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- An Excellent Collection of Rare Elvis Movie Classics
- Great Additions To The Elvis Catalog
- Great to have but could've been better
- Elvis The Hollywood Collection
- The Last Six Elvis Movies Finally Available!!
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Elvis - The Hollywood Collection (Charro / Girl Happy / Kissin' Cousins / Live a Little, Love a Little / Stay Away, Joe / Tickle Me)
Starring:
Elvis Presley ,
Ina Balin ,
Victor French ,
Barbara Werle , and
Solomon Sturges
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Charles Marquis Warren ,
Boris Sagal , and
Gene Nelson
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ASIN: B000QUUD6A
Release Date: 2007-08-07 |
Studio description
Includes: Charro! (1969), Girl Happy (1965), Kissin' Cousins (1964), Live a Little Love a Little (1968), Stay Away, Joe (1968), Tickle Me (1965).
Customer Reviews:
An Excellent Collection of Rare Elvis Movie Classics.......2007-09-05
Elvis Presley starred in 33 movies. Many of them are real classics. This box set is no exception. The brilliant ones are; STAY AWAY JOE and TICKLE ME. Both are excellent comedies. GIRL HAPPY is a very lovely musical comedy as good as the extremely popular BLUE HAWAII. LIVE A LITTLE,LOVE A LITTLE is also very very good and features some superb songs. CHARRO is a long lost Elvis Western dramatic classic. KISSIN COUSINS is fun,fun,fun all the way. A Superb value-for-money BOX SET. A must for all ELVIS PRESLEY FANS.
Great Additions To The Elvis Catalog.......2007-08-29
It's excellent to finally see these long awaited movies come to DVD and in a great presentation box. The DVD transfers are very clear and each movie comes with it's own set of 5 postcards as a nice little bonus. My only quip is that not much was done with the sound. The Paramount Elvis movies are all in 5.1, whilst Warner only have revamped Jailhouse Rock and Viva Las Vegas (sold separately)with uprated sound.
Great to have but could've been better.......2007-08-22
FINALLY we get the last of Elvis' movies on DVD (except Elvis On Tour)...Charro looks great! The others look OK but several song sequences are OUT OF SNYC! Who's in charge of quality control??
Elvis The Hollywood Collection.......2007-08-10
This box set of six of the King's less promient films is a long time in coming for his die hard fans-less juicy for your run of the mill Elvis admirers. Yes, all six films are in WIDESECREEN format, digitally remastered etc. The packaging is nice and sleek with all film sleeves containg several large postcard style B&W publicity style photos of Elvis with costars and on the sets. I will not do a critical review of the individual movies pros and cons, but speak to the group of films in this package as a whole as being what I would consider Elvis's secondary films. There is no film prowess of Blue Hawaii or Viva Las Vegas caliber here. As par for the course of Elvis's film career at this point most are of the light romantic comedy genre with his ample singing scenes tossed in. There are no sophisticated plots here-just Elvis, singing and girls watching him sing. Each film has nice menu and navigation graphics with all having the theatical trailer included. Girl Happy has an additional song of Startin' Tonight restored. They all have French subtitles except Tickle Me. All films are in color. Many of these films are out for the first time on DVD as well as in WIDESCREEN. Some of them have not been available at all for quite a number of years such as Live a Little, Love a Little. A good buy for Elvis die hard film fans and collectors at this low price for all six movies in such a nice package. They would cost quite a bit more if bought individually. Lesser fans that have none of Elvis's more promient films may wish to start elsewhere with individual film purchases of the King's classics such as Love Me Tender or the superb Jail House Rock.
The Last Six Elvis Movies Finally Available!!.......2007-08-10
Everyone Have No Fear The Set Is In Widescreen, Thank Goodness! I Am Glad To See The Last Six Movies Finally Out On Dvd, Especially A Widescreen Version Of Charro! Not A Great Western But Hey It Has Elvis In It. Girl Happy And Tickle Me Are Great As Well, Kissin' Cousins, Live A Little, Love A Little And Stay Away Joe Not So Much. But Again They Have Elvis In Them. Hey Warner Bros. We Want Elvis On Tour On Dvd Too!
