Definitely one of the 90s greatest and most influential films. Also the finest anti drug film ever made. Alas, the message didn't work on me as I struggled with my own 20 year Heroin battle. Clean 4 years or so now though and for the first time in my life I finally feel free from it.
@@tyrone5969 yeah Requiem is another although it's constantly bleak atmosphere makes it a tough watch. I think Requiem goes a little OTT on the protagonists fates.
There's a double homage to Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' you missed in the club scene where Renton meets Diane. The song playing at the beginning of the scene is 'Temptation' by Heaven 17 who took their name from the record store Top 10 listing of fake band names used in ACO, and the words displayed on the black wall behind where Spud and Tommy are seated are in the same style as those in the Korova Milk Bar
When I was very young, like 12yo, my aunt, whom had recently moved to London at the time, recomended this movie to me. I couldnt "handle" it was too much for my feeble little mind, almost 2 decades later I gave it a chance and it became one of my favourite movies of all time! 90's cinema is awesome!!
@@RamonaBrands I was 13 too when I first saw it. My dad was in the military and we were in Killkee Ireland visiting cousins. So me and my 15 year old cousin and his two Irish homies drank warm beer and took it all in. It's one of the first great memories for me as an American kid during my first time in Europe/Ireland/UK.
I was 8 when released, tried to sneak record of TV when I was 10 , recording cut out , as Renton looks at the bag of £, was 12 years before I found out he fucked them over , worth the wait
This film is the reason i say shite instead of shite most often, its not even a conscientious thing I've just seen it several times and its one of my favorite films ever!
The guy with the dog that Renton shoots is apparently Christian Bale who is friends with Ewan and was hanging about with him at the time as they were about to film Velvet Goldmine together later that year..
Choose Life, if there ever was a film that truly deserves a list it's this movie. US audience's would have probably classes this as my a foreign language movie if the distributor had released it there in its original Scottish soundtrack.
Also discovered new order and by extension joy division ! From this film. And iggy pop if I’m honest. So opened up a whole new world of music to me. That I still enjoy to this day!
i saw jonny in hackers first and thought it was weird that they got an american to do this and plunkett and maclane. i eventually learned the right information
Thought the trainspotting came from what are known as track marks train track train spotting ye get it? But there’s the brilliance of the title open to interpretation.
There’s a chapter in the booker titled ‘trainspotting at leith central station’. I read that welsh picked the title to mean little to nothing, it’s a chapter title in the book ‘trainspotting in Leith central station’ theyre in a retired station with no trains in sight. My interpretation is such a small, insignificant thing yet made so big to be made the title represents something similar in life.
I wish I could see it for the first time again! It was like a bottle of champagne! T2 is like a fine bottle of vintage red. A very worthy successor for savouring again and again. I had to watch T2 twice before I understood the very last line of dialogue...then it hit me what it meant! John Hodge is an awesome writer.
For any true fans out there, there is a scene missing that has a Mandela Effect, around the end of the movie, with the overhead shot on the round hotel room. Francis confronts Spud picks him up by the collar against the left door, insinuating interrogation long after Renton has left with the money. This missing scene justified Spuds terror when he caught Renton fleeing moments before. This was during the scene when he was thrashing the room.
Most of the scenes were filmed in Glasgow...including the circular room at the end...in the now demolished George Hotel at the top of Buchanan Street...Calton Athletic from the Calton in Glasgow East-end, I recall their now-gone shop-front on London Road between the Barras and Brig-ton cross...
I remember watching this in lounge room of my home myself sitting one side of the room & my husband sitting the other side holding our baby . Then the scene came on where they found the baby dead , I just lost it jumped up & grabbed my baby & went into my room crying !
A few years back, I asked my friend, who was from Edinburgh to read the first page of the book, 'The sweat wis lashin(g) oafay Sick Boy'....and he could'nt do it!! Bit ah could read it aw'right, nae bother pal , ind ah come fae the central bit, in no Edinburra, jist goes tae show ay?
I sooooooo loved that movie. I was hooked to it like an addict is to heroin. Couldn’t get enough of it. I had a VHS tape of the film and watched it so many times that I lost count. It was one of the highlights of the 1990’s for me.
