Actually, considering all he'd been eating for years was seafood, so suddenly stuffing him full of unfamiliar stuff (especially American fare, high in salt and fat) would have upset his digestive system. Great first night home spent entirely in the bathroom.
I'm not a psychiatrist and I've never been stranded on a desert island but I highly doubt that seafood on the buffet would trigger some sort of episode. He's just sick of eating seafood, not traumatized by it.
Oh, I wasn't saying that it would cause him to have a breakdown or something like that. I just meant there should have been at least one guy who was like, "Hey everyone, he's been eating this stuff for years now. Maybe he's bored of it and it would be nice to give him something different."
I would've sinned the fact that there was a buffet in the first place. His face after everyone leaves says it, basically, "oh look, I just spent 4 years on the verge of starvation, having to scrounge up every last mouthful and eating ANYTHING necessary to make it to the next day, and they all just leave this here to be thrown out. There's a month's worth of food here. Easily. Wasteful fothermuckers."
What's the thing with that last sin though? Because I know at least two other movies that are definetly longer than Cast Away, and are most definetly worse
To be fair, the opening segment sets Chuck's personality as an smart, obsesive and control-freak guy before getting him finally lose the control of the situation and life
I'm sinning his girlfriend for "You're the love of my life" yet he's back in 4 years and she's got a 3 year old by another dude. How long was that search and mourning? Wasn't she reluctant to commit? Wtf happened
Sin number 60 which was "Also wasn't making rope of the plants on the island? So are those completely gone?" The answer is YES! In fact in the previous scene which you sinned the movie for, "character does thing after saying he isn't going to do the thing cliché." That scene began with him saying, "I have gone around the entire island and this is last of it." Which is referring to the plant he was using to make the rope. One sin removed.
Yeah, it's been years since I watched this movie, but I clearly remember him sitting next to Wilson and dropping the plants saying that there is no more to make rope after checking the entire island.
one thing I actually liked about this move compared to other movies is the way it spent extended time on the intro showing u the characters, and the ending finalising the story, most movies spend 1 or 2 minutes on this in the before n after the main act. And leave much to be questioned or assumed, I like the way this movie did it
4:15 1. Take your salt water, put it in a pot. 2. Cover that pot with one of those big ass tropical island leaves, about a foot above the pot. 3. Boil your salt water. 4. Collect the fresh water running down the leaf from the condensing steam. 5. Extend middle finger in general direction of cinemasins.
Fun fact: FEDEX not only didn’t pay for ad placement they were initially against their inclusion in this movie, as it displays their plane RANDOMLY EXPLODING. They did eventually relent and gave their permission. Also, after the movies release, the number of applications for FEDEX more than doubled for several months
I think one of the details of this movie that I always find amusing was the fact that at the party they had a huge seafood buffet for a man who had survived on a remote island and ate nothing…but fish…for four years straight.
@11:37 An often overlooked scene that I loved. He sees everyone out then turns and stares at all the leftover food for a solid 30 seconds. You know that his mind is reeling with all the memories of almost starving to death and now he's staring at an entire table of food to be thrown away, deep stuff.
@@SupremeCommanderBaiser No kidding. Who the hell was in charge of making the catering arrangements? I would have like pizza or some junk. If I were stuck on an island out in the Pacific for 1500 days, the last I want is freakin' fish and crab. SOMEBODY GET ME A DAMN BURGER!
That scene where he has to knock out his own abscessed tooth is a great motivator. Every time I have to go to the dentist, I remind myself of that scene and how much worse it could be to not go.
That is excellent motivation! I personally love the dentist because I'm weird, but I often tell reluctant friends and family about the tooth I had to have removed, or all the skulls I've seen with dental abscesses so huge I could fit the top joint of my thumb into them. Yeah, that s**t eats into the bone. Then it gets int your blood or marrow and it's lights out. And there are many methods of sedation which are used by different health care providers in different situations, there's no need to fight. You've had different experiences because you had different needs and different providers.
Teeth are actually quite hard to remove. The dentist took 2 hours to remove one of my molars and even when it finally came out, the root had broken off and had to be cut out in the hospital and the wound stitched. 45 minutes of those 2 hours was without sedation because I had already recieved the maximum amount. Needless to say, I cried like a child even though I was 30 years old. Point being: brush your teeth :)
Wise words. Ive had an abscessed tooth and i was to arrogant to go to the dentist before it became a hospital problem. It was the 2nd most painful thing in my life, my face swole to twice its size on one side. I would puncture my gums with a knife because it hurt less than the tooth.
raydunakin THIS COMMENT. I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that I could not have done what he did with that ice skate. First of all, it wouldn’t work. Second of all, that it wouldn’t work means that I’d be in an ENORMOUSLY amount of more pain. What if the tooth just broke off at the surface? Now you’re in LIFE-ALTERING AGONY...and it’s still abscessed and now the nerves are exposed. I never felt that scene was believable.