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Cast Away (Widescreen Edition)
Starring:
Paul Sanchez (II) ,
Lari White ,
Leonid Citer ,
David Allen Brooks , and
Jelena Papovic
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B00005V9IJ
Release Date: 2002-03-05 |
Amazon.com essential video
Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act.
It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie number two chronicles Chuck's four-year survival on a remote island, totally alone save for a Wilson volleyball (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie number three leads up to Chuck's rescue and an awkward encounter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a thankless role), for whom Chuck has seemingly risen from the grave.
It's fascinating to witness Chuck's emerging survival skills, and Hanks's remarkable physical transformation is matched by his finely tuned performance. With slow, rhythmic camera moves and brilliant use of sound, Zemeckis wisely avoids the postcard prettiness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the harshness of Chuck's ascetic solitude, and this stylistic restraint allows Cast Away to resonate more than one might expect. Even the final scene--which feels like a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers hope without shoving it down our throats. You may not feel the emotional rush that you're meant to feel, but Cast Away remains a respectable effort. --Jeff Shannon
Description
Tom Hanks "gives one of the towering screen performances of all time" (New York Post) as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck
Customer Reviews:
Take what you get.......2007-09-02
Cast away is weird. Weird when Tom Hanks befriends a volleyball, weird when he yells at the volleyball, weird when he constantly gets splashed by water on his makeshift raft ( as though a stagehand was simply throwing water off camera.) Mostly, weird when you realize that the movie manages to make a strong statement amongst the hours of survival "what not to-do's". that is, that life in unpredictable.
Tom Hanks' character has all the priorities down. His job, time, working, and lastly his girlfriend/hope for fiance (Helen Hunt). When his Fed Ex plan goes down in the Pacific Tom's character has to find a way to live, for a long time on an island by himself with no supplies. This technical part of the movie is very interesting. Loneliness, desperation, fear, and pain make up the 4+ years he's stranded on the island.
After fashioning a raft to escape on he's found adrift by a large shipping vessel. After getting home you see where his lesson lies ( although for some it may take too long to get there) that life is unpredictable, time waits for no man, and finally what really matters keeping your priorities straight.
He realizes to take the work trip instead of staying home started the hole series of events. He realizes that if he had stayed home and never took the business trip he would be probably married to the girl of his dreams. Life is like that, you cant plan it. After seeing his ex fiance married with kids he realizes he just has to go on surviving, as a well written monologue at the end points out.
I like that at the end, he is able to deliver one of the Fed Ex boxes he found after the crash. It belongs to a lady that started out the movie sending art to her husband overseas, whose cheating on her. By the end of the film you see the husband is out of the picture, she divorced him. She see's Tom at a crossroads and, after giving directions Tom realizes shes the lady who owns the ranch/art atudio and the last shot is of him looking at all the roads to take, metaphorically choosing his path, and he ends up looking down the road the lady just left on. Hinting that theres a reason for everything.
Thats where the message lies. Accept your decisions, becuase as you look back if even one thing is differe nt you wouldnt be where you are. Tom's character has to go through a lot but the ending really does hint at the fact that with the artist lady, is where he was always meant to be. Pretty cool.
Wilson!.......2007-08-28
I was disappointed with Castaway I kept waiting for something to happen.
Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows
Awesome.......2007-07-30
What an incredible movie that deserves nothing less than five stars. It's a deeply moving and affecting experience. It's very realistic and true-to-life. Hanks is flawless as are his supporting cast. A number of themes come through here including the importance of not taking things for granted. Why do we all feel as though we have to live and die by the clock? Everything we have can be taken away from us at any moment. I enjoyed this movie, strangely enough, considerably more the second time I watched it about three years after its release. It is sooo enjoyable and you are riveted from the instant the plane is in trouble. Zemeckis is a genius and he and Hanks are greatest team in Hollywood ie) Forrest Gump??
