The characterization in this soccer scene alone is insane... Begbie kicking someone in the leg, sick boy yelling at someone, spud getting yelled at for being stupid, and Tommy getting pinned in a corner.... lots of foreshadowing
Qialú To shatter a glass on someone’s head or stab them with broken shards of a glass in bars in the UK - pretty nasty injury that happens in bar fights
This movie reminds me so much of me and my old friends, but seriously, it’s scary how accurate this film is to my old group. We were all young and dumb, doing bad shit, doing drugs, hanging out in a crack house all the time rotting away our lives. We had a large falling out kinda how Renton did with his buddies, I can resonate with him the most cuz almost the exact thing happened, I just left all my friends even my best friend for no reason at all, just cuz I was bored of my life. Oh how I took all that time for granted
@@farelervehomosapiensler ironically enough quite like the second movie played out. Our story is still yet to be finished but in the mean time things played out very fucking similarly to the second film in a lot of ways. My best friend, like sick boy does in the film, has a hatred for me a strong one but the good old memories seem to have kept our bond strong. I know he doesn’t like me and he knows I don’t like him. But deep down, we’re still best mates. And honestly everyone else has played out exactly the same, the one friend I cared the least about while leaving like begbie seems to despise me in lots of ways, I don’t blame him, I don’t fucking like him neither. He wants to beat my ass just like begbie haha. The other like spud is just depressed and miserable with his life. Still holding on to drugs for a coping mechanism as that’s the only friend who never changed. Never left him.
This is a good fuckin laugh, Init? You sweat that shite out your system. Cause if i come back and It's still there, I'll fuckin kick it out... ....OKEE?
Nobody wore skinny jeans, or shaved their heads in the mid-1990s. It was like an anti-fashion statement, at the time - like, nihilism. Little things like that, get lost over time. Because both things are mainstream now. But the way he looked was very much part of the choose life agenda, and his decision to reject it.
The soccer part where Sick boy argues about an intentional violation he commited while Begbie openly commits a violation and even looks happy doing it says alot about their characters. This film has so many genius in it
This is top five opening sequences worthy along with,- Joe vs. the Volcano, maybe a couple others we could argue. That monologue is a prime example of how astonishing Danny Boyle is.
If you’re from the UK and you think it sounds a bit off it’s because the first 20 minutes the movie was dubbed for American audiences to help them understand the Scottish dialect
I feel as though the part where he started laughing after he got hit by the car wasn’t part of the script. Like that was the actors real reaction and they just left in the movie.
@@mchjsosde Too bad Trainspotting 2 shows that his efforts were pretty much negligible overall. Life still fcks them all in the end, and not in pretty ways.
Did anyone notice there's a slight difference in how the dialogue/monologue is spoken in accordance to the audience? (ie American or British audiences)
Choose life, choose your happiness, choose the path of your dreams, choose watching Disney movies, choose packing for the boxes to put into the Copperbottom Moving Company, choose a cartoon character that Mickey Mouse created, choose the high ground when Obi-Wan Kenobi and tell Anakin that how you sing "When You Wish Upon a Star ", choose a horrible song, choose a silly joke that sounds more appealing, choose a different one that how he first met Ewan McGregor, choose taking a picture, choose a kiss, choose the right way to make it, choose your future, choose life.
I went to Edinburgh because of the movie and the book, I didn't fucking realize I was living in a hotel at Princess Street, which is the street they're running about. I realized only when I got back home and rewatched the movie later.
yeah i mean they did a good job copying the books story line here, way better than the sequel. I think they wanted to start the film off with some fun and enjoyment, instead of straight into desperation withdrawal scene with Renton and Sickboy. But yeah there's a lot more going on in the book than in the film, all Irvine books are literary gold.
