Trainspotting - Director's Cut (Collector's Edition)

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With its hallucinatory visions of crawling dead babies and a grungy plunge into the filthiest toilet in Scotland, you might not think Trainspotting could have been one of the best movies of 1996, but Danny Boyle's film about unrepentant heroin addicts in Edinburgh is all that and more. That doesn't make it everybody's cup of tea (so unsuspecting viewers beware), but the film's blend of hyperkinetic humor and real-life horror is constantly fascinating, and the entire cast (led by Ewan McGregor and Full Monty star Robert Carlyle) bursts off of the screen in a supernova of outrageous energy. Adapted by John Hodge from the acclaimed novel by Irving Welsh, the film was a phenomenal hit in England, Scotland, and (to a lesser extent) the U.S. For all of its comedic vitality and invigorating filmmaking, the movie is no ode to heroin, nor is it a straight-laced cautionary tale. Trainspotting is just a very honest and well-made film about the nature of addiction, and it doesn't pull any punches when it is time to show the alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse. --Jeff Shannon

Description

From the director of 28 DAYS LATER ... The motion picture sensation that wowed critics and audiences nationwide, TRAINSPOTTING delivers a wild mix of rebellious action and wicked humor! It's the story of four friends as they try to make it in the world on their own terms ... and who end up planning the ultimate scam! Powered by an outstanding cast of stars including Ewan McGregor (BIG FISH, STAR WARS EPISODES I, II & III) Robert Carlyle (THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, THE FULL MONTY) and Jonny Lee Miller (DRACULA 2000, MANSFIELD PARK), and a high-energy soundtrack, TRAINSPOTTING is spectacular, groundbreaking entertainment!

Customer Reviews:

doesnt get any better -- my favorite movie.......2007-09-06

ive seen it 32 times and counting -- never a waste of time!! LOVE IT!!!

Has everything.......2007-07-30

Overall, Trainspotting is one of the best movies ever made, it's that simple. What a trip this movie is. The dialogue, setting, acting and soundtrack are exceptional. It is at once incredibly disturbing, extremely suspensful, ridiculously funny and very much moving. It's almost a character study. We see what Rents goes through and whether we can relate to it or not(I hope not) doesn't matter because it's thoroughly engaging. Robert Carlyle (Begbie) is insanely funny, and completely psychotic as well. Spud is completely hopeless, yet we sympathize with him. Sick Boy is troubled yet appears successful and happy on the outside. Does Rents deserve what he gets(or takes) in the end? You be the judge. Just be prepared to go from being shocked, to sad, to frustrated, in stitches and finally to utterly pleased. It doesn't get much better than this.

Yay for Scots, even drug addled ones.......2007-07-23

I love this movie, have for awhile. Even if you hate it, it's one of those things you should at least see because it's often referenced. Of course, you shouldn't buy it if you hate it, or if you can't see any good in heroin addicts, but heroin addicts with Scottish accents are just easier to like, I guess. For fans of the film, this is a RIDICULOUSLY cheap price for not only the director's cut, but a special bonus disc teaming with features as well. I feel good about my purchase, shouldn't you?

Trainspotting.......2007-07-18

This witty, hallucinatory adaptation of Irvine Welsh's bestseller is an outrageously entertaining glimpse at dead-end lives, peopled with a remarkable cast of over-the-top characters who made the film an international hit. In his breakout role, McGregor is endearing as a ratty doper who just can't handle the notion of straight life, no matter how hard he tries. Boyle's energetic direction of a sterling ensemble cast--including Bremner, Miller, and "Full Monty" star Robert Carlyle, playing Mark's scornful, hard-drinking pal, Begbie--is tone-perfect, as are his inspired dramatizations of Renton's loopier, drug-induced nightmares. By turns shocking, morbid and funny, "Trainspotting" is an honest, scathing look at addiction.

A True Down-To-Earth story you can relate to........2007-06-30

There are plenty of movies that show the traditional comming of age tale, but nothing compares to the comical, extreme and sometimes painfully true film that is 'Trainspotting'. Trainspotting is the story of five screwed up pals looked upon as the dirt and rejected in their Scottish upbrining. Each over their heads in their own screwed up addictions. Everything from substance abuse, to theivery, to petefilia, these guys have dug their own graves so deep it would be a miricle to get out of it. Yet the main character Mark Renton played by the brilliant Ewen McGreggor is the one that is forced to change his ways against his own will. Through loving parants and a high school student he accidentally had relations with, Mark manages to begin enjoying life. Even when temptation arrives again in the form of his mates he still manages to free himself eventhough he admits to being a bad person he knows he is on the right track with our without the people that made a major impression on his life.

This story is one of the most relatable ones I have seen in all the movies I have seen that tell this story. In life we all grow up with a small circle of friends. These are the people who let into the deepest darkest corners of our souls. Even if they may the most brilliant of people, or low lives, from those who are pure to those that are pure evil we kept them close just because they trusted and understood who we were. Yet a time comes in all our lives where we must face the real world put aside the childish games and sacrifce our time to jobs and keep our lives in line with modern society. It is up to those same friends who we still hold dear to our hearts or just hate to join or be left behind in the gutter to rot. It is not because we are bad people who don't care about others, it's because they are not willing to join us on the road ahead.

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