HEY YOU GUYS!!!!! Summer is the best time to watch the Goonies. I think most kids fantasize about finding a map that leads them to hidden pirate treasure. The Goonies is an action-comedy…like a “Raiders of the Lost Ark” for children. Our family watches the Goonies several times during the summer…just like my brother and sister and I did when we were growing up in the eighties. We are of the Goonie generation. We are Goonies! My children are Goonies now too and summer is “our time!“. Whenever they hear me play Cyndi Lauper and Good Enough comes on they shout, “GOONIES!”
Don’t you realize? The next time you see sky, it’ll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it’ll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what’s right for them. Because it’s their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it’s our time. It’s our time down here. That’s all over the second we ride up Troy’s bucket. ~Mickey
1. JUNE 7TH IS “GOONIES DAY.”
The mayor of Astoria, Oregon named June 7th “Goonies Day” in honor of the movie, and the town hosts an annual celebration. It’s a weekend of treasure hunting, group truffle shuffles and trivia scavenger hunts. If you’re planning a trip to Astoria, here’s a Goonies guide. Not only will you see where the Goonies was filmed but Astoria is also the oldest settlement west of the Rockies…rich with history and Victorian architecture.
2. THE FILM WAS MOSTLY SHOT ON LOCATION IN ASTORIA.
Other than the cave with One-Eyed Willy’s pirate ship that was shot in Burbank, California, The Goonies was shot almost entirely in sequence in Astoria, Oregon on a five-month shooting schedule.
3. DATA MENTIONS A SCENE THAT WAS CUT FROM THE MOVIE.
If you listen carefully, you’ll here Data mention that “the octopus was very scary” to the reporters at the end of the movie. There wasn’t an octopus scene in the movie…because it was cut.
4. CYNDI LAUPER’S “GOONIES R GOOD ENOUGH” IS A GOONIES ANTHEM.
I remember watching Lauper’s seven-minute music video on MTV. It features appearances by executive producer Steven Spielberg, the Bangles and André the Giant and of course…The Goonies. Cyndi was upset about Steven Spielberg jamming “The Goonies” into her title. For a long time, she never played it in concert. It’s a great song (one of my favorites)…an anthem for a group of misfit heroes, The Goonies.
5. COREY HAIM AUDITIONED FOR THE ROLE OF MOUTH AND LOST IT TO COREY FELDMAN.
Corey Haim and Corey Feldman ended up becoming best friends after The Goonies. They were both cast in The Lost Boys (1987) then went on to make six more movies together. In License to Drive (1988), Feldman auditioned for the lead role, but lost it to Haim.
Enjoy The Goonies this summer and revel in the nostalgia of Mikey and the gang’s epic voyage, and you’ll soon find yourself “setting booty traps and doing the truffle shuffle.”
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