T2 Trainspotting

I heard about Danny Boyle doing a follow up to Trainspotting over a decade ago. The second Irvine Welsh novel about these characters is called Porno, and it takes places ten years later. So Danny was supposed to make Porno with the same cast as a follow-up. It never happened. Evidently he decided to wait twenty years to make the sequel. Better late than never.

T2 is loosely based on the novel, Porno, but it deviates enough to the point that it becomes its own thing. I've read the novel so I could tell where he was inspired by it and where he ran off and did his own interpretation. After all, it's been twenty years now, not the original ten.

It's good. It's real good. When you make a sequel to movies like Trainspotting or Clerks you can't expect them to be better. They simply occupy a different time in space. And they can't re-write film history the way those two movies did. So all you can do is hope that it's a really fucking good movie. And thankfully T2 is a really fucking good movie.

It's very connected to the original with audio and visual flashbacks. Little homages here and there. Very self-referential. It's one of those flicks where you really have to have seen the first one to get it. And if you haven't seen Trainspotting by now...what the fuck?

Anyhoo, you should stream this on Amazon asap.