I’m glad you liked it. I think it’s very underrated, a lot of people dismiss it because of their affection for the original, but I love them both, especially as I have aged with the characters growing up in Scotland in the 90s.
I think for me it fell so short of what I was hoping for. Having read the book Porno, which is technically the sequel, the film could and should've been so much better.
Yes, in some ways it’s better. The first one was darker , more grim and edgy .the sequel couldn’t possibly match that , having them all still on smack would be boring and they’d all be dead by now. Na the characters are where you’d expect them to be and it’s more of a feel good film than the original . Granted it didn’t need a sequel but Danny Boyle is a genius who couldn’t have possibly have done it any better!
This is catharsis in the form of film. So many times you walk away from a movie and wonder how the characters lives would unfold after the credits, and here we get our answers. No saccharine gloss applied. Everything feels natural and each character gets pretty much what they deserve. The raw energy and talent of the first film vs the steady hand and maturity of the second is a nice parallel, reflected in the direction, cinematography, performances and story. Not to mention the banging soundtrack and awesome remixes of some old familiar classics. Such a satisfying continuation. It deserves credit for the simple fact that they were able to achieve something of this level so long after what was widely considered to be one of the greatest films in British cinema.
Even though you didn’t show most of it…I thought the quick flash shots of Renton and Sick Boy as little boys was just heartbreaking. They seem to live in perpetual regret and looking to the past as this utopian life they once had that was never really real, just pure moments in a life unfulfilled. That’s what kills me most about this film. It’s about the exploration of men after forty and their place in life as it is versus how they dreamed it would be. Being the same age as Ewan, I felt every true moment of this amazing film.
Brilliantly stated! This is who they are and who they always have been. Failures and addicts with ideals of change and success. The bad habits and personal hell they built is the hell they live in, left and then inevitably, returned to.
As someone who saw the original on release, then this 25 years later, it filled with absolute love. So much I could genuinely relate to. The film filled me with some sense of hope.
The thing to remember is that Trainspotting was so significant in Scotland, i'm 40 and everyone I know saw it even though we were too young to get into the cinema (legally). When this came out the whole country, well everyone from ages 30 to 60, went to see it. The film is a trip into our collective pasts and the that of the country.
I'm really happy you watched this sequel and liked it so much. I found it to be really fulfilling, a very nice bow to wrap up the story, and gorgeously shot to boot. Who knows though, maybe they will indeed make another in twenty years. I know I'd watch it.
Loved the original. Must have watched itvover and over again. 28 years later and wehave T2. In its own right it holds it own and not trying to be like the original. Lust for life ❤
Such rich material and drew on everything that made the original epic. A tourist in our own youth" perfectly sums it up. Great lighting colour and visuals. They did a great job.
Thank you for reacting to this film. Definitely worthy of a sub from me. This is such a beautiful and emotional film. I am a massive Trainspotting fanboy and also loved the book sequel to Trainspotting called "Porno" by Irvine Welsh. I was a little nervous going into this one (despite my sheer confidence in Danny Boyle), and was not disappointed. Trainspotting 2 is a more than worthy successor, and the themes of the movie couldn't have been more appropriate for what I was going through at the time. Time comes for us all, and it can be a son of a bitch.
I was on that prison landing when they came to film it was a Sunday and they blackmailed the whole landing to stay quiet with chocolate and the likes.❤
This is such a great sequel. The big time gap, makes it mean something. So glad i watched your videos in succession. I was 16 when this came out and as a Scotsman, it felt like our Pulp Fiction or something. Absolutely massive, I've seen the original dozens of times. New subscriber anyway cheers 🏴👍
At 16.37 you say "Clean up the trash". The part of Edinburgh that was filmed at (down at the shore, just behind leith links) has been renovated in the last 20 years. It used to be old warehouse storage for the port and a scrappies (somewhere you sell scrap metal). As the land was being built, the scrappies never sold their land so it is really jarring to see new housing overlooking a scrap yard. The pub scene was also filmed at a pub called the busy bee. Same story, new housing was being built and the pub owner refused to sell.