I believe it's impossible for someone to say they did not enjoy this movie and if it didn't create emotion within yourself then there is something wrong with you This movie IS that good, even though it may be difficult to watch at times. Great, epic movie.
FASCINATING FILM! ASBORBING FROM BEGINNING TO END!.......2007-07-06
I had not watched this movie since it was released to DVD some years ago,so I decided to watch it again in my home theater. I must say I did not remember this film being this good! It is truely an amazing film that has the viewer running through a gambit of emotions. This movie runs close to 2 1/2 hours, but it moves along quicky. The DVD transfer and extras for the 2 disc set are excellent and worth owning.
16 year old Expert Review.......2007-07-01
This Reviewer found the movie to be One of the saddest movies he has ever watched. Tom Hanks one of the greats has Done his fair share saving private ryan, forest gump,... This one Has to be his best one yet. If you are a big fan of drama,and survival movies then I highly recommend it.
If you don't want girlfriend to see you crying at the ending don't watch it.
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Stay Away, Joe
Starring:
Elvis Presley ,
Burgess Meredith ,
Joan Blondell ,
Katy Jurado , and
Thomas Gomez
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Peter Tewksbury
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ASIN: B000R3PDJ8
Release Date: 2007-08-07 |
Description
A half-Native American rodeo champ returns to the reservation to help his people prove they can be responsible cattlemen and finds that the bull sent to them for breeding has been slaughtered to celebrate his homecoming. Based on a novel by Dan Cushman.
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Cast Away (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring:
Viveka Davis ,
Michael Forest ,
Helen Hunt ,
Nick Searcy , and
Tom Hanks
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
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ASIN: B00003CXRP
Release Date: 2001-06-12 |
Amazon.com essential video
Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act.
It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie number two chronicles Chuck's four-year survival on a remote island, totally alone save for a Wilson volleyball (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie number three leads up to Chuck's rescue and an awkward encounter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a thankless role), for whom Chuck has seemingly risen from the grave.
It's fascinating to witness Chuck's emerging survival skills, and Hanks's remarkable physical transformation is matched by his finely tuned performance. With slow, rhythmic camera moves and brilliant use of sound, Zemeckis wisely avoids the postcard prettiness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the harshness of Chuck's ascetic solitude, and this stylistic restraint allows Cast Away to resonate more than one might expect. Even the final scene--which feels like a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers hope without shoving it down our throats. You may not feel the emotional rush that you're meant to feel, but Cast Away remains a respectable effort. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
Take what you get.......2007-09-02
Cast away is weird. Weird when Tom Hanks befriends a volleyball, weird when he yells at the volleyball, weird when he constantly gets splashed by water on his makeshift raft ( as though a stagehand was simply throwing water off camera.) Mostly, weird when you realize that the movie manages to make a strong statement amongst the hours of survival "what not to-do's". that is, that life in unpredictable.
Tom Hanks' character has all the priorities down. His job, time, working, and lastly his girlfriend/hope for fiance (Helen Hunt). When his Fed Ex plan goes down in the Pacific Tom's character has to find a way to live, for a long time on an island by himself with no supplies. This technical part of the movie is very interesting. Loneliness, desperation, fear, and pain make up the 4+ years he's stranded on the island.
After fashioning a raft to escape on he's found adrift by a large shipping vessel. After getting home you see where his lesson lies ( although for some it may take too long to get there) that life is unpredictable, time waits for no man, and finally what really matters keeping your priorities straight.
He realizes to take the work trip instead of staying home started the hole series of events. He realizes that if he had stayed home and never took the business trip he would be probably married to the girl of his dreams. Life is like that, you cant plan it. After seeing his ex fiance married with kids he realizes he just has to go on surviving, as a well written monologue at the end points out.
I like that at the end, he is able to deliver one of the Fed Ex boxes he found after the crash. It belongs to a lady that started out the movie sending art to her husband overseas, whose cheating on her. By the end of the film you see the husband is out of the picture, she divorced him. She see's Tom at a crossroads and, after giving directions Tom realizes shes the lady who owns the ranch/art atudio and the last shot is of him looking at all the roads to take, metaphorically choosing his path, and he ends up looking down the road the lady just left on. Hinting that theres a reason for everything.
