Trainspotting

Pros: Enveloping plot, totally believable characters, great soundtrack
Cons: plot deals heavily with drug use (which may be a pro or a con)

Danny Boyle's TRAINSPOTTING is in my opinion one of the best films I've ever seen. The film just has so much going for it: a ensemble cast of characters unrivaled in terms of believability, an energetic and trippy soundtrack that merely accentuates all...

Pros: Dark and humorous...
Cons: Harrowing and often explicit.

Released in 1996, this movie was the launching pad for actor Ewan MacGregor who played one of the lead characters, Mark Renton, a junkie trying to go straight - not always making it and trying to find his path in ...

Pros: Flashy, hip script; hilarious and startling; several outstanding performances; good educational value
Cons: Some scenes border on nauseating, though hilariously so

This film's title, Trainspotting, derives from an old British obsession with counting trains as a way to mark the passage of time, to enliven an otherwise dreary existence. Shooting drugs can likewise serve that kind of purpose, as director Danny ...

Pros: McGregor. Direction. Script.
Cons: Outlandish at times.

Ewan McGregor stars in Trainspotting, but he appears so svelte, you'd believe him to be masquerading. I found myself suppressed by this information; throughout the duration of the film I had been asking, "Who is this talented young bloke? He's an ...

Pros: Acting, Direction, Story, Editing.
Cons: Hard to understand without subtitles sometimes, bless DVD.

Buddy Picture
Trainspotting isn’t a typical buddy picture. At the time when it came out, all of the main characters being drug addicts highly controversial, and critics blasted it for glamorizing drug addiction. In actuality though the film...

Pros: It's just a entertaining story; any moral judgments this film makes are pretty trivial.
Cons: Any moral judgments this film makes are pretty trivial.

In preparation to finally see a film I had really wanted to see since its theatrical release, 28 Days Later (review of which may or may not come shortly), I rented director Danny Boyle’s most notorious work, Trainspotting. The gimmick t ...

Pros: excellent performances; experimental and powerful direction; a well-balanced story of characters and themes.
Cons: Falls apart a bit near the end; some might see it as a pro-drug movie.

Films about the destructive power of drugs usually have the same message, but none of them show the other side of drugs - the rush, the ecstasy and the camaraderie. "Trainspotting" dares to play up that angle as it goes inside the minds of modern junkies ...

Pros: Boyle's Direction, Script, Cinematography, Editing, Soundtrack, & Cast.
Cons: None, though Very Disturbing in Some Scenes.

1996 was the year of Cool Britannia, the year Brit-pop ruled the world by bands like Oasis, Blur, Pulp, and many others. It was the year London was the coolest capital in the world while a young candidate named Tony Blair was bringing new hope to ...

Pros: Great acting, story, most everything
Cons: Nothing major, some won't like depictions of drug use

Theres something about British films that I've always loved. Maybe its the fact that Guy Ritchie has a few of my favorite films, maybe I just the love accents, for whatever reason I like British films an awful lot. Trainspotting is a movie I have wanted ...

Pros: Great cinematography, great soundtrack, great cast, great story.
Cons: Kind of disturbing, which some won't like.

1996 was a huge year for indie films. There was Fargo, Slingblade, Stealing Beauty, and, of course, Trainspotting. This sophomore directing effort from Danny Boyle, based on the incredible novel by Irvine Welsh, must be seen to be believed. The ...

Pros: Brilliant and disturbing film about the effects of heroin use
Cons: It's pretty tough to take.

Trainspotting is the story of a heroin addict named Renton in the bowels of London and his journey with addiction, crime and true misery. I've seen a lot of horror films in my time. I've scene heads lopped off with machetes, people stabbed in the eye, ...

Pros: Um, Ewan Macgregor?
Cons: Its rubbish compared to the book!

I live in Scotland, so "Trainspotting" is kind of an unavoidable movie here, everyone has to see it. At the age of 15 I had still never seen the movie, just out of lack of interest, but after reading the book, which I found to be fantastic and one of my ...

Pros: Great cast, Great writing, Great direction
Cons: Film feels slightly incomplete at the end, violence/sex/themes may be too much for some

Cast: Ewan McGregor (Mark Renton) Ewen Bremmer (Spud) Johnny Lee Miller (Sick Boy) Kevin McKidd (Tommy) Robert Carlyle (Begbie) Kelly McDonald (Diane) Shirley Henderson (Gail) Rating: US: R Canada: 18 A Running time: 94 minutes ...

Pros: Couple of mildly funny scenes
Cons: Glamourises the drug culture

~ ~ I was looking forward to the movie Trainspotting, as I had read the novel by Irvine Walsh on which it is based, and while Walsh’s novels can be disturbing, they are always amusing, and always full off very funny dialogue.
The fact that it was...

Pros: Amazingly intense cinematic experience
Cons: hard to understand at times

Whew! This is a brutal film to watch. Heroin addiction is a pretty ugly affair. This is a movie that doesn't pull punches. Contrary to the views of some, it does not glorify addiction or heroin use. I don't know how anyone could watch this film...