Yesssssssss! Just celebrating our result against the Spanish! Cant wait to watch when i get home! C’mon SCOTLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
The fact they have stolen and ripped each other off during their time as drug addicts hits pretty close to the truth but they don’t have any other/real friends to rely on so end up back with the same old people. A lot of council neighbourhoods in Scotland were/are still pretty dark places full of drugs, disease and crime. Toilets were often pretty bad as well although a lot of bars that are left are more upmarket and better kept. You’d be lucky to find a public toilet in many places now but they sometimes were pretty grim. They even started putting lights in that made it harder to see veins to stop people injecting.
The story is, however the individual interprets it a very generational film duo. If you grew up identifying with the first, the second makes you feel something for the characters. It is probably rare when directors and actors get to revisit something together, following the same story line 20 years later.
Please react to 'Filth' (2013), which is a criminally underrated transgressive masterpiece set in Scotland, based on the same author Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name.
Loving these videos, just binged loads.. some you should try from UK. 51st state with Samuel L Jackson, is comedy gangster and a gangster movie from Liverpool 'going off big time'. Hope you do watch and look forward to watching more of your reviews
Nice to see you check this one out. A worthy sequel for sure. For another film based upon work by Irvine Welsh, you should try “The Acid House”. It features 3 stories takes from the book of the same name with the screenplay written by Welsh himself. Even if you don’t react to it, definitely just watch it.
I for sure think this one ranks among the best (delayed) sequels of all time. These many years later sequels that try to capitalize on the first movies popularity never seem to work out that great. Blade Runner did it well, This one did it well other than that I dont think there are many good examples of 10+ years later movies having this sort of quality and successfully adding to the original storylines.
*I got to see the original film as a kid back in the days when you could see a movie not for kids as long as you had adults with you. The film was so iconic to me, 20 years later I thought a sequel would be blasphemy & sully my memory of the original movie. I had TWO opportunities to go see the sequel, once with my girlfriend & next with that same friend from childhood who's parents took us to see the first movie & I turned down his offer. After finally watching it with another friend who's just as big a fan of the original as I was. He simply said "trust me" & I was blown away at how great this movie was. It wasn't just a re-tread of the original classic & there was more character growth, even from a reprehensible character like Begbie who I saw as pure evil in the first movie I kind of felt a sense of guilt for just dismissing him as a monster. I was a kid what did I know? But this is one of the few sequels that didn't disappoint. Whilst it didn't surpass the original, it did make itself stand as a worthy sequel.*
It was left on the cutting room floor, but I put it up there with T2 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as far as on par, if not better, as a sequel. Similar to Aliens as well. It's just good and continues from a brilliant space.
Its definitely a better movie than the first one, it just doesnt have the same cultural impact as the first which was a hugely hyped film due to the success of the book, particulary in working class Scotland. The soundtrack was also a major seller. The book is written in a way which is really only understood by those who know Scots slang ad who get the references. The movies are bascially very slick screenplay versions of some of the narrative threads of the book. I live in an area where this movie was shot and is becoming more popular with Hollywood as a location. Samuel L Jackson was here filming a few weeks back as there is basically a fully functioning movie studio on our door step. Ive also met Irvine Welsh as well as caught him DJing at new years. What you guys may not know is that Spud dies in a later book and that the guy who played the gangster in this movie was actually shot dead not that long ago. True story.
I believe the follow up book ‘The blade artist’ about Begbie is being made into a movie. Begbie has moved to California and become a successful sculptor
I was on that prison landing when they came to film and you guys can imagine they tried everything to keep the prisoners quiet by blackmailing us with chocolate and such likes❤😂
You guys should check out "Four Lions" 2010. Its not massively well known but very good. I would say more about stereotypes.... nothing more English northern than these lads though! Maybe watch that one in your spare time! XD
The East Coast of Scotland and the peripheral social housing estates of Edinburgh and Dundee were hit hard by the Heroin epidemic in the mid 80s. The highest HIV rate in Europe could be found in those two cities. The mass exodus of industry also decimated these cities fuelling mass unemployment and despair. The Heroin was produced in Afghanistan and the money used to fund the war against the Soviets. The fact the crew are all Hibernian Football Club supporters identifies them as Catholics. Hibernia was the Roman name for Ireland. The club was formed by Catholic immigrants from Ireland.