Thats where the message lies. Accept your decisions, becuase as you look back if even one thing is differe nt you wouldnt be where you are. Tom's character has to go through a lot but the ending really does hint at the fact that with the artist lady, is where he was always meant to be. Pretty cool.
Wilson!.......2007-08-28
I was disappointed with Castaway I kept waiting for something to happen.
Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows
Awesome.......2007-07-30
What an incredible movie that deserves nothing less than five stars. It's a deeply moving and affecting experience. It's very realistic and true-to-life. Hanks is flawless as are his supporting cast. A number of themes come through here including the importance of not taking things for granted. Why do we all feel as though we have to live and die by the clock? Everything we have can be taken away from us at any moment. I enjoyed this movie, strangely enough, considerably more the second time I watched it about three years after its release. It is sooo enjoyable and you are riveted from the instant the plane is in trouble. Zemeckis is a genius and he and Hanks are greatest team in Hollywood ie) Forrest Gump??
I believe it's impossible for someone to say they did not enjoy this movie and if it didn't create emotion within yourself then there is something wrong with you This movie IS that good, even though it may be difficult to watch at times. Great, epic movie.
FASCINATING FILM! ASBORBING FROM BEGINNING TO END!.......2007-07-06
I had not watched this movie since it was released to DVD some years ago,so I decided to watch it again in my home theater. I must say I did not remember this film being this good! It is truely an amazing film that has the viewer running through a gambit of emotions. This movie runs close to 2 1/2 hours, but it moves along quicky. The DVD transfer and extras for the 2 disc set are excellent and worth owning.
16 year old Expert Review.......2007-07-01
This Reviewer found the movie to be One of the saddest movies he has ever watched. Tom Hanks one of the greats has Done his fair share saving private ryan, forest gump,... This one Has to be his best one yet. If you are a big fan of drama,and survival movies then I highly recommend it.
If you don't want girlfriend to see you crying at the ending don't watch it.
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Cast Away (Full-Screen Edition)
Starring:
Paul Sanchez (II) ,
Lari White ,
Leonid Citer ,
David Allen Brooks , and
Jelena Papovic
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B000062XGD
Release Date: 2002-05-21 |
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Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act.
It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie number two chronicles Chuck's four-year survival on a remote island, totally alone save for a Wilson volleyball (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie number three leads up to Chuck's rescue and an awkward encounter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a thankless role), for whom Chuck has seemingly risen from the grave.
It's fascinating to witness Chuck's emerging survival skills, and Hanks's remarkable physical transformation is matched by his finely tuned performance. With slow, rhythmic camera moves and brilliant use of sound, Zemeckis wisely avoids the postcard prettiness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the harshness of Chuck's ascetic solitude, and this stylistic restraint allows Cast Away to resonate more than one might expect. Even the final scene--which feels like a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers hope without shoving it down our throats. You may not feel the emotional rush that you're meant to feel, but Cast Away remains a respectable effort. --Jeff Shannon
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Tom Hanks "gives one of the towering screen performances of all time" (New York Post) as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck
Customer Reviews:
Take what you get.......2007-09-02
Cast away is weird. Weird when Tom Hanks befriends a volleyball, weird when he yells at the volleyball, weird when he constantly gets splashed by water on his makeshift raft ( as though a stagehand was simply throwing water off camera.) Mostly, weird when you realize that the movie manages to make a strong statement amongst the hours of survival "what not to-do's". that is, that life in unpredictable.
Tom Hanks' character has all the priorities down. His job, time, working, and lastly his girlfriend/hope for fiance (Helen Hunt). When his Fed Ex plan goes down in the Pacific Tom's character has to find a way to live, for a long time on an island by himself with no supplies. This technical part of the movie is very interesting. Loneliness, desperation, fear, and pain make up the 4+ years he's stranded on the island.
