Cast Away

[BigSleeper]

I know it's on all the time on TNT, but I watched it today for the first time in a while. Damn fine movie.

 

[User 1019]

Re: Castaway

I watched most of it, too. Wonderful movie. I'd like to go to the crossroads near Canadian, Texas, where the final shots were filmed.

 

[DemoChristian]

Re: Castaway

Hanks should have won best actor for this. He's on screen alone for what, two hours?
He actually made you feel sorry for a volleyball at one point.

 

[TwoGloves]

Re: Castaway

The scene where he rams the skate into his tooth is painful to watch. In fact, I've never watched it since the first time I saw it. I watched it last night and again today. Good stuff indeed.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Re: Castaway

I watched most of it, too. Wonderful movie. I'd like to go to the crossroads near Canadian, Texas, where the final shots were filmed.

Instead of the crossroads where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil?

 

[BigSleeper]

Re: Castaway

Some may think it's sentimental crap, but I was always a sucker for the monologue near the end. Of course, I'm a sucker for the scene when Rudy opens up the envelope and finds out he's getting into Notre Dame.

Anyway ...

We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

 

[TwoGloves]

Re: Castaway

Not to nitpick, but it's Cast Away.

 

[Bubbler]

Re: Castaway

I always wondered whether he ever ****ed the volleyball.

I mean, you're all alone, wouldn't you get volley-curious? Even if its to just finish on Wilson's grill?

I bet he did.

 

[mike311gd]

I didn't see a hole in Wilson.

 

[OnTheRiver]

So... say the end of the movie was 3 minutes later. You think he went back for lil' Miss Artist?

 

[JakeandElwood]

I liked it. It's a rare actor who can make a movie where it's just him and a volleyball for most of it work.

 

[Bubbler]

I didn't see a hole in Wilson.

I'm not saying it was full-on penetration, how could it be? I'm just saying that he used Wilson to pleasure himself. Who knows? Maybe you can deflate a volleyball in a certain way to get your rocks off. Air rushing out of the blowhole, weird contours and shapes, the texture, all alone on a desert island, I wouldn't rule out doing the nasty with a volleyball for anyone, not even Tom Hanks. I wasn't there, I don't know.

I also know that probably clinically qualifies as masturbation, and that would usually be right. But since Wilson became an entity and a personality all its own to Tom Hanks, he probably thought he was ****ing Wilson. So its like who's reality is really reality, here?

We'll never know, but oh yeah, I think he ****ed the hell out that volleyball all right.

 

[mike311gd]

I didn't see a hole in Wilson.

I'm not saying it was full-on penetration, how could it be? I'm just saying that he used Wilson to pleasure himself. Who knows? Maybe you can deflate a volleyball in a certain way to get your rocks off. Air rushing out of the blowhole, weird contours and shapes, the texture, all alone on a desert island, I wouldn't rule out doing the nasty with a volleyball for anyone, not even Tom Hanks. I wasn't there, I don't know.

I also know that probably clinically qualifies as masturbation, and that would usually be right. But since Wilson became an entity and a personality all its own to Tom Hanks, he probably thought he was ****ing Wilson. So its like who's reality is really reality, here?

We'll never know, but oh yeah, I think he ****ed the hell out that volleyball all right.

The volleyball couldn't have offered consent, could it? If that's the case, shouldn't this movie be viewed quite differently? I mean, he's no longer a FedEx hero, a poster boy for the dedicated mail carrier, who will stop at nothing to make sure his customers are happy. No. Now he's a sick, twisted, sporting-equipment rapist. Maybe we were all better off with him on the island.

Of course, maybe Wilson's a tramp. Who knows?

 

[Bubbler]

Maybe you're misinterpreting Wilson's willingness and right, to show its sexual side. Just because Wilson doesn't wear clothes doesn't mean it was asking for it.

I'm sort of down with your first point. Perhaps Tom Hanks is a serial volleyball rapist.

Then again, if Tom Hanks was crazy from malnutrition and loneliness, maybe he thought Wilson was asking, lo, demanding it from him? Perhaps in his heat-fried mind, he thought acquiesing to Wilson's slutty whims was akin to rape, but a rape he could not, or would not, resist. A sort of dom-sub volleyball-lording-over-man type of thing? If that's the case, than perhaps Wilson is the evil here.

Nah, we're overthinking it. I think Hanks just wanted to do the nasty with a volleyball.

 

[mike311gd]

Well, Wilson was cute.

 

[DemoChristian]

Wilson was definitely asking for it. You see that pout? The way he flashed his airhole? He never wore anything in the film.

 

[Bubbler]

Wilson was a ****, but you know who might be hittable? Steve McQueen's baseball in The Great Escape.

 

[mike311gd]

I love this place.

 

[JakeandElwood]

I love this place.

I sure didn't expect this when I clicked the Cast Away thread.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

I thought that movie was wayyyyyyyy too long and way overrated. Hanks was superb. But the actual movie was just ok.