Aye, right enough, a bawheid thet widnae gie ye a square go, ah bet yees.

Wull, ye ken me, ahm no the typae c*nt goes lookin' for fuckin' bother like…

Auld not-so-reekie ?

May be misremembering but I think it's actually a review of "The Turning Point" in "An Urchin in the Storm" ? Agreed though, good essay (as were most of his - I partly disagree with his anti-reductionist stance but Stephen Jay Gould could write, for sure).

The great thing about sticking with every episode is the first season finale lands a bit harder but it definitely starts off as a quite typical CBS procedural (a good one, with a decent premise and interesting characters but still…). From season 2 it really gets going though.

Cheers for the info. Think i'll try to track down a US edit then, sounds like it might be interesting to compare and contrast the two.

"Porno" is the jumping off point, from what I remember of the book (admittedly not much except that it wasn't very good) the film is pretty different. And i'd recommend "Trainspotting" BTW (the book I mean).

Done deliberately to take the piss in fact, sort of a punkish nod to what the characters might call it (think he mentions it on Graham Norton).

I saw a clip of Ewan MacGregor talking about doing ADR for the US release and until then I didn't realise there was one. Are the differences significant (AFAIK i've only seen the UK release) ?

For myself, not really, no. The eye tends to skip ahead a bit when you read so i'd submit most people will have already seen key words before it registers that you've put "Spoiler:" in front of it (and that's a pretty key plot point).

Yeah a few reviewers seem to be expecting it to capture another zeitgeist and define another era but that's a big ask, lightning in a bottle and all that.

The UK reviews were somewhat mixed but largely much more positive than this one.

Nah, not really. I saw Trainspotting at the pictures and was right in the sweet spot for it agewise (or maybe upper end of the sweet spot) so it was a big film for me. T2 doesn't have the same impact but it's still got something to say about getting older, looking back and wondering (as well as the merits or otherwise…

She's only in it for a few minutes and for me was partly there to underline how different her and Renton's worlds are and maybe how sometimes over the years you blow that one fling up in your mind into something it never was.

C'mon, who doesn't like oranges ?! And order.

Sometimes his style gets in the film's way but his stuff is always at least worth a watch IMO. Bit like Nolan, i'd rather watch one of his failures than lots of other directors' successes.

Yeah, this film was basically review proof for me (although the UK reviews were generally more positive anyway). It doesn't land like 'Trainspotting' did but then anyone expecting that is kidding themselves IMO, in a sense that loss of/search for youthful potency is what the film's about.

I completely got that from it personally. The scene just after the Orange "Lodge" scene is basically that "glory days" subtext made text, the film is deeply nostalgic but it's also _about_ nostalgia.

Very cute video, love how calm the guy was.

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