The Hotel New Hampshire
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Movie Reviews of The Hotel New Hampshire
Movie Review: Throw It Out the Open Windows
Summary: 1 Stars
This is truly a terrible film, and not in a great campy-terrible, "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" terrible, but just poorly written, sloppily directed and edited, and un- or under-motivated.
One of the main problems was a genuine inconsistency in tone, where the director apparently couldn't decide if he was making a Keystone Kops farce or a bittersweet comedy. I knew I was in for a bad trip when, for no apparent reason, he sped up the film when Rob Lowe was making a football play, making the action fast-motion for no apparent reason -- a tactic he did a number of other times in the film, again for no apparent reason.
The story lurches from event to event without any character really developing his or her personality, so ultimately, you don't really care about what happens to them. Worse, anything that does happen to them is breezed by fairly superficially, as in the example of the deaths of two important characters in the film. What seems whimsical in Irving seems absurd and incredible here. Oh, and there is no chemistry whatsoever between Foster and Lowe.
Movie Review: You'll want to check out of this "Hotel..."
Summary: 1 Stars
The adaptation of John Irving's fifth novel, and the one I've read the most times over the years, "The Hotel New Hampshire" suffers from a great many things, most notably being the appalling lack of any common sense or good judgment in the casting of Nastassia (sp?) Kinski as Susie the Bear. The character of Susie is supposed to have such low self-esteem and is described in the book as a plain-looking average woman who thinks herself so ugly that she hides herself in a bear costume.When she finally takes off the bear head in the movie and is revealed to be a gorgeous woman with supermodel looks, it's hard for us, the audience, to have any sympathy for her inferiority complex. Combine this glaring oversight with the more traditional scriptwriting dilemna of how to boil down such a multi-layered, complex, rich narrative into a two hour time frame that the average moviegoer will tolerate and you arrive at a script that simplifies and drains all the larger than life splendour of the magnificent novel. This is the Roach Motel of film adaptations of great works of Literature.
Movie Review: Garp Lite
Summary: 1 Stars
I loved the book and the film of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP when they first came out. Then I read THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE. I thought it was horrible. When they made a movie, I went to the theatre in the off-chance that they managed to make a good movie from a lame book (it's possible).
No. THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSIRE is also pretty horrible.
The characters are quirky for the sake of quirky. I never believed them. They work so hard to be cute and unconventional that they're completely smug and obnoxious, draining all sympathy for them. Stylistically, it's just confusing. When Rob Lowe zips over to bed his foul-mouthed sister Jodie Foster, I had to wonder what the filmmakers were shooting for. Slapstick incest?
I didn't read John Irving for years because, after this, I thought he'd shot his wad with GARP and was just writing the same story over and over.
Movie Review: JUST A REALLY BAD MOVIE
Summary: 1 Stars
I would have given this movie a 0 star rating, if the rating system went that low. This is one of the worst movies I have ever watched, up there with Millers Crossing, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost In Translation, and lets not forget the Thin Red Line.
This is a group of movies that you couldn't give me for free.