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Rating:  - Excellent
Excellent movie, it should have won best picture, and it should have won Hanks another Oscar.
Rating: - Profound
This film is just about perfect, another successful Hanks/Zemeckis/Silvestri collaboration. Tom Hanks demonstrates again his renowned commitment and style. Robert Zemeckis is on top of his game here and deserves as much credit for what isn't in the film as for what is. And the music...oh God, the music. It's notable for not existing till almost the end, but by then you're ready for it. It says it all, carries it right over the top, speaks to a place inside beyond the movie. You will know what it means to be 'cast away', if you dare.
Fortunately, Zemeckis is not Tchaikovsky. See this movie and you'll know what I mean.
Rating:  - Wilson should have gotten best supporting actor
Anytime Robert Zemckis makes a movie I take notice. He more than even Speilberg is the stereotypical American Director(like Frank Capra).
So what about Cast Away. I think it's a pretty good movie, a little long but then a lot happens.
Watching Tom Hanks learn how to survive on the island was educational. I found myself asking, "Do I know how to make fire?" "Do I know how to find water?" Crazy questions I guess every should ask.
The setting of the island was beautiful yet with an ironic twist. By that I mean scenicly it is beautiful, but absent are all things that make life worth living, namely companionship(no offense Wilson)
The love story at the end was painful and when the two were looking at each other in the rain it was like they wanted to kiss more than breathe.
I really liked the movie and the extas are worth the cost of the movie by itself.
Rating:  - Blu-ray worthy
The movie is well known so I will just state I was very happy with the picture/sound on this disc as others have stated. Was nice to revisit the movie, not sure how many times one would want to replay it but it has some great demo scenes!
Rating: - Blu-ray version no better than DVD.
I own the original DVD version of the film and love it; it's one of my very favorite movies. So I was pretty excited to see it out on Blu-ray and picked it up. I knew that the island scenes would be amazing with the higher resolution...
I was wrong.
I'm seeing this in other movies, too. Some films, like the Pirates of the Carribean series are so sharp they makes your eyes hurt. Cast Away looked so much like the regular DVD version I though I'd bought the old format version.
I'm convinced there must be a cheap fast way and an expensive right way to issue a blu-ray film, and I'm convinced the studio took the easy way out on this one. Since I've got both version it's easy to compare, and sad to say, the blu-ray isn't worth the money. It's an awesome story, but I expected more from the blu-ray experience. Other movies do.
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