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T2 Trainspotting is the sequel to Danny Boyle's film Trainspotting. It is not to be confused with Glue, Porno, A Decent Ride or The Knife Artist, which are all "sequels" to Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting (or Skagboys, which is a prequel). T2 is an entirely new script/story that (probably) disregards everything in the sequel novels. Boyle and the rest of the (surviving) cast return, and all of them said it would only happen if the script was good. Robert Carlyle (Franco Begbie) claims it is "the best script [he's] ever read". Here is the trailer (NWS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGdiACWiMAM Early reviews have started coming in, as it releases January 27 in the UK. Us poor Americans have to wait until March. Early reviews are that it is very good and not remotely a cash-in. It has been described as a film about men having a midlife crisis and coming to terms with their own mortality. This includes drugs, fast cars, women, crime, etc. I am beyond hyped for this!
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Jan 22, 2017 18:09
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I think it's a good sign that the budget for this was only 18 million, and that all the actors worked for cheap.
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Jan 23, 2017 21:04
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Brand New Malaysian Wife posted:Just saw it, thought it was loving brilliant- to the point of eclipsing the first film. I'm also a fan or the book it's based on (Porno) Oh, so it is based on Porno? I'd heard it wasn't, and I was glad because I thought Porno was a bit lazy. Good to hear the film's good though, and I would not at all mind a film version of A Decent Ride.
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Jan 28, 2017 23:59
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Have you read The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins? It's by far his worst novel (I haven't read The Knife Artist yet). It's just relentlessly vile and unpleasant and doesn't even have a clever plot to sustain it. It's misery porn at its worst. The sequel to Filth, Crime, is a completely different tone and actually was quite heartbreaking. Welsh is wildly inconsistent.
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Jan 29, 2017 01:48
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Disgusting Coward posted:If you flick forward page by page, you can actually see the precise moment that being rich and famous totally torpedoed Irvine Welsh's ability to write a good book. Twentieth page of the Carl Ewart Munich section in "Glue" - the big cringey spiel about how great it is to be a rich young man from working class Scotland but ooop, tempus fugit you guys we've got to get our thrills while we can so let's have a big ol' rave with Germans ha ha ha and everyone stood up and clapped! Cuntybaws was hosed after that, fuckin' Tweety Bird looking bawjaws sitting down in his million dollar mansion still trying to write about being a dole mole Enbrar scummer while listening to the fuckin' Chemical Brothers on his bluetooth iPod docking station fucker. I broadly agree but I will re-iterate that A Decent Ride ended up being actually pretty good, though it helps that I listened to the audiobook rather than read it (except for the chapter this consists of nothing but the word "freedom" being shouted literally about a thousand times, it's OK to abridge that part guys). I've also heard The Knife Artist is okay (it's all about Begbie). Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs was very good but I think that that novel being good is what convinced him that he should be writing about America, and that's what gave us Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, the novel so angry I refuse to even bold its title. e: the film version of Filth really is great, I may even like it better than the novel though I didn't dislike the novel by any means. I think Glue is his best, for the record.
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Jan 29, 2017 20:38
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Helsing posted:Based on the trailer none of these actors look nearly grizzled enough to be playing aging junkies. They all look the same or better than they did in the 1990s. Heroin actually does a pretty good job of "preserving" the body, as it essentially stops you from aging. It's why junkies never need to eat food, for example.
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Jan 31, 2017 07:18
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If you didn't get to see it in theaters (like me) it will be available on Vudu on the 13th for $15 http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/844753/T2-Trainspotting
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Jun 3, 2017 19:42
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Finally got to see it! We watched the first one immediately prior in order to have the Total Experience and eh boyo too fookin' right ye oval office ye this is a propah sequel that revisits the world problems an' characters withoot feelin' like a dosh grab, slimy wee bastard that Danny Boyle ye ken he coulda just phoned it in wi' nostalgia but fwah ye beauty ahem There are so many subtle and clever visuals in this, like when Renton is sitting at the dinner table with his dad and his shadow looks like his mom. Movie is full of shite like that and it's all brilliant. Seriously can't believe the budget was so small because it looks dead gorgeous. The Orange Lodge scene was the funniest poo poo I've seen in yonks. Spud literally becoming Irvine Welsh made so much sense I can't comprehend how I never considered that may have been the case all along. Everyone just did a fantastic job. I wish Diane had been in it a bit more but it makes sense that she wasn't, as she was barely in the original (though she was in the novel a LOT more). gently caress, met and exceeded expectations by leaps and bounds, gently caress. "I think she'll particularly enjoy the interlude with the strap-on. I know I did." Ye beauty ye
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Jul 5, 2017 03:09
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Both together are only 3.5 hours and they're not slow films. Both are ultimately pretty positive so you're not likely to feel too drained or anything.
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Jul 5, 2017 03:26
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Well and the other most successful person in the film is Mikey "fuckin'" Forrester, who was the biggest wanker in the entire first film. They did a good job of showing that Sick Boy was absolutely clever enough to at least be a "higher class of gangster" but he's inherently too self-destructive to allow himself to succeed.
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Jul 13, 2017 00:56
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