I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

From my favorite movies..

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

First, I should note that I've never read John Irving's novel on which "The Hotel New Hampshire" is based. I didn't think that it was a bad movie. Certainly the sort of movie that today's franchise-crazy studios would be reluctant to finance. I understand that John Irving liked Tony Richardson's movie, and his only criticism thereof was that it tried to be too faithful to the book, often making parts of it go by too quickly. Now I'm eager to read the book (of Irving's books, I've only read "The World According to Garp").It's not any sort of great movie, but I thought that it was worth seeing. The cast includes Beau Bridges, Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Wallace Shawn - whom my parents met around the time that "My Dinner with Andre" got released - Seth Green and Amanda Plummer (put another way, it stars the Dude's brother, Clarice Starling, young #2, Nosferatu's daughter, Vizzini, Dr. Evil's son and Honeybunch).

This is one of the movies I like a lot. Ever since I saw it in the cinema in the 80's I have returned to it over and over again. It still holds up today. The actors are great and the film handles topics that most movies today would not dare to. It's a world were some things are hard and some things are magic and everything in between that we are a part of for a while. Wes Anderson with "Royal Tenenbaums" and "Grand Budapest Hotel" owes a lot to this movie. Today this movie couldn't be made, at least not by main stream studios. The free flowing topics in the movie are just to taboo to handle for today's audiences and studios. That's a part of the allure of this movie, it goes everywhere and it's just for the audience to hold on and enjoy the ride.

Though not as richly realized as THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, this is still a very successful film version of John Irving's novel. Director Tony Richardson weaves a series of oddities together with this comic tragedy. Beau Bridges and family run a hotel in New Hampshire and have myriad experiences. Some are funny, some are tragic and some are just plain outrageous. There's a plane crash, a rape, a dancing bear and a farting dog named Sorrow. Jodie Foster & Rob Lowe play two uncomfortably close siblings. They both give very good performances. Paul McCrane & Seth Green play two other siblings and a very young Jennifer Dundas is perfect as the melancholy Lilly. Wilford Brimley, Wallace Shawn, Matthew Modine and a very funny Anita Morris are in it too. A oddly cast Nastassja Kinski plays Susie the Bear.

I am a big movie fan and I'm certainly not one to ever tell anyone what to watch and to not try to enjoy a movie each his own we all have our own tastes and opinions but I have to say for a film with so much talent involved I hated this film in fact it probably ranks as one of the worse if not the worse film I ve ever seen!!!In fact just like another reviewer wrote I specifically decided to review this film because of how terrible it was and bad taste this film left in my mouth, but again this is just my opinion watch it and make up your own mind This whole film though I realize it was trying to be quirky didn't make any sense at all.