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I ca spoil it if ya want? but best not? got an early screening of it today at the VUE.
I can confirm it's awesome sad emotional and different all in one.
as for the ending? well... (shhhh)
CHOOSE LIFE GUYS
So u liked it then??? Some reviews have been iffy
shareI liked it alot though it was never going to have the same impact as the first film.
It started very melancholic but it was great to catch up with these characters. The narrative kind of felt slight, punctuated by moments of stylistic and inspired brilliance. Renton's new "Choose Life" speech was profoundly brilliant. A lot of credit goes to Hodge who (just like the first film) manages to humanise Welsh's deeply cynical, mean-spirited and desperate-to-shock prose.
This is in contrast to the novel 'Porno' which I found annoying and stupid. I'm so glad very little was transposed to this film
Just back from 2.45 showing.
Just a wonderful film in it's own right.
This is Spud's story...with the sub-plot of two old pals Mark and Simon with a bit of Begbie thrown in.
Such an emotional ride....
The ending?.... I thought Large Hadron Collider.....but I might be seeing something that just isn't there.
Danny...just don't make us wait too long for T3!
Love is the law...
Without giving out any spoilers, I have to know: 1. How closely or loosely did it follow the book? And 2. Did they leave any room for a sequel?
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I'm actually a total spoiler-hound... would you mind?:)
"I love a coward!"
The porno film is replaced by a brothel.
The 1690 thing is a bit more "hands on"
There is no to-ing and frow-ing between Edinburgh and Amsterdam.
Spud still has a kid but with Gail not Alison.
Diane although in it does not get back with Renton.
Spud's "A History of Leith" is a more personal book in T2.
The mechanics of the ending are similar but the winners and losers are different...in fact the two losers are in fact winners thanks to the intervention of Spud.
The Mark/Simon friendship is repaired.
Love is the law...
Interesting... much obliged. So does Begbie still get run over like in Porno? Is any redemption teased for him at all? I don't suppose he and Rent have any kind of discourse?
Interesting... much obliged. So does....lol no not hit with a car...hit with something very in keeping with the first film (They do it well).
Yes Begbie gets some redemption...although he does not start with the "clean slate" he does in porno.
No not much exchanged between Renton and Begbie...but Fracis does catch up with him.
More "Tee'd up a T3 nicely" than just made room for one.
Love is the law...
Just saw it. Looks amazing, and at times hilarious but felt oddly baggy (maybe a middle age metaphor?) and some subplots don't really go anywhere. I felt it was trying to be a bit too meta at times and because of some questionable editing became a bit of a 'so what was the ultimate point of all that?' by the end.
"What are you, some kind of doomsday machine, boy?"
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I love spoilers and since I'm from the US, I'm gonna have to wait a while before I can see it. Could you please spoil a few questions for me?
Does Mark still rip off sickboy in the end again like in Porno?
I know sickboy was and still is a ammoral degenerate but does he find any redemption in the end of T2?
I already have a good idea of how Begbie and Renton end up by the end of the film (Begbie still wants to kill him, doesn't he?) but whats going on with sickboy and Begbie?
Does Mark still rip off sickboy in the end again like in Porno?
No. The relationship at the end is very different from porno...and better ending imo.
I know sickboy was and still is a ammoral degenerate but does he find any redemption in the end of T2?
Yes. No. Maybe...it does touch on the one moment from T1 where we see Sick Boy at his most vulnerable.
I already have a good idea of how Begbie and Renton end up by the end of the film (Begbie still wants to kill him, doesn't he?) but whats going on with sickboy and Begbie?
In the film they don't have much interaction...if you mean whats going on at the end of the film then he is not on "team Begbie".
Due out in the US mid-March apparently.
Love is the law...