Talk:Trainspotting (film)

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When Renton takes part in the treatment program for heroin addicts, wouldn't it make more sense that he is prescribed the real-life treatment opiate, methadone, rather than 'methadin'? After all, when spoken with a Scottish accent, methadone sounds like 'Methadun'. -- Jiggssaw

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That's an awfully big quote. Is this fair use? -- Wapcaplet 03:00 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Not sure. It appears to have been copied verbatim from the imdb quote page. It even replicates the errors contained there. I have fixed the quote to conform to what's actually said on the Region 1 DVD. 209.149.235.241 22:17, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Both this article and the one for the book are rather short. Wouldn't it be best if we just merged the 2 articles together? After all, they aren't really that different of subjects, at least not enough to justify having more than one article. -- LGagnon

I think the default on Wikipedia should be that when movies are adapted into books, both the book and the movie should be covered in one article. I would say that some film adaptations are so different to the book that they should be covered in seperate articles, and since I haven't read the book I don't know whether its one of those exceptions (although I suspect that it isn't). Saul Taylor 04:53, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I have read the book. Most of the scenes in the film are taken from the book, but there is a fairly big difference between the two. It's not enough to justify two separate articles though. -- Jim Regan 06:27, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Adminspotting 2 something to consider 3 No Critical reviews?? 4 Inaccuracies in article corrected

[edit] Adminspotting

Should I make reference to Adminspotting?  :) - I'll mention it's a spoof | Adminspotting

Project2501a 13:55, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC) (Respond in my talk page, plase :)

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i would class this as a stub, any objections? --AeneasMacNeill 14:49, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] something to consider

trainspotting has also come to mean taking an interest in trivia or some other form of esoterica... in the movie, sickboy originally gets off of heroin by becoming a sean connery/bond film buff (liberation through becoming a trainspotter). Furthermore, when taking this into context, the overarching theme of the movie can be interpreted as salvation through trainspotting: coming to appreciate the trivial aspects in life. In the case of the main character, renton, his opening monologue suggests that it is the triviality of life that he is rejecting...in the end, not only does he comes to appreciate these trivialities, but they actually become the guiding force in turning his life around.

The link to Andrew Macdonald on this article goes to a different Andrew Macdonald.

Tbe real one's bio is at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531602/bio and has nothing to do with Nazi Germany.

Captions from the movie [1] 70.181.65.95 08:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Um, the usage of 'trainspotting' to mean 'taking an obsessive interest in trivial things' comes from the actually hobby of train spotting, where enthusiasts write down the numbers and types of trains they see in a book, and predates the film by some time. People who were obsessively anal about things most people wouldn't think about were (and still are) pejoratively called 'trainspotters'. It's roughly synonymous with geek. I see your point though, and taking that into context, the film's title does make more sense. I'd always seen the title as saying that, if they hadn't rejected the norms of society, they would be too bothered by the trivialities and mundanities of life, just as trainspotters are. --Stevefarrell 23:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Critical reviews??

I was disgusted to find that a film of this stature did not have a section on critical reviews. I have added a pretty in depth one, although I am sure more users will want to add to it. Notable additions, I assume, would be a negative review.

Well, if you were disgusted by not finding a reviews section then add it. You're as responsible for that section being missing as any of us are (also it would be helpful that you signed your comments.) --Screech 19:36, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The negative reviews that are linked from the Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic pages are pretty unreliable - that is, they are "internet reviews", or are dead links, or are merely 100 words long.--Macca7174 00:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inaccuracies in article corrected

Corrected the lines below for the following reasons

>>Renton urges people from all walks of life to "choose life" - meaning they should choose to live a traditional family lifestyle<<

Renton doesn't urge people to do that at all he simply states it. It sounded more like an ironic take on a marketing campaign to me.

>>Gail tries to reopen their sex life<< Gail says "let's see what I'm missing" so she obviously hadn't seen his penis before hence she was trying to start their sex life.

>>Dianne, is an underage high school student.<< There aren't any high schools in Scotland even if there were the essential point is that she's under the age of sexual consent.

>>Begbie puts up much of the payment money, having just won a large bet<< Begbie put 5 pound on at 16-1 so he won 80 pounds. He complains about not getting much from the robbery so it seems a fair bet that the rest of the money came from Sick Boy's pimping and pushing.

>>Taking the money and his passport, he leaves the country<< Not in the film where we see him walking through Central London in the last scene.

>>Spud, however, finds £2000 in a locker at the airport<< But after putting it there we see Renton walking through Central London. It doesn't seem logical that he would go to Heathrow airport on the edge of London then return to the centre afterwards. This also contradicts the point about him leaving the country above. Further it looks more like a train station locker to me.

All the above may very well be in the book but as this article is about the film we should stick to what's in that.Valenciano 21:27, 19 January 2007 (UTC)