The film isn’t about survival, it’s about how the world and people go on living even if you’re suddenly taken out of the picture and how they “cast you away”
1. If the wind is blowing toward the island (from the Castaway's perspective), surely, on the other side of the island, the wind is blowing away from it. So, once the raft is built, it is only a matter of rowing halfway round the island in the shallows to catch the seaward wind and head out to open water. No need to wait for the wind to change. 2. Why are there no birds on the island? It would seem to be a natural nesting site, given that there are no predators and abundant seafood. 3.Why doesn't he build a signal fire on the mountain? Wait for a fine day with clear air, build a fire-pit on the mountaintop, start a fire with clean driftwood, throw on some green or rotten wood, huge cloud of smoke and steam, visible for miles. Repeat as necessary.
#2 -- birds only fly out to the middle of the ocean to die. Think of how far from land it is to that island, birds are great, but one reason they can mirgrate so far over land is the availability of frequent rest stops. Over the ocean, there's nowhere to rest and so no birds managed to ever make it to the (what could possibly be a fairly young volcanic) island.
#3 it could be possible that the first time he made fire he burned all the best wood for signaling. Still, agreed. He likely wouldn’t need to burn on the mountain top, because if you build a fire big enough you could just use green branches to make a smoke signal visible for maybe hundreds of miles.
SonnyGTA maybe he did it too fast? Idk. I’m a wrestler and I also train mma, boxing, and jiu jitsu. And wrestling I cut weight the most in very little amount of time. Sometimes I actually DO feel like I’m dying
4:18 Actually you can take salt water and make it potable by boiling it, but you would need to capture the vapors that are boiling off and basically condense it back down by cooling it into another container (A type of distillation). You can also achieve this with two water bottles, or even a small cup in a bucket of salt water with a cellophane covering that has a rock in the middle (not that he has those supplies, but it's doable). Also, I believe they show he is not only getting water off leaves but winds up drinking a lot of coconut water/milk.
But just pure coconut water makes you shit your self from diarrhoea and you’ll die , ironically, from dehydration cause you’ll shit out all the water in your buddy
Boiling certainly works to make distilled water but actually you just need the salt water container to be at a higher temp than the condensate container, and connect the two (from the top) with a tube/hose/pipe. Like set it in the sun and have the condensate container in the shade. Vapor pressure does the rest. It will be slow so will need several containers operating.
Another cent for the fact that she marries his dentist… Who is named Spaulding… After four years of being on an island with the Volleyball named Wilson
@Quick I would've taken off one for that little scene where he just gazes at the food. 4 years of struggling to get the bare minimum, and now here it is, literally on a silver platter as if it was nothing to think about. Quite powerful.
Having seafood is actually appropriate in that scenario. There is a real life castaway story about a woman who survived at sea in a similar fashion, eating only creatures from the sea for a very long time. When she returned she gorged herself on any and everything that was not seafood and because her body had become so accustomed to it, the shock of having to digest the new diversity of food all at once eventually killed her just weeks after being rescued. Super sad. ~_~
But the thing with fedex is the concept of time. That the character’s life is constructed around the clock, he’s always mindful of time and striving for greater efficiency, and then time stops and his relationship with time is re-examined. His role with fed ex at the start emphasises the juxtaposition of his eventual situation
What's so unbelievable to me is that those Fed Ex packages washed up not only to the shore of the island but right up onto the shore of where Hanks was camped out, and it was a number of packages all washed up together in a group! Unless the plane crash happened literally no more than 50 to 100 meters out. But even if the crash did happen only 100 meters from the shore Hanks was on, and then after a completely demolished aircraft, complete with a detached engine that caught on fire, those packages managed to float away from that kind of a catastrophic mess, float in just the direction that would lead straight to the shore Hanks was on, and after all that still remain intact enough to where Hanks could open them up like you'd open a package delivered to your door at home, and the products inside the packages were still undamaged?? And just those packages from a huge crash show up and nothing else, no pieces of wreckage from the crash floating about, no debris, nothing else at all washing up onto the shore?? It may be me, but that seemed just so astronomically unlikely
7:04 The first time I watched this movie, I actually thought that's how it'd end; he'd get to the place, deliver it, and it would be like a sat-phone or survival knife/kit or flares or something like that!
