Made me belly laugh - later I heard that bellies shouldn't laugh at this movie

Rating: 8/10 (20 July 2018)

I remember watching this in the cinema when I was just 20 years old. My friend and I found the part where Tom Hanks is talking to Wilson, the volleyball, pretty funny. We even held our bellies in belly laughter; it was hysterically funny to us for some reason that I've forgotten this 18 years later.
The next evening I was reading the newspaper at my night shift gas station attendant job when I saw an editorial in the Ottawa Sun about the movie. The writer was furious about two young men laughing during the movie The Castaway that he wrote a scathing article about the incident and the impudence of the youth and the lack of respect for serious movies.
I didn't feel particularly scolded; I just felt that this man needs to calm down or perhaps get a hemorrhoid removed.
In fact, the friend I brought with me to the cinema was having a hard time at University and the movie was a good way to cheer him up.
The Ottawa Sun columnist was so upset by the incident that he actually wrote a follow up a few days later. Maybe he didn't have a lot of things to write about.
I imagine that he was thinking this during the movie,
"Those impudent ingrates!!! My society makes entertaining serious movies to shape up these rebellious, slovenly, backwards youths and they scoff in my face?! Laughing during the movie? During my viewing time no less?! I am a columnist! You will pay two teenagers! I'll write one scathing article to fix you right the heck up! No, not one, two really scathing articles! Two articles later and you will be so sorry!