There's a Tom Hanks film for every mood. He started out in comedies, then romance, to dramas. If you haven't seen them, I would pick "Splash", one of his early films. For a later movie I'd pick "Apollo 13" based on the true story of Apollo mission. His track record is pretty good with no real failures. Missed you and I hope you're over your bout with Covid soon.
The Burbs - Comedy Personal Favorite - tied with League A League of Their Own (1992) Based on real events/Comedy Personal Favorite - tied with Burbs Philadelphia - Based on Real events Forrest Gump The Green Mile (Forget tissues, bring a towel) The Terminal (Based on a true story) Road to Perdition Turner & Hooch (1989) Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) Based on true events Splash (1984) Rom-Com Big (1988) Rom-Com The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) Comedy
😎👍 If I may state the obvious, you can begin with "Toy Story 4." 🤠 When that whale winked at him, it was a profound moment. 🐳 It was the first time in over four years that he looked at something that actually looked back at him. Of course, there are a lot of great Tom Hanks movies that people are going to be suggesting, but I also want to put in a good word for the director...Between "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" in 1978 all the way through "Polar Express" in 2004, Robert Zemeckis never made a bad film, and most of them are epic. Check out any of them and you won't be disappointed.
It was so strange to me but very interesting. I usually like to say that I’m not uncomfortable with silence but it made me feel unsettled. I can appreciate it now after wards it was thought inducing for me to contemplate why it made me unsettled.
That ball was some kind of consciousness for the poor protagonist, this scene will always make me cry like a boy! Chuck: Wilson, I'm sorry...Wilson...I can't...WILSON!!! 😭😭😭 Wilson: a "volleyball with a soul" keeping his smile 🏐🙂 (here like saying: go ahead, Chuck, your life continues, think of your survival, my "job" is done) Chuck: 😭😭😭😭 (so am I 😭😭😭😭)
Wilson is a manufacturer of sporting goods, and that is the brand of volleyball that arrived, so he just decided to call the volleyball "Wilson". Enough time has passed that he needs a totem to focus and bounce his thoughts off of. It's a coping mechanism that keeps him tethered to his humanity, and helps him practice speaking to something external to himself. Wilson is what he uses to project his negative thoughts onto, and it keeps him sane a little longer instead of losing his mind to loneliness.
At the end, if you look at the crossroads, there are three paved streets and one dirt road, which is where he delivered the package and where the lady in the truck lives. When he looks down the streets, he looks at each paved road first, then finally the dirt road. That is when he smiles. I think we can safely assume that's where he went.
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. 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, work out and grow out his beard and hair for his time spent on the deserted island. 4. Talk about using realistic tactics to survive. 5. Wilson is exactly what he needed to maintain sanity. 6. In a recent interview Hanks says that Chuck went back to Bettina Wings. Inside the opening scene package, among other things, were her divorce papers. 7. When he's talking to his friend and says, "I had power over nothing...." is what gets to me. 8.Tom Hanks is the GOAT of my lifetime. I'm 62 years old. FWIW Morse Code SOS= Dit dit dit, Dah dah dah, Dit dit dit.
7:45 "Why is he in such a hurry?" "Why is he yelling?" "It's OK to be a little late." He's a senior manager of FedEx. FedEx had a slogan: "The world on time." They built that ENTIRE company on the idea that if you ship a package with FedEx, it will arrive on time. You could choose another company, but choosing FedEx means your package will always be on time. Every time. So you can imagine that this entire company cares about being in a hurry, and it is definitely NOT OK to be a little late. And as a top manager of that company, he cares about that too. It's his job and it's his life. FedEx just opened a brand new office in Moscow. This is the first time any packages have been shipped by FedEx from Russia to the US. He's yelling to impress these employees that time is important. He's not helping because they all have jobs to do and he would get in their way - so he's trying to motivate them to hurry but still letting them do their jobs while he stays out of their way.
Saving Private Ryan is an amazing Spielberg film that stars Tom Hanks. Great reaction. Losing Wilson the volleyball 🏐 (company that makes volleyballs is Wilson) is a great scene because it shows how attached one can become to an imaginary friend or a stuffed animal one might talk to. It's comforting, cathartic, it's like therapy without all the follow-up questions "How does that make you feel?", "Tell me more about that", etc, etc. Just having a friend there helps cope with having absolutely NO ONE as company. And so you bond. And we bond with the characters. So when we lost Wilson, it's like losing a friend: heartbreaking, sad, emotional, depressing, painful. 😩 And we feel Chuck (Tom's character)'s emotions along with him. Imagine being stranded on a deserted island with no one to talk to, no social interaction, no company for 4+ years. Would you start to make up an imaginary friend just to cope? Then losing said imaginary friend. OUCH! 💔😭 And, girl, I was asking myself the same thing when I was watching this movie in theaters in the US in 2000: "WHY AM I SOBBING OVER A FRICKIN' VOLLEYBALLLLLLL????" Your emotions were valid in that moment.
It’s cheesy to say but inside the package was hope, the hope that helped him stay alive (and a way to come full circle from the beginning due to the woman using the wings as her motif). It’s a classic macguffin as the symbolism was more important than its contents. And the open ending is to allow the audience to make up their own conclusion. As for Hanks’ weight loss, it is real. They filmed the movie in two parts, to allow for him to lose the weight and grow the beard in between. And not sure if you caught it or maybe you realized in an unaired segment but the volleyball was named Wilson because that’s the brand name of the ball
You are great at this!! So adorable and your very smart, great understanding, and the cutest accent ❤ thanks for a great time watching this movie again
"Who's 'Wilson'? He named the ball?" Kind of. "Wilson" is the brand name of that volleyball. It was emblazoned on the packaging and is likely also written on the ball itself.
Chuck was a top supervisor for FedEx hence why he was always working and why they needed him during the holidays. He was very committed to his job and making sure the packages got delivered on time which isn’t a bad thing especially if you are expecting something important or are paying for express/overnight delivery. You want it to arrive on time. As with hin still being obsessed with time when he was building the raft, he has experience with sailing as we see in those photographs at the beginning and he knows the right time to set sail with the tides. He had to leave at the right time for it to work otherwise he wouldn’t be able to leave because the tide would be too low or non existent or if the tide was too big it would have destroyed the raft. The ending with him at the crossroads is him basically at the crossroads of life. He gets to start all over and chose what ever path he wants. He does look at the direction of the lady in her truck and it’s assumed he went back after her.
Great reaction Sessis like always, So many parts of this movie hit me and you touched on everyone. I still can't get the scene out of mind where he's back in his hotel room and looks at all the food on the table and lights the lighter. All the things we take for granted in our life that comes in gross abundance and he had to fight to acquire the simplest pleasures every day for 4 years. I don't think I could have made it. And some fun facts about this movie it was a star-driven project. Hanks read an article about FedEx, which illuminated the fact that massive jets filled with packages were crossing the Pacific Ocean multiple times a day for the shipping company. The actor wondered what would happen if one of those planes went down, and that was the seed from which Cast Away grew. Zemeckis and company began shooting the film in January 1999, and then two months later, production took a break…for over a year. Yes, Cast Away did not shoot again until April 2000. During that time, Hanks lost weight and grew out his hair and beard in order to be able to shoot all the later scenes on the island. For the uninhabited island that Chuck washes up on the shore of, they shot on…an uninhabited island. Although, this one isn’t in the middle of nowhere. Monuriki is an island in the Fiji archipelago. It has since become a tourist attraction. As for the scenes at the ranch, those were shot at Arrington Ranch just south of Canadian, Texas. FedEx was happy to be involved in Cast Away. They provided access to their facilities in Memphis, Los Angeles, and Moscow, not to mention their planes and uniforms. The company’s real CEO even cameos to welcome Chuck back. Keep up the good work
@@Sessis I think it's more like we're emotionally attached to the Tom Hanks character who himself is emotionally attached to a ball. We're moved because we empathize with the immensity of his grief.
I saw a YT short and in that box was all the things he needed on the island to survive 😅 a GPS, fishing pole, and a satellite phone which that girl purchased that he never opened on the island 🏝️
Wonderful reaction once again, Sessis. I think the package Chuck (Tom Hanks) held onto that we never see the contents of is just meant to symbolize his hope that one day he'll get home and that delivering that one parcel, however late, gives him a goal to works towards and helps keep his hope alive. If you're looking for other Tom Hanks movies to react to, I would recommend Forrest Gump, assuming you have not seen it already. Thanks for your lovely reaction!
The irony of this movie is really two fold: 1 - Unfastening his seat belt to get the watch SAVED his life. 2 - With many ships looking for recovery and rescue survivors of the plane crash, you would think they would have fancied the idea of perhaps checking out the island, since the currents were flowing that way with the packages and the dead pilots body, just a day or two after the crash.
The ending is purposely open ended. Chuck is literally at a crossroads, meaning he has a decision to make and he can choose to go anywhere he wants. Its the opposite of what he described in the previous scene where he talks about being stuck on an island and not even being able to control how he could end things. It's up to the viewer to decide where he goes, but I think most of us hope he went after the woman. Also I think what was in the unopened package wasn't as important as what it represented. His job was delivering packages, regardless of what is in it. The unopened package gave him a purpose, a reason to live on.
Many Americans put off a dentist because it's so expensive. Without insurance 200$ just for a cleaning, another 100$ for yearly Radiographs. A filling, crown, rootcanal, extraction hundreds if not thousands of dollars. I've sadly had to postpone regular appointments at least once in my life because of money.
Or just a fear is my problem. I just don't like surprises when I don't know the procedure. I looked up root canal in how they do it on youtube, and now I have even more fear!
The director said that the package contained a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone. Regarding the filming there was a 6 month break between the first half and the second half of the film and the director filmed another movie in between
is hard to breathe at high altitude, at 10000 feet (around 3000 m), the atmospheric pressure and oxigen levels on the air made it posible to breathe almost as easy at sea level.
Below 10,000 feet, the atmosphere contains plenty of oxygen. Above that level, they're supposed to use oxygen masks if the cabin loses pressure. This is an awesome movie!
In the script, the package contained two jars of green chilies and a love letter trying to made the cowboy husband in the beginning homesick and come back to her/home.
Great reaction! Tom Hanks is a national treasure! So many great movies and such a decent, talented guy! So, his movies you should see: Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, A League of Their Own, Saving Private Ryan, Sleepless in Seattle, Catch Me if You Can, Apollo 13, Turner & Hootch, etc, etc, etc, and so on! He really does not have that many bad movies! Have fun, Sessis! You are a cutie!
Big is another terrific one @michaelbriefs9764 missed. Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, A League of Their Own, Apollo 13 are the others I suggest that he's mentioned.
Nice reaction 😊 I think all Tom Hanks Movies are great. I like especially the older ones the most because they are very positive/funny ( Big and The Money pit for example). My favorite new ones are catch me if you can, Forrest Gump and of course the green mile.
"S" is three dots and "O" is three lines (extended dots)... "... --- ..." Although you CAN make a fire a couple of ways, it takes knowledge and Practice to be good at it. Tom had to Gain, then LOSE 40 lbs. for this Movie, to show how bad his life had been on the Island. GREAT Reaction!
