The Goonies (1985)

I have watched this classic many, many times and was the sort of 80's film I grew up with as a child. HEY YOU GUYS!!!

Full disclosure: I wasn't a Goonie generation. However, I decided to watch it upon seeing good ratings and plenty of good reviews. The possibility of watching another 80s adventure classic like Stand By Me was highly intriguing...But movie did not live up to those expectations. At all. The beginning was decent enough though, but soon after enormous plot holes and a lot of shouting mixed with unnecessarily loud background music killed my interest. And that's how it remained for the rest of the movie. It made me so puzzled because how can such a movie get such good reviews? I've seen some wonderful movies and series who were bashed big time even though their supposed plot holes were nothing compared to those in Goonies (I mean, how come nobody in 350 years wondered what was at the bottom of that wishing well?!).The only explanation I found is that you can like Goonies only if it was your childhood movie. I tried watching it at age 22, and it simply did not work.

I saw this movie several times as a kid and thought it was fun then. Saw it again a few weeks ago in celebration of the 30 years Goonies has been around. Still find it to be a nice and fun movie. Yeah sure a lot of the stuff would require you to suspend your disbelief. In some cases quite a large bit but that's the best part. One of my favorite scenes in general of film is when the three main villains were asking the fat kid Chunk about him telling them everything and he gave away all his worst secrets. That scene was funny back then and is even funnier now when I see it a few years older. I was surprised to head that Sean Astin was in this movie. The person who played Sam in the Lord of the Rings movies about fifteen years later. Sloth is a very enjoyable character who always brings a smile to my face and the way he acts is one of the funniest I have ever seen. I would suggest that you check this movie out. It's a lot of fun but as stated before you would have suspend your disbelief a bit.

I grew up in the ninties and so I could've easily seen The Goonies when I was a kid, but for whatever reason (maybe the language) I never did.I watched The Goonies for the first time in my life this year as a young adult and despite the fact that I was watching through 2017 eyes, I was instantly brought back to my childhood. As if I knew the characters in this movie when I was a kid. As if I had seen the movie countless times as a kid.The Goonies is such a wonderful mixture of fantasy, adventure, wonder, excitement, exploration, and humor; combined with the classic Spielberg style, it's a film that makes a lasting impact and leaves you wanting more.Since watching the film, I've been looking for others like it, but to no avail. No number of "movies like the goonies" Google searches seems to be enough. I've been left to conclude, at least for the time being, that The Goonies is unmatched in the authentic mid-1980s adventure that it embodies.