Trainspotting (1996) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2025-02-19 17:00:56 +0000 UTC
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The donβt ever do drugs trilogy is: Drugstore Cowboy Trainspotting Requiem for a Dream
Jason Dolan
2025-02-22 04:21:43 +0000 UTCDitto. We wanted to see TBR & Samβs reaction since they are always so honest about their comments, but we agree with you, even recognizing many brilliant aspects about it, it is our last time watching it
Greg & Lilian
2025-02-21 20:29:59 +0000 UTCSo glad you mentioned the bit of Spud getting his money. It was driving me crazy that they missed that. D:
Domino
2025-02-20 22:14:51 +0000 UTCComing back around to comment again having seen the reaction: Even with your intensely negative reaction to the movie, I stand by what I previously said -- I'm sure you're very skeptical, but I really think you will get something out of the 2017 sequel T2 Trainspotting. What's sort of funny is, a big part of the appeal to me is that it is a "legacy sequel" that reminds the viewer that things weren't all that great in the youth you've just seen. A vast majority of these sequels that come out decades on have a nostalgic sheen on them, essentially treating the events of the original movie with reverence, and what's great about T2 is that it punctures that kind of reverence. That said, I would also say that on the whole T2 is sort of an optimistic movie, moreso than this one. While there are some gross bits, it's certainly less disgusting, and most importantly, while there is a reference to the child, I just checked and they only show the living baby when they drop in a little flashback. Admittedly, if you hated the characters, it's hard to say if the movie will improve your opinion of them, but it's a great movie and even if this was more grueling for you than I had expected when it was announced, I think you will actually appreciate seeing the second movie for various reasons. If you do watch it, I know it was intense for Sam and you guys were rushing out of it, but there was one short little bit in this movie that you missed after you turned it off. At the end, they show Renton go to the box where he stashed his passport to retrieve it, and in its place, he leaves one share of $4000 behind, and after a couple of text screens, they show Spud opening the locker, smiling, taking the money, and closing it. I will also say that even if you weren't coming from the perspective of "I understand what it's going for," I also honestly think it's great if reactors watch a movie and don't necessarily like it and/or wrestle with their feelings. I can imagine that reactors feel nervous when they put up a video where they're not glowing at the end but not liking movies is part of watching movies, and I hope that channels aren't overly afraid of that. I'm sure most bad movies are filtered out by polling anyway (the real struggle is when you want underrated great movies to get a chance).
Tyler Foster
2025-02-20 07:04:12 +0000 UTCDrugs are bad, mmm kay kiddies? Wow that was a hard watch- watching you guys react to that. I thought about posting a comment warning about the baby scene- but then I thought "They like to watch things totally blind". I think only this and Rosemary's Baby are the only movies I've seen you have such a vesceral reaction of hating it (in the sense of being repulsed by the unpleasent things in the movie, but still recognizing the exeleence of the craft) and saying "I'm never watching that again." And I think both stem from a sense of realism in both movies- I mean you can watch all the Evil Dead or Horror movies in the world and not be phased by it, you know it's not real and it's meant to be fun. Movies like this don't give you that out- and it is a rollercoaster ride like Dan said, from humorous, surealistic (but disgusting) scenes like the "Worst toilet in Scotland", Spud's interview, to very disturbing, very real scenes like the baby scene. I think movies like this are important to watch, and even watch again, even if they are unpleasemt to watch - even if they are about irredemable people. This is such a rich movie that fully realizes its characters, unpleasent as they might be. They are not cardboard characters in an Agter School special with a condescending moralizing message (which is probably why the politicians of the time of this movie's release thought it "Glamorized" drugs, which , seeing this movie is abviously bullshot). And I think Renton does grow and move on from his "mates" - but again not in a condescending moralizing way - he just grows that more older and wiser from the life he grew up around. I'm not a huge fan of T2 Trainspotting - but it's not bad. Don't worry , nothing nearly as traumatic as in this movie (that I remember, only saw it once a while ago). It's more about aging than anything else-- it's the same characters 20 years later. Bit of trivia, the writing on the walls of the club that Renton meets Diane is the same as that in the Korova Milk Bar in the beginning of A Clockwork Orange (speaking of disturbing and traumatic movies- and another one where the major "rotten" character goes through personal growth- although that's more clear in the book than the movie). And I feel I led you astray on the subtitles. I said that half in jest. And Amazon Prime did a shitte job of the subtitles, totally out of sync for most of the movie (at least for me).
Samolina Pilchard
2025-02-20 05:37:03 +0000 UTCCompletely agree with you. I find this movie inspiring in an artistic way, and I enjoy the hell out of the Scottishness in it.
Domino
2025-02-20 01:31:47 +0000 UTCIt's funny I have not seen this movie since I was a kid and I remember it being so hilarious and loving this movie. And I could barely watch it now. I thought about fast forwarding to the end to hear the outro but then I wanted to see your reaction to the ending where Renton steals the money and Begbie loses it. But yeah I am all the way with Sam. I don't think I'm ever gonna watch this movie again.
Alex
2025-02-20 01:14:26 +0000 UTCYes! Pink Floyd's The Wall does the same thing for me as this. Just makes me want to do things and make the world be better with how dark (and British) it is.
PIG
2025-02-19 23:14:06 +0000 UTClol I think it's good found the London montage horrible. I think it was was the intent though! That kinda gray, lukewarm, disvalued approach to a new place and time but with exciting music for the tourists.