"During a Q&A session at USC, Robert Zemeckis was asked what was in the unopened package. He replied that it was a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone." -imdb
Alaric, that doesn't really count if it's not in the film. So many things retconned or they say "oh, it was meant to be this", when there's no proof. Like how in The Room, the mother apparently was cured from cancer midway through. Or also regarding The Room, Wiseau apparently meant for it to be an intentionally terrible movie. Basically, that statement is useless and more of just a joke unless it's actually put in the film.
More than likely it would have been something Chuck would have to find a use for like the ice skates and VHS tapes. How rare are satellite phones, even today?
Actually, you can boil saltwater to make it drinkable. You just have to have a means by which to catch the evaporated water. The salt will get left behind.
A few palm fronds would be good enough to capture condensate. A couple coconut shells to catch the run off. Low efficiency, but you have unlimited salt water.
I tried to crack open a coconut from the supermarket once. It ended with me lying on the floor of my workroom, softly sobbing as I futily hit the coconut with a ballpeen hammer.
@@marccolten9801 ha ha ha sorry man but I had the same problem. Grandma want us to learn from scratch. But most store coconuts have the husk removed. She must have known people to set us up. First thing we went after was the milk. Then we slammed it into Grandpa's dump truck it worked. Of course we rapped it in a towel. It's not what she want. Supposedly there is an intelligent way of doing it. After seeing use eating our own coconuts she did not make an issue of it. An over the decades I've tried different ways of getting into it. If I'm in a hurry just hit it hard with the hammer on the side. Between the three eyes is the easy way.
I feel like there could have been a sin for the food that they brought him after he got back from the island it was all Seafood he had been eating seafood for years if it was me I would have been like get this man a burger and a beer and some wings 😁
@@a.m.studios6126 The movie was shot over a 2 year span. This was done for Tom Hanks to loose weight and grow a beard. The waves were not added in because they filmed it at different times.
I love when he sins really popular movies. I can't watch a movie now without having the mind set of Jeremy. Whenever there's a crash I think "and they survive this."
"They survive this", "This works", and "Roll credits" are my three favorites to say while watching a new movie. My wife hates it, but it's like an addiction at this point. Sounds like we need to form an CSA "CinemaSins Anonymous".
One of the most enjoyable, thought-provoking, self-reflective, impactful movies I have ever seen in my life. It was more of a pure experience than merely watching a flick. Don’t care how many flaws you find that violate the credentials of a picture-perfect Hollywood production, the movie set its own visceral, real true-to-life standard, that puts it into a genre all of its own. Hanks was nothing less than awesome in his transformation from a true-blue loyal high level company employee, ever-rising and with the highest standard of integrity and dedication in humankind, to a stripped to the core zen master of sorts, living in the moment and fearless of any challenge, not because of bravery, but willing to engage in whatever life offers, because there really is no other way.
I think they did it to see the surrealism that these guys had no idea what Tom went through, like he was on vacation or something because all they know about the topic come from Gilligan's Island reruns. lol
wcemichael yeah but they sinned that you cant boil sea water and make it drinkable you actually can if you use leafs to collect the steam from the boiled water into a separate object from the salt water
I always thought the scene where Kelly’s husband comes in was him being intimidated by Tom Hanks re-entering her life and what that might mean for their marriage. Because after he walks out Tom Hanks looks out the window and she’s clearly trying to come in and see him as her husband turns her around and puts her back in the car.
I mean Kelly and he could just be good friends and she can keep her husband. No need to completely cut him off... but her current husband is too controlling. Refuses to accept Kelly's free will. So she needs to dump him. No sense in staying married to a controlling man who disrespects free will. Then she can decide if she wants to remarry Chuck, be his friend, or let him go. Her choice. Her autonomy.
7:04 Imagine if the one package he didn't open was the one with the divorce papers in it! The poor person goes through years of a horrible, messy divorce exacerbated by him not getting the original notification in the mail and the law firm not believing him and taking advantage of it, then years later, just after his life has calmed down and the scars have healed a bit, this asshole comes and gives him the exact package that could have made his life then so much easier!
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't happen. Because they keep track of packages and they would know that these packages were loaded onto this plane that crashed. So I feel like everyone would know that their packages were lost due to the plane crash. And if not just a little digging by his lawyer with FedEx would turn up that the papers were on the plane.
I mean you could make it pretty circumstantial and have like the guy that was supposed to track the packages be sleeping or something but then your movie would end up on cinema sins lol.
10:53 She's clearly extremely emotionally vulnerable with the shock of Tom being back, and we literally see her husband talking her out of going in. He probably just took advantage of her shocked state to ensure that he was there, instead of her.
The near ending of the movie reminds me of Forrest Gump. The Tom Hanks 'Chuck' character is talking to Kelly Frears ( played by Helen Hunt ), when they are in her house talking about her daughter. In Forrest Gump, Forrest ( Tom Hanks ) talks to Jenny ( who looks like Helen Hunt in Cast Away, haircut and all ), and they are in her apartment talking about her son.
I like how Tom has 3 "storm at sea" movie connections. Cast Away, Forrest Gump, and Joe vs volcano. One's on a shrimp boat, one's on a raft after a shipwreck, and one's on a raft after a plane crash. Tom likes those ocean storms
The Super Bowl commercial the following Super Bowl was priceless: "So what's in that last package?" "Nothing big. Just a GPS unit, a fishing pole and some seeds" :P
I'm guessing that is not the way that she planned it, considering that she was right outside. My guess is that she planned to meet with him and decided at the last moment that she couldn't take doing it. It was a spurt of the moment decision.
Or her husband told her off from meeting him and lied to her, saying he will talk to him first and ask if she can see Chuck. And then afterwards, knowing that his wife still loves Chuck, he lies to him that she couldn't make it and then lies to her that he didn't want to see her. Let's just say that new husband is a sneak.
*ERROR*: At 8:40, there was a sin for "Is there no more plants on the island?". The previous sin in the movie had him say "I've searched the entire island, and this is the last one." or so, referring to the last plant used for rope.
Not every plant can be made into rope, but i couldnt imagine using all the soft firerous palm tree bark on the island and using up all his cassette tapes lol before tying stuff together with a large leaf.
I hear he’s in Australia making a sequel. Well, maybe. All I heard was something about two weeks in complete isolation, on an island in the middle of nowhere with another Wilson.
1. Also on the coast of an island in the South Pacific/Coral Sea. Gold Coast, Queensland. 2. Stayed at Oracle Apartments next to two Chinese cuisine restaurants, Sky Broadbeach and Aussie China Kitchen. 3. Side street next to Oracle, Charles Avenue, for Chuck Noland. 4. The filming a movie about the life of Elvis Presley. 13:37 "Chuck likes to play songs ..., his favorite artist, Elvis Presley." 5. Elvis sings hospital appropriate songs, Fever and Burning Love. "Hunka, hunka, of CoVid Love."
So that was what he passed up from opening. Oh well, they had to make a movie. But FedEx is a top line company on any of their transports they would not take the chances of lossing their packages. They keep track of every package right. So losing a plane is not in the cards unless it been insured for everything.
I watched this movie only a few days before going on vacation to Cancun 20 years ago. Tom Hanks made opening coconuts looks incredibly difficult, when I, while drunk EXPLODED multiple coconuts throwing them against rocks.
You can in fact boil salt water to make it drinkable, in fact the saran-wrap/shrink around the box will help that matter. What you do is dig a hole in the sand until you reach the point where the water starts pooling up. Then you widen the hole until the sun can easily shine directly into it and place some sort of cup in the center in a way that the salt water won't get in it. From there you cover the hole with a singpe layer of saran wrap and after securing it in place wit a bunch of rocks, place a small rock just above the cup. Alternatively if he has a pot, he can more or less do the same by placing the cup in the pot of water and covering it with an upside down lid so that when the steam becomes water again, it will drip down into the cup.
That doesn't work because the water boils. The water in the hole or pot is cool. The sun heats the air on the other side of the plastic and the water condensates on the plastic, but leaves the salt behind. It then drops into the cup or container. Robert Redford's character does this in "All is Lost".
well uck maybe if he opened it instead of living back in like 300 bc he'd be safe in know time but ou get bad luck when you open and no bad luck when you do not so also how the fuck did he still know how to drive a 1992 jeep cherokee and have liscence in the beginning it clearly said expires january 2002 and since the movie beginning took place in 2000 yea sorry butit means his liscene is now 2 years expired and hes like fuck it i never drovei n 4 eyars and i lived in 300 bc for 4 years imma drive a expired liscencer :/
I'm pretty sure someone asked Robert Zemeckis what was in the box, and his actual answer was something like "a satellite phone, a machete, and a lighter." Apparently in a deleted scene, the script says it was homemade salsa verde.
In the script and deleted scene, on the internet , it was 2 bottles of salsa Verde and a letter sent to from the wife to her husband about getting back together. When the truck 1st leaves the ranch you see both names above the entrance and at the end only her name. Zemeckis sat phone coment was said as a joke b4 the DVD release.