If Oasis were asked to do a movie that was actually about Trainspotting like they thought, I reckon they would do it so they get the chance to meet the king of the world, Francis Bourgeois
My girlfriend in 1996 invited me to join her and her friends to go see Trainspotting at the cinema. No thanks. It sounds a bit grim. After she told me she thought I would really like it. I rented the VHS from Blockbuster. Has anyone else ever rewound the video to the start and watched a whole film again (only pausing to uncork a second bottle of red!)? Over (well over) 200 viewings later...!! I have it in several languages now. Currently watching it in French...again!! Totally addicted (sorry!).
I once went to a party, dropped my jacket off in the bedroom and while everyone had a supposedly great time just outside the door i stayed there because for some reason trainspotting was playing on the tv and i couldn't leave. Even though it was playing without sound and the music from the other room was really loud. It catches me and sweeps me away every time.
Eccleston, while he has the CHOPS to be Begbie, Begbie works best as the small guy of the group. You see this little pissant guy and you have a sympathy for him as he becomes progressively more sociopathic. I think Eccleston would’ve played him brilliantly, but I don’t think we would pity him (which is what Begbie needs)
I've still got the unopened VHS 📼 of trainspotting that came with rose tinted spectacles real oasis looking things. I've never opened it. I don't know why. One of the most underrated movies ever. British films just have a uniqueness I love human traffic etc
i reckon you should never open it, keep it and it might very well be worth something someday : ) also totally agreed regards british movies, im scottish and me and my mates in 3rd year of highschool read the book together every breaktime etc it was funny and tragic and just “chef kiss” then because Film4 were involved in making it, Channel 4 stuck it on the wee screen one night after its theatrical run had eventually run its course some point near the end of 1996 i think, gawd i can’t remember, i was to stoned most of the time lol, we used to get the best hashish from this awesome fella who would let us pay later / when we could once youd been vouched for and proved yourself trustworthy! man the memories mate : ) 90s was great times 🫶🏼🔥
Recent viewer of both movies here.. in the first one, Begbie was just a funny asshole who had his scary moments but overall I didnt consider him a "bad guy" per se. In T2 he was downright terrifying
Wow, well ill be f - Id always assumed trainspotting was a reference to the tracks left by numerous punctures and scars on your arms. Are ya sure its not????
Fancy that, more luxury flats with astronomical rents that preclude the majority from living there, just what we need, more over-priced tosh that is completely useless to the community, no nice new council flats that someone from a disadvantaged background like the characters could occupy? Nah, this is the UK, we don't care about poor people, only what money we can extract from them with astronomical rent and over-priced housing due to speculating landlords, etc, all about business and privatisation here, who cares about your fellow man when he wasn't born into a wealthy family? Unheard of!
Interesting that a C bomb is nowhere near as harsh in the Scotish tongue as it is to say an Australian, even when the actress who played Diane uses it in Hated in the Nation "The Government's a C".
Learning to cook up the heroine wasn't just for method acting as you say it was also to figure out what they can use for the consistency of actual heroin and they just use beef oxo i believe
There's always these "so and so almost got cast." It would be nice if companies would shoot just a single iconic scene with the almost-cast people even if the set is only what they could throw together. You'd really just want to see the actors portrayal. The rest isn't that important.
whenever i heard the name "trainspotting" as the title to a movie about heroin addicts, i assumed trainspotting was a phrase used to desrcibe the guy at the train station doped up staring into nothingness. I thought trainspotting meant like "being high on opiates" basically. learn something new every day
Probably know about half of these "facts". As for the rest, they are either fairly logical, like Ewan MacGregor learning how to cook up, or so uninteresting that no one cared to find out in the first place
Irvine is pronounced ervin. Should note that Renton was a completely different character in the book. All the sectarian and football references were dropped. The book is actually much more complex and better than the film.
Definitely one of the 90s greatest and most influential films. Also the finest anti drug film ever made. Alas, the message didn't work on me as I struggled with my own 20 year Heroin battle. Clean 4 years or so now though and for the first time in my life I finally feel free from it.
Congratulations on the 4 years mate.
And here's looking ahead to many more clean ones.
@@richieb7692 thanks a lot for that, you are a diamond!
Congratulations.
Wish you many many more.
This and "Requiem for A Dream" are absolutely there.
@@tyrone5969 yeah Requiem is another although it's constantly bleak atmosphere makes it a tough watch. I think Requiem goes a little OTT on the protagonists fates.
Irvine Welsh has said that the title is also an anagram of Starting Point as it was his first novel. The more you know.
