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Fortheloveofthenineties · 2025-04-27T21:39:53+00:00

Anyone else watching it on Bbc 2? Bringing up memories of being around 21 and how very young I really was. Film seems so basic, watching it now I ache to go back to those days

hellywelly3 · 28/04/2025 00:07

Just been watching it. Definitely a nostalgia hit. I adore the soundtrack.
I think it’s the freedom of only thinking of myself that I miss the most.

LoafofSellotape · 28/04/2025 00:07

I laughed at the Internet cafe,bloody hell, that really dated the film. I'm also thinking how you'd upload a photo back then, did you have to scan it?

Also Richard only had about 4 emails in his inbox ,those were the days 😂

picturethispatsy · 27/04/2025 23:49

Yes watching.
Very nostalgic watching it.
I was backpacking around SE Asia the year the film came out. In fact I had just finished Thailand and all the islands and then watched the film on a layover in Singapore on my way to India. Although we didn’t find a secret beach, we had so many adventures, fell in love, swam in that turquoise sea & met some crazy and amazing people.
I miss the freedom and pure exhilaration of youth and traveling in particular (I did a lot of backpacking in the 90s) SO much. I love my life now but there was something so special about that time.

Ghosttofu99 · 27/04/2025 23:47

The film is only ok. The book is one of my all time favourites. I’m glad nobody said things were ‘basic’ back then though.

LoafofSellotape · 27/04/2025 23:32

Swiftie1878 · 27/04/2025 23:15

We all ache to go back, surely!
Film was OK.
Book was excellent.

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I agree, I read the book now and again to remind myself of my yoof 😂

Film is ok, I'm watching it now but they shouldn't have messed around with the story.

Sal wasn't quite right, I imagined her differently, not so strict.

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Fortheloveofthenineties · 27/04/2025 23:31

murasaki · 27/04/2025 23:30

Everything seemed possible in the 90s (am 48), then we grew up....

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Yes, sadly!

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murasaki · 27/04/2025 23:30

Fortheloveofthenineties · 27/04/2025 23:28

I want to think like that, but am a v nostalgic person and i’d just love to be young & free again
47 now 😬

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Everything seemed possible in the 90s (am 48), then we grew up....

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Fortheloveofthenineties · 27/04/2025 23:28

Moominstar · 27/04/2025 23:19

I actually don't ache to go back at all!
I must be the same age as you
Life felt anchorless before I settled down and met my husband and had our kids
I was so lost and had a bit of a drink problem in my 20s!
I'm one of those people who regrets the odd thing but wouldn't fancy going back for a do over.
Have always believed the best is yet to come!

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I want to think like that, but am a v nostalgic person and i’d just love to be young & free again
47 now 😬

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Bigminnie1 · 27/04/2025 23:20

Loved the book and the film too. The book came out just after I got back from backpacking round Asia. Such nostalgia.

murasaki · 27/04/2025 23:20

Fortheloveofthenineties · 27/04/2025 23:13

Big question…! So many things I would have done differently…maybe…or maybe not as the whole course of my life would have changed
I really do ache to go back though

How about you?

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Absolutely nothing they were great from gcses, a levels, university, moving to London for a proper job, ill advised drugs, the feeling of immortality, staying up too late, the Spanish bars after hours off Tottenham Court Road, shared houses...

The 2000s, yeah, maybe I'd make some changes there but it's all good. I do look back on the 90s fondly, from my goth skirts in 6th form, clubbing with my school friends, then my university ones, working hard academically, eating shit and just living life.

Moominstar · 27/04/2025 23:19

Fortheloveofthenineties · 27/04/2025 23:13

Big question…! So many things I would have done differently…maybe…or maybe not as the whole course of my life would have changed
I really do ache to go back though

How about you?

