Cast Away

Pros: the cast
Cons: the ending

After being stuck here in Arkansas by the wonderful ice storm that was dropped on us, Brandon and I went to the movies last night to see CAST AWAY. I had been looking forward to seeing this movie for quite sometime and this movie was not at all...

Pros: Tom Hanks. Some island bits. Lots of it is pretty.
Cons: Screenplay. That it thinks it's a movie.

A certain professor once told me that purposeful symbolism is at best insulting, and at worst just plain stupid, but it’s ineffectual either way. I don’t think I ever really got the full force of his idea until I watched ‘Cast...

Pros: Tom Hanks is pretty good, good SFX, unconventional ending
Cons: You can have too much of Tom Hanks... nothing really exceptional about the film

Robinson Crusoe version 4,503… I saw this after reading somewhat mixed reviews, though the consensus seemed to be that it was good. With the basic plot being a man (Chuck, played by Tom Hanks) stranded on a desert island and having to ...

Pros: Tom Hanks' plane crashes.
Cons: Tom Hanks survives.

I simply don't understand you people. Weren't you ever dragged to church by your parents? Made to sit through an awards ceremony at your school? Forced to watch your father emcee a fundraiser? Obliged to endure your little sister's piano recital?...

Pros: Hanks, Hunt, thinking movie
Cons: long, a few boring parts

I wasn’t too sure about watching this movie because I had heard that it was pretty boring, but I took the chance anyway and rented it from Netflix. Sitting down with a friend one night, I was pleasantly surprised with this movie. Yes, there were...

Pros: Some good effects. Nice scenery.
Cons: Even the main character gets little development. Jumpy, uneven direction.

Is there significance in the title being 2 words? Chuck Nolan (Tom Hanks) is a 'castaway' just like Gilligan was. But he has also been forced to cast away his life styles and most of the things he thought were important to him. By the time the...

Pros: The special effects are great! Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt are superb!
Cons: Not a Thing.

It is rare indeed when a movie comes out on the big screen that I am tempted to leave the house to go and see it. With some 240 channels on digital cable, I really don't see the need to watch a movie until it is available on one of the many premium movie...

Pros: Acting just doesn't get much better.
Cons: None

It is rare to see acting of this caliber. Tom Hanks has become such a great actor over the ye ...

Pros: Good movie
Cons: Ending

Cast Away

On a desert island 1500 days, four years. What would you do? Chuck Noland, star of Cast Away (played by Tom Hanks) survived. What did he do when his plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean, washing him to shore onto a small deserted...

Pros: Hanks' terrific performance, Wilson, concept
Cons: some really grueling injury scenes on the island - and that awful tooth extraction...

My lost-on-an-island movie celebration continued this week when I re-watched Cast Away, the beautiful Rob ert Zemeckis / Alan Silvestri / Tom Hanks reunion film about a FedEx executive who "lives and dies by the ...

Pros: Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt
Cons: Too long without real substance

I am only going to reveal very minor details about Castaway. I tried to stay objective, but this film did not grab me.

PG-13
What I liked.

Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt were great in the beginning and the end of...

Pros: movie full of emotions ~ kept my attention ~ interesting
Cons: would have liked a different ending

I have been without a VCR for about a year now (yes, a crying shame I know). So yesterday I decided to break down and go out to get one. I asked my Mom for a recommendation for a good movie as I have been out of the loop so long with no VCR. She...

Pros: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, "Wilson"
Cons: Reminiscent of Forrest Gump

Cast Away is a tale of how life can change so unexpectedly. Tom Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a Federal Express manager responsible for bringing his company's concept of service to locations worldwide.He's been known to back his words with action,...

Pros: Great acting, neat story
Cons: A little long

Cast Away is like a huge commercial for FedEx. Hanks stars as a member of FedEx upper management who travels to various locations and helps kickstart the rears of the new stores who are lagging behind. While en route to a job, an explosion causes his...

Pros: Tom Hanks' amazing physical transformation.
Cons: Did we need another version of Robinson Crusoe?

I knew the producers of Celebrity Survivor were not to be trusted. I awoke this morning, ready to face the music and to film the sequence in which my tiki torch would be extinguished and I would be expelled from the little society we have created...