Mind blown
Also plays Mikey Forrester in the Film
There's a double homage to Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' you missed in the club scene where Renton meets Diane. The song playing at the beginning of the scene is 'Temptation' by Heaven 17 who took their name from the record store Top 10 listing of fake band names used in ACO, and the words displayed on the black wall behind where Spud and Tommy are seated are in the same style as those in the Korova Milk Bar
I was in my first year at uni in ‘96. This movie was everywhere, the soundtrack was everywhere, the posters were everywhere.
Id just finished, every student homes had it up on the walls too
Jonny Lee Millers character always talks about 007 trivia. His grandfather was Bernard Lee, who played M from 1962 Dr No to 1979 Moonraker.
I even like T2. It was nice catching up with the gang many years later.
When I was very young, like 12yo, my aunt, whom had recently moved to London at the time, recomended this movie to me. I couldnt "handle" it was too much for my feeble little mind, almost 2 decades later I gave it a chance and it became one of my favourite movies of all time!
90's cinema is awesome!!
i watched it at 13 haha...
@@RamonaBrands I was 13 too when I first saw it. My dad was in the military and we were in Killkee Ireland visiting cousins. So me and my 15 year old cousin and his two Irish homies drank warm beer and took it all in. It's one of the first great memories for me as an American kid during my first time in Europe/Ireland/UK.
I was 8 when released, tried to sneak record of TV when I was 10 , recording cut out , as Renton looks at the bag of £, was 12 years before I found out he fucked them over , worth the wait
This film is the reason i say shite instead of shite most often, its not even a conscientious thing I've just seen it several times and its one of my favorite films ever!
The guy with the dog that Renton shoots is apparently Christian Bale who is friends with Ewan and was hanging about with him at the time as they were about to film Velvet Goldmine together later that year..
This is NOT of the greatest British movies of 96, this is one of the greatest movies EVER! Absolutely bonkers!!
Choose Life, if there ever was a film that truly deserves a list it's this movie. US audience's would have probably classes this as my a foreign language movie if the distributor had released it there in its original Scottish soundtrack.
Sure I heard Ewan saying he got searched at airport, when he mentioned he was in it😂
Check out the book, its written in phonetic Scots-English, "fling yer fookin jaykit oan"
Wait, they dubbed it for the US?? JFC. The accents are the best part!
Also discovered new order and by extension joy division ! From this film. And iggy pop if I’m honest. So opened up a whole new world of music to me. That I still enjoy to this day!
little walter,, my babe song
(chess records) film the dogs (its good lol) blues yourself xbx
One of the only movie that I like so well that I own a dvd copy of it.
I was blown away by the movie back in 1996 when I was 29.
I actually though Jonny Lee Miller was Scottish when I first saw back in 96, and was really surprised to find out he wasn't.
Yes same
I love this film and the soundtrack, too!
Great 80’s soundtrack
Soundtrack is awesome
I can’t even listen to Lust for Life without seeing Renton’s foot hitting the pavement.
I’d also say that the T2 soundtrack is also great.
*One Of The Most Iconic Movies*
That hurt!!! 25 years?!
I started peaking on my first OxyContin 40 while watching the movie in theaters. Luckily my addiction was short lived.🙏
tommy wasnt on the poster because he was at the ziggy pop gig !
Love it! Great film, cracking soundtrack. British 90s uber-budget classic. 😍😍😍
i saw jonny in hackers first and thought it was weird that they got an american to do this and plunkett and maclane. i eventually learned the right information
Thought the trainspotting came from what are known as track marks train track train spotting ye get it? But there’s the brilliance of the title open to interpretation.
There’s a chapter in the booker titled ‘trainspotting at leith central station’. I read that welsh picked the title to mean little to nothing, it’s a chapter title in the book ‘trainspotting in Leith central station’ theyre in a retired station with no trains in sight. My interpretation is such a small, insignificant thing yet made so big to be made the title represents something similar in life.
Amazing film!!! saw this for the first time ever in my life last night on film 4 & i knew it was something special
I wish I could see it for the first time again! It was like a bottle of champagne! T2 is like a fine bottle of vintage red. A very worthy successor for savouring again and again. I had to watch T2 twice before I understood the very last line of dialogue...then it hit me what it meant! John Hodge is an awesome writer.