I can't believe you didn't mention when he buried that Fed Ex guy that washed ashore with his leather belt and tie! Not to mention not stripping him of the extra set of clothes.
The biggest sin for me is that he had grown all that badass hair and that badass beard and got all tan and fit and then four weeks after being rescued he's clean cut and shaved and all covered up and tanless.
MrChrisnrali hey jabroni, the guy was doing the full Keto Diet on that island 🌴 and was looking so good brah. no friggin way he was EVER gonna get skin cancer
Having spent considerable time on small deserted islands in the W. Pacific, there was an utter lack of large flocks of birds, swarms of flies and skeeters, crabs covering the beach, dead seaweed all over the beach, and vines choking everything (and the whole freshwater situation).
yes it was seriously lacking in insects; I was thinking if I was there I would eat all the bugs and not have to go spear fishing which is a lot harder than catching bugs...but I was thinking of ones I could find in the leaf litter and decomposing logs. :) Not skeeters/flies. I'd probably find a way to eat those though. Plus seaweed.
They should have made a post-credits scene where 2 months later, Chuck sees the headline "WOMAN IN HER 20s FINDS BLOOD-STAINED VOLLEYBALL IN CHILE." on a newspaper. Petition? Anyone?
The fact that you didn't take at least 5 sins off for the tooth-knocking scene is a sin, man. That is one of the most memorable movie moments ever put to film.
One bit that bugged me was that when he buried the guy he found, he didn't take his belt. I mean, it could have used for a lot more than just holding pants up.
In fact one thing I’ve always wondered is how did he not develop skin cancer after 4 years of constant exposure to tropical sunlight without sunscreen?
Surprised you never mentioned her casual greeting of Chuck. "I saw you coming up the drive" or something like that.After 4 years and thinking he was dead she reacted like he'd just been away for the weekend.
I got the impression she was in denial about her true feelings for him having to hide them because of the new situation she was in being married. I think that's how we were supposed to take it considering her complete change when she ran down the driveway.
In the DVD, there's a special feature where the director was asked what was in the package. He answered, "A waterproof, solar powered, satellite cell phone."
Hospital sounds logical, but he seems perfectly "transportable" when the ship finds him. So i assume a Chopper fetched him from that ship because that containership will surely not get to a close by harbor for just one person. From that point on i see no reason why he could not be transported to a Tenessee Hospital after a few days max.
I thought they were talking about the moment he makes contact with other humans for the first time in four years and they all go “Who are you? Where did you come from?” and stuff. That would have been dramatic and enthralling.
Right, a ship wouldn't change it's course unless it's a huge emergency. The ship was also probably too remote for a helicopter to reach it as well. I bet the ship took a while to reach it's next stop and then Chuck spent a few weeks at a hospital to recover properly. I don't think they should have put up the four weeks title. It's reasonable to assume he's on the plane some time afterwards.
I would like to point out that he might have survival training and you can, in fact, get fresh water on a beach. It involves digging a hole about 100 feet from the shore line just behind the first dune. It's called a beach well.
You can boil sea water to make it drinkable though! You boil it and use a filter catchment over the steam to collect the moisture which is pure high quality h2o.
Hat's off. If I ever have to survive stranding on a desert island, I hope you can keep me alive. If you're a hot 18 year old blue eyed blonde girl, even better.
He didn’t not open the package because he had a moral compass, he didn’t open the package because not knowing what was in it and having hope to one day deliver that package gave him a purpose and reason to keep going
There was actually a FedEx commercial where a shipwrecked man resembling Tom Hanks delivered the box and asked the woman what was in it. It was an assortment of 'silly things' like a satellite phone, fish hooks, veggie seed, etc...
This movie just made me cry over a volleyball, a volleyball. Doesn’t that deserve a sin off? No. No it doesn’t but here’s a sin off. Narrator saying he won’t do a thing. It doing that same thing in that next shot cliche, here’s a sin.
3:40 - "One thing this movie does extremely well is long takes..." OMG, yes...thank you for pointing that out. That directing style is so missing from today's films. We need more directors that take after Sergio Leone and David Lean.
I didn't like that they didn't show the actual rescue. Instead, the ship sees him, and fast forward to "everything is okay". I wanted to see them haul him up, ask him questions, give him water and food, bathe him, see him lay down in a soft bed, call his mom, how happy his siblings are to see him, etc.
You missed a glaring one... No island would be locked in a ring of waves, there would always be a lee side where there would be clear sailing or paddling not to mention that there would be certain times of the year where there would be no giant waves.
