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Summary: love at first site
Review: dominique was perfection as lo. the story did go down a bit after... the mother died but it was still worth watching to see how lo and humbert would stay together if they could bare eachother.
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Summary: Lolita a work of art
Review: Rare movie in times of commercial chills and thrills. Incredible scale of colors to set the heated passion on the background of blue cool serenity. A must see movie that surpass far beyond anything produced in contemporary moviemaking. I would watch a sequel and will have this DVD as the most watched movie handy for next occasion. It's a masterpiece directing, acting, and artistic rendition. J. Irons played his best role showing the nature of man who remains a boy. It's astonishing to see how he masters the image as if it is him, so natural, so believable. It was the best acting ever.
The version of Lolita is just right and reflects that movie director is not a functionary who has to recite the book but a creator.
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Summary: Lolita the tyrant, Lolita the powerful
Review: "Lolita" rings bells about childhood feelings of inadequacy and ugly duckling complex. It's about envying the beautiful, skinny, immoral child vamps who triumph and get whatever they want from both children and adults, no matter how unworthy, while poor ducklings, too ugly to bewitch and not old enough to persuade through speech, can only dream of possessing such instant, inescapable power. I think many children can relate to the fantasy of having your parents in the palm of your hand, and anyone can pose him/herself the question of what it must be like to be someone's Godess on Earth.It's about how everyone wishes, but for one moment, to ever possess an ounce of that extraordinary power of beauty and youthfulness that only a privileged few ever seem to have. It's about how some memories of pleasure you experience as a child will remain forever living in your heart, not at all like yellowing old photos in an album, or decaying flowers in a vase. About how much we are all like children, in that sense of living things in a super intense immortal way, when we are truly, devastatingly in love. Most of "Lolita"'s evocative, poetic power is vastly due to Enio Morricone, a living genius. To watch the movie as basically a video clip to his soundtrack is to merely do him justice. For the words, Jeremy Irons' voice is a dream come true. Some might swim in the waters of other anguishes and desires while watching it. I'll swim in mine.
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Summary: True Obsession
Review: Both Adrian Lyne and Jeremy Irons have been involved with films that focus on chronic obsession(Dead Ringers,Fatal Attraction,9 1/2 Weeks,and Damage).I consider this film to be closer to Nabokov's intentions than the Kubrick's black comedy. This Humbert is totally immersed in fantasy.He has no moral sense, only guided by the ghost of a perfect love.Lolita is his Frankenstein,his collection of youthful memories. Humbert is not a monstrous child molester like Quimby but someone so caught up in fantasy they can't really operate in everyday life.Both the acting and direction are excellent.Adrian Lyne needs to continue making provocative films that are both thoughtful and intense.After watching Lolita,you feel great empathy for characters you might otherwise find disturbing all because they are portrayed as deeply human.
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Summary: A Battle Of The Heart And Mind
Review: This film continues to polarize viewers with it's plot which is, even after Kubrick's original, still seen by many as controversial. Well, I watch films for enjoyment and, if I'm lucky enough, enlightenment. Needless to say that this film provides both of the former with a masterful touch by visionary director Adrian Lyne. Lolita, played by the frustratingly enigmatic Dominique Swain, is confused by adolescent lust and acts out of sheer frustration. Swain is all too real here in her seduction of the easilly inclined Jeremy Irons, whom comes across, strangely enough, not so much as taking advantage of 14 yr. old Lolita's inclinations, but as a man that desperately needs to be rejuvinated by love again, mistaking youth as the fullfillment. Why is he this way? See the film. Highly recommended, heart-wrenching, modern-day classic.
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Summary: Lolita
Review: This movie is mostly for men due to the grapic nature. The whole movie is conplexing and by the end you just find yourself angry that you wasted two hours.
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Summary: Two stars.. for Swain's beautiful bare feet.....
Review: This film is not as complicated or artistic as most reviews have made it out to be. So, I'll get right to the point. This story is about how grown men sexualize young, teen aged girls. Most men (if they are honest) would love to have sex with them. This film is just "a big tease" in an attempt to excite men's most inner sexual desires. Story line: Find a young girl stupid enough to let you screw her! The only reason I gave this empty film two stars is there are a couple of scenes of the young actress' beautiful bare feet! Its a foot fetish's delight for sure. If they were allowed to show them having some hot, sexually tense S&M sex scenes....it would have really been a definitive modern day classic! The director and studio got themselves into a lot of hot water just to produce the film the way it is, however its a much watered down version of what everyone really wants to see! If you want something really hot to watch with your dirty pig-let girlfiend's....buy "The Image" on DVD. It was made in 1975 back when the studio's still had the political climate to make sexplotation flicks for all of us...out there, who want to get our women hot before we do them! Believe me...women love the "rough stuff" sex films...this movie fails miserably on multiple levels to excite me or my...wife!
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Summary: This is a top ten classic
Review: This is one film that makes you look deeper than what social standards would normally see on the surface layer of a situation that may take place. What made this film so illustrious, is the fact that characters played their parts so well that you feel their pain, feelings, and emotions throughout the film.
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Summary: The Movie Is Not The Book!
Review: Margaret Atwood once said when asked to compare her brilliant novel THE HANDMAID'S TALE with the movie based on it that one should repeat rapidly three times, "The movie is not the book, the movie is not the book, the movie is not the book." If you approach this movie with that mindset, you'll for the most part like this movie a lot. (More about what you may detest a little later.) The best thing about this movie is Dominique Swain, who plays Lolita. Although she had no previous acting experience, she is perfect for the role: at times a sultry tease and other times an innocent little girl. I probably would have cast the rest of the characters differntly including Jeremy Irons although he does a commendable job as Humbert. The sex or lack thereof is handled with great delicacy and class, I thought. Although it's probably unfair to this movie, I would have liked it much better had I not just reread Nabokov's great novel. There is no way to convey visually what the novelist does with language since he is forever playing word games on the reader. Also the comic aspects of the written word are difficult visually although Irons has some success at this. Given those reservations,the first half of the movie is beautifully done. Then it goes South-- about the time Humbert and Lo start their journey by car all over the U. S., including the South. So we cannot show sex between a teenage girl and an older man of the screen. That is as it should be. It's quite acceptable, however, to show bloody violence. I refer here to the scene between Quilty and Humbert that is so grisly to be almost unwatchable. The director needed a good editor for that awful 5 minutes of blood and gore.
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Summary: Beyond words
Review: What to do with a man like Humbert...all at the same time I want to bash his head in for treating Lo like his personal sex toy and stealing her childhood, and I want to give him a big hug and cry with him, letting him know that I feel some of the torturous pain he feels. What a curse, to be so vulnerable to the innocent wiles of the nymphet. To know that the relationship you crave, that you NEED, if it comes along is entirely temporary and always disasterous. Incredible story...unbelievably powerful movie (Lyne)...Nabokov and Lyne have broken my heart, and yet I'm grateful.
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