Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy
2012 Directed by Rob Heydon
Synopsis
Never be afraid of love, everyone is looking for
ECSTASY is a dark romantic comedy, based on the controversial book, “Ecstasy”, by Irvine Welsh. “Ecstasy”, was translated into 20 languages and was a number one bestseller in over 20 countries. Mr. Welsh’s first book, “Trainspotting”, published in 1993, (and voted by Waterstone, Europe’s largest bookstore chain, as one of the Ten Best Books of the Century), sold over 1 million copies in the UK alone, and has its own Cinematic Cinderella success story.
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"They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you."
No, watching this film will fucking kill you.
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Agony.
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Abominable druggy drama with an awful script and even worse performances.
The riffing on Trainspotting is so broad that at times it borders on parody - only minus any of the wit, charm or flair of its progenitor.
The Scottish accents on display in this make Mike Myers sound born-and-bred.
Wholly abysmal.
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Badly scripted which makes it hard to believe it was based on an Irvine Welsh book. In fact its hardly like the short story it's based on at all. Don't know where all the stuff about drug mules, crazy bad guys & perfect canadians came from. It was also quite boring in parts with a cheesey romance running through it. Oh and despite being set in Scotland, there was a lot a fake bad accents which is unforgiveable in an Irvine Welsh story!
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Set in Edinburgh but with only two Scottish actors and mostly everyone else with terrible Scottish accents, being Scottish it really took me out off the film, which was a generic drug film that just bored me to tears at points, and i really didn't care about any of the characters.
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This might have been good if I was wrecked on chemicals but I wasn't so it wasn't very good. Dont think I will be taking up the narcotic habit any time soon so this film will always be not very good. Makes you want to watch a certain old Danny Boyle film which is good even for us clean living movie fans!
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While I have high hopes for "Filth" coming later this year, this one missed the mark. I expected it to be an adaptation of the Irvine Welsh collection of stories and it wasn't. This would have worked much better as a short film rather than a feature, as it was a short story to begin with. It wasn't horrible, but if you're not going to put Welsh on the screen properly, why do it at all?
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I saw this back in August and I'm adding this now because I'm never gonna watch it again but it's a lesser know film, so I want to advise that people don't see it. Especially fans of Trainspotting, because this is nothing like that.
It's just sappy bullshit.There's a line in here something along the lines of "Sometimes... I like to write poetry".
NO. SHUT UP.
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There is a problem with adapting any of Irvine Welsh’s work. Trainspotting will forever be the definitive adaptation of an Irvine Welsh novel, it is undoubtedly flawless and threw Danny Boyle and Ewan Mcgregor into Hollywood superstardom. Trainspotting as a text looms large over Welsh’s work in general, he has written a sequel “Porno” and is in the process of writing a prequel “Skagboys”. As such when it comes to reviewing a film that is adapted from Welsh’s back catalogue, a problem arises, Welsh’s writing often inhabits the same grimy world of drug addiction and great tunes, all written in a suitably grim prose, what made Trainspotting so good and Ecstacy so shamefully mediocre when the two are so similar?…
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An exciting, visually pretty awesome film. Adam Sinclair is well-cast and adds a lot of energy here. A trippy time about lots of highs and worst-case scenarios.
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"They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you."
No, watching this film will fucking kill you.
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Truely awful. Just atrocious, one of the worst movies I have ever seen. A complete mess
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A film thats a hit and miss all the way through, a Irvin Welsh book, which of course was the author of Trainspotting, and while there are hard hitting themes going on, the film Lacks in a big way, Danny boyle(who directed Trainspotting) or any sort of visionairy to get this to the screen, also no Mcgregor type talent either, its no way a bad film but coming from that author and another film version of his books, id expect a lot more quality
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Well, they took their own sweet time about it, but this supposed film adaptation of Welsh's 1996 collection of short stories on a theme of 'chemical romance' had been knocking about as an idea ever since the favourable response to Trainspotting surprised almost everyone.
Here, we concentrate on the E and not the H. Aside from the drug of choice and the overall accomplishment, there is little to tell this Trainspotting wannabe from its grandad. Sporting a new cast, both young and vibrant, Ecstasy is a drug-fuelled bender that doesn't really go the distance. Not content with achieving greatness just the once, Welsh decided to allow this novel to be adapted to screen long after his time in the spotlight…
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An hobbit, the cute chick from Smallville and what seems like the cast of Emmerdale try to remake Trainspotting with zero budget. Sure its got the pills but it delivers no thrills...
I know I'm being harsh expecting something as good as Sir Danny Boyles Trainspotting with so little resources. But its just the whole production is lacking spark... everything is sub par from Irvine Welsh's 'trying too hard to recapture former magic' story to the dull characters, hell even the soundtracks bad and not worthy of a k-tel release. The made for Television adaptation of Welsh's Acid House overshadows this turkey.