I seen this Movie since I was a kid in my past and I almost cried when Wilson was gone while Tom Hanks was alone crying and it kinda my broke heart while it so completely emotional. 😳😲🥺🥺🥺🥺😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😰😨😱😱😱😱💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
3:40 He strikes me as constantly in work mode solving problems - and he basically suggests a possible solution/tool to fix the cancer problem, if that isn't caring I don't know what it is. That reaction is more him than some emotional platitude 12:47 You say you would have a hard time coping, but I suspect you would be able to manage somehow. 16:01 Right!? I know you probably don't wanna show him taking more than the belt on camera, but he needs everything he can find. 17:16 SOS is short blink-short-short -long-long-long-short-short-short 19:40 Christmas came early:) 24:46 Worst part of the entire movie. All those bloody messy horror movies can't compete with a do it yourself dentist filming every moment. Don't make any more "Saw" movies - Make "Tooth" horror movies! 25:42 the "Shut Up!" to "Wilson" in an instant establishes how much he has come to rely on the ball as a talking partner, as a way to keep himself (somewhat) sane. Love it. 32:55 Here we have a man stranded on an island alone - and the writers still manage to make us cry over the loss of a dear friend. Doesn't get any better than that :) 34:39 Maybe the short hair is just easier to maintain when having a husband, small kid, job and so on? 37:30 He has changed from being a guy moved by outside pressure and events while neglecting people and emotions - On the island he had nothing but time to reflect and deal with his emotions and realize how precious actual human connections are. It's beautiful and subtle. 42:29 Divorce papers Dick and Bettina got divorced Dick moved out. The wings sign at the ranch is altered - Dick is gone.
Because you felt what he felt and the melody theme was sad and matched the trauma in this movie. That short musical theme ,so simple yet so emotional.. I cried when he left the island. Ironic that unbuckling his seat belt during the plane crash, saved his life!
Great reaction! Keep up the good work! Tom Hanks is such an awesome actor that almost anything he does is great. That being said, "Forrest Gump" won him an oscar for best actor, and also won for best picture. "Saving Private Ryan" is another outstanding performance by Hanks, and an all together great movie. Highly recommend both for your channel, though "Saving Private Ryan" is a World War 2 movie with A LOT of realism about the horrors of battle (just to warn you). On the lighter side, the romantic comedies "You've got mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle" (both starring Hanks with Meg Ryan) are very good also. "Big" is a lighter Hanks movie as well, in which he acts like a 10 year-old kid. "Apollo 13" and "A League of their Own" are also very good. Have fun discovering these movies and seeing how truly talented Tom Hanks is.
I absolutely love your reactions. Fun fact: The volleyball and Tom Hanks real life wife have the same name. Wilson volleyball and his wife's name is Rita Wilson. 😊 Keep up the great work Sessis 😊😊😊
If I recall correctly, the script originally said that the unopened package contained salsa. I remember this joke going around that it was a satellite phone. Lol
I'd recommend watching Tom H in Apollo 13 (historical drama), Sleepless in Seattle (romantic comedy), and Saving Private Ryan (brutal to watch, but perhaps the best and most realistic war movie ever made). Many will suggest Forest Gump, but that one really requires a detailed knowledge of American history in the 1050's - 80's to appreciate what is going on, and what is being parodied. Much of it even goes over the heads of most younger Americans, even though all can still enjoy it on a more superficial level.
24:10 I know what you're saying here. And I never correct anybody on their accent unless what they say comes out unintentionally dirty. You said "I've never had any issues with my teeths" but to almost any English speaker's ear, it sounded like you said "I've never had any issues with my t!ts." Even the closed captioning spelled it like "t!ts". You probably don't want that. So, to avoid that confusion in the future, remember the word "tooth" and plural "teeth" do not have an 's' at the end. Also, the 'ee' sound in "teeth" sounds like "these" or "please" or "sleep" or "feet" or "season". I hope that helps!
Nice reaction. You have a good feel for which story beats to maintain in the trimmed down version which I think is paramount to making a good reaction channel. Subscribed.
S.O.S. three short flashes followed by three long flashes and then three more short flashes. ... _ _ _ ... Only Morse code I know but always thought it was useful one to remember ;)
32:50 "Why am I crying over a ball." You're not. You're crying over Paul's suffering. His delusional fixation on a make-believe friend and his very real sense of loss and grief. We feel his sorrow and we also feel sympathy that his four years of loneliness have driven him to the edge of madness here.
WILSOOONNN!!!! It was a "thing but with a soul", the only way not to become mad...it was his consciousness! Everyone of us will have a "Wilson" to be left, unfortunately 😭😭😭😭
It's always fun seeing a first-time watcher's reaction to the crash. It has to be one of the most intense ones in movies. It was a disaster movie from the 1970's, "Airport" that I saw as a kid, that caused me to never want to step into a plane. As an adult, I still haven't.
Ironic that unbuckling his seat belt, saved his life! 1 - Why didn't the rescue team think about checking out that island for survivors. His plane crashed and he drifted in one night to the island, It couldn't have been that far form the crash site, and he saw lights in the horizon from the rescue teams. 2 - Why didn't they think about having an italian or some other catering service for his welcome ack party instead of using seafood which he lived on for 4 yrs. One would think he's sick of seafood.
If you're wondering about another great Tom Hanks movie to watch, I would recommend "Apollo 13," the true story of what happened to the Apollo 13 astronauts on their fateful trip to the moon, not long after man first stepped on the moon in 1969, and it's an excellent film. It's directed by Ron Howard who has been making great movies for decades. Cheers!
Nice reaction, I hadn't seen your channel before. Off topic, I wondered at the start if you maybe were from Sweden. I thought maybe Stockholm area? Then a bit later I heard "nej" and "kom igen" which answered my question I guess ;)
If you like Tom Hanks, I'd recommend one of his earlier comedic roles in "The 'Burbs" and also "Philadelphia" and "Saving Private Ryan" which show exactly how good an actor he really is.
Here are a couple Tom Hanks movies you should check out. Big, The Money Pit, Forest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, You Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and Apollo 13 are just a few you should watch.
I think my ingenuity is pretty good, and am good at jury rigging. My biggest problem with surviving that situation would be that I am very allergic to coconut. So it would take away one major food source, and hydration.
