Comments on: Movie Trivia: The Goonies

By: William Ressegue

William Ressegue — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:58:55 +0000

Has to be the best kids movie, no matter what the age, ever made. I’m still wishing for treasure.

Thanks for the Dream.

By: RK

RK — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:05:57 +0000

“The ’80s were not kind to most children”

Not sure what you meant by this. Having grown up in the 80′s, I wouldn’t want to have grown up in any other decade. So many great films, albums, tv shows, fantastic video games and toys etc. It truly made being young that much more awesome!!!

By: katieyhip

katieyhip — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:46:39 +0000

LOVE THIS MOVIE! Glad to pass the love of it on to my kids. But I wonder why Kerri Green wasn’t in the video?

By: granma goonie

granma goonie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:25:39 +0000

I was a young mother of three childern when the Goonies came out. We all still love it.

You forgot to mention that Jeff Cohen had the Chicken Pocks when he did the “TRUFFLE SHUFFLE” makeup had to cover them

By: shaz

shaz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:34:11 +0000

The website is the goonies .org

By: shaz

shaz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:33:27 +0000

Hey you guys!

For any of you Goonies fans who haven’t heard, there is a 25th Anniversary Event taking place in Astoria, Oregon (the place where the movie was filmed) from the 4th to 7th June this year!!

Head over to the above Goonies Website for all the info !!

See you there hopefully!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:01:02 +0000

at the end of the movie the little kid says we dont have to leave the goon docs! so hence ‘the goonies’

By: shaz

shaz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:42:57 +0000

Why won’t you let me post here? It’s shaz from the above mentioned website. I’m trying to thank you.

By: shaz

shaz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:41:49 +0000

Neatorama, thank you very much for mentioning our Goonies website. Your site is cool too.

All goonies fans please come and visit us for all your treasure hunting pleasure!

Renee, where did you get your info on Bob Scaife please?

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:37:46 +0000

I remember seeing the octopus scene in the VHS version…but than that could also be the one my mom taped for us from the TV before we bought the actual VHS one…

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:53:32 +0000

The housekeeper most recently played Carlos’ mom Juanita Solis on Desperate Housewives.

By: Patrick Kuhn

Patrick Kuhn — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:20:52 +0000

You know what is great about the Goonies? It never gets old. In 1985 I was just a kid, and clearly I thought the movie was a riot (except Corey, aka “Mouth,” who was and still is an obnoxious, washed-up, man’s-ass-licker). When it’s cold and rainy outside, there’s nothing better than grabbing a pillow, some snacks and camping out on the sofa all day watching movies, one of which always turns out to be “The Goonies,” and sometimes “Stand By Me,” which was also a great movie that would have been a lot better had they cast someone besides Corey Feldman (or whatever his name is).

By: MAd Dog

MAd Dog — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:25:33 +0000

My buddy, Tom Berman, did the makeup effects for the Goonies. And as a side note, he is often tied to the famous Sasquatch video clip (Waking away and looking over his shoulder) because the rumor had been that a makeup specialist from the Original Planet of the Apes (which Tom worked on) created it.

He’s a very cool guy also Nominated for an Oscar for Scrooged.

By: Ophelia

Ophelia — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:06:48 +0000

I feel SO VINDICATED in having proof that the octopus scene exists! I have been arguing about this for years now, insisting that I saw it when I was a kid. Every person I have ever said this to told me I was making it up or remembering wrong… Suckers!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:01:36 +0000

I was also a big fan of this movie. Reminds me of my exciting childhood days. I guess I’ve seen this 10x already.

By: ted

ted — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:57:25 +0000

Never actually saw the movie, much less five times. I think I saw part of it on tv and promptly turned to something interesting.

By: Terry B

Terry B — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:21:33 +0000

I worked for a promotion agency in Minneapolis that coordinated a number of cross-promotions between The Goonies and other products – ie: buy x numbers of Hi-C drink boxes and get a Goonies Treasure Map, etc. We also were the agency that arranged the product placement of our client, Nabisco’s candy bar Baby Ruth in the movie. Remember when Chunk offers Sloth a Baby Ruth? Our company had 1 MILLION, 500 thousand posters of that scene printed, and ‘near-packed’ them in just about every grocery store in the US and Canada! (Near pack means that the poster premium is there at the store, and when you buy a bag of Baby Ruths, you get your poster right away. No sending away for it…)

Our bosses flew the team out to the set during filming as a perk for nearly killing ourselves getting ready for the promotions.

