Apologies for the crazy music at the beginning, please skip to 1:05 for regular audio levels.

I forget who plays him but the acting for Wilson was phenomenal. He conveyed so much through just one expression and his chemistry with Tom Hanks is unmatched.

I totally understand why the kissing scene in the end would rub someone the wrong way, and in 99.9% of cases I'd feel the same way, but I think this is one of those rare cases where I think it's justified. She is basically getting the final closure, the final goodbye, to the love of her life. It seemed like even if she moved on with her life, she always carried with her a small part of hope/belief that he was alive somewhere. For that part of her to be able to finally get closure without holding back was in my mind better for her marriage and future than if she didn't run after him. The last thing she needed was more regret and sadness for things left unsaid or not expressed completely. I don't see the kiss as a betrayal of her husband, or to feed a selfish romantic urge/need. It was the goodbye she needed to truly let him go once and for all.

A good rule to remember in a survival scenario is the rule of 3's. The average human can survive 3 minutes without air, 3 hours in extreme weather, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. Tom hanks character in this has to contend with all of these. First, find air by escaping the sinking plane. Second find shelter from the storming sea which is the life raft and the island to escape the worst of the weather. Third is to locate a source of water, or in this case coconut milk. Fourth is securing food, which is done by coconuts and seafood, but he needed fire to cook them and for improved shelter

The lack of music during his time on the island is a masterstroke in my opinion. It makes everything seem real, immediate, and in-your-face. Imagine living 4 years with the constant pounding of surf surrounding you and never ending.

I remember when this came out a bunch of kids had told us that there were aliens on the island. So the entire time, my friends and I are looking everywhere for these damn aliens 😅

The fact that you don't instantly know Helen Hunt, means you need to react to Twister stat!

lines were written for "Wilson" which someone off camera read to Tom Hanks for him to react to.

I remember watching a behind the scenes about this movie and how one of their technical advisors went and spent a week alone on an island and found having another "person" to talk to help keep his mind occupied and work through problems, also tom hanks went through such a radical physical change for this movie he dropped something crazy like 50 pounds to get ready for the second portion of the movie.

39:56 And people ask: "what was in that package?", which many have theorized that it was a satellite phone-which could have been used to get Chuck off the island quicker, but that isn't the case. Though Chuck does not end up opening the package in the movie, in the script he did. In the script, the Angel Wing Package caught Chuck’s eye. Instead of tearing it open recklessly like the others, he pauses a moment-studying the art on the package. He imitates the design by trying to unsuccessfully draw it in the dirt with a stick. Then, he carefully cuts the package open with a stone knife. Inside the box is no satellite phone, instead, the box contains two jars of homemade green salsa and a letter. Chuck studies the letter, which reads, “You said our life was a prison. Dull. Boring. Empty. I can’t begin to tell you how much that hurt. I don’t want to lose you. I’m enclosing some salsa, the verde you like. Use it on your sticky rice and think of home. Then come home-to me. We’ll find the spice in our lives again. Together. I love you. Always. Bettina.”

Fun fact. Robert Zemeckis shot about half of the movie and then production was halted to allow time for Tom Hanks to lose a ton of weight. While that happened, Zemeckis shot another movie (What Lies Beneath with Harrison Ford) before resuming shooting on Castaway.

something i don't think you caught was that the wooden dummy thing he grabbed from the top of the mountain was a tester he made to see if that branch would hold his weight. meaning he was trying to off himself :( also the seafood buffet they got for him is so tone deaf.... and i love how it just shows him looking at it and seeing how easy it is to get compared to all he had to go through to get food *edit: i forgot that the movie spells out the rope/dummy thing at the end, so i'm glad you were able to get that during the reaction!

People saying that the movie was spoiled before watching it and people saying the movie was spoiled after watching it are two different types of people. Yes you know he gets off the island but him getting off the island was not the point of the movie. It was everything he has to do to survive both mentally and physically. How does he cope with the isolation, with the absolute loneliness of his situation. You have to remember HE doesn't know if he's going to be rescued or sail away. If it was just about him getting off the island then the moment he got rescued it should have ended the movie. Plus with him being gone for so long how life can just simply move on without him, and what he thought he was coming home to was all just in his head.

The speech at the end with his friend is all one take...so good. This has always been one of my favs and has great re-watchability...

Another good movie with Tom Hanks is "The Terminal". You should check it out bro

My stepfather's plane went down into the ocean in WWII. According to his story he was in one of those rafts for a week by himself. Had a weeks worth of food on the raft and finished it in 3 days.

I adore this movie. The philosophy of endurance hits so hard for me. One of my favorite quotes of all time: “I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. ‘Cause tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring.” That thought has gotten me through some very tough times. Sounds like you don’t know Helen Hunt. Do yourself a big favor and watch 1997’s “As Good As It Gets”. Hunt won the best actress Oscar, and Jack Nicholson won best actor. A GREAT movie.

For some reason, I didn't fully appreciate how great this movie was the first time I saw it. I thought it was just ok. I watched it again a couple of years later and loved it.

I've heard that the reason that there is no music while he is on the island is to show how truly alone he was.

I watched this movie when it came out and I was a kid, really loved it. Then I re-watched it as an adult, especially as an adult who has struggled with depression. His last conversation with his ex and his talk with his friend at the end really moved me. This movie is such a classic and has aged so well. One of Tom Hanks best.

Tom's character actually took the healthy approach by creating Wilson to keep his sanity. 👍👏👏

WILSON!!! I'M SORRY, WILSON!!

there's a running joke/rumor that the package he never opened was a solar powered satellite phone.

When Tom Hanks was sick, someone brought him a volleyball 😅

I've recently gotten into reaction videos and haven't really settled on any particular favorite channel. One thing that I can say with confidence is that I appreciate your commentary more than any of the others that I've listened to so far, especially your closing comments. I think Thor Reacts might become my first subscription to a reaction based channel.

IDK if you noticed or if anyone said it in the comments but there is zero music when Tom Hanks is on the Island. That makes it so much more real.

I remember watching this on our family computer the year it came out because we had accidentally rented a dvd rather than a vhs. Honestly still the best movie experience I've ever had sitting on the floor with the family looking up at a 12 inch screen.

It's easy to miss near the start of the movie, but he has a sailing certificate and some trophies on a shelf in his house. He probably has at least basic survival training, though probably more classroom than practical instruction.

I saw a funny cartoon in a magazine once that poked fun at this movie. He returns the one package he didn’t open to it's owner and she opens it in front of him revealing a brand new fully charged satellite phone.

This is such a fantastic movie. Its so effective in making us feel so many difficult emotions. I cry everytime Wilson 'dies' 😭

It's Seafood. All of it was Sea Based Food. Tom Hanks needed to pull a Tony Stark and get himself a juicy CHEESEBURGER. Not surf, never surf, just turf!

I mean, Fedex made a seafood buffet for his welcome, that always cracks me up how clueless people are lol

I think the rain scene is very real in terms of Helen Hunt's feeling because in another movie that would have actually been the Notebook scene where her lover (her fiancée) finally returns to her. BUT, instead, this is Castaway and so it feels strange and out of place, because Tom still feels out of place in society. A note: It /could/ be taken that the husband was afraid that Helen would run away into the night with Tom and so he ends up convincing her not to go to him when they were at the FedEx celebration. And so he prevented their reunion. Also, at the FedEx Celebration. Tom seemed more overstimulated with such a gathering of people. he went from nobody to everybody. I'm sure they all had the best intentions (even down to the seafood catering) but they just smothered poor Tom with too much too quickly and he sought his familiar comfort of solitude. It really is like Iron Man's cave imprisonment but longer and completely alone. It's being dropped into a freaking heavy metal concert when for 4 years you were deaf and in solitary. The Crossroads represented him finally regaining his power.

