I agree with that. He’s tried so many different things tonally and technologically. And of course, back to the future is an incredible movie. But none of his other stuff suggests the depth of cast away. At least for me.

And the whale! I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned the whale in the comments yet!

Yeah! Alan Silvestri kinda plagiarized himself—the music in Avengers: Endgame near the beginning when Tony is near death in the spaceship, is very similar to the Cast Away theme.

He really handled it like a champ though.

That’s wonderful to hear. You’ve been brave.

> I basically don’t stop sobbing from Wilson scene until the end.

This was me a couple of hours ago.

I guess it’s not as old as people think! Somebody else in this comment thread just said they saw a trailer for it in 1995. I don’t think so!

It’s still great though. I just watched it knowing everything that happens and it still wrecked me.

I think that scene is in Captain Phillip. (just kidding)

I’ll agree with you. Tom Hanks is great in Cast Away. He has the perfect nice, regular guy demeanor that nothing bad could ever happened to him. And when something bad does happen, he’s incredibly vulnerable but you can still really believe the strength that helps him push through to survive.

Also it’s not technically 90s. Came out December 2000! Had to check.

The things I noticed this time were little things like when they were at that family Christmas dinner Kelly catches Chuck glancing at his pager instead of being present with the family. And then they’re working on scheduling important things like being together for New Year’s Eve and for Kelly’s dissertation. Chuck’s job still seems to be the priority for him, though. Not the relationship. Just subtle facial expressions and timing gave me the idea this time that Kelly might not be down for that.

Edit to add: I just read a couple of the other links in the comments suggesting Kelly was having an affair.

Really interesting how they place the blame on Kelly for betraying Chuck, whereas my read this time was more blaming Chuck for not prioritizing Kelly.

Of course it’s all subtext since none of this is made explicit. I like the ambiguity and complexity. I guess we see what we want to see or what we’re prepared to see.

And it’s a good story either way.

Different things grab me every time but yes the scene you’re talking about hit me hard when I watched it for the first time in the theater 22 years ago. Love that “the sun will rise” quote. Great scene.

I’m gonna watch Flight now. Bobby Z is great at plane crashes!

> the theory that she was going to leave him anyway

Funny because I just watched it for the first time in a long time, and I could totally see that being the case. I had never noticed before. But I definitely picked up on Kelly’s understandable dissatisfaction this time. Maybe it’s the wisdom of years.

Not what I’d call a significant other. He was really young, too. I’m fine with them not fleshing that character out much. And I think they wrote good stuff for Sally.