It drags on and on and on, with nothing really interesting happening. I mean, it's not really Tom Hanks' fault. You can only do so much with a "stranded on an island" plot.
Yes it's a tinder chick. And I've accidentally checked my phone during a date before and had the "you have a new match!" message clear as day on my phone.
You'll like the flick. Definitely a man movie. Plus it's got little survival / outdoorsy tricks in it that you'll enjoy as an outdoorsy guy yourself. One that comes to mind is Leo constructs a little rock wall in a stream as a choke point to lure fish in. I'd seen this on Survivorman (I think) so it was cool seeing stuff like that in the film.
I often wonder how long I could survive in the wild with nothing but my wits and maybe a pocketknife. I could probably procure food and shelter but would contract Giardia from the water and s*** myself to death.
I lived most of my childhood in the Wilmington area and remember the FF hermit very well, saw him several times. Forgot that he had been murdered, um, I mean had a heart attack. Sad.
Glad you liked it cuz I really really enjoyed it. Correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't some of it filmed in Tierra Del Fuego? That's supposed to be one of the cruelest, least inhabitable places on earth.
Yup. See the last picture from the link I posted. Beautiful, but inhospitable.
That thought crosses my mind any time I'm traveling in the western U.S. I try to imagine what a family or traveling party with horses and covered wagons would have thought when they ran into (mountains, rivers, deserts, fill in the blank _____).
Yeah I couldn't read the article when I posted that. But I can read it now. Maybe I'm thinking of a different place/region. I know Les Stroud went to some place (thought it was T d F) that was just brutal and he was saying pretty much all attempts at settlement there usually failed because people got sick of the conditions.
