Let me start off by admitting something - I’m a special/collector’s/limited edition whore. That being said, what the heck is supposed to be so good about the Cast Away SE DVD that’s supposed to revolutionize DVDs (or whatever it is the commercial says it does)?
More importantly, is the Cast Away DVD really that good?
Wait a minute, wouldn’t obtaining the Castaway DVD mean that you’d actually have to watch Castaway?
Oh, the horror… 
M.
Hey, shut up, I just watched the movie yesterday, and it brought tears to my eyes.
Anyway, KK (we missed you at the last Fest, by the way), info on the total content of the DVD set can be found over at Yahoo! Movies: http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=v&id=1802771203
Don’t know if that helps or not… but it’s something (I don’t pay much attention to DVD sales, myself).
Well, I don’t know about revolutionizing DVD’s. I liked the movie, though…
I took a look at the DVD at the rental store, and it is pretty packed. But the thing is, there’s already other DVD’s that have much more in the way of special features (Fight Club, T2: Judgement Day, Brazil: Criterion, for example). I think it’s a marketing ploy.
However, the DVD does look pretty good, and I’ve heard good things about the special features.
I liked the featurette titled, “Wilson: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Extra”. I’ve always loved that little volleyball.
Just in case some of you missed it, I submitted this Castaway easter egg to DVD Review for a friend of mine: put in the second disk and go to the “Video and Stills Gallery”. Move the highlight down to the “Raft Escape” entry, then go left. A pair of wings will highlight. Click, and you will learn what was in the package that Tom Hanks kept unopened all those years on the island. The answer was given on March 13, 2001, by Robert Zemeckis at the USC School of Cinema and Television during a Q&A session. It’s pretty damn funny.
Does FedX bring it to your door?
You know a strange thing about that video is that it’s two words NOT one, Cast Away. Check the box yourself.
Isn’t the DVD going to come with an antenna ball of the volleyball thing?
Thanks for the link SPOOFE. From what I can gather, it’s just another special edition DVD. Oh well… :o
Oh, and handy, I like that. FedX, has a very…men in black feel to it.
While I thought the movie was okay, I was really surprised at how much CGI was involved.
Didn’t you think that, in the scene where he opens the box with the dress in it, you’d see him in a slightly deranged state running around wearing it along with the ice skates?
So Max Torque, seeing as I do not own a DVD player, you going to tell what was in the package? My guess was a cell phone. haha
***** SPOILER OF THE EASTER EGG *****
Close. Satellite phone. Which, of course, would have worked anywhere, and let him escape pronto had he just opened the damn package.
HAHA imgaine that!!! Thank you for the spoilier! 
Well, just a little further info on the special features: the reviewer at IGN DVD thought the features were a bit to overhyped. Also, that the commentary track was pretty boring. Besides that, though, they thought it was pretty cool.
Just thought I’d pass this on.
In any of the special add ons does it tell what the deal with those foot prints in the sand were about? In another thread I’m sure we all pretty much determined it was just the pilot that ended up dying who had crawled ashore. Of course this wasn’t in the movie, the pilot just washed up. I still swear that I saw a trailer with Hanks seeing foot steps in the sand. Does the DVD have anything about that? If not then I hardly believe that it is “complete” and “the best thing ever.”
I dunno, it was floating around in the ocean for a pretty long time. I mean, my friend dropped her cell phone into the pretty clear, non-salt (I think) water of the toilet once and it died pretty nicely. Hate to think what a dunk in the ocean would do to any electronics…
Oh, hell, KK, where’s your sense of twisted irony? The freakin’ phone was wrapped in waterproof plastic, okay? That’s how it was floating. If it wasn’t waterproof (or, at least, very water-resistant), it would’ve sunk… capiche?
Sheesh. You have to explain EVERYTHING to kids these days. It must be all that Anime they watch…
There are a lot of DVD that have ‘special’ features that should be labled ‘extra’ features.
Dammit, SPOOFE, shouldn’t you be off in the corner playing Diablo or something?
I can see that…but…wouldn’t it have to have an active power cell? And also a registered user?