"But Spud is a Herion boy"... I think the word is "SKAG BOY" 😂 SKAGBOYS is the prequel Trainspotting with Renton, Simon and Spud set earlier in life. There is more of that xhatacyer series too and many other Irvine Welsh stories that span over multiple books. Even the Crime and Filth has its one Filth and TV series
14:39 even funnier. When you know mark and simon are catholic. And share to the areas of flyers score there is a small scale religious war where Catholics are not safe sharing it is and processes are not safe in other areas. Thanks have improved traverse really recently but as I know Me is 100% safe.
I doubt a film about criminals with Heroin addiction would contain the beautiful mountains and glens that Scotland is famous for as you'll find that smack heads don't frequent such areas and tend to stick to the dirtier seedier poorer areas as the director is depicting making you feel uncomfortable in their world.
Great to watch fellow filmmakers enjoy these films so much. For a more stark 1980's gem have you guys seen "the Long Good Friday" (the British gangster movie) with Bob Hoskins and a young Helen Mirren? The final moment of that film has stuck with me all my life, it encapsulates that moment of realisation without a single word being spoken. It's of its time but we'll worth a watch.
You should check out Robert Carlyle as director and staring in the legend of Barney Thomson a dark comedy about a series killer also stars Emma Thompson
I’m well aware of it in Scotland, sadly. I’m from Tyneside NE England, so we see a LOT less than we did years ago, thank gawd. Both sets of my great-grandparents were from Ireland, one lot Catholic & the other lot Protestant. ☘️🍊
More central belt and especially the Glasgow area than it was elsewhere in Scotland. I guess that’s why Glasgow and Edinburgh have/had 2 football clubs split down sectarian lines.
@@murph8411 90 minute bigots are a problem, unfortunately most don't even know why they sing what they do, why they behave the way they do. Just banter according to them.
@@House0fHoot Most sectarianism these days seems to be confined to a 90-minute game of football, although there are still wider issues, you would certainly face problems if you walked around certain towns with a particular football top on.
I’m glad you liked it. I think it’s very underrated, a lot of people dismiss it because of their affection for the original, but I love them both, especially as I have aged with the characters growing up in Scotland in the 90s.
Yes, so true.
me three ;)
Seeing Spud get his comeuppance made me cry happy tears. Loved this movie
I think for me it fell so short of what I was hoping for. Having read the book Porno, which is technically the sequel, the film could and should've been so much better.
Yes, in some ways it’s better. The first one was darker , more grim and edgy .the sequel couldn’t possibly match that , having them all still on smack would be boring and they’d all be dead by now.
Na the characters are where you’d expect them to be and it’s more of a feel good film than the original .
Granted it didn’t need a sequel but Danny Boyle is a genius who couldn’t have possibly have done it any better!
The Choose Life speech of T2 hits so hard.
Your observations on the cinematography made the flick much more enjoyable than when I saw it in the cinema.
Guy playing the fence @12:12 is Irvine welsh the author of the trainspotting books.
This is catharsis in the form of film. So many times you walk away from a movie and wonder how the characters lives would unfold after the credits, and here we get our answers. No saccharine gloss applied. Everything feels natural and each character gets pretty much what they deserve.
The raw energy and talent of the first film vs the steady hand and maturity of the second is a nice parallel, reflected in the direction, cinematography, performances and story. Not to mention the banging soundtrack and awesome remixes of some old familiar classics.
Such a satisfying continuation. It deserves credit for the simple fact that they were able to achieve something of this level so long after what was widely considered to be one of the greatest films in British cinema.
Even though you didn’t show most of it…I thought the quick flash shots of Renton and Sick Boy as little boys was just heartbreaking. They seem to live in perpetual regret and looking to the past as this utopian life they once had that was never really real, just pure moments in a life unfulfilled. That’s what kills me most about this film. It’s about the exploration of men after forty and their place in life as it is versus how they dreamed it would be. Being the same age as Ewan, I felt every true moment of this amazing film.
Brilliantly stated! This is who they are and who they always have been. Failures and addicts with ideals of change and success. The bad habits and personal hell they built is the hell they live in, left and then inevitably, returned to.