I am scotish Edinburgh born and bred and I love ❤ 😍 this list
You'd think that you would spell Scottish correctly then.
@@physc0tr00per exactly Edinburgh isnt Scotland it's so different
best movie of all time. best shot movie of all time
For any true fans out there, there is a scene missing that has a Mandela Effect, around the end of the movie, with the overhead shot on the round hotel room. Francis confronts Spud picks him up by the collar against the left door, insinuating interrogation long after Renton has left with the money. This missing scene justified Spuds terror when he caught Renton fleeing moments before. This was during the scene when he was thrashing the room.
Thank you mate !! Yes i remember the look of dread on spuds face
Most of the scenes were filmed in Glasgow...including the circular room at the end...in the now demolished George Hotel at the top of Buchanan Street...Calton Athletic from the Calton in Glasgow East-end, I recall their now-gone shop-front on London Road between the Barras and Brig-ton cross...
There's actually a prequel and 2 sequels to the movie but they're books, why? Who needs reasons when you've got Heroin...
Well, there is a movie sequel with the original cast and director
Porno's a great f-ing book, of course, so is Trainspotting.
The later novel Skag Boys (I think that’s the title) is a prequel. It is a very interesting read. Explains a lot of backstory for the characters.
I remember watching this in lounge room of my home myself sitting one side of the room & my husband sitting the other side holding our baby . Then the scene came on where they found the baby dead , I just lost it jumped up & grabbed my baby & went into my room crying !
never fear emotions, everything happens for a reason sister,,,never STOP Loving xbx
Christopher Eccleston was in Shallow Grave before Trainspotting so was Ewan McGregor
A few years back, I asked my friend, who was from Edinburgh to read the first page of the book, 'The sweat wis lashin(g) oafay Sick Boy'....and he could'nt do it!! Bit ah could read it aw'right, nae bother pal , ind ah come fae the central bit, in no Edinburra, jist goes tae show ay?
I sooooooo loved that movie. I was hooked to it like an addict is to heroin. Couldn’t get enough of it. I had a VHS tape of the film and watched it so many times that I lost count. It was one of the highlights of the 1990’s for me.
Quite a few scenes were filmed in Glasgow, including the club (Volcano)
If Oasis were asked to do a movie that was actually about Trainspotting like they thought, I reckon they would do it so they get the chance to meet the king of the world, Francis Bourgeois
My Brother Thought I was watching Francis when I said I was watching this movie.
I used to work up the road from the hotel in Paddington in the movie.
mark is so cool
The book is great but still hard to read. The brogue is thick in it.
its such a classic, i love it so much ❤❤❤
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I thought it was called Trainspotting because of the railway tracks on their arms from all the shooting up.
They call me "Mother Superior" on account of the length of my (gaming) habit. 😅
This is my favorite book and movie, a long with the 2nd film. Danny Boyle is the best director in my opinion.
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Apparently Andrew Garfield and Tobey MaGuire appear as alternate Begbies in the famous bar brawl but were CGId out …
Nice. Thanks
My girlfriend in 1996 invited me to join her and her friends to go see Trainspotting at the cinema. No thanks. It sounds a bit grim. After she told me she thought I would really like it. I rented the VHS from Blockbuster. Has anyone else ever rewound the video to the start and watched a whole film again (only pausing to uncork a second bottle of red!)? Over (well over) 200 viewings later...!! I have it in several languages now. Currently watching it in French...again!! Totally addicted (sorry!).
I once went to a party, dropped my jacket off in the bedroom and while everyone had a supposedly great time just outside the door i stayed there because for some reason trainspotting was playing on the tv and i couldn't leave. Even though it was playing without sound and the music from the other room was really loud.
It catches me and sweeps me away every time.
haha nice
Nice !!
I always thought the title had to do with track marks on their arms
Eccleston, while he has the CHOPS to be Begbie, Begbie works best as the small guy of the group. You see this little pissant guy and you have a sympathy for him as he becomes progressively more sociopathic. I think Eccleston would’ve played him brilliantly, but I don’t think we would pity him (which is what Begbie needs)
Sick Boy had a Mediterranean olive complexion in the novel.
Women love the platinum blonde though
now do a video on T2
MCR named their band after way the book describes addiction.
It was a different book, Ectasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance. Same Author
Didn't McGregor actually want to try smack before the film or is that a myth?