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I actually don't ache to go back at all!
I must be the same age as you
Life felt anchorless before I settled down and met my husband and had our kids
I was so lost and had a bit of a drink problem in my 20s!
I'm one of those people who regrets the odd thing but wouldn't fancy going back for a do over.
Have always believed the best is yet to come!

Ilikeviognier · 27/04/2025 23:18

Me too….i went to Thailand in the early naughties and did The whole ko Phan Yang thing. What a soundtrack too! I’ve been watching it again tonight but got to go to bed otherwise I’ll never get up for the school run in the morning! Life in the fast lane nowadays. 🤣🤣

BriceNobeslovesMurielHeslop · 27/04/2025 23:17

Oooooh I loved the soundtrack. It was the first time I’d ever gone to the pictures by myself- I was at a uni open weekend.

I loved the book so wasn’t mad for the film, although I watched it quite recently and thought it wasn’t as terrible as I’d remembered. I think I’ll read the book again, I thought it was wonderful as a teenager.

Swiftie1878 · 27/04/2025 23:15

Fortheloveofthenineties · 27/04/2025 23:13

Big question…! So many things I would have done differently…maybe…or maybe not as the whole course of my life would have changed
I really do ache to go back though

How about you?

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We all ache to go back, surely!
Film was OK.
Book was excellent.

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Fortheloveofthenineties · 27/04/2025 23:13

Moominstar · 27/04/2025 23:06

Hi op what would you do differently / do now if you went back to those days?

Big question…! So many things I would have done differently…maybe…or maybe not as the whole course of my life would have changed
I really do ache to go back though

How about you?

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Temporaryname158 · 27/04/2025 23:12

This also reminds me of a hedonistic youth!

maybe I need to buy a flight to Thailand and relive it…..but what about the kids 🤔😂

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Fortheloveofthenineties · 27/04/2025 23:10

I read the book too, but still liked Leo in it

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RitaAndFrank · 27/04/2025 23:10

ThDanielDay · 27/04/2025 23:03

One of those studio interferences that miss the whole point of the book and the lying in the sand "multiverse" scene which was the whole point of the ennui soul searching journey of Richard

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Exactly. In the book Richard was bumbling, awkward and typically British. He was not a pretty American fuckboy. The whole film was a sell out to the American market and as you say, completely missed the point and glossed over all the deeper beauty of the book.
the soundtrack was amazing though and reminds me of when Dh and I got together 😍

herbalteabag · 27/04/2025 23:07

I didn't know it was on. I loved the book which I must have read in my mid twenties. The film wasn't as good but I still watched it. I don't know if I will enjoy either in the same way now but I'll still look it up.

Moominstar · 27/04/2025 23:06

Hi op what would you do differently / do now if you went back to those days?

ThDanielDay · 27/04/2025 23:03

RitaAndFrank · 27/04/2025 23:01

Loved the book. Hated the film.
Richard (main character) was not American and he did NOT shag Sal or nick the French girl off her boyfriend.

One of those studio interferences that miss the whole point of the book and the lying in the sand "multiverse" scene which was the whole point of the ennui soul searching journey of Richard

Jabtastic · 27/04/2025 23:03

I didn't know that about Ewan McGregor and Danny Boyle! I feel real nostalgia for the book and film and I'll definitely watch it on IPlayer, thanks OP!

ThDanielDay · 27/04/2025 23:02

Bottled it by not giving you to McGregor, the video game scene is fucking cringe

10/10 nostalgia, no notes

RitaAndFrank · 27/04/2025 23:01

Loved the book. Hated the film.
Richard (main character) was not American and he did NOT shag Sal or nick the French girl off her boyfriend.

murasaki · 27/04/2025 22:59

CigarettesAndLoveBites · 27/04/2025 22:58

If IRC it should have been Ewan McGregor instead of Leo as Richard. I think they went with Leo to appeal to the American market. He's not right at all and I always imagine Ewan in the role when I watch it.

Yes, he had a massive fight with Danny Boyle about it. They didn't speak for years.