Here Comes A TRAINSPOTTING 2 Trailer Again (With Liquor And Drugs)

Undeniably older, debatably wiser, still up to the same old hijinks.

A new trailer for Danny Boyle's Trainspotting 2 has arrived. This one's labeled "Legacy", and it definitely lives up to that descriptor: this trailer really, really wants you to think back to all the good times we had with Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Diane, Begby and all that heroin back in 1996. 

Check it out.

This is probably my favorite of the trailers we've seen for Trainspotting 2, but I've got a confession to make: at some point over the past few months, my interest in this sequel completely flatlined. I'm not opposed to it, I'm not Mad Online™ about it, I don't think it's going to be bad. I'm just not chomping at the bit to see it anymore. Maybe it's the fact that this marketing campaign feels like it's been going on for months, maybe it's the handful of middling reviews I read, maybe I was never all that hyped for a Trainspotting sequel in the first place. I dunno. Where are you guys at on this?

Actually, wait: before you hit the comments, here's an official synopsis, courtesy The Playlist:

First there was an opportunity……then there was a betrayal.

Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home.

They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle).

Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.

OK, now head on down to the comments to let us know where you stand on Trainspotting 2: excited? Ambivalent? Inexplicably angry and itching to go on an ill-advised tirade about how all sequels are trash? We're ready to hear you out.

Trainspotting 2 arrives in US theaters on March 17th.

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