Lolita

The girl in this movie almost turned me into a pedophile.

In many ways better than Kubriks... There... I've said it...

Niczym miłość po latach rozłąki, odnalazłam przypadkowo dnia pewnego film, z którym zostałam rozdzielona w czasach mego dziecięctwa.

Mr. Sexy Pants (Jeremy Irons) cannot RETAIN(er) himself when it comes to LO(ve of his life fire of his loins). Spawn of Marnie doesn't satisfy his devilish desires as he is forced to do mandatory sex. Hold on to you pants because jawbreakers aren't the only things that get tossed out the window in this film! Banana munching soda drinking Lolita would rather have small dick Quilty instead of the big DICK RINGER (Irons). This film has the 3 Ds : Jeremy, quilty *eyeroll*, and mainly, DICK TRACY!

I always pictured Humbert Humbert looking somewhat like Jeremy Irons, so this adaption couldn't really miss. It's just a really precious piece of junk, mostly thanks to the dearest crying JI.

i like how this guy operates. a little worse than the original, but this one is actually kind of funny.

Not sure what to write about this movie, it was utterly disturbing to watch

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The story felt kinda filled with blank spots. Many things seemed unexplained. The acting saves one or two of them. Sadly I didn't saw the strong drama, everything was like a joke.

Jeremy Irons plays the character with just the right amount of sleaze while remaining relatively empathetic. And Swain is perfectly cast as Lolita. But I, as most people probably were, was constantly comparing this to the Kubrick version. And when you do that, this one is always going to lose. While this may be more true to the spirit of the book, I miss the sardonic tone of the original - it just worked so well. The straight faced approach just isn't as entertaining.

Surprisingly better than the Kubrick! Gotta love Jeremy Irons. He's just plane fantastic. All those Sentimental close-ups and micro-vibrations makes it all worthwhile.

I didn't hate it or anything, but I didn't really find much likeable about it, except for a couple of scenes. The whole thing felt unbelievable, including the performances. It seemed like the director tried really hard to make it shocking, artsy and sexy. I just found myself rolling my eyes. I will admit that he did make Lolita appear quite sexy. But, rather than showing us why Jeremy Irons' character wants to fuck her, it felt like he was trying to make us, the audience, want to fuck her.

The well known story was still as mesmerizing and shocking as ever. Dominique Swain at 17 was captivating as the sassy, precocious, empowered 14yr old Lolita. Jeremy Irons at 50 was oddly charismatic considering his sad despicable character. Very well made, excellent music and brilliant acting.

a tad less comfortable than the Kubrik version, but not as good

72.500

Viewed October 6, 2014. Pretty good, uncomfortably faithful adaptation of one of the greatest novels ever written. Fantastic performance from Jeremy Irons that really brings out the surprising amount of sympathy in Humbert Humbert.

sleazy paedo humps his underage stepdaughter all the way across America

you really learn more from this than you do in school

good movie

Looks like a cheap teen porn movie

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A little long. A little needlessly melodramatic toward the end. Jeremy Irons is back as the quintessential hyperliterate dirty old man. He was made for this! But he really chews the ending scenes in Kingsleyesque thespian fits, and Dolores’ reactions really seem indistinguishable - at times - from the sincere bewilderment of the underlying actress.

Good film.

farlig

Overrated! Original was better!

Has it been eight years already? Dominique has grown up before our eyes. Jeremy Irons could not have been much better as the conflicted Humbert.

Excellent treatment of the controversial book, one wonders why Mr Irons still hasn't bagged his Oscar, oh wait.......

very well acted by the two leads

Jeremy Irons is, in my humble opinion, only actor who could pull this role this good. He is briliant.

You are never going to believe this, but this version is better than Kubrick's -- albeit not by much. In the first half hour, when Lyne introduces us to Humbert and him to SIN, everything is fine. Then the movie seems to just run out of things to say, which is WEIRD for a picture based on a novel... so Lyne decides to just keep throwing one more gorgeous period set at us, one more set of great costumes, one more period song. That's how an art film ended up costing $58 million *laugh*

great rendition of a classic book. questions societies norms about age and romance, that's exactly what i love about it. also lolita's character has been extensively modified for a different age.

ramake

Good directing and acting made a good movie the just missed the mark. The story can't really translate from paper to film, as the book is meant to be biased and subjective, but movies can't help but be objective.

I didn't see the Kubrick version. But I really like this one. Dominique Swain fits perfectly.

So silly it's funny.

Not as good as the 1962 version, and even that was one of Kubrick's lesser films. Perhaps Jeremy Irons was a slightly better Humbert Humbert than James Mason, but the element that made the earlier version stand out was Peter Sellers - to whom nobody can compare. A fairly entertaining watch, but life is short.

Nothing will compare to the book, however this version is better than Kubrick's because it allows for more open interpretations (as to whether or not the narrator is a pedophile, whether Lolita is a "nymphet," etc). Kubrick's is a bit too facetious, although Nabokov did help in the production of Kubrick's version.

Delightfully sensitive...nonconventionally...Kubrick's was better, but classics usually feel better to me too.

Un-fucking-comfortable.

I hated the book, so yeah.

They ruined the story with this movie. It's outrageous. But it grabbed my attention.

Slightly disturbing movie. Directing was great and so was the acting. Love the music they used

the only thing keeping me from completely hating this movie was how much i hated the book