After fashioning a raft to escape on he's found adrift by a large shipping vessel. After getting home you see where his lesson lies ( although for some it may take too long to get there) that life is unpredictable, time waits for no man, and finally what really matters keeping your priorities straight.
He realizes to take the work trip instead of staying home started the hole series of events. He realizes that if he had stayed home and never took the business trip he would be probably married to the girl of his dreams. Life is like that, you cant plan it. After seeing his ex fiance married with kids he realizes he just has to go on surviving, as a well written monologue at the end points out.
I like that at the end, he is able to deliver one of the Fed Ex boxes he found after the crash. It belongs to a lady that started out the movie sending art to her husband overseas, whose cheating on her. By the end of the film you see the husband is out of the picture, she divorced him. She see's Tom at a crossroads and, after giving directions Tom realizes shes the lady who owns the ranch/art atudio and the last shot is of him looking at all the roads to take, metaphorically choosing his path, and he ends up looking down the road the lady just left on. Hinting that theres a reason for everything.
Thats where the message lies. Accept your decisions, becuase as you look back if even one thing is differe nt you wouldnt be where you are. Tom's character has to go through a lot but the ending really does hint at the fact that with the artist lady, is where he was always meant to be. Pretty cool.
Wilson!.......2007-08-28
I was disappointed with Castaway I kept waiting for something to happen.
Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows
Awesome.......2007-07-30
What an incredible movie that deserves nothing less than five stars. It's a deeply moving and affecting experience. It's very realistic and true-to-life. Hanks is flawless as are his supporting cast. A number of themes come through here including the importance of not taking things for granted. Why do we all feel as though we have to live and die by the clock? Everything we have can be taken away from us at any moment. I enjoyed this movie, strangely enough, considerably more the second time I watched it about three years after its release. It is sooo enjoyable and you are riveted from the instant the plane is in trouble. Zemeckis is a genius and he and Hanks are greatest team in Hollywood ie) Forrest Gump??
I believe it's impossible for someone to say they did not enjoy this movie and if it didn't create emotion within yourself then there is something wrong with you This movie IS that good, even though it may be difficult to watch at times. Great, epic movie.
FASCINATING FILM! ASBORBING FROM BEGINNING TO END!.......2007-07-06
I had not watched this movie since it was released to DVD some years ago,so I decided to watch it again in my home theater. I must say I did not remember this film being this good! It is truely an amazing film that has the viewer running through a gambit of emotions. This movie runs close to 2 1/2 hours, but it moves along quicky. The DVD transfer and extras for the 2 disc set are excellent and worth owning.
16 year old Expert Review.......2007-07-01
This Reviewer found the movie to be One of the saddest movies he has ever watched. Tom Hanks one of the greats has Done his fair share saving private ryan, forest gump,... This one Has to be his best one yet. If you are a big fan of drama,and survival movies then I highly recommend it.
If you don't want girlfriend to see you crying at the ending don't watch it.
Amazon.com essential video
Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act.
It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie number two chronicles Chuck's four-year survival on a remote island, totally alone save for a Wilson volleyball (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie number three leads up to Chuck's rescue and an awkward encounter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a thankless role), for whom Chuck has seemingly risen from the grave.
It's fascinating to witness Chuck's emerging survival skills, and Hanks's remarkable physical transformation is matched by his finely tuned performance. With slow, rhythmic camera moves and brilliant use of sound, Zemeckis wisely avoids the postcard prettiness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the harshness of Chuck's ascetic solitude, and this stylistic restraint allows Cast Away to resonate more than one might expect. Even the final scene--which feels like a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers hope without shoving it down our throats. You may not feel the emotional rush that you're meant to feel, but Cast Away remains a respectable effort. --Jeff Shannon
Description
Tom Hanks "gives one of the towering screen performances of all time" (New York Post) as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun...
