Did burgers not watch this film? Why has it been utterly overlooked

Isn't it just more bitching about Tatcher, neoliberalism, praising the working class and victim mentality?

>>79761454
You're not thinking of I Daniel Blake? I thought the film blew away the victimhood most people feel in our consumerist society.

>>79761408
It relied too much on the first movie. Even the poster and promo art for the movie is the same thing as the first Trainspotting but with older guys who aren't actually convincing as junkies.

The average Amerifat hasn't even seen or heard of the original

>>79761563
No, I'm thinking of Trainspotting and how the first one portrayed a generation that thought it was Tatcher and her neoliberal policies that made their lives hopeless so they turned to drugs.

It felt a bit all over the place, I enjoyed it for the most part but the entire second half makes zero sense and becomes too serious

>>79761454

Yeah I didn't like that Spud got a happy ending, he was relentless junkie and deserved a Requim-esque ending

>>79761408
Hasn't been released in the US and didn't come out last year so it's not going to be nominated amongst 2016 awards you fucking idiot

>>79761590
They're not junkies in the second film aside from Spud who is convincing. Did you really watch it? They had to market the film to justify the budget, Boyle didn't originally want to call it trainspotting but compromised on the name T2.

I think its much more powerful than the first film and to ape what other people have said, it deals with time and masculinity.
>>79761628
This is the second film set in cosmopolitan Edinburgh. The point about Thatcher is correct for the first film of course.

>>79761672
Yeah I should have remembered the bullshit of American Cinema in releasing films before awards.

>>79761651
I think that's what I enjoyed most about the film in being so unconventional. Being all over the place makes a lot of his films work when the screenplay is solid.

Wasn't made available where I live.

I'm also wary of minor classics being given sequels years down the road. It's such a product of its time it just feels wrong to ever think you could complement it with something that will be different in many unavoidable ways. Reminds me of Wall Street.