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Trainspotting: 10 years down the line @ 6Music

Mitchell are you a hipster, you seem to be a fan of a lot of hipster music, films, sports etc.

Err no. I'm more likely to get laughed at the street to be honest then be called a hipster. Not really sure what's hip about a Briton liking football and cricket and one of the most famous British films of my life time.

If I was that hip I'd not have 2,000+ posts to my name Looks like spring has started today so I can outside now!

Does his Pro-Hipster stance offend you?

Toy Trainspotting

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these post just make me feel old you bastards

10 years ago

no wife
no kids
no debt

Seems it was 10 years old in Feb...

That was only at a film festival. It didn't go nationwide until early April.

I'm more partial to Mike Leigh, but outside of his work, I guess there isn't much competition, is there?

Mike Leigh's films are great but they hardly capture the zeitgist. Consider, of course, the soundtrack too.

it's no Acid House

SHITE IN ME MOUTH DOORINE!!!!!

acid house rocks!

did you like Topsy Turvy?

Gilbert & Sullivan? No thanks.

Uuum did you see it? Or do you dislike Operetta so much that you didn't bother?

I have seen most of Mike Leigh's films. I abhor anything to do with Gilbert & Sullivan.

Sounds like someone was forced to participate in a middle school production of HMS Pinafore.


Maybe he can go through the whole thing for you?



Anyway it's a fantastic movie.

No, I just had to read that Victorian wank and write about it.

so anyway

You read them without listening to the music? That's crazy. Or is just a distate for anything Victorian.

Anyway I recently saw Shallow Grave and was surpised at how lame it was. What's the big deal?

I'm not a fan of Gilbert & Sullivan, but I really dug Topsy-Turvy. You get to see the Mikado visualized from the ground up, but if you're expecting to hear musical numbers, I think you only get a taste. There may have been one or two numbers in their entirety, but they may have been costume rehearsals, with no musical backing, I can't recall. Besides, the Mikado seems to be a big departure from the usual G&S shtick, and it helps make the picture look more appealing.

Not the shite, not the shyte
Yes the shite!

Huh. I've never seen this movie.

It's pretty much right in line with their usual schtick. It' was always a good schtick though. They virtually invented the pop song in English.

This was one of my favorite movies in high school. Maybe it still is, but I haven't seen it since then and I've learned that my high school taste wasn't exactly infallible. In any event, it is a great movie.

More importantly, has anyone watched Toy Trainspotting?

Having never seen the original, I decided to skip it. Didn't want anything to be spoiled, you know.

you must see Acid House
if you ever want to see God using the word 'cunt' as often as other's might use 'the', you must see this movie

plus the shite

I still think Trainspotting holds up very well a decade later. And what a pair of soundtracks it yielded. I still like the movie better than the book.

But yeah, Mike Leigh's stuff is far stronger, especialy that astonishing run of High Hopes/Life is Sweet/Naked/Secrets and Lies.

The best Ford vehicle of our generation!

Career Girls was OK but Tospy Turvy, All or Nothing and Vera Drake are terrific.

Yeah, Career Girls was only okay. But All of Nothing has to be his most underrated, it sort of slipped by under the radar. Usually there's such a massive critical/art house audience reaction to Leigh's films but that one came and went.

I'm listening to my "Born Slippy" single right now and feeling pretty old.

I fucking abhor Mike Leigh--though Topsy-Turvy was worthwhile.

Trainspotting owns. God forbid you make your movie with some unadulterated exuberance.

Which ones of his have you seen that has given you this even keeled reaction?

you're going to have give some reasons Sparky. He's the Dickens of the film.

a paid-by-the-word bloated hack?

Leigh is every bit the master Von Trier is.