Customer Reviews:
Take what you get.......2007-09-02
Cast away is weird. Weird when Tom Hanks befriends a volleyball, weird when he yells at the volleyball, weird when he constantly gets splashed by water on his makeshift raft ( as though a stagehand was simply throwing water off camera.) Mostly, weird when you realize that the movie manages to make a strong statement amongst the hours of survival "what not to-do's". that is, that life in unpredictable.
Tom Hanks' character has all the priorities down. His job, time, working, and lastly his girlfriend/hope for fiance (Helen Hunt). When his Fed Ex plan goes down in the Pacific Tom's character has to find a way to live, for a long time on an island by himself with no supplies. This technical part of the movie is very interesting. Loneliness, desperation, fear, and pain make up the 4+ years he's stranded on the island.
After fashioning a raft to escape on he's found adrift by a large shipping vessel. After getting home you see where his lesson lies ( although for some it may take too long to get there) that life is unpredictable, time waits for no man, and finally what really matters keeping your priorities straight.
He realizes to take the work trip instead of staying home started the hole series of events. He realizes that if he had stayed home and never took the business trip he would be probably married to the girl of his dreams. Life is like that, you cant plan it. After seeing his ex fiance married with kids he realizes he just has to go on surviving, as a well written monologue at the end points out.
I like that at the end, he is able to deliver one of the Fed Ex boxes he found after the crash. It belongs to a lady that started out the movie sending art to her husband overseas, whose cheating on her. By the end of the film you see the husband is out of the picture, she divorced him. She see's Tom at a crossroads and, after giving directions Tom realizes shes the lady who owns the ranch/art atudio and the last shot is of him looking at all the roads to take, metaphorically choosing his path, and he ends up looking down the road the lady just left on. Hinting that theres a reason for everything.
Thats where the message lies. Accept your decisions, becuase as you look back if even one thing is differe nt you wouldnt be where you are. Tom's character has to go through a lot but the ending really does hint at the fact that with the artist lady, is where he was always meant to be. Pretty cool.
Wilson!.......2007-08-28
I was disappointed with Castaway I kept waiting for something to happen.
Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows
Awesome.......2007-07-30
What an incredible movie that deserves nothing less than five stars. It's a deeply moving and affecting experience. It's very realistic and true-to-life. Hanks is flawless as are his supporting cast. A number of themes come through here including the importance of not taking things for granted. Why do we all feel as though we have to live and die by the clock? Everything we have can be taken away from us at any moment. I enjoyed this movie, strangely enough, considerably more the second time I watched it about three years after its release. It is sooo enjoyable and you are riveted from the instant the plane is in trouble. Zemeckis is a genius and he and Hanks are greatest team in Hollywood ie) Forrest Gump??
I believe it's impossible for someone to say they did not enjoy this movie and if it didn't create emotion within yourself then there is something wrong with you This movie IS that good, even though it may be difficult to watch at times. Great, epic movie.
FASCINATING FILM! ASBORBING FROM BEGINNING TO END!.......2007-07-06
I had not watched this movie since it was released to DVD some years ago,so I decided to watch it again in my home theater. I must say I did not remember this film being this good! It is truely an amazing film that has the viewer running through a gambit of emotions. This movie runs close to 2 1/2 hours, but it moves along quicky. The DVD transfer and extras for the 2 disc set are excellent and worth owning.
16 year old Expert Review.......2007-07-01
This Reviewer found the movie to be One of the saddest movies he has ever watched. Tom Hanks one of the greats has Done his fair share saving private ryan, forest gump,... This one Has to be his best one yet. If you are a big fan of drama,and survival movies then I highly recommend it.
If you don't want girlfriend to see you crying at the ending don't watch it.
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- 16 year old Expert Review
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Amazon.com essential video
Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act.
It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie number two chronicles Chuck's four-year survival on a remote island, totally alone save for a Wilson volleyball (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie number three leads up to Chuck's rescue and an awkward encounter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a thankless role), for whom Chuck has seemingly risen from the grave.
