Just finished watching the goonies on dvd recently and I forgot how much I love this film. I used to watch it off and on for about a year about 12 years ago but I havent seen it since, and all the memories came flooding back. I think alot of Spielbergs films are really sentimental but it works on me everytime. Also I loved the extras where you can see what the cast are up to now as they were reunited to comment on the film. It was kind of sad though how they all had there own lives and had grown apart although if I remember right data and chunk are still best friends. I kind of hoped they would all still be goonies ahhh well its such a shame you have to grow up.

You are a strange little monkey.

I do love the goonies too, though.

Never seen it, but I know the ending was filmed at Goat Rock Beach, about 20 minutes from where I live.

ahhh now I have the damn Cyndi Lauper song stuck in my head

A YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YYYYYAAAAA

Yes its a beautiful part of america where it was filmed Astoria, Oregon I believe.

CarrieLee said:

I love that song rock on cyndi.



I dont know why but she really turns me on!

I love her too. Always have.

I've only seen it once. I thought it was ok. I liked the song by Cyndi Lauper though.

rolling said:

I love that MOVIE!!!!

Out of all those 80's/early 90's movies with kids in it, from the ones I have seen, I actually thought "the goonies" was kinda average and slow going.


"dream a little dream" for example is alot more enjoyable to me, as was Speilbergs "hook", which is a film I dont think even he likes LOL

ok, you're Dani.

I was telling my brother about ablog John Mayer wrote about that movie today.

I liked that movie, how could you not?
I liked the blog about it too.


*****

the goonies switcheroo 05/31 by JM
From http://www.johnmayer.com/blog




Go back into the annals of beloved '80s films, and you'd be hard pressed to find a movie closer to the hearts of thirty-somethings than The Goonies. I'll spare you the synopsis, as you most likely already know it, but if you don't, no need to worry - you've seen 20 other movies like it in its time. The template: nerdy but affable underdog(s) suffer unrelenting ridicule by jocks in varsity letter jackets but ultimately have their comeuppance, usually stealing a smoking hot girlfriend or two in the process.

In the case of The Goonies, a band of awkward, socially outcast kids set off to find a buried treasure, narrowly averting almost certain death and outrunning, among others, a popular high school jock named Troy. Troy is one of the classic cinematic archetypes of the 1980s; the jock. He's good looking, rocks a period-relative badass Mustang convertible, and he's a total prick. All we can do from the moment Troy enters the frame is to wait with baited breath to see Troy lose and the Goonies win.

And in that end, back in 1985 when the underdogs had their day, (and their bag of jewels), and the final credits rolled and we called our parents for a ride home, we realized something fantastic: It's true, we weren't Troy. But for the first time, thanks to The Goonies, we no longer wanted to be Troy. It was okay to be us, thank you very much.

Cut to present day.

What happened to the better part of a generation that once walked out of their local theater rooting for the Mikeys and Chunks and Datas of the world? They've turned into Troys. Troys who can't accept the differences in others and condemn the things they don't understand. Finger-pointing, shit-talking Troys.

Ask yourself: with whom do you identify more these days, Troy or the Goonies? And if you're reading this and you happen to be an Internet shit-talker, could it be because you think I'm Troy? Because honest to God, I've always fancied myself a Goonie; the underdog who toppled over the narrow-minded naysayers and walked away with a treasure.

So maybe this whole thing is one big misunderstanding and it turns out we don't need to go down as a generation remembered as having spent the '00s wearing our asses like hats after all. Maybe it will turn out that we needed a little time to figure out that in the end we're all just a bunch of Goonies.

JM

that monster thing is the only reason why i don't watch it.

Sweeny79 said:

Thats nice, but its odd how even friends who hate that I bore them with nostalgic 80's movies, love the goonies, but I dont.

Right here! I love me some Goonies.

Goonies is excellent!

I love Goonies, it's one of my favorite movies!!!!

That's so funny that you should mention The Goonies! I finally watched it for the FIRST time a couple of days ago. It was cute and fun, but as someone else pointed out, a little drawn out.

Much love for P in the movie, eh? Between Corey Feldman's Purple Rain t-shirt and Sean Astin's 'When Doves Cry" head board, it really shows Prince's dominance during this time.

I have it own it and love it what more needs to be said? lol

love it long time!

got it on my ipod

Good movie..havent seen it in years! i forgot feldman was in it,,,what a fu$%-up

I love me some Goonies


Dead things Mikey, DEAD THINGS !

Mach said:

"Do the truffle shuffle,.....DO IT!"

toots said:

Mach said:

I wonder if there is a clip of that shuffle then Id be happy
found it!



I love it!
[Edited 8/3/08 15:26pm]

toots said:

"Tell us everything! EVERYTHING!
- Everything. OK! I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog... When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out... But the worst thing I ever done - I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life."

MarySharon said: