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Lolita (1997)
I hate it and I love it
This movie is the hardest one I ever watched I think. Maybe because I could relate so much. Deprivation, desperation, unconditional yet forbidden love. A young girl forced into speed-learning about adulthood, to understand feelings of love, guilt. This movie just blows me away and at the end of the movie I am this man, carrying all this guilt, grief, broken heart. I did not expect to feel so much when I started to watch this movie, not at all. But now I see so clearly what Vladimir Nabokov was trying to tell us. The book was a master piece and so was this movie. Jeremy Irons in the best role he ever made, Dominique Swain is brilliant and Frank Langella, of Frank, you are my nemesis in so many movies, always playing the person I dislike the most, you are so brilliant! THe feeling this movie left me with will stay within me for a long time. The impression is unbelievable to say the least. If you have not seen this movie, do it! BUT, make sure that it might change you forever!
Equus (1977)
Bizarre and beautiful
I haven't been able to make up my mind yet, is the movie more bizarre or more beautiful? Richard Burton make one of his best roles, for sure. Peter Firth is great and my favorite English actress Jenny Agutter is brilliant and beautiful. The scene above the stables, the naked truth, the naked encounter between two young people, is beautiful. Richard Burtons charachter is torned between conventional psychology and this new, unexpected understanding of the young man obsessed with horses, the Equus. It's heartbreaking and beautiful. It's also bizarre and sad. This is a movie that I feel like I have to watch one more time to fully understand. A very different movie, absolutely worth watching. And again, Jenny Agutter is so beautiful in this movie, god I love her!
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Frustrating movie about revenge
Meaningless violence and frustrating revenge. William Devane turns the other cheek to the wrong villains wich inflicts more pain on him as his son is murdered for no reason other then principles. William Devane is good and Linda Haynes is great. Tommy Lee Jones plays the friend who unconditionaly stands up at the dinner table and says goodbye to his family, risking his own life to help a friend. I do like Jones charachter but again, frustrating. They are both war heroes and they have no real plan to execute the revenge in a smart way. The movie was okay but gave me too much frustration, however Linda Haynes is the reason this movie gets one more star then it deserves, period.
Breezy (1973)
William holden in his maybe best role
Maybe I will get hate for saying that this is William Holdens best role. In my defense - I never really liked many of his movies. I was so surprised by this movie, I started to watch it with very low expectations. This movie is brilliant and also Kay Lenz did her best role ever in this movie. It's so naked, so genuine and close to the heart. I could identify with both Frank and I could understand Breezy. Breezy turned out to be so much more genuine then I thought she would be, she was really a good person, and indeed, at the end Frank turned out to have a heart also. I have to say, I really loved this movie and I hold it in very high regard. One of my absolute favorite movies in it's genre from the 70's. SEE IT!
Body Double (1984)
Melanie Griffith in her most erotic role
This is a smart movie, it plays with your mind a bit, or not only a bit, it had me fooled a couple of times. Craig Wasson is great, so is Melanie Griffith. Brian De Palma delivers with a touch of Alfred Hitchcock. I have a memory of seeing this movie when I was a kid, it has that 80's feeling all over it, and I love it. The plot is a bit strange to say the least, it leaves some unanswered questions. I love the scene on the beach, before the tunnel-scene, intense arousing scene with beautiful Deborah Shelton and Craig Wasson - unforgettable scene. A frustrating takeaway from this movie is the dog that was supposed to be there to protect the owner but instead gives the killer enough time to kill his vitim.
Act of Vengeance (1974)
Revenge with a very high price
The ide of the movie is noble and important indeed. A serial rapist is on the loose and his victims team up to stop him and other rapists-to-be. Unfortunatly I think that the movie gives a weird angle to the whole problem and the women in the movie are not very smart in their approach. They form a vigilante group but they don't calculate the dangers in a good way and they once again become victims. The serial rapist "Jingle bells" graduate to become a killer and the women trying to find him are one step behind. I liked the movie as such, it's worth watching for sure. Also, the 70's feeling is strong in this movie, gotta love the furniture and culture of the 70's.