It's fascinating to witness Chuck's emerging survival skills, and Hanks's remarkable physical transformation is matched by his finely tuned performance. With slow, rhythmic camera moves and brilliant use of sound, Zemeckis wisely avoids the postcard prettiness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the harshness of Chuck's ascetic solitude, and this stylistic restraint allows Cast Away to resonate more than one might expect. Even the final scene--which feels like a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers hope without shoving it down our throats. You may not feel the emotional rush that you're meant to feel, but Cast Away remains a respectable effort. --Jeff Shannon
Description
Tom Hanks "gives one of the towering screen performances of all time" (New York Post) as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun...
Customer Reviews:
Take what you get.......2007-09-02
Cast away is weird. Weird when Tom Hanks befriends a volleyball, weird when he yells at the volleyball, weird when he constantly gets splashed by water on his makeshift raft ( as though a stagehand was simply throwing water off camera.) Mostly, weird when you realize that the movie manages to make a strong statement amongst the hours of survival "what not to-do's". that is, that life in unpredictable.
Tom Hanks' character has all the priorities down. His job, time, working, and lastly his girlfriend/hope for fiance (Helen Hunt). When his Fed Ex plan goes down in the Pacific Tom's character has to find a way to live, for a long time on an island by himself with no supplies. This technical part of the movie is very interesting. Loneliness, desperation, fear, and pain make up the 4+ years he's stranded on the island.
After fashioning a raft to escape on he's found adrift by a large shipping vessel. After getting home you see where his lesson lies ( although for some it may take too long to get there) that life is unpredictable, time waits for no man, and finally what really matters keeping your priorities straight.
He realizes to take the work trip instead of staying home started the hole series of events. He realizes that if he had stayed home and never took the business trip he would be probably married to the girl of his dreams. Life is like that, you cant plan it. After seeing his ex fiance married with kids he realizes he just has to go on surviving, as a well written monologue at the end points out.
I like that at the end, he is able to deliver one of the Fed Ex boxes he found after the crash. It belongs to a lady that started out the movie sending art to her husband overseas, whose cheating on her. By the end of the film you see the husband is out of the picture, she divorced him. She see's Tom at a crossroads and, after giving directions Tom realizes shes the lady who owns the ranch/art atudio and the last shot is of him looking at all the roads to take, metaphorically choosing his path, and he ends up looking down the road the lady just left on. Hinting that theres a reason for everything.
Thats where the message lies. Accept your decisions, becuase as you look back if even one thing is differe nt you wouldnt be where you are. Tom's character has to go through a lot but the ending really does hint at the fact that with the artist lady, is where he was always meant to be. Pretty cool.
Wilson!.......2007-08-28
I was disappointed with Castaway I kept waiting for something to happen.
Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows
Awesome.......2007-07-30
What an incredible movie that deserves nothing less than five stars. It's a deeply moving and affecting experience. It's very realistic and true-to-life. Hanks is flawless as are his supporting cast. A number of themes come through here including the importance of not taking things for granted. Why do we all feel as though we have to live and die by the clock? Everything we have can be taken away from us at any moment. I enjoyed this movie, strangely enough, considerably more the second time I watched it about three years after its release. It is sooo enjoyable and you are riveted from the instant the plane is in trouble. Zemeckis is a genius and he and Hanks are greatest team in Hollywood ie) Forrest Gump??
I believe it's impossible for someone to say they did not enjoy this movie and if it didn't create emotion within yourself then there is something wrong with you This movie IS that good, even though it may be difficult to watch at times. Great, epic movie.
FASCINATING FILM! ASBORBING FROM BEGINNING TO END!.......2007-07-06
I had not watched this movie since it was released to DVD some years ago,so I decided to watch it again in my home theater. I must say I did not remember this film being this good! It is truely an amazing film that has the viewer running through a gambit of emotions. This movie runs close to 2 1/2 hours, but it moves along quicky. The DVD transfer and extras for the 2 disc set are excellent and worth owning.
16 year old Expert Review.......2007-07-01
This Reviewer found the movie to be One of the saddest movies he has ever watched. Tom Hanks one of the greats has Done his fair share saving private ryan, forest gump,... This one Has to be his best one yet. If you are a big fan of drama,and survival movies then I highly recommend it.