Hey, your music is way to loud in the beginning dude! I love your stuff though. :)

Glad you reacted to this, it’s such a good movie! I always thought the ending was perfect - they leave you knowing that Chuck is probably gonna go and tell the lady about the package, about his time on the island, eventually they’ll go get a coffee and fall in love lol. They both experienced loss but after a while they’ll be looking at what they’ve gained; that’s how an ending should be. Anyway thank you for reacting to this movie, I thoroughly enjoyed it! 👏

Yes, Gilligan's island was about 7 castaways stranded on a desert isle. It's even part of the theme song lol

you're first priorities in a situation like this is shelter and water. exposure and dehydration are going to kill you faster than anything else.

I saw this at the cinema and it was the one movie that was so amazing to watch, the lack of music and the fact that Tom Hanks was the only thing to listen to it made the movie so emotional. Especially when Wilson went. The tears we could hear at the cinema.

YESSS LOST!! When u said that my heart exploded hahahah

Freaking Wilson gets me every damn time... 😖😥 A freaking ball making me cry. Damn. Well, it's Tom Hanks' acting, but still... Emotional wreckage

Here's how I see the ending... he lost everything but she moved on. When he came back he was robbed of the moment he deserved after everything he went through. The thought of love of his life kept him alive and all he wanted was to get back to her. She gave him a reason to live. When he got home he was robbed of that emotional reunion and she realized that so she ran after him. It was the only thing she could possibly give him. She said exactly what he waited so long to hear.

Another great Tom Hanks movie, Philadelphia - for which he won an Oscar for.

I'm pretty sure it's actually been proven scientifically that humanising something and talking to it is a great way to keep your sanity.

Ending of this movie rips me apart every time. I mean, on the one hand he had been presumed dead, so of course she was going to find a new guy. But you also wish it were possible for her to just drop everything and go back to him somehow, even though it's impossible.

The actress playing his girlfriend is Helen Hunt. She was in the show Mad about You and the movie Twister.

also my friend david holladay was the survival instructor consultant who taught tom the skills on this movie

The actress portraying his wife was in Twister.

Adding another comment for something that I'm surprised you noticed going through...There's NO MUSIC the entire time he's on the island and it only swells in when he leaves it. This movie is a masterclass in sound design!

12:27 nope coconuts aren't always brown. The ones you can drink from are green on the outside, with the "meat" (as people tend to call it) edible as is. They do eventually turn brown. The husk is always brown tho.

I think even though Kelly stays with her husband and she may be sincere about moving on, this is still a raw deal for him. Because most men would probably spend the rest of that marriage wondering in the back of their mind if they were really the new love of her life of if she was just trapped with them for the sake of the kids. I wouldn't want someone having to do that for me.

I know I'm a year late and someone touched on this subject. But i just want to elaborate. Subject, "Kelly". Imagine: The person you wanted to spend the rest of your life with, the best person you knew, the love of your life... They Die, suddenly, far from you. You had a funeral for them, but you never got to see their body. You cried for so long. Every now and again when you think of them, you begin sob a little. Sometimes you still cry, even though it's years later. So much of your heart went into that person and, just like their life, that love was cut from you. That love is still there, with that person. Just because you can move on, doesnt mean you have that part of you returned. Kelly held it together really well when she saw her love returned in person. I doubt many of us would have kept such a composure. When her love was leaving again, (in the rain that could have symbolized the thing that took her love away to begin with) she couldn't hold it together anymore. All of her love that was cut, off came rushing back in an instant.

@20:30: So earlier in the film they do pan over a number of items in a case showing he does have some variety of skills. Mostly sailing, though, hence his nautical knowledge later in the film. But yea, here he's trying to make fire like they do in cartoons which doesn't work quite like that. Then he gets it right by making board with a hole to both provide air and catch embers.

When this film came out, they made Wilson Volleyballs. As in the normal Wilson Volleyball, but with the face/handprint from the film on them. I still have mine 🙂

“Kelly” is played by Academy Award winning actress Helen Hunt. She won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in “As Good As It Gets” (excellent movie) opposite Jack Nicholson. She also had starring roles in “Twister” and the very funny “What Women Want” opposite Mel Gibson. All three are great movies.

My first introduction to Tom Hanks were the movies Splash, its sequel Splash Too, and Big.

Cast Away, another Classic.