In modern life its shifted more to guys in their 30s now dealing with that stuff
As someone who saw the original on release, then this 25 years later, it filled with absolute love. So much I could genuinely relate to. The film filled me with some sense of hope.
Its crazy how underrated this film is
The thing to remember is that Trainspotting was so significant in Scotland, i'm 40 and everyone I know saw it even though we were too young to get into the cinema (legally). When this came out the whole country, well everyone from ages 30 to 60, went to see it. The film is a trip into our collective pasts and the that of the country.
That Spud-as-Nosferatu-shadow is so brilliant.
I'm really happy you watched this sequel and liked it so much. I found it to be really fulfilling, a very nice bow to wrap up the story, and gorgeously shot to boot. Who knows though, maybe they will indeed make another in twenty years. I know I'd watch it.
I would watch the shit out to T3!
Welsh’s novel Dead Men’s Trousers is the logical T3
I doubt they would make a 3rd
Wonder how many people this 'Choose Life' hit in the feels in their late 30's+.
I have different movie quotes I have saved and will print out and put on my wall. Consider 'Choose Life' to be added!
Or early 50s.
A beautiful follow up and examination of men trying to grow up with limited tools
".... men trying to grow with Limited Tools" such an accurate phrasing/statement. NICE!
Loved the original. Must have watched itvover and over again. 28 years later and wehave T2. In its own right it holds it own and not trying to be like the original. Lust for life ❤
Such rich material and drew on everything that made the original epic. A tourist in our own youth" perfectly sums it up. Great lighting colour and visuals. They did a great job.
Loyalists with their unimaginative PIN numbers 🤣
Trainspotting 1 & 2 is just pure movie theatre art 👏 ❤
Thank you for reacting to this film. Definitely worthy of a sub from me. This is such a beautiful and emotional film. I am a massive Trainspotting fanboy and also loved the book sequel to Trainspotting called "Porno" by Irvine Welsh. I was a little nervous going into this one (despite my sheer confidence in Danny Boyle), and was not disappointed. Trainspotting 2 is a more than worthy successor, and the themes of the movie couldn't have been more appropriate for what I was going through at the time. Time comes for us all, and it can be a son of a bitch.
I was on that prison landing when they came to film it was a Sunday and they blackmailed the whole landing to stay quiet with chocolate and the likes.❤
Definitely watch dead mans shoes. Regarded by many as one of the best British films of all time.
This is such a great sequel.
The big time gap, makes it mean something.
So glad i watched your videos in succession.
I was 16 when this came out and as a Scotsman, it felt like our Pulp Fiction or something.
Absolutely massive, I've seen the original dozens of times.
New subscriber anyway cheers 🏴👍
I mean 16, when the original came out
Glad you liked it welcome aboard
I was on the same landing in prison when they recorded T2 ,long term prisoner landing .❤
i don't know about now but back in the 90's that was an average pub/club toilet
At 16.37 you say "Clean up the trash". The part of Edinburgh that was filmed at (down at the shore, just behind leith links) has been renovated in the last 20 years. It used to be old warehouse storage for the port and a scrappies (somewhere you sell scrap metal). As the land was being built, the scrappies never sold their land so it is really jarring to see new housing overlooking a scrap yard.
The pub scene was also filmed at a pub called the busy bee. Same story, new housing was being built and the pub owner refused to sell.
Great video. Maybe a little unfair to Scotland though. Its like saying America is grim because detroit is grim
One of the all time greatest sequels.
You guys should watch Shallow Grave. Directed by Danny Boyle. Ewan McGregor plays one of the leads.
"for god sake's clean up the country"
Glass houses lad, glass houses.
Yesssssssss! Just celebrating our result against the Spanish! Cant wait to watch when i get home! C’mon SCOTLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Aye, get in there, absolutely magic result.
enjoyable and unpredictable
The fact they have stolen and ripped each other off during their time as drug addicts hits pretty close to the truth but they don’t have any other/real friends to rely on so end up back with the same old people.
A lot of council neighbourhoods in Scotland were/are still pretty dark places full of drugs, disease and crime. Toilets were often pretty bad as well although a lot of bars that are left are more upmarket and better kept.
