Mr Romanov Saviour of HMFC Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 I've decided it's my favourite film of all time. Must have watched it about 100 times and read the book three times. It actually upsets me a bit that the main characters are hibees. It's just iconic for a certain age group. Who's got the ******* cairds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C00l K1d Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 That filth that's coming out looks decent aswell. Seen the trailer in the pictures the night. Is it entirely set in edinburgh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Mancini Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 was talking to friend about this last week after we saw a trailer for filth(which im really looking forward to seeing) i seen trainspotting the week it was released on video and never enjoyed it, i was probably 14-15 at the time and have never once felt the urge to watch it again, tbh i found the acid house and ecstasy more enjoyable films even though i'd imagine they were done on smaller budgets in comparison and are nothing special imo, got high hopes for filth though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlasgoJambo Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I read Trainspotting while at university in Bristol in early 1995. It made me homesick so I came back to Embra for a week and we beat Rangers 4-2 at Tynie in the cup. Likesay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Reekin' Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Filth: main character is a corrupt, amoral, ethically-and-morally-bankrupt, low-life, arsehole, sleazebag of a policeman, who's known as "Robbo" and is a Hearts' fan... Bitter and jealous much Irvine? Just say no to barely-literate, drug-induced pish, from the pish-meister supreme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greedy_Jambo Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Begbie should have his own film. He's brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smack Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 The pub where the glass gets thrown over the balcony.....that's Crosslands in Maryhill. Near the Murano St student digs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I love it but I have to say that IW is a complete arsehole. "He's standin there a' biscuit ersed" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N User Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Never got the hype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesie27 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Filth looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaganator Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Sunshine on Leith looks good too - set in Edinburgh. Never saw the musical - is there a Hibs connection other than the title? I liked Trainspotting. I've been to the train station on Corrour where they go to get away from the city. It really is in the arse end of nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Filth could be good but I think they've picked the wrong actor. In the book the cop is middle aged, ugly, fat and with manky ******-rot. James McAvoy doesn't really seem to fit the character at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambogaz1968 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Trainspotting Great film Great soundtrack Watched it many a time Bought it on Blu-Ray about a year ago, still haven't got round to sticking it on the PS3 Soon though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Trainspotting in 3D would be awesome. Renton coming out the bog would be something to behold - not sure the baby scene would be good though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Portrays Hibernian fans very well in my opinion. Good movie. Welsh is indeed an arsehole though. Looking forward to filth too. Has anyone watched ecstasy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Sunshine on Leith looks good too - set in Edinburgh. Never saw the musical - is there a Hibs connection other than the title? I liked Trainspotting. I've been to the train station on Corrour where they go to get away from the city. It really is in the arse end of nowhere. Got a good couple of bites with a 5-1 comment on the trailer found on YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Romanov Saviour of HMFC Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 Ecstasy is absolutely terrible Filth looks brilliant, mcavoy looks hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Kelly Macdonald is the best thing in Trainspotting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Ecstasy is absolutely terrible Filth looks brilliant, mcavoy looks hilarious. Noticed it on netflix but thought I'd get some opinions on it first before viewing. What makes it so pish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Kelly Macdonald is the best thing in Trainspotting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Don't think Rhys Ifans was in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky_26 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Trainspotting in 3D would be awesome. Renton coming out the bog would be something to behold - not sure the baby scene would be good though i wouldn't want to see the scene went spud tries to get the bedsheets in the washing machine and his birds mother tries to help him in 3D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychocAndy Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 The fitba team they support is incidental. Magnificent book, great film. Looking forward to Filth also. Some of it was filmed at the back of our building, a drug scene, art imitating life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi must stay Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I like The Beach, alot too. Very underrated movie. As for Filth, i'm not really expecting much. Jim Broadbent seems very happy to do awful movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 The biggest issue I had with the film was the Begbie character, he