When they originally released the movie in America, Miramax was worried Americans would have difficulty understanding the accents. So, they had the actors re-record the dialogue for first 15 - 20 minutes of the movie and had it dubbed in
The characterization in this soccer scene alone is insane... Begbie kicking someone in the leg, sick boy yelling at someone, spud getting yelled at for being stupid, and Tommy getting pinned in a corner.... lots of foreshadowing
@brobbus0
Sergio Ramos and Pepe went to SickBoy's football school. SickBoy said they'd had a great future back in the days.
Renton getting kicked in the face lol
*Football
@@jack0609 shut up yk people call it soccer in the us so no it's soccer to him.
@@harryholmes8624 it’s not a first world problem jeez
Best opening scene ever!
Every time when I feel miserable, tired and sluggish I force myself to watch this scene. It gives me so much energy.
Yes yes... Drugs are not good but everyone one needs something to get though the day. LUST FOR LIFE!
🍺 🍺 🍺 . T.M.I.
And then i give me a shot while watching
Just after the Watchmen movie !
Choose living yo
Best comment on par
Trainspotting is such a classic
Terry Gyimah fucking hell
it's iconic
Agreed!
The sequel was so good too
Is a masterpiece
this is one of those movie opening scenes where you immediately know you're gonna love the movie.
"Who needs reasons when you've got death sticks" -Obi Wan
*Precisely.*
@@obi-wankenobi57bby general Kenobi!
@@obi-wankenobi57bby oh god it's Kenobi with very few likes.
@@obi-wankenobi57bby You need to go to home and rethink your life after these stuff 🤔
My mum got me to watch this at 16 to see what not too become. I'm 40 now and 6 month clean.......CHOOSE LIFE!!!!!!!! Still on shaky ground
Hope you are still good mate.
Hi bud, yeah still doing good thanks, your obv 1 in a mill to have the goodness to come back to a comment like mine...💯💯 respect! @Floki255
Currently 16 going through addiction, glad to see it gets better:)
@marselxoxo hope things go well for you, its hard bit possible.
Now that's a intro you wanna see in FILM.
@Captain Brandon Cinema Lover Godard would be proud.
Lol Begbie is just savage, he's making grown men cry like babies.
Megumi Haruka my heroin withdrawal Made me cry like a baby
@@GerbenH australia?
Gerben H meaning? :)
Qialú To shatter a glass on someone’s head or stab them with broken shards of a glass in bars in the UK - pretty nasty injury that happens in bar fights
Condobius But of course!!! Thanks :)
Every once in a while this should be watched..
It's almost as if this song was made specifically for this scene...
Brilliant
One of the Best movie openings ever
Maybe the best opening scene in cinema history
this scene changed my life
i hope you didn't become a smack head
@@Matthew-ko3me and why would you like to know? lol
The fact we got a sequel that was really great way to wrap it up with Danny Boyle directing was epic I never thought it would happen. Choose Life
I love each one in the group brings something to the table
This movie reminds me so much of me and my old friends, but seriously, it’s scary how accurate this film is to my old group. We were all young and dumb, doing bad shit, doing drugs, hanging out in a crack house all the time rotting away our lives. We had a large falling out kinda how Renton did with his buddies, I can resonate with him the most cuz almost the exact thing happened, I just left all my friends even my best friend for no reason at all, just cuz I was bored of my life. Oh how I took all that time for granted
I have a similar story but it all went down after my best friend offed himself.
It seems so surreal and far away looking back at it.
King, how is your life now?
@@farelervehomosapiensler ironically enough quite like the second movie played out. Our story is still yet to be finished but in the mean time things played out very fucking similarly to the second film in a lot of ways. My best friend, like sick boy does in the film, has a hatred for me a strong one but the good old memories seem to have kept our bond strong. I know he doesn’t like me and he knows I don’t like him. But deep down, we’re still best mates. And honestly everyone else has played out exactly the same, the one friend I cared the least about while leaving like begbie seems to despise me in lots of ways, I don’t blame him, I don’t fucking like him neither. He wants to beat my ass just like begbie haha. The other like spud is just depressed and miserable with his life. Still holding on to drugs for a coping mechanism as that’s the only friend who never changed. Never left him.
