WTH? How did it take me this long to see this movie? That was pretty good...if you like those kind of movies. I was surprised to see McGregor so young and that other dude from Pearl Harbor and Blackhawk Down...good flick.

Helicopter videos from OIF:
http://www.cimoli.com/videos.htm

other great movies like trainspotting include, maybe in similar camara work or theme:

lock stock and two smoking barrels
requiem for a dream (same genre)
snatch

dam

A good movie, somewhat depressing though. Great soundtrack.

this is one of my favorite movies. it's excellent.

One of my favorites as well. I saw it twice in the theater and a number of times since.

One of the very few films I've watched more than once or twice.

Did anyone else have trouble understanding them at times? Their accents are very heavy.

Yes, especially Begbey when he gets agitated. I sucked it up and put on the subtitles.

Trainspotting is my all time favorite movie! It's a visual, audio and emotional frontal assault. So f'n good it makes me cuss.

Fly, get your ass to the store or computer and rent Shallow Grave, the movie that the director did before that, also with Ewan.

That should be sufficient research to be completely mind-boggled when presented with the fact that he did Down with Love with Renee Z. Oh Ewan, what happened?

Great movie, but since I've had kids, I find it very difficult to watch.

I saw that movie on LaserDisc...man am I old.

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Begbie was the only one I had a hard time understanding at first. You just have to pay attention. That movie also taught me a lot of Scottish/British slang (some of which I was later able to put to use).

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2 scenes that still haunt me are the toilet, and baby... I still cringe when I think about them... great movie though.

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fing big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disk players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on higher purchase in a range of fing fabrics. Choose DIY and wonder who the f you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sittin' on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game-shows, stuffing fing junk food into your mouth. Choose rottin' away at the end of it all, pissin' your last in a miserable home nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fd-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life. But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

drivinwest - Me too. I couldn't watch it for a while after I had my son. Drives the point home though, no?

interesting.

THE VIDEOSHOP, TOMMY?