilliant!
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Summary: The Damage
Review: For all the non edinburgers, this film must seem slightly esoteric. There is so many things in it which belong to the East of Scotland and the related culture (even some Glaswegians i know fail to recognise many of its quirks). This film crosses those barriers however because it is so well made, such good characters and so HILARIOUS!.
I hope this dispells any rumours by Americans, that we run around chasing sheep, and looking like Mel Gibson!! (ps we invented your loved possesion- the television!)
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Summary: Ewen McGregor breaks through to the mainstream
Review: I first caught Trainspotting in '96 when it was released in theaters. I had not read the book but I figured a movie about Scottish hoodlums who were heroin addicts sounded interesting, so I checked it out. Man, what a film! The cast was flawlessly assembled by director Danny Boyle and includes a career making performance by Ewen McGregor. But, McGregor's supporting cast is what really makes Trainspotting stand out above most other films. Robert Carlyle is simultaneously hilarious and chilling as Begbie, the elder statesman of the group who in fact is the only one who is not a heroin addict. As Renton(McGregor's character) states "...Begbie didn't do drugs, he did people." So true. Begbie is a psychopath in the purist sense of the word. He's a thief, a batterer, and a big time alcoholic, not the kind of guy you want to piss off. Carlyle literally steals every scene he is in and is almost impossible to understand with his ultra-thick Scottish accent. Jonny Lee Miller plays Sick Boy, the pretty boy of the group who also happens to be the most well adjusted with the innate ability to dump his heroin addiction cold turkey. Ewen Bremner plays the dummy of the group to perfection, he is crude and slow-witted but ultimately good hearted. Ewen McGregor's Renton is a complex and dark character who is torn between doing the right thing and living a clean, normal life and his terrible addiction. Trainspotting is a realistic film. Renton doesn't just kick his habit but goes through several relapses. Renton wants a better life for himself but needs a break to get out of his lower class town and towards the end of the film the opportunity presents itself. Trainspotting has been called "A Clockwork Orange for the '90's" which I tend to disagree with. Trainspotting is not a visual journey as Clockwork is but they are both a study of human nature. Trainspotting's central characters are nowhere near as vicious as Kubrick's Droogs who raped, beat, stole, and terrorized at will. Boyle's characters have heart and you can feel their pain and emotions, you ultimately come to care about them. In Clockwork, Alex is finally getting his just desserts. Anyway, Trainspotting a great watch and addition to any DVD collection. Highly Recommended.
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Summary: Painful, scary, graphic, and just plain brilliant
Review: Movies SHOULD make you think, and boy does this film do that! "Trainspotting," an uncompromising look into the lives of heroin addicts, is not for those with weak stomachs, or weak minds for that matter. Is it anti-drug or pro-drug? I don't know, but it sure turned me off from ever trying heroin.
Ewan McGregor's breakthrough role as Renton made him a star. In this film, he is the dirtiest, skinniest, and most unattractive I have ever seen him. But he's very good anyway. He plays a young man with no ideals (until later) except having a good hit. It's disturbing to watch what happens as he struggles to stay clean.
This is not a pretty picture. This movie is sad, disgusting, and doesn't allow for sympathy for any characters except Renton only occasionally. But it's engrossing. You might be so appauled by what you see that you keep watching. You might know someone who is a drug addict who struggles like these guys do and feel what they're going through in some fashion. Or you might turn away from drugs altogether once you see the extreme of consequences.
Warning: You may hate this movie. You may be offended. If you are, I won't think less of you. But remember, America does have a drug culture too, and there are people like Renton and Sick Boy (my God, and even Begby) present in our society. Sometimes movies show us things about ourselves that we don't want to see. It's one of the most difficult cinematic tasks, but I think this movie pulls it off.
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Summary: Despair, Brilliantly Told
Review: While there is definitely a form of macabre humor to this tail, "Trainspotting," one of the most brilliant films to come out of Britain in decades, is no laughing matter. It captures an entire voice--a feeling--a depth of despair among a group of disaffected, addicted, hopeless young men in the slums of Edinburgh. Having been in Scotland many times, and known young men of this age, I found this grim portrait all the more frightening and heartbreaking. They are essentially beautiful young men (some of them, anyway) who are casually and uncaringly dying while injecting themselves unflinchingly with heroine. No part of the heroine experience is hidden from the viewer, and I advise those who don't want to share the experience to avoid this movie. For the hovels, toilets, dingy bars, and alleys where these mates shoot up, and the close-up of the bloody needles, the mixing of the drug, and every other horror, is unrelenting. Add in the fear of AIDS, some hopelessly mindless and unfulfilling sex, a dead baby, real and hallucinated, and you have some idea of the nature of this film. So what makes it so brilliant? Everything. From the acting of Ewan MacGregor et al. to the spare script, to the photography, to every last detail, this is the quintessential picture of despair in the true noir sense. It is very hard to watch, very hard to think about--but is an experience not to be missed, and it is one that does not leave you anytime soon.
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