After several years I watched 'Cast Away' on TV. I still find the plot interesting but it's utter nonsense. Come on we live in the 21st century and there is no deserted island on this planet were nobody goes for four years. This movie may be realistic 100 years ago but not nowadays.
shareThere are thousands of uninhabited islands that no one goes to with any regularity still, all over the world. There are strings of tiny volcanic islands that are known about but people just never bother going to for any particular reason because there's nothing worth seeing. A lot of times, drug runners use those islands briefly.
I think it's entirely possible for someone today to become marooned on any of those islands, but it's likely they wouldn't be there for 4 years without being found...nor would a small island like that necessarily be able to sustain someone for that length of time.
Now with GPS and all that, I would think they would know where planes go down & would at least search the nearby islands for any survivors.
"If you just talk, I find that your mouth comes out with stuff." ~ Karl Pilkington
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shareLady you 10 years too late 😎
shareI sometimes reply to old imdb posts for sake of discussion, even though I know the original poster won't see it. But usually it's because I'm compelled to share my thoughts on the topic in a way that I feel adds to the discussion and is worthwhile for others that may be reading.
I have never felt compelled to reply to an old post with "this" 😎😎😎
Like, what's the point? :)
Don't even remember this! Most likely had been on the vino 😉
shareMaybe he or she was stuck on an island.
shareMost of the movie is based in the 20th Century, not the 21st.
shareMost of the movie is based in the 20th Century, not the 21st.
LOL!
shareListen kid, you obviously have no idea. There are bunch of islands for example in Adriatic which you'd spend a *beep* of time before someone passed close to them, let along ON AN OCEAN.
"Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!"
Dalmatia!!!
shareAbso-f.cking-lutely. :D
"Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!"
My favorite place.
shareGood to hear. You visit often?
"Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!"
Had a house In Opatija. Love the whole country. Past life though. This was with an ex boyfriend who was from there. Very happy in marriage with the opposite type of person now. Hard to date an eastern European man. Would love to go back though.
shareOh, so Istria. I'm from Dalmatia, actually.
"Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!"
yes there still are. Check Nikumaroro Island... Until we searched it for Earhart, no one had been there for a long long time
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There are pockets of Japanese on some of those South Pacific Islands who still don't know the war is over.
sharerephrase: there WERE pockets...
to OP: I think the particular island was surrounded by a lot of rocks and coral reefs, not suitable for close inspection from a boat, and not remotely in the neighborhood of regular shipping lanes, except from that one ship that Chuck spotted in the beginning.
Just his luck to not get washed up on Gilligan's Island.
shareLol.. there are so many unhabited islands in our world. Earth is pretty big place. For example, Indonesia has roughly 18306 islands, dont you think everyone ever to come there, right ?
shareDon't forget the plane was off course in the storm and there is no way to know how far he traveled in the raft before he hit the island. There was a story a few years ago of a couple stuck on a small Pacific island for 3 months when their boat went down.
shareI live way out in the middle of nowhere, and planes fly over my house many many times a week. While I can see him being stranded, I can't see a plane NEVER flying over the island in 4 years...
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Shuji Terayama forever.
....and, of course, all pilots of commercial airliners are constantly looking down on every small island they fly over when crossing the ocean just in case someone is standing on the beach, waving to them.
share".and, of course, all pilots of commercial airliners are constantly looking down on every small island they fly over when crossing the ocean just in case someone is standing on the beach, waving to them."
When a commericla airliner is over the pacific somewhere they're usually at a very high altitude since there's no airport close by. There is absolutely NO chance to spot a person on a desertet island. The island itself would be a tiny dot.
“When a commericla airliner is over the pacific somewhere they're usually at a very high altitude since there's no airport close by. There is absolutely NO chance to spot a person on a desertet island. The island itself would be a tiny dot.”
^This