Thursday, September 29, 2022
Cast Away
- Commentary: Yes, I have seen this movie. In fact, I've seen it more than once and at least one of those viewings was with my mother, who was as transfixed as was I. I've had a touchy relationship with this movie, though, because my youngest sister noticed, when she was visiting after our mother died, that I had a copy of this movie sitting next to the dvd player and disparaged me for this choice, "You're watching that movie? Why?!?" Normally, I'm not intimidated by anyone questioning my life, my choices, or my life choices, but, you know, when the disparager is a sibling, well, sometimes the surprise and disappointment stab deep and personal, beyond a sibling's opinion of one of your specific choices. Thus, I put off obtaining this movie for a long, long time.
I don't know, though, I guess the intimidation just finally wore away. I can't tell you what recently reminded me of this film, but it's been on my mind for maybe about a week. Today, I finally searched it out, found a spectacularly cheap price on it, checked internally for still existing nubs of intimidation, found none, and decided, this is it. It's time.
It will arrive in a couple of days. That's when I'll rewatch it and finish writing it up, so, until then, this post is still under construction.
Oh. And BTW. Along with Roger Ebert's review of this movie, which is linked to the title of this post, his site contains a thoughtful, provocative meditation by another site reviewer, Omer M. Mozaffar. Without giving away any of the surprises in his reaction, I'm telling you, if you enjoy this movie, you should read his article.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Tom Hanks Chuck Noland Helen Hunt Kelly Frears Lovett Nick Searcy Stan Chris Noth Jerry Lovett Lari White Bettina Peterson Vince Martin Pilot Albert Miller Frederick W. Smith Self/Founder of FedEx Nan Martin Kelly's Mother
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 2000
Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Labels: dramaF, philosophical, psychological2, survival, tom-hanks
The Terminal
- Commentary: Yes, I've seen this movie, more than once, although likely not more than twice. I was suitably impressed by it, so much so that I wrote about it, briefly and recently, in my write-up for Jaws, another Spielberg movie.
Ever since I mentioned it in the above linked post I haven't been able to get it out of my head, so I looked it up and found a copy of it at a sweet, ridiculously low price and decided to order it. It will be arriving in a couple of days, so I'll wait until then, after I watch it yet again, to give it its due, here, but, I wanted to, at least, get it posted and linked to the left in the Alpha Index for this site.
So, yes, under construction, more later.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Tom Hanks Viktor Navorski Catherine Zeta-Jones Amelia Warren Stanley Tucci Frank Dixon Chi McBride Joe Mulroy Diego Luna Enrique Cruz Barry Shabaka Henley Judge Thurman Kumar Pallana Gupta Rajan Zoë Saldaña Dolores Torres Eddie Jones Richard Salchak Jude Ciccolella Karl Iverson Michael Nouri Max Benny Golson Self
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 2004
Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Labels: dramedy3, steven-spielberg, tom-hanks
