claradondes
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Stanley Kubrick's Lolita wasn't Lolita. Not even close.
NOTHING can ever truly be like the book, but this is a good film. Dominique Swain plays Lolita perfectly, portraying the adolescent girl between childish but kinky complexity that is Lolita. Jeremy Irons is great too, but he is not fully Humbert. He portrays him a bit more mildly. However, this book is almost impossible to adapt.
There will never be a Lolita like Nabokov. Still, great acting and a fine script. Thank you, Adrian.
NOTHING can ever truly be like the book, but this is a good film. Dominique Swain plays Lolita perfectly, portraying the adolescent girl between childish but kinky complexity that is Lolita. Jeremy Irons is great too, but he is not fully Humbert. He portrays him a bit more mildly. However, this book is almost impossible to adapt.
There will never be a Lolita like Nabokov. Still, great acting and a fine script. Thank you, Adrian.
I haven't read the comics.
When Peter comes home after defending himself from the bully, Ben says "you don't have the right to beat people up." Is he prohibiting Peter from protecting himself, against a guy who trives to beat HIM up?
This movie has several loose ends. Willem Dafoe is a great actor, but a lot of things about his role doesn't really make sense. The goblin doesn't really have a motive. For anything.
He seems like a poorly constructed Joker.
Maguire is a good nerdy Peter Parker, but not cocky enough to make the right Spiderman.
I've seen better, but i've seen worse as well.
When Peter comes home after defending himself from the bully, Ben says "you don't have the right to beat people up." Is he prohibiting Peter from protecting himself, against a guy who trives to beat HIM up?
This movie has several loose ends. Willem Dafoe is a great actor, but a lot of things about his role doesn't really make sense. The goblin doesn't really have a motive. For anything.
He seems like a poorly constructed Joker.
Maguire is a good nerdy Peter Parker, but not cocky enough to make the right Spiderman.
I've seen better, but i've seen worse as well.
I know you should not compare a book to a film. I also know this movie was created another time, one with more restrictions of what you can do in cinema today. However, there are no nuances in "Lolita" 1962, which removes the majority of the excitement.
1. You do not get empathy, for the main character. Unlike the book, he has no proper motives for his action, nor is he smart enough to be impressive.
2. Sue Lyon is too old to play Dolores. There are no nuances in the character, there is nothing unusual about her. And because she is too old, you don't feel a lot of sympathy for her either.
3. This may sound biased, since i have read the book, but Peter Sellers seems irrelevant. He shows up times that does not add up to the action and removes a lot of substance from the plot.
4. Back to the start, this is the wrong Way to tell a frame story. You care less about the main character, since you see only darkness, which shrouds all the nuances.
Avoid this, poor script, poor acting and poor storytelling. Read the book, a unique classic.
1. You do not get empathy, for the main character. Unlike the book, he has no proper motives for his action, nor is he smart enough to be impressive.
2. Sue Lyon is too old to play Dolores. There are no nuances in the character, there is nothing unusual about her. And because she is too old, you don't feel a lot of sympathy for her either.
3. This may sound biased, since i have read the book, but Peter Sellers seems irrelevant. He shows up times that does not add up to the action and removes a lot of substance from the plot.
4. Back to the start, this is the wrong Way to tell a frame story. You care less about the main character, since you see only darkness, which shrouds all the nuances.
Avoid this, poor script, poor acting and poor storytelling. Read the book, a unique classic.