Has anyone got The Goonies on DVD?

[RastaPope]

This stuff is cracked.

First off, the commentary track sucks. They got all the kids back, with Donner. Donner seems only half there. Feldman spends the whole time telling back jokes, then telling them again because no one laughs. It's fun to see Data, that little kid looks the damned same. Keri Green is still hot as all hell. But. Sean Astin leaves midway through for no apparent reason. Weird stuff.

There's a fair amount of cut scenes, including the fabled 'octopus' scene...remember towards the end Data says "The octopus was wewey scewy!" Yeah, it's there. Not all the cut scenes are on the DVD, though I've got a tape with every one known to exist.

And, as a bonus gift, they include the 15 minute 2-part Cyndi Lauper video featuring a score of 1980's wrestlers. And some pretty funny gooks making chinese food or some shit.

Both the audio and video transfer is pretty damned good, considering. It was worth my 15 bucks.

 

[Amaterasu]

i loved that movie......

can still recite the lines when it comes on TBS or whatever....

Damn I wanted to be Keri Green.....


K

 

[Guest]

Damn I wanted to be Keri Green.....

I wanted her all my teenie years. Maybe I can fuck you instead?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Well...

The Goonies is liked by many. It's popcorn. It's fun. It has moments.

It's also not a very good film.

The story had more annoying holes than Bonnie and Clyde's car, and more unneccesarily complicated booby-traps than Anna Nicole Smiths lingerie drawer. And kids DO actually notice things like that.

(Like, what is the purpose of the booby-traps? Other pirates buried the treasure, and that worked just fine. And how does a wishing well bottom-up in a cave? And when they think they're pulling Keri up the well, aren't they concerned that she only seems to weigh as much as a jacket? And just what makes the father think at the end that all their problems are solved when the bag of gems is found? Don't you think he might have a few questions to ask first? How exactly did that piano key booby-trap work? Was One-Eyed Willie an expert in tone and vibration? How did he know the thing would fall apart like that? Did he test it for a few months? And there never really did seem to be any point in the gangsters following the kids into the cave. I could go on. And on. And on. And on. I GET that it's just fun, but so much implausibility just puts the movie in the mediocre category.)

The worst part of the film was the sound -- it was Godawful. You could barely hear the dialogue, particuarly at the top of the film (it was like trying to understand what the hell Popeye is saying), and the sound effects throughout were screechy and annoying. This, fortunately, is an easy enough problem to fix on a DVD, and I'm sure they did.

Aside from all that I liked the pirate ship at the end and Keri has nice legs and the movie had Joey Pants, so it's all good.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I remember my innocent days when movies were for entertainment....

Oh, lost, my youthful moviegoing innocence, I miss you and your kind, benevolent spirit and your fascination with the simply joy of laughter. Alas, movies are more than happy entertainment, they require discernment, intellectualism, and careful consideration. What might have passed as enjoyment for what is can no longer exist without the considered consequence of what it might have been had it been different. I can no longer accept you, young naivete, for to find joy in the act of being entertained is now a sin. I weep, copious tears, as I move into the realm of criticism. I am but mortal, I am but human, my heart bleeds to be thought of as unworthy, as one of those thoughtless sinners who flock to the Star Trek conventions and Star Wars lines. For they know not what real moviegoing is, they only know how to wallow in the bosom of innocent desire for the simple sweet entertainment such unworthiness provides.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Pshaw.

There's good popcorn and bad popcorn, and The Goonies is mediocre popcorn.

 

[Guest]

LOL

Shuttup, U2.

Keri was hot.

 

[Mistress]

I bought the video from walmart a couple weeks ago



I am on a mission to find all the movies of the 80's I grew up watching and that I loved.

Back then it didn't matter that all those holes were in it, all that mattered was that it was a bunch of teens who saved the day and beat the bad guys....

 

[Guest]

Chuck!

 

[KillerMuffin]

Pshaw.

There's good popcorn and bad popcorn, and The Goonies is mediocre popcorn.

Don't interrupt me when I'm doing a Shatner version of Shakespeare knockoff.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Something wicked this way hams.

 

[sunstruck]

I haven't bought the DVD, but I do love the movie. It just reminds me of my childhood and times when I didn't look for holes in anything nevermind movie plots.

But not everyone was a kid when it came out. I don't think it would cause the same warm fuzzies if I was in my late teens when I saw it.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I knew plenty of kids that found the Goonies boring. They weren't looking for plot holes, either, but they knew something was off.

 

[sunstruck]

I knew plenty of kids that found the Goonies boring. They weren't looking for plot holes, either, but they knew something was off.

Well your childhood friends must have been far smarter than me. I just sat back with my raisenettes and laughed at the bad guy slamming his crotch on a log. Silly me.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Well, I was talking about my kid and his friends. I was a grown-up when that movie came out LOL.

 

[sunstruck]

Well, I was talking about my kid and his friends. I was a grown-up when that movie came out LOL.

When did you grow up? lol Sometimes I forget you're 15 years my senior.

Plus YOUR kids don't count. They're all hollywoodified by you. They could probably name every actor who'd ever played Hamlet before pre-school.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I loved the Goonies. I didn't believe it a bit, but I loved the movie. Being a kid isn't about believing. It's about having something that you can let your imagination be a part of. Doesn't matter if it's well produced, written, directed, or acted. All that matters is that it captures the imagination.

My son doesn't like the Goonies. He does, however, adore everything Toho Co. has ever put out. There's nothing cheezier than a Japanese Godzilla movie. It's fake, it's badly acted, they're stupid. They engage my son's imagination.

That's where you'be been jaded, Dix. I wonder if you even notice it sometimes. It's like me trying to read online porno these days. Not that I'm some super writer or anything, but my knowledge has jaded me. I can't read a lot of it because it's not quality.

Sometimes we just have to understand that quality isn't always necessary for good entertainment. The imagination and the fantasy are frequently more important.

 

[sunstruck]

Sometimes we just have to understand that quality isn't always necessary for good entertainment. The imagination and the fantasy are frequently more important.

You rock my world muffin butt.

 

[Amaterasu]

I wanted her all my teenie years. Maybe I can fuck you instead?

well, my name IS Keri......



Keri

 

[RastaPope]

Nothing beats Chunk crying and telling his life's sob story when they threaten to shove his meaty little mitt in the blender.

Also, Data.

 

[Amaterasu]

you gotta love the truffle shuffle.......

Keri

 

[RastaPope]

you gotta love the truffle shuffle.......

Keri

Fucking A.

On the DVD, he talks about it...Oh, and btw, he's like, skinny now. Looks uncannily like Andrew McCarthy, though he has the same smile. Anyhow, he had chickenpox at the time. They hired him, and he got the pox and didn't tell them cause he was afraid of being fired. So if you get the dvd and zoom in on his gut when he's jiggling, you can see 'em.

 

[Amaterasu]

Fucking A.

On the DVD, he talks about it...Oh, and btw, he's like, skinny now. Looks uncannily like Andrew McCarthy, though he has the same smile. Anyhow, he had chickenpox at the time. They hired him, and he got the pox and didn't tell them cause he was afraid of being fired. So if you get the dvd and zoom in on his gut when he's jiggling, you can see 'em.

sounds like its worth seeing, Rasta.....

i can't imagine Chunk skinny..... i just can't!


I don't care if the movie sucked..... i loved it as a kid, and i'll continue to love it for those sentimental reasons...

Keri