The Hotel New Hampshire
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Movie Reviews of The Hotel New Hampshire
Movie Review: State of grace, State of Maine, State of mind
Summary: 4 Stars
I wanted to comment a bit further on slickinafix's remarks that you don't have to read the book to understand the movie. The book takes you down several different paths that the movie doesn't go-but watching the movie gives you more feelings for the characters, their passions and discoveries than the book can. Especially in the case of Win, the father and his father, Iowa Bob, the original owner of the family bear, State of Maine-there are things done in the movie that can't really be visualised in the book. Also, the Hotel Manager is more visually interesting. The Hotel New Hampshire is the only John Irving book or movie that I have read or seen, alhtough I am very much looking forward to The Cider House Rules.
The book left me with a slight feeling of despair-though I saw the movie twenty years ago, it gave me more of a feeling of hope for the Berry's, in a somewhat Scarlett O'Hara, "I'll think about that tomorrow" fashion.
Movie Review: Love the movie, but is a fullscreen disc
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a terrific movie with a unique story and good performances.
I like this sort of offbeat movie.
Jodie Foster is excellent as usual.
This disc is actually fullscreen format.
On a full screen tv, there will be bars on the top and bottom of the picture.
On a widescreen tv, there will be bars on all four sides, if you set the
Picture Size to 4:3 to view the movie with the proper aspect ratio.
Depending on the player and the tv's capabilities, you may be able to
choose a Picture Size that will at least eliminate the bars on the sides of
the picture - while preserving the proper aspect ratio. My widescreen tv
will only do this, via picture size 'Zoom1', if the tv input is not HDMI/1080,
so I must lower the picture quality to eliminate the bars by using component video
input.
Movie Review: What does it mean?
Summary: 4 Stars
A previous review lamented the fact that a lot was left unexplained in the film (why did they end up in Vienna??), I read the book before seeing the film and perhaps because I knew the background detail I was able to subliminally enjoy it more. I now realise that the questions the reviewer asks did not even occur to me, as I already knew the answers. Perhaps if I hadn't read the book beforehand my rating would be a 2 instead of a 4.I did however and found it thought provoking and disturbing just as I did the book!
Movie Review: Not your typical movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I first wanted to see this movie because I am a fan of Jodie Foster. I rented it and found it a little muddled. I liked it, I was just confused as to what was going on in certain parts. After watching the movie, I decided to read the book (which is very, very good!!!), and I rented the movie again after a while and found it much more enjoyable. My advice is to read the book before you see the movie!!! It's an oddly entertaining film... but you might get lost without the help of John Irving's novel.Movie Review: Good!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good movie, but as is many times true, the book is better than the film. The acting is very good, but we miss some of Irving when the movie takes short cuts.