I’m a fan of survival and bushcraft. The number one thing to secure is water. But to get safe water you usually need fire, unless you can find another way to filter/purity water. So typically the survival checklist is: Fire, water, shelter, then food. You can actually survive for a while without food, but a day or two without water and you’re dead. Exposure can be dangerous so finding or making shelter is important. Usually once you have set up basics you can focus on food.

It’s so sad when he loses Wilson, sounds weird but it’s true. Probably the only time losing a volleyball would be so tragic.

12:12 I was in a park in the Florida keys and kept hearing that thumping sound. Same thing, coconuts falling.

Yes, Gilligan's Island is people stranded on an island. They were on a 3 hour tour boat when a storm hit and they crashed on an island.

The first time I got a DVD player, the first movie I played was Castaway. I had just taken the DVD player out of the box, same with the Castaway DVD. I hadn't figured out the controls yet, so when the airplane accident happened, the volume was so loud I almost went deaf from the volume and bass being so loud. My now ex-husband and I were in a hotel. I'm surprised we didn't get a noise complaint. So my first DVD player experience was Castaway, and I almost went deaf when the plane accident happened it was so funny.

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1. It's a good thing he wasn't strapped in that plane. He would have died. 2. Can you imagine how much back pay this guy is going to get? He's not a rank and file worker either. He's an executive. 3. From IMDB: To make himself look like an average out of shape middle aged man Tom Hanks didn't exercise and allowed himself to grow pudgy. Production was then halted for a year so he could lose fifty pounds and grow out his hair for his time spent on the deserted island. During this hiatus 4. Extremely resourceful 5. In a recent interview Hanks says that Chuck went back to Belinda (the Winged lady). Inside the first package was her divorce papers. 6. The speech that includes, "I had power over nothing...." is what gets to me. 7. Wilson was Chuck's connectivity to sanity. That's why he kept talking to him.

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coconuts are always green! They get brown with time, but the green ones are better (sweeter) :D

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I just rewatched the movie myself. Still timeless and brilliant. Thank you for your reaction. Enjoyed it very much. When you said at 26:30 that we can't escape time, I instantly had to think about something I read recently in the book "Der Schwarm" of Frank Schätzing where one of the protagonists visits his inuit family and takes part in a journey. His uncle says: the idea of wasted time is an invention of the "civilised" people (don't quote me on that, that's just in about what I remember). That just because you don't use every minute productive and efficient, it's not wasted. It's not directly related to the movie but time is an essential theme and to some part, I think Chuck came to the same realisation.

In the movie theater that crash scene was incredibly intense.

Wilson was a good friend 😔

This movie made me cry over a volleyboll. A fucking volleyboll! Thats so not cool! But it is amazing in every way possible! One of The best movies ever

Damn, you're so good at predicting plot points! I guess that's what watching a lot of movies gives you :)

Selecting an inanimate object and anthropomorphizing it is actually how you stay sane if youre stranded alone so it definitely helped him..

tom hanks said he doid go a little crazy doing this movie. he was really isolated. he didnt have a lot of contact with the crew. he said he was pretty alone and having to act with just wilson.

13:55 Real Tom Hanks on edge of real 'cliff' set piece looking out at a green screen cgi background.

This movies is very sad 😔 when, he was just stuck in the desolate island 🏝 4 years ago.

Amazing reaction as usual! Also, if you're looking for another Tom Hanks movie, The Terminal is phenomenal!

Imagine if that package he never opened contained a waterproof satellite phone the entire time 😅 Love this film 🙂

Fun fact: the island used in this movie has also been used for the past several consecutive seasons by "castaways" on Survivor. It has frequently been used as one of the tribe base camps.

If you don't know Helen Hunt I recommend Twister and As Good As It Gets. Someone else said this as well and I'm backing him/her up.