If you don't want girlfriend to see you crying at the ending don't watch it.
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Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World / Cast Away
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Great movies.......2007-02-03
These are 2 great movies and I tend to watch them over and over again...high quality DVD's.
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Couldn't hate it more.......2006-08-14
While this was an incredibly bad movie, it's not the kind where you will say "it's so bad, it's good." More likely you'd say "I'm really angry I wasted ninety minutes of my life watching that." Personally I hated it so much I trampled the dvd box cover, wishing the whole time that it was the director's head. A plane containing beauty contestants crashes, and the babes must survive on a desert island inhabited by a giant prehistoric pig and failed extras from Planet of the Apes. There's also a thin love story and there's Michael Jackson, a hologram secret agent who decrees the castaways must destroy Noah's Ark to save the Earth. There are a couple mysteries about this film. Why did a talented actor like Eric Roberts agree to join the cast? Did he have gambling debts? Was he blackmailed? And then there's Michael Jackson. Why did they want him for this movie? And with the horrendous jokes and largely incompetent acting, why would he want to be in it? Supremely bad career move. You'll be really mad at yourself if you spend the time or, God forbid, money to watch it.
Effects Budget.......2006-02-25
I am responsible for the cheesy effects--which WERE, in fact, done on my home computer! The effects budget was low...really low--$8,000. Plus the director promised another $8,000 deferrment (I have found that this means that you will probably never see it, LOL).
But it was a lot of fun to work on, and I got to learn a lot too.
Three Minutes of Michael Jackson, and Painfully Long and Terribly Bad Spoof.......2005-09-05
The most famous person included in this terribly unfunny comedy is Michael Jackson, whose face you can see on DVD cover. But remember, Michael Jackson is in the film for about 3 minutes (or maybe more) and you have to wait more than one hour to see him as 'Agent M.J.'
As the title suggests, the film is a spoof of many of recent hit films ranging from 'Cast Away' 'Miss Congeniality' 'The Sixth Sense' 'Catch Me If You Can' etc. The comedy is in the vein of 'Airplane!' so Eric Roberts plays the caddish pilot of an airplane flying to Japan, carrying beauty pagents. But my point is not its story, nor low-budget origin.
The problem is, 'Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls' needs much, much, much more jokes and gags, clever or gross or whatever funny to sustain its 90 minutes. You need to think of jokes better than saying 'I can see dead people' and show the lookalike of Elvis and Chaplin. The film has no hilarious mood that Abrams/Zucker/Zucker had imbued their classic comedy with.
Films like 'Naked Gun' 'Hot Shots!' and 'Austin Power' in fact spend so much energy to create tons of silly gags, and that's how they work. They are made with one minute one gag (or more) basis, and we keep watching, enjoying the show. 'Miss Cast Away' only repeats the same pattern of jokes over and over again. In 'The Island' you can see one fierce creature, actually a big bad pig named 'Jurassic Pork' with a subtitle 'Jurassic Pork' and ... there's nothing more, well, except it attacks the poor passangers on the beach. And one of them is eaten by the animal. If you think it's funny, it's your film.
I know no one watches this kind of film to see great CGIs, but the cheesy special effects of this film make me wonder whether it is meant as serious or joke. 'Jurassic Pork' is one example, of which effects are worse than the animations in the pop-ups. I think it is intentional, but even so, the slack timing and editing makes it look like otherwise.
Anyway, this is not my cup of tea as one old lady (perhaps the director's own mother) at the end credit says. Believe me or not, she is much funnier than most of the jokes in the film.
Funnier than Airplane!.......2005-07-30
If you like the Austin Powers movies and Airplane, you'll laugh hysterically at this movie! It's so off the wall. It's a no brainer and is just pure fun like going to an amusement park to have a good time!
LOL- so funny.......2005-06-23
I really love this movie!! I think it was soo funny !!!
I don't know what to say-it depends what makes you laugh. This is my type of comedy!
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