Yeah. There were clues she was pregnant before he got stranded. Also, lol. People watching the movie once and barely paying attention telling you what is essentially "Nuh uh! I didn't see it so it didn't exist1!1"
Kollade på recensioner på denna fantastiska film och när jag kom in på din kanal, så tyckte jag mig känna igen lite ord här och var i dina reaktioner när det hände oförutsedda saker... Gissade på att du var tyska eller svenska. Och mycket riktigt så var det det sistnämnda! :) Bra reaktionsvideo och filmval! Tom Hanks är en av mina favoritskådisar och har gjort massor genom åren. Kunde tipsa om flera andra med honom i huvudrollen, men ser att andra redan har gjort det. I detta scenario handlar det nog väldigt mycket om hur stark man är mentalt, för hur man skulle klara sig. Men som du sa, man är glad att man inte har planerat att flyga någonstans i det närmaste efter att ha sett den... ;) Alive (1993) är en riktigt bra och oerhört stark film i samma andra, om du inte har sett den. Dessutom verklighetsbaserad. Dock inte med Hanks, men riktigt bra och sevärd. Kul att du såg The Naked Gun också! En betydligt lättsammare film. ;)
I think his job is to get the various FedEx facilities to work at a higher performance. That's why he travels a lot as they have facilities all over the world. People get laid back, settled in the job and start not doing a good job. I think his job is essentially to "light a fire" under them and get them moving and improve performance again. The ending was left up to us to interpret. He was literally and figuratively standing at a crossroads. I think the smile is more on par of hoping for the future, no matter which path he chose. :)
@@Sessis I saw you did a reaction to "The Green Mile" - together with "Cast Away" "The Shawshank Redemption" (Also a Stephen King non-scary movie) fits well, as a sort of trilogy. It's also Number 1 of all the movies on IMDB and well deserved.
@@zedwpd you only need to send one set of divorce papers off to Bettina via fedex from wherever Dick went to, for the story to make sense - if signed he probably had to do it again when the first copy went down with the plane.
If you want to see some of his earlier stuff, check out Big or Joe Versus the Volcano. Both are very funny. Also, Forrest Gump. But everyone's going to recommend that one
I've also never seen any other reaction not immediately get the deal with Wilson... guess it's a sign she's probably not been very lonely in her life which is good?
Can you make fire without tools? And do you have any other Tom Hanks movies you recommend?
There's a Tom Hanks film for every mood. He started out in comedies, then romance, to dramas. If you haven't seen them, I would pick "Splash", one of his early films. For a later movie I'd pick "Apollo 13" based on the true story of Apollo mission. His track record is pretty good with no real failures. Missed you and I hope you're over your bout with Covid soon.
The Burbs - Comedy Personal Favorite - tied with League
A League of Their Own (1992) Based on real events/Comedy Personal Favorite - tied with Burbs
Philadelphia - Based on Real events
Forrest Gump
The Green Mile (Forget tissues, bring a towel)
The Terminal (Based on a true story)
Road to Perdition
Turner & Hooch (1989)
Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) Based on true events
Splash (1984) Rom-Com
Big (1988) Rom-Com
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) Comedy
The Terminal
😎👍 If I may state the obvious, you can begin with "Toy Story 4." 🤠 When that whale winked at him, it was a profound moment. 🐳 It was the first time in over four years that he looked at something that actually looked back at him. Of course, there are a lot of great Tom Hanks movies that people are going to be suggesting, but I also want to put in a good word for the director...Between "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" in 1978 all the way through "Polar Express" in 2004, Robert Zemeckis never made a bad film, and most of them are epic. Check out any of them and you won't be disappointed.
What this guy said lol
I appreciate how much of this film has no music, it’s very refreshing. I can’t imagine how uncomfortable it would be to sleep in a small cave.
It was so strange to me but very interesting. I usually like to say that I’m not uncomfortable with silence but it made me feel unsettled. I can appreciate it now after wards it was thought inducing for me to contemplate why it made me unsettled.
"Why am I crying over a ball?" Pretty much everyone does. 😆
That ball was some kind of consciousness for the poor protagonist, this scene will always make me cry like a boy!
Chuck: Wilson, I'm sorry...Wilson...I can't...WILSON!!! 😭😭😭
Wilson: a "volleyball with a soul" keeping his smile 🏐🙂 (here like saying: go ahead, Chuck, your life continues, think of your survival, my "job" is done)
Chuck: 😭😭😭😭 (so am I 😭😭😭😭)
Wilson is a manufacturer of sporting goods, and that is the brand of volleyball that arrived, so he just decided to call the volleyball "Wilson". Enough time has passed that he needs a totem to focus and bounce his thoughts off of. It's a coping mechanism that keeps him tethered to his humanity, and helps him practice speaking to something external to himself. Wilson is what he uses to project his negative thoughts onto, and it keeps him sane a little longer instead of losing his mind to loneliness.
At the end, if you look at the crossroads, there are three paved streets and one dirt road, which is where he delivered the package and where the lady in the truck lives. When he looks down the streets, he looks at each paved road first, then finally the dirt road. That is when he smiles. I think we can safely assume that's where he went.
Ah okay yeah that sounds likely
It's funny (and fantastic) that you've never seen a coconut with its green husk when it's fresh 😅
Yeah, I've only seen them brown and hairy like how they are in the store
@@Sessis Walnuts are similar. (When they fall off the tree, the shell is surrounded by a green husk.)
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. 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, work out and grow out his beard and hair for his time spent on the deserted island.
4. Talk about using realistic tactics to survive.
5. Wilson is exactly what he needed to maintain sanity.
6. In a recent interview Hanks says that Chuck went back to Bettina Wings. Inside the opening scene package, among other things, were her divorce papers.
7. When he's talking to his friend and says, "I had power over nothing...." is what gets to me.
8.Tom Hanks is the GOAT of my lifetime. I'm 62 years old.
FWIW Morse Code SOS= Dit dit dit, Dah dah dah, Dit dit dit.
Thank you for the info!
7:45 "Why is he in such a hurry?"
"Why is he yelling?"
"It's OK to be a little late."
He's a senior manager of FedEx.
FedEx had a slogan: "The world on time."
They built that ENTIRE company on the idea that if you ship a package with FedEx, it will arrive on time.
You could choose another company, but choosing FedEx means your package will always be on time.
Every time.
So you can imagine that this entire company cares about being in a hurry, and it is definitely NOT OK to be a little late.
And as a top manager of that company, he cares about that too.
It's his job and it's his life.
FedEx just opened a brand new office in Moscow.
This is the first time any packages have been shipped by FedEx from Russia to the US.
He's yelling to impress these employees that time is important.
He's not helping because they all have jobs to do and he would get in their way - so he's trying to motivate them to hurry but still letting them do their jobs while he stays out of their way.
Oh, I did not know that about FedEx
Saving Private Ryan is an amazing Spielberg film that stars Tom Hanks. Great reaction. Losing Wilson the volleyball 🏐 (company that makes volleyballs is Wilson) is a great scene because it shows how attached one can become to an imaginary friend or a stuffed animal one might talk to. It's comforting, cathartic, it's like therapy without all the follow-up questions "How does that make you feel?", "Tell me more about that", etc, etc. Just having a friend there helps cope with having absolutely NO ONE as company. And so you bond. And we bond with the characters. So when we lost Wilson, it's like losing a friend: heartbreaking, sad, emotional, depressing, painful. 😩 And we feel Chuck (Tom's character)'s emotions along with him. Imagine being stranded on a deserted island with no one to talk to, no social interaction, no company for 4+ years. Would you start to make up an imaginary friend just to cope? Then losing said imaginary friend. OUCH! 💔😭 And, girl, I was asking myself the same thing when I was watching this movie in theaters in the US in 2000: "WHY AM I SOBBING OVER A FRICKIN' VOLLEYBALLLLLLL????" Your emotions were valid in that moment.
"A League Of Thier Own" Tom plays the manager of all girls professional baseball team.⚾️
Thanks for the suggestion!
Tom Hanks movies you might want to watch: Bridge of Spies, Captain Phillips, Saving private Ryan, Big
Everybody cries over that volleyball!
It was so sad
It’s cheesy to say but inside the package was hope, the hope that helped him stay alive (and a way to come full circle from the beginning due to the woman using the wings as her motif). It’s a classic macguffin as the symbolism was more important than its contents. And the open ending is to allow the audience to make up their own conclusion. As for Hanks’ weight loss, it is real. They filmed the movie in two parts, to allow for him to lose the weight and grow the beard in between. And not sure if you caught it or maybe you realized in an unaired segment but the volleyball was named Wilson because that’s the brand name of the ball
Thank you for explaining. That's very interesting to know
No it wasn't. It was a fully charged satellite phone.
the tides of the oceans change like the seasons so some time the ocean flow out faster some time and inward sometimes
As others have mentioned, Apollo 13 would be a good Tom Hanks movie to check out next. It's a true story and a great film! 😁
You are great at this!! So adorable and your very smart, great understanding, and the cutest accent ❤ thanks for a great time watching this movie again
Thank you!
I couldn't agree more
Yes, that is most definitely a strange looking football.
Right?
"Who's 'Wilson'? He named the ball?" Kind of. "Wilson" is the brand name of that volleyball. It was emblazoned on the packaging and is likely also written on the ball itself.
Chuck was a top supervisor for FedEx hence why he was always working and why they needed him during the holidays. He was very committed to his job and making sure the packages got delivered on time which isn’t a bad thing especially if you are expecting something important or are paying for express/overnight delivery. You want it to arrive on time.
As with hin still being obsessed with time when he was building the raft, he has experience with sailing as we see in those photographs at the beginning and he knows the right time to set sail with the tides. He had to leave at the right time for it to work otherwise he wouldn’t be able to leave because the tide would be too low or non existent or if the tide was too big it would have destroyed the raft.
The ending with him at the crossroads is him basically at the crossroads of life. He gets to start all over and chose what ever path he wants. He does look at the direction of the lady in her truck and it’s assumed he went back after her.
Great reaction Sessis like always, So many parts of this movie hit me and you touched on everyone. I still can't get the scene out of mind where he's back in his hotel room and looks at all the food on the table and lights the lighter. All the things we take for granted in our life that comes in gross abundance and he had to fight to acquire the simplest pleasures every day for 4 years. I don't think I could have made it. And some fun facts about this movie it was a star-driven project. Hanks read an article about FedEx, which illuminated the fact that massive jets filled with packages were crossing the Pacific Ocean multiple times a day for the shipping company. The actor wondered what would happen if one of those planes went down, and that was the seed from which Cast Away grew. Zemeckis and company began shooting the film in January 1999, and then two months later, production took a break…for over a year. Yes, Cast Away did not shoot again until April 2000. During that time, Hanks lost weight and grew out his hair and beard in order to be able to shoot all the later scenes on the island. For the uninhabited island that Chuck washes up on the shore of, they shot on…an uninhabited island. Although, this one isn’t in the middle of nowhere. Monuriki is an island in the Fiji archipelago. It has since become a tourist attraction. As for the scenes at the ranch, those were shot at Arrington Ranch just south of Canadian, Texas. FedEx was happy to be involved in Cast Away. They provided access to their facilities in Memphis, Los Angeles, and Moscow, not to mention their planes and uniforms. The company’s real CEO even cameos to welcome Chuck back. Keep up the good work
The old joke from when the movie first came out is that the package with the wings was a waterproof satellite phone with an extra battery. 😝😜🤨
That would've been crazy!
Add "Big" to your Tom Hanks list. It's a Young Hanks classic.
Thank you for the suggestion!
The Tom Hanks “big 5” (imo) are: Castaway ✅, The Green Mile ✅, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, and Philadelphia.
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"Why am I crying over a ball?" Almost EVERYONE'S reaction to losing Wilson. 😪
Interesting how we can get so emotionally attached to a ball
@@Sessis I think it's more like we're emotionally attached to the Tom Hanks character who himself is emotionally attached to a ball. We're moved because we empathize with the immensity of his grief.
I saw a YT short and in that box was all the things he needed on the island to survive 😅 a GPS, fishing pole, and a satellite phone which that girl purchased that he never opened on the island 🏝️
Wonderful reaction once again, Sessis. I think the package Chuck (Tom Hanks) held onto that we never see the contents of is just meant to symbolize his hope that one day he'll get home and that delivering that one parcel, however late, gives him a goal to works towards and helps keep his hope alive. If you're looking for other Tom Hanks movies to react to, I would recommend Forrest Gump, assuming you have not seen it already. Thanks for your lovely reaction!
Thank you so much! I have Forrest Gump on my radar
Then there's the FedEx commercial that showed the package had a sat phone, matches and fishing line.
The irony of this movie is really two fold:
1 - Unfastening his seat belt to get the watch SAVED his life.
2 - With many ships looking for recovery and rescue survivors of the plane crash, you would think they would have fancied the idea of perhaps checking out the island, since the currents were flowing that way with the packages and the dead pilots body, just a day or two after the crash.
Tom Hanks is our generations finest actor. He is Fantastic!
The ending is purposely open ended. Chuck is literally at a crossroads, meaning he has a decision to make and he can choose to go anywhere he wants. Its the opposite of what he described in the previous scene where he talks about being stuck on an island and not even being able to control how he could end things. It's up to the viewer to decide where he goes, but I think most of us hope he went after the woman.
Also I think what was in the unopened package wasn't as important as what it represented. His job was delivering packages, regardless of what is in it. The unopened package gave him a purpose, a reason to live on.
Thank you for the insight on the ending!
Many Americans put off a dentist because it's so expensive. Without insurance 200$ just for a cleaning, another 100$ for yearly Radiographs. A filling, crown, rootcanal, extraction hundreds if not thousands of dollars. I've sadly had to postpone regular appointments at least once in my life because of money.
Wow, that is so expensive! We don't have that here
Or just a fear is my problem. I just don't like surprises when I don't know the procedure. I looked up root canal in how they do it on youtube, and now I have even more fear!
The way the plane crash was shown is frankly impressive - Don't know about you, but I can barely breathe each time I watch that part.
Yeah right? It was so intense
Ironic that unbuckling his seat belt, saved his life!
The director said that the package contained a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone. Regarding the filming there was a 6 month break between the first half and the second half of the film and the director filmed another movie in between
That's interesting! Thank you for letting me know
Moral of the story: times change, people change too.
Tom Hanks comedies: Big, Turner & Hooch, A league of their own
Thank you for the suggestions!
is hard to breathe at high altitude, at 10000 feet (around 3000 m), the atmospheric pressure and oxigen levels on the air made it posible to breathe almost as easy at sea level.
Oh, interesting. Thank you for explaining
31:05 "What kind of whale is that?"
I'm no cetologist, but that looks like a CGI humpback whale there.
CGI humpback make me laugh. Thanks for the laugh!
"The Terminal" and "Catch me if you can" are always good Tom Hanks movies
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The Terminal is one of my favorite Tom Hanks movies , I really hope you can watch that one
Try " Philadelphia"... Thén WE Can talk
@@dimitrakapa4887 Try his small and quick cameo in The Simpsons Movie... Then we can talk.
28:55 If you were castaway with him I'm sure his attention to volleyballs would decrease
He'd be answering a million little questions all day long ;)
Below 10,000 feet, the atmosphere contains plenty of oxygen. Above that level, they're supposed to use oxygen masks if the cabin loses pressure. This is an awesome movie!
Oh, interesting. I did not know that
The ending is up to you,.... It ends at the crossroads of life.
Ive seen this movie at least a dozen times ans wilson drifting away still gets me.
In the script, the package contained two jars of green chilies and a love letter trying to made the cowboy husband in the beginning homesick and come back to her/home.
Great reaction! Tom Hanks is a national treasure! So many great movies and such a decent, talented guy! So, his movies you should see: Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, A League of Their Own, Saving Private Ryan, Sleepless in Seattle, Catch Me if You Can, Apollo 13, Turner & Hootch, etc, etc, etc, and so on! He really does not have that many bad movies! Have fun, Sessis! You are a cutie!
Thank you!
Big is another terrific one @michaelbriefs9764 missed. Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, A League of Their Own, Apollo 13 are the others I suggest that he's mentioned.
Tom Hanks is anything but a "decent guy". Why do you think he renounced his American Citizenship and moved to Greece, where pedophilia is not a crime?
Nice reaction 😊 I think all Tom Hanks Movies are great. I like especially the older ones the most because they are very positive/funny ( Big and The Money pit for example). My favorite new ones are catch me if you can, Forrest Gump and of course the green mile.
Thank you for the suggestions!
"S" is three dots and "O" is three lines (extended dots)... "... --- ..."
Although you CAN make a fire a couple of ways, it takes knowledge and Practice to be good at it.
Tom had to Gain, then LOSE 40 lbs. for this Movie, to show how bad his life had been on the Island.
GREAT Reaction!
Thank you!
I seen this Movie since I was a kid in my past and I almost cried when Wilson was gone while Tom Hanks was alone crying and it kinda my broke heart while it so completely emotional. 😳😲🥺🥺🥺🥺😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😰😨😱😱😱😱💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
3:40 He strikes me as constantly in work mode solving problems - and he basically suggests a possible solution/tool to fix the cancer problem, if that isn't caring I don't know what it is. That reaction is more him than some emotional platitude
12:47 You say you would have a hard time coping, but I suspect you would be able to manage somehow.
16:01 Right!? I know you probably don't wanna show him taking more than the belt on camera, but he needs everything he can find.
17:16 SOS is short blink-short-short -long-long-long-short-short-short
19:40 Christmas came early:)
24:46 Worst part of the entire movie. All those bloody messy horror movies can't compete with a do it yourself dentist filming every moment. Don't make any more "Saw" movies - Make "Tooth" horror movies!
25:42 the "Shut Up!" to "Wilson" in an instant establishes how much he has come to rely on the ball as a talking partner, as a way to keep himself (somewhat) sane. Love it.
32:55 Here we have a man stranded on an island alone - and the writers still manage to make us cry over the loss of a dear friend. Doesn't get any better than that :)
34:39 Maybe the short hair is just easier to maintain when having a husband, small kid, job and so on?
