Castaway.....
Utter Rubbish.
As well pointed out here by Chuck Dixon.
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CAST AWAY
Starting to get the drift for why I don't try my hand at screenplays? I admit that I'm out of step with popular taste and darn proud of it. For example: this bigtime blockbuster that pulled in a half a billion in gross profits.
The always-appealing Tom Hanks leaves the always-adorable and feisty Helen Hunt behind to deliver packages all over the world for Fed-Ex. His plane crashes and he spends four years on a deserted island with only a volleyball for company.
Robinson Crusoe this guy ain't. In four years he manages to re-discover fire and live in a cave. The most primitive Fiji Islanders would laugh at this guy's place on the technological ladder. And his only salvation (besides being Tom Hanks who's the only possible reason this bankrupt piece of entertainment broke even.) is that he loses his mind. He and the volleyball conspire to build a raft that would have had the Skipper kicking Gilligan's ass. Hanks sets set sail and miraculously crosses the shipping lanes and is seen.
Then, after four years away he returns some kind of shattered wreck and doesn't make even half an effort to win back Helen Hunt's affections.
This is one of the few movies where you see a guy de-constructed through adversity. He starts out as a moral guy. He won't open those sacred Fed-EX boxes for the longest time (one of the few genuine suspense elements in the film) even though their contents might save his life. You gotta respect that. But over time solitude takes its toll and suddenly he's one banana shy of a bunch and begins relating to sporting goods. This is a hero?
Just an enormous waste of time for us and the rigors of dieting for Mr Hanks.
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That just about sums it up. :asshole: