What's Sup Forums opinion on trainspotting?

What's Sup Forums opinion on trainspotting?
and is the 2nd any good?

Good film, Danny Boyle is based
2nd is awesome, the ending credits is meant to enter in the history of cinema

It was good, but it did not have the darkness that the original had.

I can't imagine caring about edgy white trash

Idk. I was like 20 years late to the party as i've only seen it in like 2014 for the first time, but i didn't really enjoy it that much. Even worse, i had to use subtitles to understand what they were saying because it was impossible to understand (I'm not a native english speaker)

Danny is one of a kind.
I won't be watching the second film tho.

A realistic documentary on the lives of Scottish "people".

Love the first, definitely appreciated the second one. It's very enjoyable.

I'm also a huge Irvine Welsh fan and I've red almost all his books so I was a little disappointed that the second film didn't have a lot more connections to Porno but I knew it was only gonna be very loosely based.

I definitely recommend also reading the novels Skagboys, Trainspotting, and Porno.

Also, shout out to the book Glue for having a fun chapter where they meet up with everyone from Trainspotting.

The first 30 minutes of T2 was kino. Everything went to shit after that.
>Mark does heroin
>Mark fucks Veronika
>Mark goes back to being a NEET
It felt like the first movie was for nothing.

>Also, shout out to the book Glue for having a fun chapter where they meet up with everyone from Trainspotting.
Wait, what?

It's a nice look into 1990's Britain. And it's a good film too.

Spud losing his job because he was to long on skag to remember summer time was hilarious

yeah, in the the book Porno only Spud does heroin. Sick Boy does smoke crack in the first chapter but he just does massive amounts of coke.

In the book Glue, one part where the main characters are teens and they go to a soccer game to start a big brawl. They go with Joe Begbie who wants to meet up with Franco and his crew which are Sick Boy, Renton, Spud and Tommy. Spud stole a bag of chicken tenders from a store and Franco boots them and insults him.

There's a few other things in that book. All the Irvine Welsh Books reference each other and I fucking love shit like that.

I'll check it out. Skagboys is a prequel to Trainspotting and Porno is the author sequel to it, right? So Danny went his own route to the sequel it seems.

When does Glue take place?

Spot the democrat.

Both are great, full of dark comedy and fitting soundtracks. First one shows drug addiction, second one shows middle life crisis.
It looks like you missed the point of the movie. There are no happy endings in life, at least not for everyone. Sickboy is still a scam artist and a pimp, thinking that he's smarter than everyone, Spud is still a junkie, Franco is still a robber and Renton is no different. Even though in the beginning he pretends like he managed to turn his life around, later we find out it was all a lie, all the positive outlook, "wife and kids", it wasnt him. Literally every character arc in the movie is a circle with them returning to the same place they started but with different outlook, they now know what they are and accept it

I can understand why everyone else still has a shit lift but Mark is different. The ending felt like it set that up.

Yeah Skagboys shows how they start doing heroin. Trainspotting is just a few years later where they're deep into it and Porno is 10 years after Renton robs them.

Glue is about 4 friends which spans over 30 years to right before Porno. The beginning part is where they're teens and then it jumps to in there 20s but you find out it's after Trainspotting because someone runs into Spud and they comment how his friend stole a shitload of money. Then it goes to their 30s.

It's a good read. Like, it starts of on the joys of youth and then how as you get older sometimes your friends are fucked and you're okay but nothing's the same.

T2 : Trainspotting = DLC : Videogame

Trainspotting is a masterpiece.
T2 is an unnecessary and unasked but enjoyable sequel. I consider it like a DLC right because of that: you're not forced to watch it to appreciate the first one, but watching it doesn't ruin it at all

Thanks, user. I'll give them a read.

Anything I should know before jumping in?

How is he different?
There is no cure for heroine addiction and no "former addicts". Renton managed to be "addcited to something else" for 20 years, but never changed. His "choose life" monologue highlights it: some mistakes cannot be undone and heroine is one of them. Don't do drugs, kids.

The second movie was totally and utterly unnecessary with no teeth to it. Neutered and boring. Only a couple really funny and noteworthy scenes, like when they go back to the place in your OP or the reunion with Diane. The Balkan chick was nice to look at but I didn't really get into her character. Diane's scene was great and she is still beautiful. Turning it into a slasher flick in the last fifteen minutes was abysmal and textbook Boyle. The "choose life" rehash was cringeworthy pandering nonsense. I didn't understand Sickboy's motivation for anything he did. Renton was kind of generic in the first movie but it's incredibly noticeable how devoid he is of a personality in this. The less said about Spud actually writing Trainspotting the better. Soundtrack was unmemorable. 1698 scene went on way too long.

The only thing I can say is the language can be a bit hard to grasp. I mean, I'm american and it took me two reads to pick up on certain things, mostly Trainspotting though. It's written in all Scots. Everything else is written normally except for when people are talking.

Also, Trainspotting is written from different from different perspectives. You can pinpoint who is narrating from how they talk. Begbie curses all the time, Sick Boy is full of himself, and Spud loves to call people "cat-boy"

It's something you kind of have to get used to but definitely worth it.

Also check out Marabou Stork Nightmares, which is personally my favorite of all his novels. There's also Filth which is about a corrupt cop and it's sequel Crime.

Filth has a movie on Netflix with James McAvoy which is pretty decent.

Based, user. I'll give them a read.