The Goonies
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2017
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
HEY YOU GUYS! Can you believe it's taken us nearly five years to get to The Goonies?! We know it's been a frustratingly long wait for a lot of you, but with a rising premium being placed on this particular brand of Amblin-esque nostalgia these days, it finally felt like the right time to dig out that old treasure map and search for rich stuff.
All three of us experienced the film at different points in our lives and that definitely had an impact on how we felt about it. In addition to sorting through some of these wildly different reactions, we also address the backlash the film has received in certain circles recently and whether or not that movement has any merit.
Get away from Troy's bucket because it's our time down here.
Topics include: Spielberg's notoriously more "hands-on" approach to producing, the traumatic experience one of us had on our first viewing, some suggestions for a cleaner way to set up the back story, an incredibly ill-advised real-life Goonie adventure, deleted scenes that were broadcast on the TV version, the Goonies 2 video game, whether or not an actual sequel is even a good idea at this point, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember the Goonies? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.4 | And today we're revisiting The Goonies. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah. I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting the Goonies. Long before cameras rolled on the Goonies in the fall of 1984, the project was just a |
| 0:58.3 | germ of an idea in the mind of producer Steven Spielberg. And like so many of the films, |
| 1:02.9 | he helped Shepard in the mid to late 80s, he had originally hoped to direct this one himself. |
| 1:07.8 | But with an ever-expanding roster of titles he was attached to, it soon became clear |
| 1:11.5 | that if he wanted the movie to get made sometime that century, he'd have to find someone else to |
| 1:16.2 | call the shots. Spielberg offered the gig to Richard Donner, and working from a script by Gremlin's |
| 1:21.5 | screenwriter Chris Columbus, the two of them developed a sort of tag-team approach to working on the |
| 1:26.1 | film. Anyone familiar with the poltergeist controversy knows that Spielberg had a reputation for being a little bit more hands-on as a producer. |
| 1:34.1 | It's why so many of the Amblen films he didn't direct still feel of a piece with the rest of his filmography. |
| 1:39.5 | So it probably won't come as much of a surprise to learn that he was on set every day of the shoot |
| 1:44.0 | and directed |
| 1:44.8 | a lot of second unit sequences when the production fell behind schedule. And although there's no |
| 1:49.3 | question that the Goonies is first and foremost a Richard Donner film, Spielberg's influence was |
| 1:54.0 | large enough that stars Sean Aston and Corey Feldman have both spoken about the somewhat unusual |
| 1:58.8 | situation of being directed by both of them, |
| 2:01.8 | and not always for different scenes, but often at the same time. Donner would give his feedback, |
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