trainspotting rerelease

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Bruce Lee

#30
March 12, 2004, 06:10:11 PM
you can pick up a multi region player in Argos (a big catalogue company in the UK) for £39.99.
Or you can just find places to chip your existing player like i did, for about £30.

I read the specs of the american from a few review sites and it seems theres a few bits and bops missing. Probably because the fat cats think some americans might not 'get' some of the english material.

MacGuffin

#31
March 12, 2004, 06:20:04 PM
So I'd have to pay about $72 US (and it doesn't matter anyway since Argos doesn't ship overseas) for a DVD that costs $18 US; all for a missing photo gallery?

I'm just glad it'll have more than the Criterion laserdisc.
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Bruce Lee

#32
March 12, 2004, 06:26:26 PM
£9.99 is a good deal here in the UK, where the usual going rate is £15.99, daylight robbery i know.
Im sure there's loads of cheap region free players in the states doing their rounds.

Ravi

#33
April 25, 2004, 09:53:31 PM
http://www.davisdvd.com/news/daily_news.html

Finishing things off are a few cover art changes for Trainspotting Collector's Edition (the previous "Exclusive Director's Cut" blurb has been changed to "Uncut International Version")

analogzombie

#34
April 26, 2004, 01:44:50 PM
WHEE!!! Uncut International Version!!! Finally! yayayaayayaya

Now I can get rid of my useless, feature-less dvd!!!


BTW, anyone want to buy a copy of the "Original DVD Release" of Trainspotting?  8)
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meatball

#35
April 28, 2004, 10:07:12 PM
This is still not as good, extras wise, as Region 2's Definitive Edition is it?

MacGuffin

#36
June 01, 2004, 06:46:13 PM
Ahem. Allow me to reiterate:

Quote from: MacGuffin
Quote from: Bruce Leethats pretty poor extras, the english version is much better.

Looks like the same set of extras to me; some of 'em probably combined.

Quote from: Bruce Lee

Uncut main feature
9 deleted scenes with optional audio commentary
Audio commentary
'The Making Of Trainspotting' featurette
'The Look Of The Film' retrospective - then and now
'The Sound Of The Film' retrospective - then and now
Interviews with director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew MacDonald, screenwriter John Hodge and author of the novel Irvine Welsh
'Behind The Needle' featurette
'Trainspotting At The Cannes Film Festival' featurette
Cannes snapshot
Voxpops
Cast and crew biographies
Original cinematic trailers
'Behind The Scenes' photo gallery
'Critics' photo gallery

...thats what i've got.

The Region 1 is the same as the Region 2. It even says 'Definitive Edition' on the menus. I even found an easter egg about the "Porno" sequel project.
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Rudie Obias

#37
June 02, 2004, 03:18:37 PM
Quote from: MacGuffinThe Region 1 is the same as the Region 2. It even says 'Definitive Edition' on the menus. I even found an easter egg about the "Porno" sequel project.

and where would this easter egg be?
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MacGuffin

#38
June 02, 2004, 03:42:26 PM
Quote from: rudieoband where would this easter egg be?

Put in Disc 2. Go to the 'Retrospective' menu, then to 'Interviews' menu. The check-mark will be on 'Origins - Irvine Welsh'. Arrow Up to highlight 'O' in the bottom right corner. Arrow Up to highlight '^'. Then Arrow Up one last time and it should automatically take you to the Egg.
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Ravi

#39
June 06, 2004, 12:28:09 AM
I watched this today for the first time on IFC.  Drug addiction occupies the characters' lives totally.  I don't understand the cult following around the film and book but I still liked the film.

BTW, what is it about movies like Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream that garner such followings among teenagers?  It's kind of surprising.  On one hand films like Half Baked achieve cult status but so do some films that depict the horrors of drug use.

ono

#40
June 06, 2004, 12:41:22 AM
It's the depravity.  Somehow these films manage to glamourize it and leave an indelible impression in these people's minds as something "cool" and also something to "avoid" simultaneously.  Or else, the movie was just "trippy."

pete

#41
June 06, 2004, 01:36:46 AM
that's the same thing as how horror movies like Friday the 13th fared so well even though everyone who had sex in it was dead, while actual sex romps like the bachelor party or porky's were merely cult films.  of course teenagers are gonna go for movies that depict things as dangerous and deadly.  you want funny drugs or fuck-you-up drugs?  funny sex or spear-in-you-and-your-lover's-guts sex?
"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
- Buster Keaton

NEON MERCURY

#42
June 06, 2004, 07:34:31 PM
Quote from: Ravi
BTW, what is it about movies like Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream that garner such followings among teenagers?  It's kind of surprising.  On one hand films like Half Baked achieve cult status but so do some films that depict the horrors of drug use.

i think it has to do w/ the fact that some idiots out there think its 'cool' to do drugs...and when they see a film about drugs or have drugs in them they think 'cool man..lets watch this sh*t"... i even go through this sometimes....which is a shame b/c it makes me look stupid..but films that contain drug taking offers up cool visuals....like the toilet in trainspotting and the 'perfect day" carpet hell in trainspotting also...and requiem is filled w/ trip out imagry...but i hate it when people start saying "yeah _____ is a cool movie its got people taking drugs in it"....

...but i am surprised that requiem has achieved the "cool drug movie" cult  status...it pisses me off actaully....i can see how dazed on confused would warrant that status b/c its a happy drug film .dazed is on eof those films where you get together w/ a group of friends and get stoned and whenever wiley wiggins touches his farhead[which is alot] you have to take a shot of liquor or some sh*t.....but requiem is harsh..and its not one of those light hearted drug films....the requiem cult I follow is the one that pimps how aronofsky is a badass mothaphuka for real.......

Ravi

#43
June 06, 2004, 07:57:00 PM
Quote from: NEON MERCURY
...but i am surprised that requiem has achieved the "cool drug movie" cult  status...it pisses me off actaully....

I agree about this regarding dark films in general.  Many of the people everywhere with Trainspotting, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, etc. posters in their rooms seem not to actually understand these films.

NEON MERCURY

#44
June 06, 2004, 08:32:24 PM
Quote from: Ravi
Quote from: NEON MERCURY
...but i am surprised that requiem has achieved the "cool drug movie" cult  status...it pisses me off actaully....

I agree about this regarding dark films in general.  Many of the people everywhere with Trainspotting, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, etc. posters in their rooms seem not to actually understand these films.

i agree

to illustrate to the rest of the board we can do this SAT style:

Which one of these pictures do not belong with the others?

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