I think this was a generation thing of young people in nineties. Kids were so much in pursuit of pleasure that they became self destructive.
@@Premiumjack_i would never betray my friends Like that, junkies or not. Shame on you
Love this even in 2024
My favorite film.
Is it the end of the film?
***** yes I saw, it's a good film
Choose life, Choose a job, Choose a career, Choose Trainspotting!
Utterly fucking brilliant. One those films that just exploded and took on a life of it's own.
T2 has a reference to Renton's smile at 0:29 . In T2 it appears at the end of the car chase in the parking garage at the 1:20:32 mark.
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop ^^
Sherlock Holmes is among us lads.
Evan Fritts lmao
Trainspotting is such a classic
My favorite film.
Listening this walking for the Royal Mile, in my day off.
This song fits perfect
What's it called?
I’m going to respond 2 years later. It’s lust for life
One of my favourite films of all time. I'd put it with Pulp Fiction as one of the defining films of the 90s.
Edinburgh has changed so much. I named my son Ewan after Ewan McGregor.
Muirhouse ❤ Edinburgh North forever.
I live in Muirhouse.
The biggest lie they ever sold me was that everything was going to work out in the end. Well, the end is nigh and I’m looking for just a minute more.
you better stay alive mate
What a masterpiece!
How cool is the first scene of Trainspotting?! Kudos to Danny Boyle!
One of the greatest intros to a great movie!!!
I need a "faucking" hit!!!
This is a good fuckin laugh, Init?
You sweat that shite out your system. Cause if i come back and It's still there, I'll fuckin kick it out...
....OKEE?
Nonexistanthuman .. blessed x
HARD MAN INIT .. init just 😂
Still my favorite movie!
This song goes great with this movie
My fave movie. Great soundtrack.
Best British film ever.
Possibly the best intro to a film, ever.
My parents first date was this movie
And your name is renton?
@Kafka Tamura LOL
Kafka Tamura omg
Beastcraft savage lol
@Beastcraft 🤣
Always choose Life & trainspotting love ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Who needs reasons when you have the higher ground.
Did they redub this for the Americans? The monologue sounds noticeably slower than the original version.
Yep they had to dub over some scenes because Americans and what not couldn’t understand the accent
Anyone else get chills watching this?
Nobody wore skinny jeans, or shaved their heads in the mid-1990s. It was like an anti-fashion statement, at the time - like, nihilism. Little things like that, get lost over time. Because both things are mainstream now. But the way he looked was very much part of the choose life agenda, and his decision to reject it.
What a intro, its perfect
Choose life. The other option is death. What a profound message.
One of my favorite movies god damn !
The soccer part where Sick boy argues about an intentional violation he commited while Begbie openly commits a violation and even looks happy doing it says alot about their characters. This film has so many genius in it
And Tommy’s isn’t supported by his team lol.
Obi Wan Kenobi, ladies and gentlemen.
Alternate Obi Wan on death sticks
Who needs reasons when you've got death sticks.
@Imight Realperson Same actor. That's the joke homeboy 👈🏻😎👈🏻
@Imight Realperson At least 80 people did get what's funny about it, dummy.
@Imight Realperson I didn't say it was a good joke. Just that, if you don't get it, that's on you. No need to get your nickers in a twist about it.
i love this film!!!
I gotta watch this movie again vs the binging small clips.
Choose The Force laddie!
Best opening scene in the same league as pulp fiction but bit more energetic here
i love this so much! it turned me into an addict!
Best film ever...
"Who needs reasons when you've got a lightsaber?"
Это шедевр!
I choose to be good. Always & forever. God bless us all.
This is top five opening sequences worthy along with,- Joe vs. the Volcano, maybe a couple others we could argue. That monologue is a prime example of how astonishing Danny Boyle is.
The monologue is out of the book. That's where Danny Boyle got it from.