He apparently contemplated it but decided against it
Luv 💞😘 this movie 🍿🎥 😂 .it's juss Soo much going on. Understanding
Irvine Welsh is Mikey Forrester in the film
I've still got the unopened VHS 📼 of trainspotting that came with rose tinted spectacles real oasis looking things. I've never opened it. I don't know why. One of the most underrated movies ever. British films just have a uniqueness I love human traffic etc
i reckon you should never open it, keep it and it might very well be worth something someday : )
also totally agreed regards british movies, im scottish and me and my mates in 3rd year of highschool
read the book together every breaktime etc it was funny and tragic and just “chef kiss” then
because Film4 were involved in making it, Channel 4 stuck it on the wee screen one night after its theatrical run had eventually run its course some point near the end of 1996 i think, gawd i can’t remember, i was to stoned most of the time lol, we used to get the best hashish from this awesome fella who would let us pay later / when we could once youd been vouched for and proved yourself trustworthy!
man the memories mate : ) 90s was great times 🫶🏼🔥
Essentially IMDb trivia
Recent viewer of both movies here.. in the first one, Begbie was just a funny asshole who had his scary moments but overall I didnt consider him a "bad guy" per se. In T2 he was downright terrifying
Wow, well ill be f - Id always assumed trainspotting was a reference to the tracks left by numerous punctures and scars on your arms. Are ya sure its not????
the cigarette factory trainspotting was filmed in was not turned into luxury flats, its been converted into offices and artists studios.
Awesome... this movie was such a surprise i saw it in the theater
The shite is choc better be here!!
Classic
Fancy that, more luxury flats with astronomical rents that preclude the majority from living there, just what we need, more over-priced tosh that is completely useless to the community, no nice new council flats that someone from a disadvantaged background like the characters could occupy? Nah, this is the UK, we don't care about poor people, only what money we can extract from them with astronomical rent and over-priced housing due to speculating landlords, etc, all about business and privatisation here, who cares about your fellow man when he wasn't born into a wealthy family? Unheard of!
Agreed be happy you dont live in america
Interesting that a C bomb is nowhere near as harsh in the Scotish tongue as it is to say an Australian, even when the actress who played Diane uses it in Hated in the Nation "The Government's a C".
Learning to cook up the heroine wasn't just for method acting as you say it was also to figure out what they can use for the consistency of actual heroin and they just use beef oxo i believe
There's always these "so and so almost got cast." It would be nice if companies would shoot just a single iconic scene with the almost-cast people even if the set is only what they could throw together. You'd really just want to see the actors portrayal. The rest isn't that important.
I learned what a "Specky Wee Gadgee" is from watching Trainspotting.
Begbie is playing pure fucking gash!
Wait, what year was this made in?...
Noel Gallagher has still never read a book
What a damn great flick and book!!! 10/10
man, you need so many words to say what you say, this video should be 7-8 minutes
Bremner in 'The Rundown' was an amazing supporting role as well!!
Train spotting is when u look for a vein to shoot up in
Sorry but for me, Ewen Bremner will always be Archie in Mike Leigh's Naked.
"MAGGIE!!!" "EH?!!" (The ol' Highland Fling)
I honestly thought train spotting was a reference to finding a vain
You talked about the soundtrack and you listed three artists and you didn’t mention underworld are you shitting me?
I had no idea Johnny Lee Miller wasn't Scottish
whenever i heard the name "trainspotting" as the title to a movie about heroin addicts, i assumed trainspotting was a phrase used to desrcibe the guy at the train station doped up staring into nothingness. I thought trainspotting meant like "being high on opiates" basically. learn something new every day
Probably know about half of these "facts". As for the rest, they are either fairly logical, like Ewan MacGregor learning how to cook up, or so uninteresting that no one cared to find out in the first place
Choose life…..
It’s not Ir-VINE, it’s Irvin, I understand people find it hard, but…but.. fucks sake
Don't stand on the tracks?
Irvine is pronounced ervin. Should note that Renton was a completely different character in the book. All the sectarian and football references were dropped. The book is actually much more complex and better than the film.
Nope. Disagree. I knew all of that. I'm nearly 45 years young and... I probably saw T1 ... ... ... ... At least 100 times... lol
What is a "stone" of weight? 10 kg?
14 lbs
Probably one of the best heroin movies ever. My favorite drug movie and one of the best films of the 90s..
At least spell McKidd correctly.