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Post by pattirose on Dec 19, 2007 1:42:56 GMT -5
I saw this on tv really late one night years ago and loved it but never knew the name of it, now I've finally found it! It is also the first thing I ever saw Kevin in but didn't know who he was at that point. Problem is I can't understand a word they're saying, I catch a word or two every other sentence and that's only the swear words, lol, I guess they are universal?
The soundtrack is also fabulous, I will be picking that up along with a version of the movie with subtitles. Those accents sound like a foreign language to me.
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Post by oldounce on Dec 19, 2007 2:09:39 GMT -5
hoho...I finished this movie days ago, but my reaction was "Oh....no...why he isn't Vorenus...." I just can't see that very *friendly* person kicked him....it's very very very outrageous!!! His dialect or accent is always quite "alien"...I need to find subtitles to know what he's talking...but acid house I haven't a subtitle...there's not much talking.... But at least he was taking a big part in this movie, it's a trilogy, and he is 1/3....I just finish Max and he only has several minutes in it....@_@ and that's a stupid role...
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Post by pattirose on Dec 19, 2007 12:29:37 GMT -5
Thank you for telling me that, Max is another one I almost bought.
I'm finding that the more of his movies I watch the more I like him. He has an amazing range and doesn't play the same character role after role as so many other actors do.
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Post by oldounce on Dec 19, 2007 13:34:35 GMT -5
To some superviser: hoho...were some words unsuitable? I don't know which words are forbidden...they're not different to me since I don't speak English.
To Pittrose: Exactly you were saying what I would like to say....he's so amazing!!! I can't find any 2 roles of KMK similar, only when I was seeing Purifiers I found Moses walking with his fellows and its feel also exists in 16 years of Alcohol...and that's all, he looks very different in KMK shows/movies. It's so exciting to find his roles because you may never be sure what he would "tell" you....@_@
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Post by oldounce on Dec 19, 2007 13:46:13 GMT -5
about MAX, pattirose you can check here see its clips..there's other one or 2 scenes with him but exactly with his back I couldn't see his face...how tragic...and this movie is kind of stupid, though it's not annoying. www.facebook.com/video/?oid=4184507733
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Post by oldounce on Dec 19, 2007 14:41:48 GMT -5
hoho........I'm not too.....I only purchased it for Kevin Mckidd...download was too slow then I finally bought it...hoho...though he didn't take a big part.
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Post by oldounce on Dec 19, 2007 16:17:14 GMT -5
..........errr, sorry you can't get on to facebook then I find other ways to show you those clips but now I'm burning some DVDs for my mom...may upload them on Youtube later....
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Post by Leanne on Dec 20, 2007 1:25:00 GMT -5
guys you need to keep on topic.....please start a Max thread - thanks
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Post by oldounce on Dec 20, 2007 9:27:33 GMT -5
I think all the posts lost their earlier purpose...and it's too serious to get a new thread. Or please edit it and move it into a new thread I'm not sure if this forum is with that function(I mean the supervisers can move the posts into a new thread).
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Post by Leanne on Dec 20, 2007 14:01:27 GMT -5
Synnot, Siobhan. "Kevin has passed the acid test; STARSPOTTING: McKIDD IS ALRIGHT." Daily Record. 2 Jan. 1999. HE owes his early fame to his role in Trainspotting - and his recent weight loss to Richard and Judy.
Now Kevin McKidd is coming to terms with fatherhood, but only in his new film out this week, The Acid House, writer Irvine Welsh's latest excursion on to the big screen.
The actor, last seen on our screens as Basil in BBC Scotland's drama Looking After JoJo, plays nice- but-nerdy Johnny. His wife deserts him for his neighbour, leaving Johnny literally holding baby Chantelle.
The 25-year-old actor gives a convincing performance as a first-time dad - and he speaks highly of his tiny co- star's performance.
He says: "There's a scene where the baby is crying and I'm trying to change her. That was the first day I met him - because the baby's actually not a her, it's a him.
"Really, I thought he played the part very well - his transformation was incredible.
"I've often thought about this poor kid when he's about 20 and is told to watch The Acid House and goes `My god, I'm a girl. And I'm called Chantelle. I don't even have a decent name'.
"On the first day, he was really wary of me and was screaming and shouting. Whenever I was around, I spent time with the baby, feeding him and sitting with him. Now I'm the perfect new man.
"I know how to change nappies and all that. We got on great - it got to the point where he would scream and shout when I gave him back to his mum."
His successful relationship with his screen child even made single guy Kevin a little broody.
He adds hastily: "Not too broody. I was happy to have him for an hour or so, but still happy to hand him back. Just being an uncle is probably good enough for me for now."
Kevin found himself having to watch his weight after filming finished. He'd deliberately let himself get out of condition and piled on the pounds to play Johnny.
But his first lead role, in the movie Bedrooms And Hallways, required him to look lean and chiselled. He needed to get in shape fast, but hated going to the gym to pump iron.
