Cast Away

[DemoChristian]

It was a solar-powered satellite phone. In other words, he could have just made a phone call and been rescued within days.

The director decided against revealing it because he said the audience would have hated him for it.

I find that to be unrealistic and lame.
Of course, the idea that he wouldn't do whatever he could — including going through anything he could find — to get home is unrealistic as well.
Still, I enjoyed the film.

 

[Bubbler]

You don't want to rewatch volleyball porn?

Looks like Dooley's a little volley-curious himself.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Big Hanks fan. The guy is a hell of an actor.

Minorthread jack: I watched Charlie Wilson's War over the weekend. I had been sitting on it for about two weeks (from Netflix). I was lukewamr about watching it.
I really enjoyed it, mainly on the strength of Hanks and PS Hoffman. Very enjoyable movie.

Really, it was Hanks final great performance.

Road to Perdition was far better movie than Cast Away.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

It was a solar-powered satellite phone. In other words, he could have just made a phone call and been rescued within days.

The director decided against revealing it because he said the audience would have hated him for it.

Bull****!
There is no freaking way. You have to be joking, right?

Wasn't the package sent from Russia or someplace by a guy who was cheating on his wife?


Edit: The director is right. I would have hated him for it.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Big Hanks fan. The guy is a hell of an actor.

Minorthread jack: I watched Charlie Wilson's War over the weekend. I had been sitting on it for about two weeks (from Netflix). I was lukewamr about watching it.
I really enjoyed it, mainly on the strength of Hanks and PS Hoffman. Very enjoyable movie.

Really, it was Hanks final great performance.

Road to Perdition was far better movie than Cast Away.

No way.
RtP was good, but not like Cast Away.
Hanks is just good. I know people will disagree, but I always thought he got everything he deserved from Forest Gump. It was a great movie, deserving of its awards.

 

[bigpern23]

It was a solar-powered satellite phone. In other words, he could have just made a phone call and been rescued within days.

The director decided against revealing it because he said the audience would have hated him for it.

Bull****!
There is no freaking way. You have to be joking, right?

Wasn't the package sent from Russia or someplace by a guy who was cheating on his wife?


Edit: The director is right. I would have hated him for it.

Not joking at all ... Zemeckis could have been toying with the interviewer, I suppose, but it's what he said.

I do think it's quite funny, but yes, the audience would have gone ape****.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

That's unbelievable. Un-****-believable!

I'm glad they didn't do it.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

My only issue with Forrest Gump is that it was a warm and fuzzy film that kept Oscars from a more deserving film like Pulp Fiction.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Big Hanks fan. The guy is a hell of an actor.

Minorthread jack: I watched Charlie Wilson's War over the weekend. I had been sitting on it for about two weeks (from Netflix). I was lukewamr about watching it.
I really enjoyed it, mainly on the strength of Hanks and PS Hoffman. Very enjoyable movie.

Really, it was Hanks final great performance.

What, do you have some inside info that he's dying or something?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Charlie Wilson's War was very good. Hoffman was tremendous as usual, and Hanks was very good.

If Julia Roberts never works again, I would be very happy.

 

[Starman]

I went on this rant last night, and I'll say it here again.

FedEx, your employer, calls you at the 11th hour on Christmas Eve to go on some cross-Pacific flight. You go, plane crashes, you wash on up on a ****ing island for four years, bury a pilot, knock out a tooth, learn to spear fish, make rope out of saplings and a sturdy big toe, make fire, befriend a ****ing volleyball, carve a calendar in a rock, find half a port-a-pody, build a raft, get past the breakers, lose your port-a-pody, lose your volleyball, give up hope, get rescued and find out that the love of your life went on to marry another man.

After ALL of that, the company that started you on this ****ed up journey that landed you in the middle of the ocean springs for a ****ing PLATTER OF SEAFOOD.

A better ending would've been Hanks telling FedEx to go **** itself at first sight of the crabs legs, kidnap his ex-wife and end with the two of them reinacting the Kama Sutra on the top of the Cherokee.

But that's just me.

Yeah, I remember thinking when I first saw the movie that FedEx even dicked Hanks over on the flight back to the U.S. -- no ice in the soft drinks or something -- and the first thing he would have done upon landing would be to lawyer up to the end of the world.

I wouldn't rate it as an all-time great movie, but it was interesting and enjoyable.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

All the more amazing, because I feel pretty damn confident that FedEx paid a pretty penny for what was essentially movie-long product placement.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

All the more amazing, because I feel pretty damn confident that FedEx paid a pretty penny for what was essentially movie-long product placement.

I read somewhere it was over $25 million. Wilson paid something insane as well...

 

[dixiehack]

Wait a minute, let me get this straight ...



















We have an NFL team now
























And it's in NASHVILLE?

(That may have been a throwaway line for people who grew up in the other 49 states, but I laughed out loud in the theatre.)

 

[kingcreole]

Like my brother-in-law once said, only Tom Hanks could make a volleyball a sympathetic movie character.

Love this movie.

 

[The Granny]

Overrated, clap, clap, clap, clap, overrated.

 

[joe]

Dude who writes ESPN's Big 12 blog had Tom Cruise as the lead actor in "Cast Away." I e-mailed him and pointed out that it was, you know, Tom HANKS, in that move (and asked if the WWL had any editors at all). It was changed the next time I looked.

Anyway, I feel about "Cast Away" like I feel about "Saving Private Ryan": meh.

 

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I can't believe no one mentioned the inside Wilson story....Hanks' wife is Rita Wilson.

 

[Bubbler]

I can't believe no one mentioned the inside Wilson story....Hanks' wife is Rita Wilson.

Well then ... he definitely ****ed the volleyball.

 

[doubledown68]

I can't believe no one mentioned the inside Wilson story....Hanks' wife is Rita Wilson.

Well then ... he definitely ****ed the volleyball.

So you're saying he was only interested in the ball because of its air bladder?