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Trainspotting: The Definitive Edition [DTS] [1996] starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle directed by: Danny Boyle List Price: £19.99 Price: £9.99 You Save: £10.00 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 3259190271210 Format: PAL, Widescreen Label: Universal Pictures UK Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Universal Pictures UK Region Code: 2 Release Date: June 16, 2003 Running Time: 110 minutes Studio: Universal Pictures UK Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 1996 Sales Rank: 4929 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller, Trainspotting is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by Danny Boyle, it conspires to be at once a hip youth flick and a grim cautionary fable. McGregor, Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner play a slouching trio of Scottish junkies, Carlyle their narcotic-eschewing but hard-drinking and generally psychotic mate Begbie. In Boyle's hands, their lives unfold in a rush of euphoric highs, blow-out overdoses and agonising withdrawals (all cued to a vogueish pop soundtrack). Throughout it all, John Hodge's screenplay strikes a delicate balance between acknowledging the inherent pleasures of drug use and spotlighting its eventual consequences. In Trainspotting's world view, it all comes down to a choice between the dangerous Day-Glo highs of the addict and the grey, grinding consumerism of the everyday Joe. "Choose life", quips the film's narrator (McGregor) in a monologue that was to become a mantra. "Choose a job, choose a starter home... But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?" Ultimately, Trainspotting's wised-up, dead-beat inhabitants reject mainstream society in favour of a headlong rush to destruction. It makes for an exhilarating, energised and frequently terrifying trip that blazes with more energy and passion than a thousand more ostensibly life-embracing movies. --Xan Brooks Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - style over substanceas someone from Edinburgh who lived and went to plenty of the places mentioned in Trainspotting i have to say read the book the book instead which has the full content and message rather than just a comic short hand for what was happening at the time. It made fashionista fools think that taking hard drugs was a nice activity and gave them kudos and brought in too many people too Edinburgh looking for that lifestyle. I have never managed it all the way through and think it is just an alternative advert for Britain for the naively trendy or people who misguided enough to think that the pathos and dark humor wasn't there to balance the story...great cast though and on the whole well acted but an overrated footnote to late 90's Britain Rating:  - champion stuff Trainspotting caught a nations breath when it was released in 1996,it felt when i look back that the entire world had seen it and not only enjoyed it,but learnt the script,picked up the phrases and gave the film a success that few in the studio at the time would have predicted,the soundtrack sold like hotcakes,people picked their character in the film that they admired and this film was as much an icon of the 90s as cds,oasis and four weddings and a funeral to name just a few. Twelve of so years have passed and you are indeed entitled to ask if this film has aged,after watching it for the first time in a while the other day i am happy to say it hasnt,none of its initial magic has been lost,granted i wasnt obsessed with this at the time,i ... Read More: Rating:  - one of the best films!One of my all time favourite films, although I haven't bothered to watch any of the extras. Rating: - Choose Life, Choose "Trainspotting"There are better, bolder, and more profoundly made British films than Trainspotting, but if there's one certainity in its presence, it's that it is the British film. There are movies like David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Hodges' Get Carter (1971) which are always seen on the critics lists as best of all times, but there is no doubt that Trainspotting (1996) is the most important British film ever made. Maybe even the finest. The movies' ninety minutes does the impossible: It expounds the grittiness of hard drugs, interprets the philosophy of life, develops heroes and villans when, really, they are in the same position, and delineates the British heritage in the nineties. All of this is viewed in the eyes of Mark Renton (Ewan ... Read More: Rating: - Choose the best British film of 1996Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge's 1996 adaptation of Irvine Welsh's 1993 debut novel was so central to young British culture at that time that it was always in danger of being forgotten as a mere curio of a bygone Britpop era. Thankfully, good comedy leads a long life, especially the black stuff. In the meanest, wittiest way, Trainspotting said "bollocks" to Britpop - in fact, it said "bollocks" to every fad and fashion going - and so it became immortal. Welsh's novel is, like many of his works, essentially a series of short stories bound together by a group of amiable, self-centred protagonists who share a common interest in the procurement of a life-affirming experience - in this case heroin. Unfilmable as such, Boyle ... Read More: |
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