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Lolita (1997)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 3/09

3/09: Whoever thinks the 1997 version of Lolita is a great film must be deluding himself.

Stanely Kubrick's version is about implicitness while it's explicitness for Adrian Lyne. It's wiser to go with the former, and the remake isn't necessary which is an endless cycle of nothings.

Lolita, played by Dominique Swain, reminds me of the red-haired boy from Problem Child. Even worse, she was 18 playing a fourteen-year-old girl and was thus too old to be believable. And judging her character, Lolita seems mentally retarded.

Jeremy Irons is disappointing. All he can do is stand there and stare at people all day. His bleached hair looks stupid. His infatuation with the girl is unconvincing because it's obvious that he didn't have sex with her. The best part of this movie is...no Peter Sellers! But is it so necessary to show Frank Langella's penis?

All in all, one Lolita is enough.

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