Movie Amnesia
So as I read Bryce’s post on Thursday and left my comments, I did a little self-analysis. I am the absolute worst at remembering things from movies and TV shows. Let me tell you a story to express myself better.
Once upon a weekend when I worked at camp for my first year, I watched the movie Cast Away (starring Tom Hanks). When I started it, I thought “I think that I don’t like this movie, but I can’t remember why.” Throughout the movie I kept thinking how good it was and that I had to have been mistaken about not liking it before. I laughed at his conversations with Wilson the volleyball, and cried when his wife had moved on and didn’t take him back, I also was curious as to what was in the FedEx package he chose not to open.
At the end, he drove on a gravel road and met another car. They smiled at eachother or something. Then he pulled up to a house and carried the package onto the porch. He rang the doorbell. But no one was home. He left the package at the front door, and drove off. And for some reason, I am thinking that at the very end there some reference to a fork in the road (of his life or something stupid like that). I can’t quite remember.
To the writers of Cast Away: You mean to tell me that I’m not going to EVER know what was in that stupid package?! Do you think you were being CREATIVE? No, you were being LAZY because you couldn’t think of anything good enough to actually be IN the STUPID PACKAGE!
I quickly remembered why I don’t like the movie. Now I hate it because I experienced that anger. Twice. Three times, if you count this post. Four, if you count when I read this post. When the credits started rolling, I was screaming at the TV. I think Jackie might have witnessed this. I was very angry and left the house and went and shot hoops for a while, with a basketball that badly needed to be pumped up. Which made me more angry. I felt like this guy.
The other day, I saw an advertisement on TV – otherwise known as a commercial – that said Cast Away was going to be on TNT this weekend. I thought, “Oh! Miles and I should watch that!” Anyway, thanks to Bryce, for saving me.
And probably saving Miles.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:42 am
From now on, I’ll do my best to remind you of which movies you like and don’t like. For instance, you don’t like “Cast Away”.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:46 am
ok so now since I have never seen Cast Away my curiosity has been peaked and I may HAVE to watch Cast Away. I’ll let you know if I am mad also.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:55 am
check this out… http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/ff_8.html
October 6th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
So I hope you have never seen Pulp Fiction because that is just as bad if not worse. I liked Pulp Fiction but it still has the same sort of thing included.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
Actually, I have seen Pulp Fiction. But I don’t remember any of it. Except that John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson are in it. I think.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
your welcome.
October 7th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
Insert from Wikipedia
In a panel discussing the movie, Director Robert Zemeckis said that the final unopened package at the end contained a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone. However opening it would have destroyed the premise of the movie (a man being stranded in the island).
October 7th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Castaway? More like Boraphil…
October 8th, 2006 at 12:06 am
You should watch The Adventures of Pluto Nash because after you watch it and forget everything you’ll be a much happier person you couldn’t remember.
October 8th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
HOLLI! I do remember watching you freak out! I also remember being disapointed, though I never quite experienced your anger… They showed it on t.v. while I was in Australia. I thought of you, laughed, and chose to leave the room while my roommates watched it. It would have been too painful to sit through. I did get a kick out of remembering your reaction!!
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Hey Holli, maybe it was empty and it was a plug for fed x since they probably paid millions for the use of their name and logo???? Just a thought
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