iTunes Exclusive Episode T2 Trainspotting

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My name is Rob, I'm the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast and I can do other
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from time to time is the official fact checker of this show and I'm handling the like
to trains.
You may know him as fondongo, but his mom and him don't follow him, don't follow him,
I'm sorry.
My family, on my dad's side group and the working on the trains for BN, I'm a big fan of
the train.
Yeah.
My grandpa worked for...
They weren't so dog-on-expensive to take.
My grandpa worked for BN retired, my uncle, my aunt just retired working for BN.
Yeah.
Family history.
Whatever we do, one of these things it is to review something this particular episode
is no exception to that rule.
Today we are reviewing a film that is highly anticipated.
Now when I say T2, I'm not talking about Terminator, I'm talking about the sequel to the
very big 1990s hit, Colt hit, if you will, train spotting.
But we'll start this whole thing.
Yes, sir.
Ready to sing?
I am.
And I'm glad you're in a great democracy.
Got to think them.
Josh, everybody for the invite.
Josh is awesome.
That's a fan of that.
I think it was two screenings.
That's right.
You know, I saw this one by myself and then they offered another one and you got to see
it so we can talk about it together.
Yep.
If you've seen trains spotting, you know where we're going.
And if you don't, let me give you a quick update.
This does take place 20 years after its predecessor.
Basically a film about people who are addicted to heroin and a drug deal gone horribly wrong.
You and McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, you and Bremer, Robert Carlisle.
I mean, this is a heck of a cast.
Just say it.
There's also some nice little, uh, little cameos in this as well, especially if you remember
the first film.
Yeah.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, a stripper and Sherlock Holmes are all hanging out.
That's what you need to know.
Don't be one Kenobi.
You and McGregor.
Okay.
All right.
So basically after the end of the first film that the drug deal gone bad,
you and McGregor takes the money and runs moves to Amsterdam.
With this one, he comes back to Scotland.
Kind of has to face, oops, face to music basically.
Maybe maybe some water under the bridge, maybe not.
Big B who's made by Robert Carlisle.
He's doing a little time.
Yeah.
And he gets out.
So he wants his revenge as well.
That's as far as I want to go.
20 years has gone by.
Brenton, who's played by you and McGregor, has to deal with the consequences
of what he's done.
What I wouldn't saw this.
I had every intention of going back and watching the first film.
Time, not my friend, really.
So I did not get to.
So as I was sitting outside the theater before dinner,
I just went to the Wikipedia page and read,
refreshed myself with because I loved the original film.
Directed by Danny Boyle, who would go on to direct slum dog millionaire amongst others.
Oh yeah.
Best picture.
So going back and watching this one,
I'm sure you'll see that Danny Boyle was just kind of fresh, fresh,
fresh face coming out at a gauge if you win.
I was worried that I was going to be lost going in,
because train spotting itself is a trippy trippy trippy film.
Yeah.
But I really wasn't that lost here.
Going back and refreshing myself with the Wikipedia page.
After I was done with this,
I realized that I really didn't even have to do that,
because they give you enough of the story from the first film
that you can get through this and not be completely lost.
This rated R runs just under two hours.
Now some of the more inside references,
a couple of the cameo's in the film of characters from the first film.
You probably wouldn't get.
Yeah.
There is one cameo from someone from the first film
who has gone on to much bigger and better things,
which is kind of nice to see that person,
which we'll talk about that off there,
because I don't want to ruin things for people.
I really enjoyed this.
I really had a good time with this.
There was some great comedic moments in this.
Yes.
And it's very raw.
Well, if you go to my written,
www.kobas.com.
That's our website, you know.
Told you if my accents are terrible.
Yes.
Horrible.
But regardless, I put in there,
you have the same director and same writers.
I was because Irvine Walsh's, he wrote both books.
There was a second book that was called
Trainspotting and Poorn.
It was actually called porno.
Let's take together this Trainspotting and Porno.
There's not much from the second book that's used in this.
There are elements from the second book,
but it's more of an original.
But it's a writers of the film.
Or the same writers for the film.
Yes.
Plus you have the John Hodge.
So you're going to get that same film.
You're going to get that kind of,
there are those secure things.
So I'm going to say it's plastic bag.
Okay.
Yeah, but you know, so you're going to let you finish.
Because give you an example.
And the first one, there was the toilet.
And this one, it was the bag.
Because I'm going to say,
you know, so you're going to get that kind of,
not a lot of it.
Not as much as the first.
This film, I think, is very
tamed down compared to the first one.
It is.
It is because because these guys have aged.
Yes.
So useful in discretion is not as big of a deal as it used to be.
For me, I kind of disagree with you because
I thought that this film had its own feel to it.
There were certain aspects of the film
that were very reminiscent to the first film.
The very last shot of the film.
Yes, very reminiscent to the original.
And some of the things that they wind up with the of suffering
the consequences of is reminiscent of the first film.
But I really thought that this had kind of its own feel for
most of it.
Not only showing the maturity of the characters,
but even that that, that it was the maturity of the
feel of the film, which I really, really dug about it.
Saw it where they packed theater for the people.
The huge fans of the first one.
Everybody to me laughed at the right places.
They kind of went, oh, with the right places.
