Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 15:26:59 GMT 12
Well, the purists among us are all wishing they'd never gone there but go there they did and despite my own protestations and calls for a boycott, I then forgot valentines day and had to make it up to her... So, dinner, LSD and Trainspotting 2 before a serene walk through the deadness of Picton was my Saturday night...
I dunno. Don't rush out and see it would be my advice, but see it as it actually does make a fitting bookend to the original saga. All the gang were back, each looking the 20yrs older they are now but slotting back into character with perfect ease. Robert Carlyle shone as did, of course, Johnny Lee Miller. The story was enough to keep me in my horribly uncomfortable chair (just) and there was even a moment or two of genuine emotion.
OK, I want to bag this film - but I can't. They did it right. And the soundtrack? Well, I think they got that right too in leaving it fairly understated. Let's be honest, they were never going to outdo the original on any level and I thought it a smart move to play down the music side of the film. They did tease us all the way through with that one classic opening note and it was either genius or just plain shite that they never took us to climax there.
The film had energy, it had grace but it'll never be a stone cold classic. Or even a classic for that matter. This said, for fans of the original - I recommend you make time to see it at some stage. And for your sake, I hope you don't walk out of the theatre - as did I - worried that there's a little too much Mark Renton in you too...
I dunno. Don't rush out and see it would be my advice, but see it as it actually does make a fitting bookend to the original saga. All the gang were back, each looking the 20yrs older they are now but slotting back into character with perfect ease. Robert Carlyle shone as did, of course, Johnny Lee Miller. The story was enough to keep me in my horribly uncomfortable chair (just) and there was even a moment or two of genuine emotion.
OK, I want to bag this film - but I can't. They did it right. And the soundtrack? Well, I think they got that right too in leaving it fairly understated. Let's be honest, they were never going to outdo the original on any level and I thought it a smart move to play down the music side of the film. They did tease us all the way through with that one classic opening note and it was either genius or just plain shite that they never took us to climax there.
The film had energy, it had grace but it'll never be a stone cold classic. Or even a classic for that matter. This said, for fans of the original - I recommend you make time to see it at some stage. And for your sake, I hope you don't walk out of the theatre - as did I - worried that there's a little too much Mark Renton in you too...