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Summary: good movie...
Review: i can honestly say that this is one of my favorite movies. i haven't reviewed a movie before, so don't expect a really in depth article and whatnot, but i highly reccomend this flick. it's tone varies from being upbeat and humorous, to somewhat depressing, and really bizarre, but it stays very entertaining the whole way through. its got a great set of characters, and their constant randomness keeps the movie interesting through what isn't exactly a specific plot. the directing, the constant inner monologue, and the scottish dialect make it just a fun movie to see, and i watch it pretty much whenever i can. i'd also suggest disregarding other reviews that give it one star because of the phoniness of the baby on the ceiling... in the long run that really doesn't make a difference... so if you get the chance, i would see this movie whenever you could, i dont think youll regret it.
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Summary: A film that cannot and should not be ignored
Review: Health classes would do better to show this film instead of give lectures. 'Trainspotting' puts the viewer right inside the minds and lives of heroin addicted people, and it's not pretty. When we first meet our main character and narrator Renton (played with sheer brilliance by Ewan McGregor), he gets hit by a car, gets up, and laughs. Next thing we know, he's passed out on the ground in a hellhole known as Mother Superior's, a needle sticking in his arm. He introduces his other friends - most of them also drug users. There's Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), obsessed with James Bond, Spud (Ewen Bremmer), Tommy (Kevin McKidd), and the violently tempered Begbie (manically portrayed by Robert Carlyle). All of them have their obsessions and for Renton it's heroin. For me, this film has two parts. The first one is darkly funny (this part includes the infamous 'worst toliet in Scotland' scene, viewers with weak stomachs beware). The second (which begins around the time the baby dies) is intense, especially the detox scene. The film never flinches away from showing the viewer what these peoples lives are like. The apartments are rotting away, the people have no jobs, all they have is heroin and each other. There is nonstop language, stong sexual content including nudity, not to mention graphic herion use. The film is not for everyone, in fact I've found it's for very little. I happen to find every manic, funny, intense moment of this film entertaining. Others have found it depressing, weird, or just plain sick. So tread carefully. However, it's an important film and one that deserves to be seen. The performances are fantastic, the music great, and the direction innovative. That's what I have to say about it. Choose life.
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Summary: Exceptional
Review: Maybe I'm just some egotistical hothead who thinks that only his oppinion matters but it seems like most people are missing the big picture with Trainspotting. Sure its got heroin in it. Yes heroin destroys lives. But Trainspotting is the flipside to Arfonosky's powerful yet bleak Requiem For A Dream. Where there once was darkness there is now light. Trainspotting is movie about moving on, making changes for the better and never looking back. Heroin, like in real life, is just an inhibitor.The movie culls lots of elements into the movie. One minute you're laughing at the antics of Sick Boy and Renton as they're shooting people in the park with air-rifle, the next your cringing as Renton shudders painfully from his lapses of heroin. Its obvious that Trainspotting wants to try and do so much, and in its 90 minute ride, it manages to pull off everything it aims for with high sucess. Its funny, powerful, uplifting and for me inspiring. Not only that, but it's also got a kick [rear] soundtrack. Every part of the movie just screams character and gives it an even more compelling edge with the help of exciting pacing and orignal direcion(well for its time. Sadly MTV directors have managed to deteriate what was left of an effective direction style). Its an exceptional movie and recommend it to anyone who feels like their stuck in rut. It may just be the boost you need.
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Summary: The Baby
Review: It was...uh, different. The effects were bad on the baby on the ceiling scence, but what are you going to do about it? Ewan did play his role well but I must say his charactor was the most not the most likable. I suggest you skip this one..and maybe the 2nd on the is soon to be filmed.
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Summary: EXCELLENT FILM! VERY REALISTIC TALES OF HEROIN USERS
Review: THIS IS ABSOLUTLEY ONE OF THE BEST FILM EVER MADE,5 BIG STARS!
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Summary: Hard to Watch at times, but Worth It!
Review: A fantastic movie. A moving, funny, horrible, sad, weird picture. Drugs, this is a movie about drugs and thugs. Heroin is the main focus. Heroin and how it destroys junkies. Slowly. Painfully. It ain't pretty. It's also about Renton, who is just smart/lucky enough and good or is it bad enough to kick the habit and get himself away to freedom, or is it another addiction, this time to middle-class materialism? I don't know. There's a lot going on. It's the kind of movie that makes you laugh, cringe and grip your seat. You might even have to turn away at times. For God's sake don't watch it with a first date or your parents! There's poop and puking and the "f word" is rampant. There's violence and death and disease. Sidenote: There are two Hamish MacBeth cast members in this movie, a shockingly great performance by Robert Carlyle, who plays Hamish MacBeth. (You may also remeber him from the Full Monty) You might be able to catch it on BBC America. Spud's girlfriend in the movie up played Hamish MacBeth's girlfriend in the series.
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Summary: Wow
Review: That's all I could mutter after seeing this movie. I had to own it. Ewan is amazing as Renton, the heroin addict, trying to break free of drugs and everything that sent him on a vividly portrayed downward and then upward spiral.
Funny, disgusting, disturbing, sad, realisitc, this movie is all of those things. I only had trouble dealing with the baby scene, but I can handle everything else. (Nothing at all gruesome or violent happens.)
This movie is just a very down and dirty look at human behavior, and is filled with bodily functions, vividly and imaginitively and sometimes even humorously--but you can't quite watch, scenes.
There are graphic heroin injection scenes, I think a singular sex scene and there seemed to be lots of poop, or the poop in the movie made such a lasting impression, it just seemed to be everywhere, but I don't think it was. Maybe only in two scenes.
This is not Ewan Star Wars guy. This is Ewan, fab actor guy. Not for weak stomachs or lightweights.
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Summary: Trainspotting
Review: I have seen this movie four or five times and notice something new each time(i.e. the Hibernian poster in his room.) Definitely a heavy, anguish laden story but very well crafted. Not the movie to watch if you are in the mood for light comedy. The vignette ending with Mark Renton's voiceover narration is magnificent and ingenius.
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Summary: Drowning in the mainstream...
Review: Not my cup of tea, but being open-minded I can find it a good movie if your looking for a documentary on the unrepentant evils of heroin junkies. I would recommend it to addicts to watch, perhaps they would then realize how they are wasting away. For entertainment purposes, I found it truthful yet dreary, disturbing, violent and pretty boring. Basically that is all it is about is a junkie trying to go straight in the ghettos of Scotland. Not too much more content then that. I am certainly not going to say I liked it just because the mainstream said it is brilliant or something. I couldn't wait for this movie just to be over!
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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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