We had a private screening in Minneapolis before it was released – sort of a perk/thanks for working the project. You mentioned the octopus that was originally in the movie? Data mentions it to his mom… The scene was removed because the preview audiences in LA hated it. It looked too fakey and too overplayed.

Well in our preview screen there were a few frames of the octopus’ leg thrashing around in the water that they’d missed when cutting that scene out. It was removed before it hit the theatres.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. It was fun for me to work on the movie, as I was an Oregonian living in Minneapolis. I’m now back in Oregon and often reminded of the movie.

By: Stéphane

Stéphane — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:18:05 +0000

Thanks for the post, just made me watch the film again!

I just noticed that the cage of the chicken in the gate opening Rube Goldberg contraption bears a short text: “RUBE G. 83″

Trivial trivia, i know…

By: Rickintx

Rickintx — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:42:04 +0000

Ok, I saw this movie as a kid, thought it was just awful, have always heard this movie referred to by other gen xers as one of their favorites..never understood the love…watched it again recently to see if my taste had changed (matured, whatever), I gotta say, still think this movie is awful, so many better flicks from that era. For the record, I had a great childhood, filled with happy memories, not a “hater”, just think some people’s memories are a little tainted with sentimentality..

By: Katey

Katey — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:19:00 +0000

There’s a printing press like the ones I run at work in the movie… they show it as part of a counterfeiting operation… however… money is engraved- the printing is raised- whereas the press shown works by the relief process and the printing is depressed. That money wouldn’t pass. Minor print geek plot hole!

By: Starving Artist

Starving Artist — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:21:17 +0000

I had no idea that was Sean Astin.

I was sorry to read about the actor that played Sloth. Sloth was my favorite part of the movie.

By: DOJ

DOJ — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:15:10 +0000

I remember the octopus!

fond memories of childhood

By: Geozilla

Geozilla — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:49:02 +0000

Scenes from Free Willy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Short Circuit, Kindergarten Cop and a few more movies were shot in Astoria were shot in the same area of the Goonies House. If you are ever in the area you can take a free Ipod Friendly tour. http://www.komonews.com/outdoors/destinations/37622334.html

By: Renee

Renee — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:48:53 +0000

Oh and by the way to answer daedrans question no the slide and the cave no longer exist they were built specifically for the movie and like the sets from most movies they become a dead strike after filming is complete…..

p.s
a dead strike is the tear down and dispossal of a movie set upon completion of filming!

By: Renee

Renee — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:41:03 +0000

Speaking of the attic scene heres a little known fact-
when Mikey knocks over the picture and then picks it up so we can see who it is,we learn the story of Chester Copperpot Mikey says,”hes the original Goonie!”Well the man in the photo is Robert Scaife the construction coordinator,it has been told that when Steven Spielberg had came across that picture of Bob from a previous film they had done together,that he felt it was the perfect look………
and I just know that Bob is smiling down from heaven over the fact that people are still speaking of a movie that was made so many years ago!!!!

By: A

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:08:57 +0000

DO THE TRUFFLE SHUFFLE!

By: Sweet Jeesus

Sweet Jeesus — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:59:41 +0000

The Sheltering Sky

By: burninglily

burninglily — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:20:23 +0000

Have to say, this is on the top of my list of all time favs from that era. Timeless.

By: Wings (Caffeinated Joe)

Wings (Caffeinated Joe) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:20:19 +0000

Wow. Love The Goonies, but how weird is it that I stumbled across Cyndi Lauper’s Goonies video on YouTube this morning and watched the whole thing?

Coincidence? Seredipity?

Love the movie.

By: JeffB

JeffB — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:02:54 +0000

Mikey saying the wrong name:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYbPoOsBkMM&feature=related

Minute 8:22

By: ECA

ECA — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:57:37 +0000

They all ready made goonies 2…IT was worse then a flop.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:51:17 +0000

@Chandrielle – He said he had a prior commitment with Joey Pants and he’s annoyed that the cut of the DVD commentary just made it look like he left without anyone knowing.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/446/446990p7.html

By: Chandrielle

Chandrielle — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:34:46 +0000

I’ve seen the lost octopus scene, too. I’ve only found one other person who has seen it and will back me up when I say it really exists.