was supposed to be the same age as the others as they were schoolmates. Instead he turned into a late 30's man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychocAndy Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 The biggest issue I had with the film was the Begbie character, he was supposed to be the same age as the others as they were schoolmates. Instead he turned into a late 30's man. Welshie stayed in the next block of flats from me in Muirhouse and there was plenty of guys then that looked like Begbie even at school. Craigroyston and Ainslie Park more so than Royal High. Might even have been guys like that at Leith Academy where Welshie went as Graigy and Ainslie were a bit rough for a bloke called Irvine. My mates brother was like that at the beginning of 4th year, we were in 1st, and the full grown 'tache was one of the reasons he got expelled, along with the bullying, extortion and doing no school work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester™ Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 They still planning to do porno as movie? I enjoyed the book, unlike many, and thinking it would be good to follow up on trainspotting. Apparently they are still going to make the film. As for the book, I felt that Porno was sequel to the film Trainspotting rather than the book Trainspotting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomstick Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I like Irvine Welsh. Any time he's replied to a tweet to me he's been civil and engaging. He's a great writer and I enjoy his work. Can't wait for Filth to come out but they should focus on an adaptation of MSN which would be bleak as **** but brilliant if done right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Spackler Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I know Filth is meant to have some very dodgy stuff in it but I can't for a minute believe it can be worse than the scene in the Acid House where the boy is a fly on the wall of his parents Living Room/Bedroom. Totally minging but really really funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondo Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I like Irvine Welsh. Any time he's replied to a tweet to me he's been civil and engaging. He's a great writer and I enjoy his work. Can't wait for Filth to come out but they should focus on an adaptation of MSN which would be bleak as **** but brilliant if done right. I think IW is a cracking writer and comic genius, Hobo or not thoroughly enjoyed of most his work and at times had tears of laughter at his stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Draper Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I thought Trainspotting and Marabou Stork Nightmares were brilliant, inventive novels. Blew me away. I think it would be fair to say he's never really reached that level since, though. The Acid House, Glue, Filth and Porno all (imo) have their moments, but Ecstasy was a definite nadir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewis2006 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I know Filth is meant to have some very dodgy stuff in it but I can't for a minute believe it can be worse than the scene in the Acid House where the boy is a fly on the wall of his parents Living Room/Bedroom. Totally minging but really really funny. "Shite in ma mooth" The granton star cause is brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C00l K1d Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 "Shite in ma mooth" The granton star cause is brilliant! ''Dinny shite in ma mooth, dinny dae it dinny, shite in ma mooth gon shite in ma mooth!'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grado Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Ecstasy is alright not fantastic Billy Boyd is shockingly bad in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beats Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Outstanding film. Cracking soundtrack as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yvonnejambo Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Filth could be good but I think they've picked the wrong actor. In the book the cop is middle aged, ugly, fat and with manky ******-rot. James McAvoy doesn't really seem to fit the character at all. Yeah I agree I thought someone worse looking and older would be better playing him, but still really looking forward to it. I love Irvine Welsh and yes he is hibby and a bit of a knob by all accounts but he has a great sense of humour and incredible talent in writing in a way that it grips you at same time as making you feel sick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zico Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Trainspotting's a brilliant book and a good film, albeit a bit sanitised and not as dark. My old man is good mates with a few of Irvine's mates and sort of knows him so I got a signed first edition for nowt in 1993 (don't think he knew I was a Hearts supporter). I was about 15 or 16 and it really got me back into reading as I was bored sh!tless reading Shakespeare at the time (old Bill can spin a yarn but As You Like It isn't one of his better ones). Transpotting and Maribou Stork are both outstanding with most of his other books being either or good or very good, apart from Ecstasy which even he's admitted is crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegas-voss Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I know Filth is meant to have some very dodgy stuff in it but I can't for a minute believe it can be worse than the scene in the Acid House where the boy is a fly on the wall of his parents Living Room/Bedroom. Totally minging but really really funny. "Dinae .... In ma" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondo Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Yeah I agree I thought someone worse looking and older would be better playing him, but still really looking forward to it. I love Irvine Welsh and yes he is hibby and a bit of a knob by all accounts but he has a great sense of humour and incredible talent in writing in a way that it grips you at same time as making you feel sick! Carlisle the tiny weeg was never Begbie for me but carried it no bad, so might another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zico Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Carlisle the tiny weeg was never Begbie for me but carried it no bad, so might another Apparently Begbie was based on two guys Irvine knew - one was a weegie psycho who he shared a flat with in London (the sharpened knitting needles and 'discipline ay the basebaw bat' came from him) and the other was a Leith bam who drunk himself into an early grave (things like trying to kill his own brother came from him). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondo Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Apparently Begbie was based on two guys Irvine knew - one was a weegie psycho who he shared a flat with in London (the sharpened knitting needles and 'discipline ay the basebaw bat' came from him) and the other was a Leith bam who drunk himself into an early grave (things like trying to kill his own brother came from him). Don't doubt for a moment..Trainspotting is a film based in the Capital no the Weeg (begbie never ever sounded like a west coater in the book ) but films have to sell last time RC got the gig this time McAvoy as Edinburgh don't have high profile actors sadly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Romanov Saviour of HMFC Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 Carlisle as begbie really pulled off the classic leith bam for me. Go down to central bar the night at the bottom of leith walk and there will be ten begbies in just like him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Carlisle as begbie really pulled off the classic leith bam for me. Go down to central bar the night at the bottom of leith walk and there will be ten begbies in just like him! What makes Begbie realistic for me, is that everyone knows a Begbie. He might just be a random who drinks in your local, or the local heid case that everyone knows but try's to avoid, or like in the case of both the film & book, he is someone in your company. We all know him, that's what makes it for me. Read the book a ridiculous amount if times and have seen the film loads of times too, it's quality work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Currahee! Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Granton Star Cause is a quality comedy. When he gets arrested and the copper is asking who's in the cells and what for is superb. He gets a doing for vandalising a phone box because the cop has shares in BT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C00l K1d Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Found the book too difficult to get into. Iirc it's one long text is it not, not broken down into chapters or that. I kind of half enjoyed it, i might have another go at it as the last time i tried to read it was when i was 13/14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlasgoJambo Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Found the book too difficult to get into. Iirc it's one long text is it not, not broken down into chapters or that. The structure is all over the shop and the language is Embra phonetic which means at first it does take a while - but stick with it and you totally tune in and it becomes as easy to read as anything else. Well worth the time investment as is a fantastic novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewis2006 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Granton Star Cause is a quality comedy. When he gets arrested and the copper is asking who's in the cells and what for is superb. He gets a doing for vandalising a phone box because the cop has shares in BT. "The hoor was asking fur it"...."aye well boys will be boys" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerjambo190512 Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 I think Irvine Welsh is a fantastic writer, i've read most of his stuff n i've been in stiches laughing. After reading porno i couldn't help but think that spud is based on himself. Read this i think it hilarious its a short story from his book reheated cabbage http://www.barcelonareview.com/eng/eng14.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 The structure is all over the shop and the language is Embra phonetic which means at first it does take a while - but stick with it and you totally tune in and it becomes as easy to read as anything else. Well worth the time investment as is a fantastic novel. The problem is that he made a lot of the vernacular and slang up. My background is pretty much the same as his, born and brought up in Granton, schooled in Leith and all of my early pub experiences etc in Leith. And there was a lot of the stuff made no sense to me. Also if you are from a place and see it written like that as you would subconsciously do it yourself anyway. Morph is from the same area as me so may have had the same problems. Or may he's just a bit thick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C00l K1d Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 The problem is that he made a lot of the vernacular and slang up. My background is pretty much the same as his, born and brought up in Granton, schooled in Leith and all of my early pub experiences etc in Leith. And there was a lot of the stuff made no sense to me. Also if you are from a place and see it written like that as you would subconsciously do it yourself anyway. Morph is from the same area as me so may have had the same problems. Or may he's just a bit thick. Nah you're right. It wasn't so much the language that got me, but there was a few bits that i had to read over twice. It was just that it seemed to all roll into one, i had the exact same problem when I was reading city of god, the book set in the Brazilian favelas . I had to focus more on understanding the structure of the book rather than enjoying the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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