I always advocate survival camps and classes for school kids. You never know when they might come in handy. I live near the Sierra Nevada mountains and we had to take survival classes in 6th, 7th snd 8th grade. Along with any survival classes you picked up in Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts. 1. Find water 2. Create shelter 3. Start fire (this is the hardest but most crucial) 4. Find food Water and food should be cooked to prevent parasites and other illnesses. Soap plant is near water, it has wavy leaves and the roots are edible if you roast them. Plus you can wash yourself with them. Manzanita has high heat wood, very big fires so careful not to catch everything else on fire in the vicinity. The flowers are edible and you can brush your teeth with the leaves. The berries can be boiled into a cider that can help with stomach aches. You can also chew the leaves and make a poultice for any open sores. Take some Native American survival classes. They can show you so much about living off the land safely.

Helen Hunt is the girlfriend's name. In an interview, Tom Hanks said he gained 40 pounds for part of this film and then they halted filming until he lost the weight for the island scenes. Talk about dedication to a role. Personally, I think she could have waited more than four years; but, that's just me.

I just subscribed a few videos ago, but I must say, it is refreshing to see a movie reactor who at least has some knowledge of the content prior to going in. Great job, Thor!

I think him leaving the message on the island is one of the most human moments of the entire film. Tom Hanks is in full survivor mode; borderline animalistic. He has deadpan eyes; no more art on the walls; eating raw fish. His only concern is satisfying his basic, primal needs and surviving to the next day. And yet... He retains the most basic human need to be remembered. Even when for years his only concern had been to survive, it was not death at sea that truly haunted him. No, he was prepared for that. Rather, what he truly feared was being forgotten. Lost. You might almost say that his greatest fear was to be... ...cast away. See what I did there? lol

One thing I don't think I've ever seen someone mention is that when Kelly's husband first meets Chuck, he states that he performed a root canal on him before his disappearance, and then connect it to the tooth removal scene.

This is the only movie Who make me cry 😫

Wow, Tom slimmed down a TON by the second half! o_o

Wilson & Hanks, true blood brothers

Omg This film is a classic that I've seen dozens of times. I was torn when he returned to his fiancée and she had started a new life, and it was heartbreaking. Wilson, his best friend, and the love of his life were both taken from him! It's not fair. ps the Ocean is beautiful and peaceful

Survival Fact - If you have a bowl / a coconut shell - And you wrap it tightly with say a shirt you can use it to get from water from the sea because the water will soak through the shirt but the salt won't / Good tip from Animal Planet or one of those shows

my favorite thing about this movie is its realistic now they would have an actor getting a workout and getting stronger moving heavy stuff to have a shelter etc but here he really struggled to survive and thought of killing himself plus the aftermath how he wasn't the same that can really change someone

If anyone wants to know what was in the package the answer was in the original script. I won't say it here but you can easily Google it. It doesn't really add anything to the story but if youre the curious sort like me its nice to have an answer.

When this was first released there was a commercial where a character pretending to be him asked her what was in the package and it was in her words "some silly things." And it was fish hooks, vegetable seeds, a satellite phone, etc.

One of my all time fave movies. Cant wait. Oh yea that intro music was so loud I thought it was my game and tried to mute it so I could hear u. lol

Great reaction! I love this movie so much! I cry every time!

Loving these movie choices and reactions lately!

I love your reactions to some of my favorite movies! I didn't feel the same about the kissing at the end... It felt like the right emotional tone for the moment after a lot of moments where they're being polite with one another and masking their real feelings. The thing I wasn't a huge fan of was the implications around the woman in the pick-up. I understand the desire to include a teaser of future romance but it just felt shallow to me when compared with everything else. I've made peace with it just being an element of magical realism or a way to tie a nice bow on the symbolism of those wings...

Merci.

God this movie! Every time I think of it I chuckle when I think of how they discuss the Super Bowl and he says, "Who the hell are the Tennessee Titans?" to Helen Hunt, such a great topical inclusion at the time, but you have to be a football fan to appreciate it! At the time the best one we had seen. Can't believe the game and this movie was 22 years ago

10:30 Water, food, warmth, shelter. I'm not sure if that's the order, but those are certainly the main things for survival. 19:30 The ice skates are probably more useful than regular shoes because they have metal blades, not very sharp blades, but blades. They do not need to be worked on to make a sharp edge like rocks do.

Yes. Gillian's island is based on people who were shipwrecked on an island, but it is comedy.