His mum came up with the solution: "She sent me a diet sheet from This Morning. So Richard and Judy are responsible for my weight loss. I swear by them." read the rest of this article News
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Post by Leanne on Apr 24, 2009 11:11:18 GMT -5
IRVINE WELSH IN THE HOUSE: PAUL McGUIGAN’S “THE ACID HOUSE” FILM FOUR “The Acid House”: Director: Paul McGuigan. Writer: Irvine Welsh, based on his own novel. Cast: Ewen Bremner, Martin Clunes, Arlene Cockburn, Michelle Gomez, Stephen McCole, Gary McCorack, Jenny McCrindle, Kevin McKidd, Jemma Redgrave, Gary Sweeney & Maurice Ro‰ves. UK 1998. INTRODUCTION: A belated follow up of sorts to “Trainspotting” reunites writer Welsh with stars Bremner and McKidd for this portmanteau of three segments drawn from Welsh’s best selling collection of short stories “The Acid House”. SYNOPSIS: A trilogy of stories set in Glasgow’s dark underbelly of lumpenproleteriat loosely linked by the constant unnerving presence of the mysterious Ro‰ves. “The Granton Star Cause” sees twenty-something Boab (McCole) thrown off of his Sunday league football team Granton Star by his best friends Kev (Sweeney) and Tambo (Simon Weir). Returning home he is asked to move out by his sex-crazed parents Boab snr. (Alex Howden) and Doreen (Ann Louise Ross). A phone call to his girlfriend Evelyn (McCrindle) does little to alleviate his problems when she reveals she’s leaving him for another man. Taking out his frustration on the phone box he is arrested and done over by a share-holding police sergeant (John Gardner). Turning up for work the following day he finds himself redundant. Just as things can’t seem to get any worse he has a drunken encounter with a particularly vengeful God (Ro‰ves). “A Soft Touch” sees kind-hearted Johnny (McKidd) being chatted up in a bar by the heavily pregnant Catriona (Gomez). Johnny marries Catriona and they move into a flat together where Johnny brings up the baby Shantel (Marnie Kidd & Morgeu Simpson) as his own. Increasingly dissatisfied by her new staid lifestyle Catriona takes up with their violent neighbour Larry (McCorack) who mercilessly bullies Johnny. When Catriona and Larry threaten to take away Shantel, Johnny is forced into action. In “The Acid House” middle class couple Rory (Clunes) and Jenny (Redgrave) are in the process of giving birth when an unfortunate twist of fate causes baby Tom’s mind to be switched with that of spaced out acid freak Coco (Bremner). As a result Coco is deemed mentally disabled while the foul mouthed baby Tom is viewed as some sort of child prodigy. As Jenny tries to cope with her child’s increasingly erratic behaviour, Coco’s girlfriend Kirsty (Cockburn) sees the chance to start over with Coco and steer him away from such bad influences as his best mate Skanko (Cas Harkins). REVIEW: The films lineage is never more obvious than in the incredibly familiar first scene in which a Sunday league football match is repeatedly frozen to display a characters name by way of introduction, a trick that appears again in the second segment before being used to imaginative effect in the third. Beyond this however Welsh, who makes a brief appearance in the first segment as Parkie, has made a conscious effort to distance himself from “the students that watched Trainspotting”. The inclusion “Trainspotting” stars Bremner (Spud) and McKidd (Tommy) seems to belay this attempt but the reason for their inclusion soon becomes obvious they prove to be two of the best actors in the entire production. McCole is blandly unappealing in his segment, compared to McKidd’s impressive performance in a similar looser role and Bremner tour-de-force in his twin roles. All things considered Boab’s change of form probably works to McCole’s advantage as his performance is vastly improved by it. Of the supporting cast McCrindle, Gomez and Cockburn are all wasted in offensively misogynistic roles, while Redgrave and Ross fair little better in her own stereotypical nightmare mother roles. From McCorack’s hard man to Clunes’ new man the males are given more to work with but it is the constantly unnerving presence of Ro‰ves in the first segment as God and in minor walk-on roles in the following two that may or may not still be God that props up the trilogy. As with any anthology the stories are a mixed bag “The Granton Star Cause” is a somewhat disappointing modern retelling of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” but with the protagonist using his newly acquired form to reek his revenge on all of those that wronged him. The theme of a nice guy taking revenge on those that have used and abused him is carried over into the second segment “A Soft Touch” but to lesser effect as the tale is overwhelmed by the strong undercurrent of misogyny inherent in the story. In “The Acid House” the women are once again stereotyped as either manipulative whores or gullible mothers, but at least this story shows some element of originality, with a wonderfully amusing animatronic baby and strong Freudian subtext. Alasdair Walker’s cinematography powerfully conveys the seedier side of Glasgow and Andrew Hulme’s editing keeps the film moving along at a fair pace but McGuigan’s production is not the victory of style over content it tries to be. By cutting himself of from the cult student following Welsh seems to have left little audience for this unpleasant but occasionally amusing collection, indeed it is hard to know who to recommend it to. purefilm.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/the-acid-house/
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Post by Geniusmentis on Apr 24, 2009 14:28:25 GMT -5
In "A Soft Touch" he is a delicious dad like in "North Square"!!!
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Post by Leanne on Jun 5, 2009 5:51:54 GMT -5
Superb surreal life tales THE ACID HOUSE **** 18 BEST BUY FINALLY available on DVD, these Irvine Welsh short stories are sometimes gross and sometimes touching. The three stories feature a hapless amateur footballer who is turned into a fly, a wimpy husband who loses his wife to the skinhead upstairs and a drug addict who switches bodies with a baby. Welsh has a cameo part while Maurice Roeves and Trainspotting actors Kevin McKidd and Ewen Bremner also feature. DVD Extras: None stated. DVD pounds 15.99 Ramsay St classic cuts www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/131069780
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