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Trainspotting [Blu-ray] [Import]

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Disgusting, repulsive, and absolutely disturbing stuff in this movie. Feces, heroine, dead babys with twisted heads, swimming in sewers, what more needs to be said. Warped and twisted and absolutely aweful!

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.

after hearing about how 'great' this movie was and seeing all the good reviews, i finally rented it. and i HATED it. i hate this movie more than any other movie i've ever seen. i can't exactly tell you why...the characters were boring, and worthless, I didn't feel any sympathy for them at all. This movie just glorified drug use. bleh. i'll give it 1 star for ewan.

This movie is about a bunch of addicts who kill their baby and are totally sociopathic. Gee what a vision of a film. I watched it because of great reviews. I must not have gotten it.
If you need to see a movie find anything else. This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

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!

Trainspotting as you know stands for Heroine. With that said, the movie is about a group of young people are are hooked on it and the things that happen to them.

The movie is set in Ireland- you may have a hard time in the beginning understanding the heavy accents, so put you captions on, but after awhile things get better.

The movie talks about some very controversial topics: HIV, drugs, and overdosing. It would even be a good educational movie for youth to look it because the movie really takes you inside the mind and body of someone hooked on the drug.

And the music is spectacular. I would recommend you buying the CD soundtrack- just awesome.

Rent the movie and if you like buy it. This is an independent international movie.

Trainspotting glorifies heroin use while it gets preachy about friendships. It appears that the Scots of Braveheart have deteriorated in a socialist country. If these teens and young adults have nothing to live for in the public housing block grayness, then escaping into a heroin fog seems enticing. Alienation of youth has been with us for a while, but it seems to flourish only in relatively benign societies subsidized by social programs. Even in capitalist America, heroin is a favorite in the Urban Pockets of Social Welfare. Ewan McGregor is a fine looking young man and he has a choice,live or stick a needle. He chooses the needle. Special effects stretch the addicts bodies like rubber and there are hallucinations of a doomed baby, a fat baby for a heroin mother. Well it reminded me of those Acid Trip, movies from the 60s. Groovy Dude and the Blue Meanies are so hip, man. Trainspotting is ranked in top ten British movies ever made by some ranking services. I think David Lean would object.

I just couldn't believe the hype this movie got when it came out. I had trouble trying to follow the conversations (they were spoken in a very thick Sort of Scotch accent). The people were sooooooo ugly. What happened to all the beautiful movie stars????????????? The men were ugly and the women were even uglier if that's possible. These people where obviously extreme low end people. Unless you like junkies, baby death and ugly people pooping in their beds don't bother with this. Rent "The Full Monty" instead! It was a much better movie.

The laserdisc version of this film with all of these bonus features was released before DVD became a format. Why did they wait so long for this? I wound up ordering a Canadian version of the movie to get the deleted scenes, and now suddenly they release all of the same stuff that should have been on the original release? Is there a good reason why the studios release junk versions of a film, and then five years later release a special edition?