The person who was most jarring to me was Carlisle.
What do you mean by jarring?
His appearance.
Because I don't know if he's gone that gray,
or if they colored his hair.
But wow, they've aged him.
Because you got to remember Robert Carlisle is the guy from the
audience.
Yeah.
So, what that in your head?
And then see him in this.
But big piece of grime, a big fan of that character
just because he so wheels off.
Yeah.
And he does some insane things in this film.
Actually, my shout out had basically, I think,
Brenner.
Talk right into him.
I'm sorry.
I went to you in Bremer.
Yeah.
Plants.
Yeah.
Spud's character in this.
He kind of, he hasn't gotten over who he was in the first film.
Yes.
He's still fighting his demons.
But he still has that heart.
But he still plays a kind of heart.
So it has a great heart.
He can completely group.
He can write down a lot of things.
And for those of you that are that are friends of trivia.
The stuff that he writes in the film are taking straight from the books.
Okay.
Straight from the books.
Which I think is kind of a neat touch, too.
I just, I really enjoyed this film.
I thought it was shot well.
I loved seeing them.
How the actors have matured.
You know, you think about Johnny Lee Miller played sick boy.
This is the guy that was first married to Angelina Jolie before Billy Bob Thornton.
And they did hackers together.
When I say she got a lot of poems, he stars in elementary.
BCBS.
Yes.
I really thought he was great in this.
It's the returning cast.
But there's some new characters, too.
Yes.
Of course.
But I'm talking about the big four.
And it shows, I think they did a good job.
And then play notes characters 20 years later.
They played a bunch of Nick compoops in the first one.
And some have matured, some have.
And there's a couple of nice little turns that it takes, too.
Yeah.
That really give it a nice heart.
I thought.
Well, here's the thing.
And, you know, we were allowed to have different opinions.
Oh, it's always.
My thing is, if you like the first one, see this.
And I really did, I've seen the first one.
I enjoyed this.
Yeah.
And I did see the first one.
And it was just kind of like, I understand, but it's not me.
Okay.
That's absolutely fair.
And that's what it was with this one with me also.
Mm-hmm.
I understand, but it's not me.
Me as a personal.
If you're not into this kind of thing, the none, you know, this film may seem 30 minutes long
longer than it needs to be.
Okay.
Because they really, the plot is simplistic in itself.
The guy returns.
There's grudges.
One guy's trying to start a business.
But that's the basic plot.
Well, you want to call it that.
Yes.
I didn't say legal.
But it just said business.
That's fair.
Yes.
But that's the basic plot.
You know?
But it's more about to mean.
It's related to the consequences of the choices we make.
And even 20 years sometimes doesn't heal those wounds.
Yes.
Especially if you're playing big beef.
If you're, if you're a rubber carlask.
You have a hard time for giving his story arc alone.
Had me hauling in laughter.
There's a certain scene where he discovers something in a refrigerator that he takes
with him from a garage that I absolutely, that whole story arc.
It's just, it's, it's smartly written.
It's a lot of fun.
I always like to color blue.
Exactly.
It's just so well done.
And the people that were in the crowd of the screening that I went to had a blast.
I didn't hear a single person walking out that sounded disappointed in any way, shape or form.
Yeah.
Of the conversations that I've heard.
Yeah.
And for me, you know, it's not my genre.
Right.
Of course.
And I sort of, but still, I still thought it was good.
But to the person who doesn't know this kind of thing.
And whatever, it may seem long.
In my opinion, for that kind of work.
But the good news is if you haven't seen the first one,
you don't do enough of background that you're not going to get completely lost.
And we're going to take you a little while to get, to get acclimated.
But they tell you enough of the backstory that you wrote.
And I took my girlfriend faith to this.
And she never saw the first one.
And she really, why, she was able to get it.
Good.
And understand what's going on in that kind of thing.
So, um, like that, if you didn't see the first,
I think you'd be awesome.
Okay.
I'm a second.
Anything else or get the final analysis?
No, it's good to go.
All right.
From the show, we're not going to give you a thumbs up thumbs down.
We're not going to give you a three needles up or whatever.
We're going to go deeper because our audience whom we affectionately refer to the empire.
They want us to go deeper.
Two questions.
We're going to ask.
Up to.
First question is, would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, then the follow-up question is,
how far you want to go to see it.
Top to bottom.
Here's the rankings.
Full price of the theater.
Matinee.
I'm sorry.
Twilight.
Then matinee.
Then early morning.
Second one of the dollar theater.
Red box netflix cable.
Dawn, would you see this again?
Yeah.
What?
How far you want to go?
I would recommend as a red box unless you're a fan.
And if you're a fan of this, the first, you got to see the second.
But if you're a fan.
Yeah.
I would say, you know, go to the theater.
Whatever showing.
If you're a fan of this, go see.
If you're a twilight fan.
Okay.
So you're going to say twilight for the fans.
Because it's a little bit different.
But I'd say twilight for fans for non-fan red box.
I would definitely see this again.
For me, this might be.
I'm going to say this might be a matinee.
I think matinee's good enough for this.
Yeah.
What about to the fan?
Still a matinee.
Okay.
They're way.
Solid matinee.
All right.
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