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Trainspotting & Train Spotting
::::I could understand it maybe in context of the movie, but as written the paragraph is only about the song itself, material best reserved for its own article. I also don't think the reference can seriously be considered as giving evidence to the "pro-drug" nature of the movie, and if it ''is'' being used that way, it should be much more prominent. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 19:28, 24 October 2008 (EDT)
::::I could understand it maybe in context of the movie, but as written the paragraph is only about the song itself, material best reserved for its own article. I also don't think the reference can seriously be considered as giving evidence to the "pro-drug" nature of the movie, and if it ''is'' being used that way, it should be much more prominent. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 19:28, 24 October 2008 (EDT)
:::::[[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]], looking at it again, you're absolutely right. Although ''in my mind'' the song and the movie are intertwined, I didn't do a good job of conveying that in what I wrote. I guess Ebert's not going to be offering me a job any time soon! I'll try to improve it over the next week or so. --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 11:53, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
:::::[[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]], looking at it again, you're absolutely right. Although ''in my mind'' the song and the movie are intertwined, I didn't do a good job of conveying that in what I wrote. I guess Ebert's not going to be offering me a job any time soon! I'll try to improve it over the next week or so. --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 11:53, 26 October 2008 (EDT)
==Trainspotting & Train Spotting==
I'm not quite sure what the second part of this sentence means. (I wrote the non-italicized part.): "The film has nothing ''directly'' to do with the British hobby of train spotting, in which railfans keep records of the rolling stock they've seen,[5] ''beyond the authors' opinion that shooting heroin is as little use as he considers the railfan hobby to be.''" Is there something I've overlooked in the movie that refers to train spotters and implies their hobby is useless? Could we add more information to the sentence to show where this is in the movie? And which "authors" does this refer to, the man who wrote the book, or whoever wrote the screenplay? (I'm probably being a little sensitive here, because my brother dabbled in train spotting as a child, which I always thought was kind of neat. And the nit-picky grammar corrector in me is bothered by "authors'", as the book was written by a single author and movie authors are usually called screenwriters - I don't want to correct it as I'm not sure who it is referring to. It's been a long time since I've seen the movie, so it's quite possible I have overlooked a reference to train spotting.)--[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 12:08, 26 October 2008 (EDT)