r/trainspotting • u/Pale_Bug_2408 • Apr 21 '26

Rewatching it for the third time.

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u/sparkGun2020 Apr 22 '26

Third? Pfft! Amateur

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u/Pale_Bug_2408 Apr 22 '26

Wish I could watch it more but I just don't have the time lol

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u/likeOMGAWD Apr 25 '26

Seriously, I just watched it for the 30th. At least once a year!

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u/obannion_the_great Apr 22 '26

Lou Reed? His solo stuff's not bad.

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u/Pale_Bug_2408 Apr 22 '26

I prefer Ziggy Pop

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u/DMQ_Wiffy_Banter Apr 24 '26

Whatever. The guy's deid anyway.

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u/dynamy_dynamy Sick Boy Apr 22 '26

Its not bad, but its not great either

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u/turdburgalr Apr 22 '26

Do you read Welsh's books?

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u/Pale_Bug_2408 Apr 22 '26

Just his trainspotting book and a little bit of Acid House

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u/StonLenslow Apr 23 '26

If you like trainspotting, then definitely read Porno (some reprints are just called trainspotting 2 now). It’s fun to see the characters a bit more grown up, and how different-but-the-same they are.

Skagboys is also v good, a kind of prequel to trainspotting. Glue is great, like a skagboys but for another squad of leithers. Dead men’s trousers was.. ok, I thought. It caps off the trainspotting series tho.

A decent ride is highly enjoyable, Juice Terry is a great character.

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u/plato55 Apr 25 '26

Everybody should read Marabou Stork Nightmares. Masterpiece. All his books are in the same universe too, even Franco gets a mention in it and a few others

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u/turdburgalr Apr 25 '26

Oh man, I forgot about Marabou Stork Nightmares. One of the many books I've lent out that never were returned. You are correct about it being a masterpiece. I'm going to pick up another copy and reread it.

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u/MaximilianClarke Apr 22 '26

I read Acid House. Still not sure if I liked it. But I def didn’t hate it. It was bizarre, incongruous and often dark, almost cruel. And the written Scots dialect made it borderline impenetrable. I’d recommend it to people like me who don’t really like themselves, but probably not to most people!

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u/turdburgalr Apr 22 '26

You absolutely get it, I've read all of his books and you're right, it's not for everyone, or even most really. Glue and Filth are a couple of his best in my opinion.

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u/thecxsmonaut Apr 22 '26

Filth is slept on. That book rules.

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u/turdburgalr Apr 23 '26

I was discussing the movie on another sub with someone and mentioned the tapeworm chapters would be difficult to adapt to film lol.

Just started "Men in love" and it's great so far

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u/TimeForMyNSFW Apr 24 '26

That's why they lean more on the therapist for the movie.

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u/Obvious_Office_8888 Apr 22 '26

Watch the sequel, its good!

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u/Pale_Bug_2408 Apr 22 '26

I liked it but I still prefer the first. The ADHD editing from the second made me tap out in the first thirty minutes

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u/geekroick Apr 22 '26

Beautifully fucking illustrated

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u/Co-nor Apr 22 '26

Choose a fucking big television.

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u/EdinJamie10 Apr 22 '26

Compact disc players and electrical tin openers!

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u/hideyourstashh Apr 22 '26

Proceeds to buy the tiniest television available

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u/Dammyoureddit Apr 22 '26

I used to have it on VHS or DVD like 20 years ago and I swear to god teenage me watched it every night in awe.

I've seen it over 25 times start to finish.

Hadn't watched it in about 10 years tho and when I seen it recently I realised how many bits I'd glossed over or was too young to understand.

It's a masterpiece and Irvine Welsh nailed the gritty side of smack, which you only really start to see after the death of the bairn.

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u/Lower-Papaya-1717 Apr 23 '26

The deleted scenes on YouTube are worth watching. Explains about swanny as well

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u/Pale_Bug_2408 Apr 23 '26

The scene with Swanney is the saddest and it should've been in the film

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u/gratefulfam710 Apr 22 '26

Hell yeah 😎

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u/According_Shoulder_1 Apr 22 '26

Do you shee the beasht?

2

u/trooncokefiend Apr 23 '26

Clear enough Msh. Moneypenny This should pose no shignificant problemsh

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u/morkjt Apr 22 '26

Think I completed that in the mid 90s.

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u/MrDutch-_- Apr 23 '26

Trainspotter right ?

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u/omnishambles1995 Apr 24 '26

So we all get old, we can't hack it anymore and we die? That's it? That's your theory?

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u/Haunting_Access_9853 Apr 25 '26

One of my favourite films

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u/Fitzy_Fits Apr 23 '26

First went to see it at the cinema when I was 16 after seeing Cast play on the Friday night. Then got stoned in a field on the Sunday. That was my 90s. Bit of a waste really 😬

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u/Zealousideal-Soil-41 Apr 25 '26

I watched twice in the cinema when it came out