PIG
2025-02-19 23:12:52 +0000 UTCAlways love your honesty...sorry you hated it, though. This movie definitely does not make me want to do heroin, but I have definitely watched it many, many times. Dark humor is right up my alley, and the artistic choices in this, and the acting--as you guys point out--is top notch. Also have seen Requiem For a Dream--once. Great movie--but it makes me want to ram my head through a brick wall. This makes me want to create, and craft, and do things, because it's so strikingly original. Anyway...hope you had a better time with Sneakers. Going to watch that next.
Steve Mercier
2025-02-19 23:05:12 +0000 UTCIt's hard to express just what an impact Trainspotting had when it came out in 1996. It was the movie of the moment, emblematic of the new "Cool Brittania" spirit in the country in the mid-90s as Britain moved out 18 years of Conservative rule and into the optimism of New Labour. Euro 96, Britpop, a wave of young British artists...it was quite a time. Unlike many of that era's pop culture artefacts, Trainspotting holds up remarkably well (aside from the unspeakable London montage, which has always been rubbish). It's an astonishingly bleak vision made and acted with bracing confidence. Few films have so skilfully walked the tightrope of giving audiences a simultaneously exhilarating, hilarious and harrowing experience. I too find horrible things happening to babies to be the one thing in films that I can't really handle, so my heart went out to Samantha in this reaction.
Henry Graham
2025-02-19 22:27:03 +0000 UTCYeah, before my daughter was born it was so much easier to disassociate from movies. Now, with a little one too, I really understand where Sam is coming from. I saw this as a teen, though, and I think it kept me away from hard drugs. I really think this is not only a great movie, but also, an important one too.
PIG
2025-02-19 22:13:23 +0000 UTCThat was the writer?!?! That's awesome :)
PIG
2025-02-19 22:11:25 +0000 UTCI have yet to watch the reaction (I will today) but I wanted to leave a comment first saying that the only reason I didn't want you guys to watch this film was the baby scene and now I'm scared to watch. I absolutely love this movie though, I think it's a masterpiece and I hope you enjoyed it.
Domino
2025-02-19 21:32:23 +0000 UTCI was hoping to have that sort of reaction when I revisited A Life Less Ordinary (also during lockdown), but unfortunately no. π
Paul Cox
2025-02-19 21:29:54 +0000 UTCLove Sunshine. I will also go to bat for his redheaded stepchild, A Life Less Ordinary (1997). It's all over the map, but I like it, warts and all. When I asked Boyle about it at a Q&A for T2 Trainspotting, he was happy, as "someone has to stick up for the underloved and black sheep."
Tyler Foster
2025-02-19 21:23:28 +0000 UTCWhat I thought was particularly great about it was the way it skewered the kind of nostalgia that these sorts of decades-later sequels often traffic in. The trajectory of these characters' lives hasn't exactly been what one might have thought watching the original, in ways that smartly subverted expectations (while also being perfectly logical). There are definitely parts that are a little neat, but it was one of my top 3 favorite movies of that year.
Tyler Foster
2025-02-19 21:17:59 +0000 UTCFuck yes! This falls somewhere--I don't where exactly--on my top 10 all-time favorite movie list. The book, by Irvine Welsh (who has a cameo as Mikey Forrester, the drug dealer who freaks out and sells Sick Boy some heroin), is also spectacular. For me, however, this is one of those rare occasions where the movie is actually better than the book. I feel the same way about Fight Club. This one has more dead babies in it, however.
Steve Mercier
2025-02-19 21:14:28 +0000 UTCGreat Film and the Sequel (21 years later) is good ... but i agree with you, this is a Film i can watch only 1 Time ... Danny Boyle is a Great Director ... I Recommend "The Beach" from 2000 with di Caprio
Florian Meier
2025-02-19 20:51:07 +0000 UTCcompletely disagree, i thought it was terrible - its a film that really divides opinion though
Nick Sneddon
2025-02-19 20:37:43 +0000 UTCanother brilliant film - I actually think its better than 28 days
Nick Sneddon
2025-02-19 20:36:03 +0000 UTCAs far as Danny Boyle goes, I'm #TeamSunshine all the way. It's never even been close to winning a poll, but I hope you react to it one day nonetheless. βοΈ
Paul Cox
2025-02-19 19:25:34 +0000 UTCA shame you weren't that enamored with the sequel. I think it's up there with "Twin Peaks: The Return" as one of the great long-gap sequels that pointedly undermines the nostalgia of this sort of legacy follow-up.
Tyler Foster
2025-02-19 19:06:04 +0000 UTCI had forgotten how harsh and unpleasant this movie is. It's brilliant, but that's definitely my last time watching it. I find it shocking that people at the time thought it glorified drug use.
Marcus Cato
2025-02-19 18:56:39 +0000 UTCThis is a great movie and i'm glad it won a poll. Funny and heartbreaking (a Danny Boyle trademark). One of the best of the 90's
Smooticus
2025-02-19 18:47:40 +0000 UTCI was 22 when this came to theaters, sort of dumb and unempathetic, and I remembered more about the soundtrack album than I did the actual film when I rewatched it for the first time during lockdown. I was shocked that something this absolutely hopeless and grim completely slid off my back at a younger age. Like you, I recognize the craft, but I also never want to see it again. (I also watched the sequel during lockdown and it was...fine. Tonally more like a regular mainstream drama than the all-things-at-once aggressiveness of the first, but still sort of rotten at the core.)
Paul Cox
2025-02-19 18:20:06 +0000 UTCGotta start the campaign early: T2 Trainspotting (2017) is a shockingly great sequel, one I'd put next to Blade Runner 2049 as one of the rare long-gap follow-ups that was worth the wait. Don't miss it.
Tyler Foster
2025-02-19 17:42:45 +0000 UTC
