So i watched Trainspotting the other week...

[halik]

Does anyone have any idea where did the name came from?
Some of those dialogues are hard to pick up (damn scottish accents), but overall i liked the feel of the movie. It seemed like something along the lines of fight club meets lock, stock and 2 smoking barrels

 

[chrisms]

The dead baby scene is crazy

 

[MrDingleDangle]

Tommy-Doesn't it make you proud to be scottish?

Renton: It's sh*te being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low! The scum of the f***ing Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization! Some people hate English. I don't! They're just wankers! We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers! Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized by! We're ruled by effete arseholes! It's a sh**e state of affairs to be in, Tommy! And all the fresh air in the world won't make any f***ing difference.

 

[Bumrush99]

That movie is great. One of my favorite anti-drug movies of all time.

 

[RossMAN]

You might also enjoy "Snatch".

 

[EvilYoda]

a great modern classic...not a big movie, but just so well done. And it also presented Ewen McGregor to the world.

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
You might also enjoy "Snatch".

Snatch was far, far better than Trainspotting.

 

[Jzero]

"Trainspotting" is a bizarre and uniquely Scottish hobby that involved monitoring the comings and goings of trains. The goal was to spot every single train that existed.

I have no idea what Trainspotting has to do with the movie. In the book (well worth reading) it is defined pretty much as above - it's not mentioned as any type of slang for heroin use (like "railroad tracks") at all in the movie or the book. At some point in the book, Renton bumps into Begbie's father in an abandoned rail station. Mr. Begbie, raving drunk, does use the word in his mindless blather, but it doesn't seem to have any real meaning.

Perhaps it's just a uniquely Scottish word for a uniquely Scottish story?

The sequel ("Porno") makes no further mention of trains or trainspotting. Or even heroin for that matter. They moved on to cocaine.

 

[Bumrush99]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
a great modern classic...not a big movie, but just so well done. And it also presented Ewen McGregor to the world.

Well, Ewan was in a great movie that was released before trainspotting. Check out the movie "Shallow Grave", kick ass creepy movie

 

[Bumrush99]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
a great modern classic...not a big movie, but just so well done. And it also presented Ewen McGregor to the world.

Well, Ewan was in a great movie that was released before trainspotting. Check out the movie "Shallow Grave", kick ass creepy movie

 

[Kenazo]

The book was bizarre. I don't think it has ever taken so long for me to read such a short book before, but when it is written with a phonetic scottish accent you kind of have to re-read each line for the first 3/4 of the book before you actually start to understand what's going on during the first read. Good book though.

 

[sonambulo]

you remember the scene where he melts into the rug? that one scene so accurately shows what it feels like to use needle drugs that i fell in love with the movie instantly.

 

[absolu7]

you cant compare snatch and trainspotting, two totally diff movies.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: halik
Does anyone have any idea where did the name came from?
Some of those dialogues are hard to pick up (damn scottish accents), but overall i liked the feel of the movie. It seemed like something along the lines of fight club meets lock, stock and 2 smoking barrels

Lock Stock is fun, but not a very deep. Trainspotting has incredible depth and political commentary.
Some folks in Britain are so dull they make a hobby out of trying to see every train that exits on the rails. Trainspotting is a euphamism for a pointless existance. But, part of the blame for the pointless existance is the situation the peopel are placed in by the government.

 

[JoeKing]

Originally posted by: Jzero
"Trainspotting" is a bizarre and uniquely Scottish hobby that involved monitoring the comings and goings of trains. The goal was to spot every single train that existed.

I have no idea what Trainspotting has to do with the movie. In the book (well worth reading) it is defined pretty much as above - it's not mentioned as any type of slang for heroin use (like "railroad tracks") at all in the movie or the book. At some point in the book, Renton bumps into Begbie's father in an abandoned rail station. Mr. Begbie, raving drunk, does use the word in his mindless blather, but it doesn't seem to have any real meaning.

Perhaps it's just a uniquely Scottish word for a uniquely Scottish story?

The sequel ("Porno") makes no further mention of trains or trainspotting. Or even heroin for that matter. They moved on to cocaine.

Trainspotting is about sittin around pissin your life away, doing nothing constructive, and watching the world go buy.... more or less like the trainspotting hobby you described.

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fscking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fscking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fsck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fscking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fscked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.

Choose your future.

Choose life.