Why DID Sean walk out on the commentary? He just disappeared shortly after it started. They thought he went to the bathroom or something but he never came back.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:42:46 +0000

Jeff Cohen was president of my freshman class in Berkeley. He turned out okay

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:42:17 +0000

@Johnny Cat – yep, that’s Chunk in the grey shirt. The picture is from 2001 when they all got together to do the commentary for the DVD.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:25:13 +0000

OH! And Kerry Green, who played Andy and also starred in “Lucas” with Corey Haim, Charlie Sheen, and Winona Ryder, got out of acting a few years after Goonies and became an art student. She’s only recently started taking roles again, including a turn as a young mother on “ER”.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:22:22 +0000

I remember that octopus scene, too. I think the televised version also had a scene of the boys buying supplies at a drugstore and looking thru Mad Magazine, a point referenced later when Mickey figures out the trick of folding the map in on itself. And I think they do mention the Goon Docks, maybe right around the time the developers show up. Something like “they’re gonna tear down the Goon Docks.” Maybe. I don’t know.

Johnny Cat, I too had never realized that was Josh Brolin. I did always wonder why Josh Brolin looked so familiar…

Random bit of gossip. It’s fairly well known that John Astin (TV’s Gomez Adams) married Patty Duke after she’d given birth to son Sean, whom Astin adopted. But it’s a little unclear who Sean’s biological father is. John and Patty dated in 1970, but she was also dating Desi Arnaz, Jr. Desi’s mother, Lucille Ball, disapproved of the relationship and told her son to end it. On the rebound, Patty married rock music promoter Michael Tell, whom she barely knew. That’s when she became pregnant. Patty later insisted her marriage with Tell was never consummated, and she believed Astin to be the real father, though the media tried to link Sean to the Arnaz clan, a rumor that was fueled when Desi Sr. visited Patty in the hospital just after Sean’s birth in February of ’71.

Ahh, Hollywood.

By: NeonCat

NeonCat — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:53:47 +0000

Never seen it, never wanted to. No judgment on those that love it, but your first question was “who hasn’t seen etc.”

By: Marcintosh

Marcintosh — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:32:48 +0000

When Sloth saves the day at the end wearing a Superman shirt you can hear a brief snippet of the theme from Superman: The Movie, also directed by Richard Donner.

By: Stacy L.

Stacy L. — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:31:28 +0000

Also when Chunk is being interrogated and the Fratelli bros are eating ice cream…near the end of that scene when Chunk gets the ice cream turn up the volume. Right after they rip the spoon out of his mouth and he sobs you can hear the director (and maybe others) laughing in the background just before the scene cuts to something else…he improvised the spoon thing if I remember right.

There’s also a lot of interesting trivia on the imdb site… http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/trivia

By: hifidigitalboy

hifidigitalboy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:20:18 +0000

Some versions of the movie shown on television do show the octopus scene.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:42:05 +0000

Wow! First of all, I just now realized that was Josh Brolin. That last photo is pretty dang cool, I must say. Is that Chunk??

Also, I always had a thing for Martha Plimpton. Not sure why, she just does it for me. Goonies Rock!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:41:58 +0000

I have to say. Out of all the child actors I’ve seen grown up, these guys all look the most normal. I’m actually taken aback! Come on, it’s not Hollywood unless there are a few drugged up, botched-surgery, wanna-be stars.

They obviously didn’t get the memo.

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:24:26 +0000

I LOVE this movie.

Oh, and while the name Goonies may not be explained in the actual movie, it was in the book. Yes, there was a book based on the screenplay out at that time and I was geek enough to read it more than once.

By: Daedren

Daedren — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:57:28 +0000

Yes! No amount of words can express the pure awesome that is the Goonies.

I wonder if the water slides still exist in whatever cave they used?

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:54:19 +0000

Sigh… I tripped the auto mod again. What did I say now?

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:53:28 +0000

A few interesting tid bits of info, I never actualy knew the story behind the guy that played Sloth untill now. When that was group pic with all of them there taken?

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:50:07 +0000

I went to college with Jeff and he was by far one of the nicest guys there. FYI- the nicest guy at CAL at that time though was your very own Alex of Neatorama (and I am not just saying that because I married the guy).