37:30 He has changed from being a guy moved by outside pressure and events while neglecting people and emotions - On the island he had nothing but time to reflect and deal with his emotions and realize how precious actual human connections are. It's beautiful and subtle.
42:29 Divorce papers Dick and Bettina got divorced Dick moved out. The wings sign at the ranch is altered - Dick is gone.
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“Road to Perdition” is a really good Tom Hanks movie.. Thanks Tom Hanks!!
Thanks for the suggestion!
"why am i crying over a ball?" im certain everyone that has seen this movie felt the same for wilson
Because you felt what he felt and the melody theme was sad and matched the trauma in this movie. That short musical theme ,so simple yet so emotional.. I cried when he left the island.
Ironic that unbuckling his seat belt during the plane crash, saved his life!
Great reaction! Keep up the good work! Tom Hanks is such an awesome actor that almost anything he does is great. That being said, "Forrest Gump" won him an oscar for best actor, and also won for best picture. "Saving Private Ryan" is another outstanding performance by Hanks, and an all together great movie. Highly recommend both for your channel, though "Saving Private Ryan" is a World War 2 movie with A LOT of realism about the horrors of battle (just to warn you). On the lighter side, the romantic comedies "You've got mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle" (both starring Hanks with Meg Ryan) are very good also. "Big" is a lighter Hanks movie as well, in which he acts like a 10 year-old kid. "Apollo 13" and "A League of their Own" are also very good. Have fun discovering these movies and seeing how truly talented Tom Hanks is.
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It’s a wonderful movie. Pretty dark but uplifting at the same time. Hope your feeling better. Great video 👏👏
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Saving Private Ryan is my favorite Tom Hank film. You must watch it ❤
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I absolutely love your reactions.
Fun fact:
The volleyball and Tom Hanks real life wife have the same name. Wilson volleyball and his wife's name is Rita Wilson. 😊
Keep up the great work Sessis 😊😊😊
Thank you!
You're welcome!
If I recall correctly, the script originally said that the unopened package contained salsa.
I remember this joke going around that it was a satellite phone. Lol
That would've been really crazy if it contained the satellite phone
I'd recommend watching Tom H in Apollo 13 (historical drama), Sleepless in Seattle (romantic comedy), and Saving Private Ryan (brutal to watch, but perhaps the best and most realistic war movie ever made). Many will suggest Forest Gump, but that one really requires a detailed knowledge of American history in the 1050's - 80's to appreciate what is going on, and what is being parodied. Much of it even goes over the heads of most younger Americans, even though all can still enjoy it on a more superficial level.
Saving Private Ryan, Philadelphia, sleepless in Seattle, Apollo 13, You've got Mail, Sully that's a good start for Tom Hanks movie's
Thank you for all the recommendations!
I really miss you My Lady and your reaction videos 🥺❤️
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@@Sessis I don't know you still remember me
'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Forrest Gump'.. both an amazing Tom Hanks movie.. 😁
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24:10 I know what you're saying here.
And I never correct anybody on their accent unless what they say comes out unintentionally dirty.
You said "I've never had any issues with my teeths" but to almost any English speaker's ear, it sounded like you said "I've never had any issues with my t!ts."
Even the closed captioning spelled it like "t!ts".
You probably don't want that.
So, to avoid that confusion in the future, remember the word "tooth" and plural "teeth" do not have an 's' at the end.
Also, the 'ee' sound in "teeth" sounds like "these" or "please" or "sleep" or "feet" or "season".
I hope that helps!
Ah thanks!
Nice reaction. You have a good feel for which story beats to maintain in the trimmed down version which I think is paramount to making a good reaction channel. Subscribed.
S.O.S. three short flashes followed by three long flashes and then three more short flashes.
... _ _ _ ...
Only Morse code I know but always thought it was useful one to remember ;)
Ah, that is good to know yeah!
Favorite Tom Hanks movies would be Forrest Gump and Philadelphia, but most of his films are great it’s fairly difficult to not enjoy them.
I hadn't heard of Philadelphia before. Thank you for the suggestions!
Your comments are great... I like your reactions so much.
Thank you 😄
32:50 "Why am I crying over a ball."
You're not.
You're crying over Paul's suffering.
His delusional fixation on a make-believe friend and his very real sense of loss and grief.
We feel his sorrow and we also feel sympathy that his four years of loneliness have driven him to the edge of madness here.
Yeah, I guess we're feeling what he's feeling
WILSOOONNN!!!!
It was a "thing but with a soul", the only way not to become mad...it was his consciousness!
Everyone of us will have a "Wilson" to be left, unfortunately
😭😭😭😭
02:02 Football coaches often motivate this way
Also military drill instructors~
There isn't a bad Tom Hanks movie.
That's good to know
It's always fun seeing a first-time watcher's reaction to the crash. It has to be one of the most intense ones in movies. It was a disaster movie from the 1970's, "Airport" that I saw as a kid, that caused me to never want to step into a plane. As an adult, I still haven't.
Airplane crashes in movies are so scary!
Ironic that unbuckling his seat belt, saved his life!
1 - Why didn't the rescue team think about checking out that island for survivors. His plane crashed and he drifted in one night to the island, It couldn't have been that far form the crash site, and he saw lights in the horizon from the rescue teams.
2 - Why didn't they think about having an italian or some other catering service for his welcome ack party instead of using seafood which he lived on for 4 yrs. One would think he's sick of seafood.
There's a Tom Hanks movie that you definitely need to see. The Money Pit is one of the funniest movies he ever made.
Great reaction Sess!
Thank you Nala
If you're wondering about another great Tom Hanks movie to watch, I would recommend "Apollo 13," the true story of what happened to the Apollo 13 astronauts on their fateful trip to the moon, not long after man first stepped on the moon in 1969, and it's an excellent film. It's directed by Ron Howard who has been making great movies for decades. Cheers!
Nice reaction, I hadn't seen your channel before. Off topic, I wondered at the start if you maybe were from Sweden. I thought maybe Stockholm area? Then a bit later I heard "nej" and "kom igen" which answered my question I guess ;)
Haha yeah I grew up in Stockholm 😄
If you like Tom Hanks, I'd recommend one of his earlier comedic roles in "The 'Burbs" and also "Philadelphia" and "Saving Private Ryan" which show exactly how good an actor he really is.
Thank you for the suggestions!
Don't worry Sessis, you aren't the first person to get emotional over a ball.😁😁
Here are a couple Tom Hanks movies you should check out.
Big, The Money Pit, Forest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, You Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and Apollo 13 are just a few you should watch.
Thank you for the suggestions!
You're awesome❤ I love your reactions☺️🔥
Thank you!
You can buy something like the Nitecore P18 torch that has an inbuilt sos signal 👍
Oh, that's interesting that it has it built-in!
Tom has some great movies besides this movie, Toy Story, and The Green Mile. I recommend Saving Private Ryan and Forrest Gump
Thank you for the suggestions. I've seen Toy Story and The Green Mile and reacted to them already
I think my ingenuity is pretty good, and am good at jury rigging. My biggest problem with surviving that situation would be that I am very allergic to coconut. So it would take away one major food source, and hydration.
Oh, that would make it significantly more difficult yeah
20:55. All the creatures from the sea are ok to eat raw, except for the poisonous ones. Not so from freshwater.
You should watch Tom Hanks in Apollo 13, Philadelphia, and Forrest Gump.
Thanks for the suggestions!
In addition to the two films you mentioned, the other Tom Hanks movies I would typically recommend are Forrest Gump (1994)
and Apollo 13 (1995).
One of my favorite Tom Hanks films is Joe Versus The Volcano (1990). Comedy and drama. Meg Ryan is very good playing 3 different women in that movie.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Stranded deep wouldn't be a game without this film.
One sad thing about this movie: She was cheating on him with the dentist from the beginning. The shipwreck was a deliverance.
No, there's no indication of this anywhere in the film.
@@bigdream_dreambig you didn't pay attention, the indications are there, sorry.
What indications are you referring too? Pretty sure I would have picked up on that if there were any 🤔
@@Sessis The timeline is a more than enough indication to me, but all of them are here: th-cam.com/video/R_m1mfu3XlY/w-d-xo.html
Yeah. There were clues she was pregnant before he got stranded.
Also, lol. People watching the movie once and barely paying attention telling you what is essentially "Nuh uh! I didn't see it so it didn't exist1!1"
The Green Mile and Forest Gump are 2 of his best movies!
Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan would be my next 2 choices for Tom Hanks movies
WILSON!!!
I'M SORRY, WILSON!!
It's crazy how you can get so attached to an inanimate object, right?
Kollade på recensioner på denna fantastiska film och när jag kom in på din kanal, så tyckte jag mig känna igen lite ord här och var i dina reaktioner när det hände oförutsedda saker... Gissade på att du var tyska eller svenska. Och mycket riktigt så var det det sistnämnda! :) Bra reaktionsvideo och filmval! Tom Hanks är en av mina favoritskådisar och har gjort massor genom åren. Kunde tipsa om flera andra med honom i huvudrollen, men ser att andra redan har gjort det. I detta scenario handlar det nog väldigt mycket om hur stark man är mentalt, för hur man skulle klara sig. Men som du sa, man är glad att man inte har planerat att flyga någonstans i det närmaste efter att ha sett den... ;) Alive (1993) är en riktigt bra och oerhört stark film i samma andra, om du inte har sett den. Dessutom verklighetsbaserad. Dock inte med Hanks, men riktigt bra och sevärd. Kul att du såg The Naked Gun också! En betydligt lättsammare film. ;)
The Terminal!!?!
What a great reaction.
Thank you!
The tide brought something in............
I don't know if you already reacted to it but Forest Gump is one of Tom Hanks best
I have not, but the movie is on my radar. Thanks for the recommendation
This is "Joe Vs. The Volcano" all over again. Bigger budget and a little more dramatic.
Interesting. Is that movie worth watching too?
@@Sessis It's old but it's one of my favorites.
I think his job is to get the various FedEx facilities to work at a higher performance. That's why he travels a lot as they have facilities all over the world. People get laid back, settled in the job and start not doing a good job. I think his job is essentially to "light a fire" under them and get them moving and improve performance again.
The ending was left up to us to interpret. He was literally and figuratively standing at a crossroads. I think the smile is more on par of hoping for the future, no matter which path he chose. :)
I've always thought a great 'Alternate Ending', would have bee that the last package the he "didn't" open had a Satellite Phone in it.
Haha no that would have been to cruel 😅
@@Sessis I would have opened the package I guess, just to make sure.
@PE4Doers same
42:29 Divorce papers were in the package Dick and Bettina got divorced Dick moved out. The wings sign of the ranch is altered - Dick is gone.
Interesting, I was wondering why Dick got removed from the sign
@@Sessis I saw you did a reaction to "The Green Mile" - together with "Cast Away" "The Shawshank Redemption" (Also a Stephen King non-scary movie) fits well, as a sort of trilogy. It's also Number 1 of all the movies on IMDB and well deserved.
what are the odds of having 2 sets of divorce papers on the same flight over the Pacific ocean.
@@zedwpd you only need to send one set of divorce papers off to Bettina via fedex from wherever Dick went to, for the story to make sense - if signed he probably had to do it again when the first copy went down with the plane.
The package had a set of sculpted wings that was her profession she was a metal sculpter
If you want to see some of his earlier stuff, check out Big or Joe Versus the Volcano. Both are very funny. Also, Forrest Gump. But everyone's going to recommend that one
I've also never seen any other reaction not immediately get the deal with Wilson... guess it's a sign she's probably not been very lonely in her life which is good?
You should watch "Big" from 1988.
Oh, I've never heard of that Tom Hanks movie before. Thank you for the suggestion!
Who is your favorite Disney princess?
Belle 😃
@@Sessis awesome that is a cool princess you picked.