re: Cast Away movie

I have been to the cross roads where the final scene was filmed

It is in the middle of nowhere near Canadian TX

I like how Hanks is all excited to hear Tennessee has an NFL football team when he returns to land but then gets pissed when he finds out it's in Nashville and not Memphis.

The night that Chuck visits Kelly at her house...

Chuck: I came out here to give you this.
[he holds out the watch Kelly had given him for Christmas before his plane had crashed]

Kelly: Oh, my God.
[she takes the watch from his hand]

Chuck: I’m sorry it doesn’t work. I…I kept the picture. It’s all faded anyway.

Kelly: I want you to have it. I gave it to you.

Chuck: It’s a family heirloom and it should stay in your family.
[he slowly backs away while looking at her]

I remember distinctly watching this movie with a girl, a very special girl, on a couch back in 2003. I remember it like it just happened last year. In that scene, after that last line above when Chuck slowly backs away, she broke down and cried.

The feels are strong with this great movie. Tom Hanks is devastating.

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Hanks made people cry over a fricking volleyball.

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Tom Hanks is a GOAT level actor. Cast Away may be his best movie.

The movie itself is completely underrated.

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I think this is by far Tom Hanks' greatest acting. For all intent and purposes, Hanks went solo for almost 75% of the movie and it kept my interest the whole time...there aren't many actors who can pull that off.

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The best Tom Hanks acting moment is the end of Captain Phillips when he's coming off the stress. Hanks is my favorite movie star, not necessarily actor.

yeah everything after his rescue is pretty devastating. he came back to realize that the only thing keeping him alive all that time was lost and no longer his.

the scene at the airport where her new hubby leads her back to the car is particularly gut wrenching.

also, when he apologizes to his buddy on the airplane when he learns that his wife had succumbed to cancer...

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Hanks went solo for almost 75% of the movie and it kept my interest the whole time...there aren't many actors who can pull that off.

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Robert Redford tried to do the same thing a couple of years ago with, "all is lost". Terribly dreadful movie. It's not like Redford is a shite actor... He just couldn't pull it off.

A very powerful scene for me (aside from the love lost stuff), was when his return party was over at the office and he's staring at all of the food on the table. It's an incredible display of how fragile life is and how much we take for granted in modern society. He almost starved on an island and had to become competent with zero learning curve on how to sustain himself, and here he is now, just staring at a giant spread of gourmet food half eaten by people that have no idea how difficult it is to harvest said food and how guilty he must feel to know that it will go to waste.

I have always enjoyed the last scene in the movie. Standing at the cross roads. I thought it was a great juxtaposition from earlier scenes where he had no hope, but strapped his boots on and got to it. Here he's faced with a similar issue, but at least seems at peace with it.

It really is a great movie. It's a one man show. Hanks really should've won the Oscar.