Cast Away (2000)

Posted : 1 year, 11 months ago at Nov 15 16:29

Panned by a lot of people, but I love it. Mainly because it has Tom Hanks in it and he can never put a foot wrong. Despite the gratuitous display of FedEx loving at the beginning of the film, the middle and ending sequences are really entertaining to watch. You really feel sorry for Chuck and it makes you think how you would cope in a similar situation. It shows man adapting to life and reinstigating his primal urges to survive. Seeing Tom Hanks struggle to produce the simplest things that we all take for granted, and then his raw emotion when he succeeds is something I remember about this film. The ending feels so empty and incomplete, but it's a great ending. The look on his face when he flicks the fire lighter and knowing the immense struggle he has gone through to stay alive, only t...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 2 years, 5 months ago at Jun 1 11:35

FedEx™ and Wilson™ presents.... Cast Away Man, i thought that AOL™ movie 'You've Got Mail'™ was the clear 'product placement in movies' champ, but Cast Away beat it by a mile! I think it could've been a real gem of a film, even a 9 or a 10 in my books, if the friggin' product placement was turned down a down a notch, or two, or OFF completely. It's just so in-your-face that it feels like it bitch slaps you all the way throughout. For starters, it feels like you're watching a FedEx™ employee pep-talk training video at the start, talking about how fast they ship, how important it is to be on time, and stories about how he tried so hard to get a package delivered, even when his truck broke down. And then you have the FedEx™ plan, the FedEx™ packages all floating in t...Read more

Rating : 6/10