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Anyone who defends Kubrick is an idiot.
Alright -- first off, Stanley Kubrick (who is best known for *stealing* great literary works and making them "his own" -- like A Clockwork Orange or Lolita, for example) is *not* a filmmaking god. He is medicore, at best. His adaptation of Lolita was terrible -- and all of you who defend him probably never *read* the dang novel, and have no sense of what it lacked. Lyne's is good, not as good as it could be, but better than the black and white trash that Kubrick made. He just did not do it. Lyne had more of a sense of Nabokov's orginal vision -- although it still falls short. So, to sum up: shut up about Kubrick. His just plain sucked, and does injustice to one of the greatest literary works of our time.

Very Close to the Novel
I've just finished another reading of Nabokov's LOLITA and then watched the films. I'd read the book in college (20 years ago) and I'd seen Kubrick's film several times but I hadn't seen Adrian Lyne's film version. <
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>How did the book read now that I'm older? A little creepier, especially since our society is rife with child abuse and child predators. The book is still a controversial classic, brilliantly designed and written. <
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>To really appreciate this film version, it would help to read the novel. The attention to detail is really something to see. <
>Jeremy Irons was a great choice to play Humbert and the script really humanizes his otherwise criminal desires. Dominique Swain at first looks like a gangly teenager but her sexuality seeps through the childish antics. <
>Melanie Griffith at first looks too young and sexy as Charlotte but her voice and manner quickly becomes grating. She still isn't the sad, pathetic character as Shelley Winters but she works very well. <
>Frank Langella has huge shoes to fill as Clare Quilty after Peter Sellers' daffy, perverse take on the role, but he does a great job of playing the evil doppelganger in his brief scenes. He isn't the chameleon-like tormentor of Kubrick's film but he is wonderfully menacing and shadowy, giving his shoes and fingers a sleazy presence in close-ups. <
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>Another big plus of this film: they filmed the great Chapter 35 closer to the novel's version, even including the bloody "pink bubble." <
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>This is a great adaption, but I'd recommend reading the novel before watching this film.