You’d be lucky to find a public toilet in many places now but they sometimes were pretty grim. They even started putting lights in that made it harder to see veins to stop people injecting.
The story is, however the individual interprets it a very generational film duo. If you grew up identifying with the first, the second makes you feel something for the characters. It is probably rare when directors and actors get to revisit something together, following the same story line 20 years later.
Please react to 'Filth' (2013), which is a criminally underrated transgressive masterpiece set in Scotland, based on the same author Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name.
One can only imagine the number of demons Spud exorcised with one swing of a toilet.
Loving these videos, just binged loads.. some you should try from UK. 51st state with Samuel L Jackson, is comedy gangster and a gangster movie from Liverpool 'going off big time'. Hope you do watch and look forward to watching more of your reviews
Known as Formula 51 in USA
I don't remember much of this one, thought Id comment before and then after!
Nice to see you check this one out. A worthy sequel for sure. For another film based upon work by Irvine Welsh, you should try “The Acid House”. It features 3 stories takes from the book of the same name with the screenplay written by Welsh himself. Even if you don’t react to it, definitely just watch it.
I for sure think this one ranks among the best (delayed) sequels of all time. These many years later sequels that try to capitalize on the first movies popularity never seem to work out that great. Blade Runner did it well, This one did it well other than that I dont think there are many good examples of 10+ years later movies having this sort of quality and successfully adding to the original storylines.
*I got to see the original film as a kid back in the days when you could see a movie not for kids as long as you had adults with you. The film was so iconic to me, 20 years later I thought a sequel would be blasphemy & sully my memory of the original movie. I had TWO opportunities to go see the sequel, once with my girlfriend & next with that same friend from childhood who's parents took us to see the first movie & I turned down his offer. After finally watching it with another friend who's just as big a fan of the original as I was. He simply said "trust me" & I was blown away at how great this movie was. It wasn't just a re-tread of the original classic & there was more character growth, even from a reprehensible character like Begbie who I saw as pure evil in the first movie I kind of felt a sense of guilt for just dismissing him as a monster. I was a kid what did I know? But this is one of the few sequels that didn't disappoint. Whilst it didn't surpass the original, it did make itself stand as a worthy sequel.*
In terms of cash in sequels from modern Hollywood, this one is surprisingly good
It was left on the cutting room floor, but I put it up there with T2 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as far as on par, if not better, as a sequel. Similar to Aliens as well. It's just good and continues from a brilliant space.
Its definitely a better movie than the first one, it just doesnt have the same cultural impact as the first which was a hugely hyped film due to the success of the book, particulary in working class Scotland. The soundtrack was also a major seller. The book is written in a way which is really only understood by those who know Scots slang ad who get the references. The movies are bascially very slick screenplay versions of some of the narrative threads of the book. I live in an area where this movie was shot and is becoming more popular with Hollywood as a location. Samuel L Jackson was here filming a few weeks back as there is basically a fully functioning movie studio on our door step. Ive also met Irvine Welsh as well as caught him DJing at new years. What you guys may not know is that Spud dies in a later book and that the guy who played the gangster in this movie was actually shot dead not that long ago. True story.
I believe the follow up book ‘The blade artist’ about Begbie is being made into a movie. Begbie has moved to California and become a successful sculptor
a great sequel
Great reaction, great movie!
The guy that played the sauna owner got assassinated in real life. His name was Bradley Welsh. Look him up.
For an earlier, different type of British film try 1955's 'The Ladykillers'. 'Brighton Rock', too (1948 one) if you haven't seen it.
I was on that prison landing when they came to film and you guys can imagine they tried everything to keep the prisoners quiet by blackmailing us with chocolate and such likes❤😂
Did it work?
Eventually it did 😁
I went to watch T2 at the cinema in Scotland (Livingston) and some guy got arrested it was very fitting 🤣
You guys should check out "Four Lions" 2010. Its not massively well known but very good. I would say more about stereotypes.... nothing more English northern than these lads though! Maybe watch that one in your spare time! XD
Ngl might be a hot take, but I like this one more than the original
And to take it full circle the title Gail thought of for Spuds stories was 'Trainspotting'.
I can assure you there *are* clean toilets in Scotland.
