| 6ixStringJack: And come to think of it, there may be some more British actors in Once Upon a Time. I seem to remember a really cute young woman from the UK soaps was in there for a while, so it wasn't just Carlyle. But I don't think there were any actual UK accents going on unless one of the characters called for it. |
| 6ixStringJack: I know you like the British stuff, so maybe you would like all of it. I can't objectively say that Trainspotting was a bad movie since I remember almost nothing about it. Never messed with any hard drugs myself and lost a few people I called friend to them. Depression movies are rarely my bag. |
| Brenda: Yeah, I know to that Once Upon a Times was pretty hot stuff when it first hit too. Think I would have better luck with myself. I didn't watch Trainspotting when it first came out because it sounded so depressing. And at that time depression wasn't dragging me down. So, I just vetoed it. |
| Brenda: Yeah, I know Trainspotting was suppose to really something when it came out. |
6ixStringJack: I almost have the same warning about Once Upon a Time too, but I do think that there's at least a much higher chance of you enjoying at least the first few seasons of that than of Trainspotting. But I was a drunk when I was watching that show, so who knows? People seemed to really like it when it was current news, but that was probably around 10 years ago when it started so maybe it's already dated? Don't know.  |
| 6ixStringJack: It's hard to judge by reviews. I'm sure it was pretty "cutting edge" for its time, but that was a long time ago. Lots of moral outrage over stuff like this that pushed the envelope, back when Bill Clinton was President and in between Bushes. It could be decent. I don't remember. I just wanted to be clear it doesn't get a recommendation from me. But I'm not saying it's not worth a watch either. |
| Brenda: My library still has copies of Once Upon a Time but the website says that they are all out and there are a couple of holds on them. I usually start with the first season of something before deciding to watch the rest. Specially on DVD. |
| Brenda: Okay, a header into a toilet to retrieve drugs. Well, you never know. Some British movies are quite good. Think back when this came out it got so so reviews. I could be wrong too. |
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| 6ixStringJack: You might want to try the first season of Once Upon a Time and see if you like it. I thought it was good enough to watch, but I was watching a LOT of stuff back then. |
| 6ixStringJack: You might want to try the first season of Once Upon a Time and see if you like it. I thought it was good enough to watch, but I was watching a LOT of stuff back then. |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh.... I'm sure Trainspotting was about depression too. Saw it almost 30 years ago now, so it's hard to remember. It was also VERY British, on a Tube TV from a VHS too. No subtitles. I probably missed quite a bit. The one scene I do remember is one of the guys trying to get drugs out of a toilet and suddenly he dives into the toilet or something. Weird. I dunno. If you like Ewan, it's probably the earliest movie I've ever seen him in. |
| Brenda: Knew trainspotting was British but I thought it was about depression. Not sure if I heard about the drugs or not. |
| Brenda: Huh. Like I said "Once Upon a Time" might be okay. I know I would say pieces of various fairy tales. Never really heard much about them till I got to elementary school. |
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| 6ixStringJack: Trainspotting was a British flick about taking drugs. That's how I'd sum it up. Probably had a lot more going for it than that considering that it does have a real cult following. Nothing I'd ever watch again, but it does have an audience. |
| 6ixStringJack: I can't remember what happened or why, but a lot of good and bad fairy tale characters ended up here. But if memory serves, they're all pretty much magically sealed off from us so they don't do much of any interacting with our world other than trap the main character and her son in with them... or something like that. Carlyle plays Rumplestiltskin, who's one of the baddies. He may or may not have some redemption arc. I don't remember much now and I didn't finish it anyway. |
| Brenda: Don't think I realized that they were fairy tales brought into the modern age. Huh. I admit to not knowing a lot of fairy tales. Might be interesting just for curiosity's sake. Was in the library today and never went near the DVDs. |
| Brenda: I think I heard Ewan McGregor was in it. Maybe, I haven't really seen much of his early stuff. |