Cast away, die hard, and college football championships

[Obliviax]

God love Xmas seasons

 

[YeOldeCup]

God love Xmas seasons

Don't forget Lethal Weapon, also a Christmas movie...

 

[The Spin Meister]

And The Outlaw Josey Wales on the Outdoor Channel.

 

[Anison]

Find room in your hearts - and streaming services - for all-time Christmas comedy Trading Places during this season, friends.

 

[Obliviax]

I finally figured out the ending after watching that movie like ten times in my life.

last night they played it back to back. So I watched the ending followed by the beginning. The beginning shows the ranch Artist girl sending a package. They show the arched entrance to the ranch with the name ‘dick something’ and the wings. The package goes to Moscow where a Cowboy gets a package and he tells his hottie GF it is from his wife. At the end hanks drops off the package he kept for years unopened on the island. The wings are a symbol of the sail he created to escape the island and its tides. He sees that the arch and it is damaged. What he doesn’t know is the guys name, the guy shacked up with the hottie in Moscow, had been destroyed/removed.

So the guy at the beginning is the rancher girls husband. She, now single, gives hanks directions. Fate is that her ‘wings’ saved him.

obviously the fact that she is now single and is his fate leads one to the conclusion that he goes back to her. Fate intercedes. In this case fate took away his Memphis girlfriend and gives him a replacement. It works out!

BTW the scene were he explains his time on the island to his former coworker was inserted into the movie after test marketing it. The message is to live. To breath. Keep moving forward and fate will provide a path

 

[The Spin Meister]

Here’s one interpretation below. But let me add a twist......the woman goes home sees the package, picks it up, and realizes it is one she sent to her now-divorced husband. Imagine what emotional scars were aggravated by that! And not knowing what was in it.....probably something very meaningful that has she created.....a symbol of their love? So she cries a tear and then opens the door and sees the note. A strange and powerful moment. A package holding the scars of her divorce saved someone's life? How is that possible?

One other thing to point out. In the opening scene the wings on the package are pink and they took major efforts to point that out. Pictured it several times, the driver points out it is pink, she says it a pink kinda day. In the closing scene, the colors have faded by the sun and salt water to light brown. And when she drives away in the truck the wings on the truck tailgate are light brown!