CineTV Contest : Trainspotting

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Hello Movie fans!

This is my entry into the CineTV contest 61, Favorite Movie with Beer. The link is here.


Name - Trainspotting
Released - 1996
Director - Danny Boyle


This week's contest about beer and movies is an unusal combination as when I was growing up, you couldn't even drink a beer in the cinema with your movie. Of course, now that you can have a beer when going, I don't really fancy one or I am driving.. 😅

When I think of beer movies, some that spring to mind are the RomCom - Coyote Ugly which seems to romanticise working in a bar and alcohol and then the more UK pub culture films that show more of your working class pubs.

Some of the most memorable pub/beer scenes for me have been in the Football Factory where the football hooligans are always meeting at the pub or organising a fight at the pub and where Fred played by Tamer Hassan is searching for Tommy Johnson played by Danny Dyer and he says his name is Dorian.

The next memorable scenes I can remember are from the film Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, but in particular where Rory Breaker has a dispute about watching the footy in the pub.

However, the most memorable and slightly morbid beer scene from a film I can remember is from Trainspotting. This is where the awful Begbie, who is a terrible bully and general all-round violent person, finishes his beer and then throws a glass into the crowd. I haven't been so shocked from a scene for a long time.

If this scene isn't enough to put you off going to the pub and drinking beer, I don't know what is. Actually, the scene shows him getting generally violent with random people in the pool hall and the pub. Both places that I liked to hang out in when I was younger. Luckily there was no Begbie around to cause havoc.

This was not the only tragic pub/beer scene in the film, it shows a pretty dark side of someone with a drink, violence and agression problem. Even though, the main focus of the film was the drug scene in Edinburgh. You get the impression of the bad side of drinking and drugs. Often people will say that alcohol can cause many problems as much as drug abuse and after watching this film, you could agree with that statement.

Thanks for reading.

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at least you didn't pick one of the fast and the furious with their " Corona" beer

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The movie is great, agree. Also, the music is very well selected, I had a soundtrack I think.

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I didn't watch this movie before although it's old, it's weekend here maybe I'll watch this because trailer is interesting 😃

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Thanks for checking it out, its quite an old one now, but it was popular back then. :)

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I also like to watch old movie even till now and mostly my favorites are one of those!!!

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Looks like another classic one from 90s... Damn, I've not watched it or heard bout it before.. hooked till end with !BEER ahan, some cool memories!

Enjoy your weekend mate. !PIZZA

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Its the film that propelled Ewan McGregor to stardom I think. !BEER

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I am not familiar with the movie, maybe because I seldom watched 🤣.
Though, I watched the trailer and it reminds me of stages in life when we are still in the happy go lucky stage 🤣

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Haha yeah, you mean a time before kids?

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Haha, yes when free to party party and even spent the salary you received overnight 🤣

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Just saw the trailer from your post. Looks like a funny movie 😂

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Yeah, it is a funny one in places, but not so glamorous.

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what do you mean by glamorous? I thought this movie was more focused on comedy no?

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Legendary film ! That scene also sticks in my head. We are not all like that in Edinburgh. Well I mean I'am, but the rest are not !
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hehe such a cool film.
I stayed in a flat in Leith with a real Begbie, glasses of neat vodka at 8 in the morning before lectures at Uni!

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It is a classic film- Begbie was such a character that he would scare me to meet someone like that!

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Despite being a "heavy movie", it is one of my favorite movies... along with A Clockwork Orange...

But, speaking of beer in the movie, the one that came into my mind was The World's End... I didn't watch that movie many times (as some others), but it stayed craved in my mind for some reason... 😃

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haha brilliant, I remember that film now holed up in a pub during a zombie invasion! lol

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I had to watch the trailer again... hahhah.. brilliant :)

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Some seriously good gags in there, I do love Pegg and Co...

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I had to watch the trailer again, I was mixing it up with Shaun of the Dead, but similar storylines! lol Both great films.

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to be honest, your reply mentioning zombies made me think... lol... I thought that I missed the "zombie part" of the movie... lol... but you were close... 🤣