If you’re from the UK and you think it sounds a bit off it’s because the first 20 minutes the movie was dubbed for American audiences to help them understand the Scottish dialect
I feel as though the part where he started laughing after he got hit by the car wasn’t part of the script. Like that was the actors real reaction and they just left in the movie.
Who needs reasons?
best star movie EVER!
You were supposed to bring balance to society, not leave it in darkness!
Omg Princes Street in the late 90s.
Choose the high ground
Choose another happy landing
Seen this film a few times but never noticed baby Dawn at 1:02. If this film does not put you off heroin nothing will.
i chose not to choose life also, love this movie.
Paul D pretty sure that means you missed the point of the movie
So you chose heroine? The whole point of the movie was to show that this was a bad choice
@@VixxKong2 It might be a bad choice but it’s his to make live and let live
@@mchjsosde Too bad Trainspotting 2 shows that his efforts were pretty much negligible overall. Life still fcks them all in the end, and not in pretty ways.
@@isnowyazn Well, they would be dead if not for droping out from addictiob
Love this monologue but the monologue from trainspotting 2 is better 👍👍
Obi-Wan 'Ben' Kenobi running away from imperial solders 16 BBY (Colourised)
Did anyone notice there's a slight difference in how the dialogue/monologue is spoken in accordance to the audience? (ie American or British audiences)
Holy fark! The writing on the wall then was biblical. Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was!
Rip Tommy
Choose life, choose your happiness, choose the path of your dreams, choose watching Disney movies, choose packing for the boxes to put into the Copperbottom Moving Company, choose a cartoon character that Mickey Mouse created, choose the high ground when Obi-Wan Kenobi and tell Anakin that how you sing "When You Wish Upon a Star ", choose a horrible song, choose a silly joke that sounds more appealing, choose a different one that how he first met Ewan McGregor, choose taking a picture, choose a kiss, choose the right way to make it, choose your future, choose life.
i chose not to choose life also, love this movie.
Every once in a while this should be watched..
My parents first date was this movie
I went to Edinburgh because of the movie and the book, I didn't fucking realize I was living in a hotel at Princess Street, which is the street they're running about. I realized only when I got back home and rewatched the movie later.
I live in Edinburgh!
20 years clean and I still miss heroin.
Obi-Wan 'Ben' Kenobi running away from imperial solders 16 BBY (Colourised)
You were supposed to bring balance to society, not leave it in darkness!
Irvine Welsh is brilliant.
"Who needs reasons... when you got heroin... "
really good film
Renton 😈😍
Me after get a bad note on an exam
Magnetic scent
The start of the film should’ve been “The sweat was lashin of aey sick boy”
yeah i mean they did a good job copying the books story line here, way better than the sequel. I think they wanted to start the film off with some fun and enjoyment, instead of straight into desperation withdrawal scene with Renton and Sickboy. But yeah there's a lot more going on in the book than in the film, all Irvine books are literary gold.
goddamn historical
Choose the Force!!!
I see Obi wan I click. Stop looking at me😏
Captions changed "heroin" to "head", which is a neat trick.
Here comes johnny anagain
Johnny Yen
never ever do heroin guys. because it is the best feeling in the world and when you stop nothing compares to it.
I should really watch that movie, shouldn’t I? But then now it might be too late...
有冇人係睇完試當真《𠝹刀與刀》之後過嚟？
Choose a cariieeaaar
Dope
i like this movie......very very much....
why is the way Mark speaks different?
When they originally released the movie in America, Miramax was worried Americans would have difficulty understanding the accents. So, they had the actors re-record the dialogue for first 15 - 20 minutes of the movie and had it dubbed in
@@404originalitynotfound2 thanks a lot!
You're welcome!
Choose Life, If U want
Does he say “heroin” or whatever the closed caption thought he said?
Yes i need closed captions, cut me some slack!
Right so, I'm off to prince's Street to Rob a few cds....
Where is this Mans Oscar LOL
In T2 the scene with Mark and sick boy doing heroin was that just them thinking about doing it or did that try it one last time I know they did coke
One last time