;)
The East Coast of Scotland and the peripheral social housing estates of Edinburgh and Dundee were hit hard by the Heroin epidemic in the mid 80s. The highest HIV rate in Europe could be found in those two cities. The mass exodus of industry also decimated these cities fuelling mass unemployment and despair. The Heroin was produced in Afghanistan and the money used to fund the war against the Soviets. The fact the crew are all Hibernian Football Club supporters identifies them as Catholics. Hibernia was the Roman name for Ireland. The club was formed by Catholic immigrants from Ireland.
I love this kind of insight thank you
"But Spud is a Herion boy"... I think the word is "SKAG BOY" 😂
SKAGBOYS is the prequel Trainspotting with Renton, Simon and Spud set earlier in life.
There is more of that xhatacyer series too and many other Irvine Welsh stories that span over multiple books.
Even the Crime and Filth has its one Filth and TV series
Please, please, please, do Guy Ritchies "Rock'n Rolla", it's like the sequel to Snatch, and i think you guys would love it. Best wishes fae Scotland
Mr Doyle the gangster was a real life gangster who was shot to death a few years ago.
Wee fun fact the house wee fergie and his mum stay in was my nans old house
Small world I guess when filming in a remote location that's not known for filming. That's amazing.
I'm surprised you haven't yet done movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey, or THX1138?
I wanna do a stretch of Kubrick movies
14:39 even funnier. When you know mark and simon are catholic.
And share to the areas of flyers score there is a small scale religious war where Catholics are not safe sharing it is and processes are not safe in other areas.
Thanks have improved traverse really recently but as I know Me is 100% safe.
I too am a dreaded papist and I often hum that tune
Fun fact … the rival sauna brothel guy at 23:40 is a bit of an actual local crook/gangster in real life
I'll take those squats.
The boy spud punch is retired pro boxer
Love little Behind the Scenes, pieces of info like this.
You two need to react to Rocknrolla by Guy Richie, his best ever movie for sure.
Next week
@@majormoviemadness9927 I'll be tuning in for that. Cheers guys.
This film was such a disappointment. The real sequel is the book called Porno. That's the film we wanted!
What's a geddi ?
Can you watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, if you haven't seen it yet
And you should read Dead Mans Trousers. One of the 4 dies.
I doubt a film about criminals with Heroin addiction would contain the beautiful mountains and glens that Scotland is famous for as you'll find that smack heads don't frequent such areas and tend to stick to the dirtier seedier poorer areas as the director is depicting making you feel uncomfortable in their world.
Great to watch fellow filmmakers enjoy these films so much.
For a more stark 1980's gem have you guys seen "the Long Good Friday" (the British gangster movie) with Bob Hoskins and a young Helen Mirren? The final moment of that film has stuck with me all my life, it encapsulates that moment of realisation without a single word being spoken.
It's of its time but we'll worth a watch.
You should check out Robert Carlyle as director and staring in the legend of Barney Thomson a dark comedy about a series killer also stars Emma Thompson
Ironic that Edinburgh is regarded as one of Europes prettiest citys.Check it out/
I look forward to visiting it
You really have to be Scottish Or Irish to truly understand the "No more Catholics scene" sectarianism is still quite a menace on our society today.
I’m well aware of it in Scotland, sadly. I’m from Tyneside NE England, so we see a LOT less than we did years ago, thank gawd. Both sets of my great-grandparents were from Ireland, one lot Catholic & the other lot Protestant. ☘️🍊
More central belt and especially the Glasgow area than it was elsewhere in Scotland.
I guess that’s why Glasgow and Edinburgh have/had 2 football clubs split down sectarian lines.
@@murph8411
90 minute bigots are a problem, unfortunately most don't even know why they sing what they do, why they behave the way they do. Just banter according to them.
@@House0fHoot
Most sectarianism these days seems to be confined to a 90-minute game of football, although there are still wider issues, you would certainly face problems if you walked around certain towns with a particular football top on.
All that rubbish is actually dolton scrap yards where old cars go to get crushed
U gotta watch filth. Please, please funking please 🙏
Yes!!
i liked 2 better than the original.
Agree
The gangster that took sick boy and Renton to the woods was an actual real life villain from Scotland and he was recently assassinated
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