25+ years and the movie is still being discussed & aired = classic
25+ years and the movie is being discussed with this passion = cult classic
25+ years and the movie is being discussed with this passion = cult classic
Quit picking on poor Piratecat, there are other people who don't like the Goonies. I'm sure Scrooge and the Grinch don't like The Goonies either.
Not to mention that those caves go everywhere under that town, and nobody has ever come across them before (well, except for Copperpot and One-Eyed-Willie...)
But...uhm...do not mistake the above comment for anything other than absolute love and adoration of this movie...
Seriously though, I do agree with most of your criticisms of the movie. But, besides the nostalgia of it being a movie I saw in high school, it's a movie I took my wife (then girlfriend) to see when we were dating. So, I've got a bit of sentamentalism wrapped up with it also. She loves it too.
Is a mod's offsite behavior a concern for the EN World community?
Yea, I hear they like Highlander 2 too!
Yea, I hear they like Highlander 2 too!
No surprise - the director of Temple of Doom is one of the writers of Goonies and the guy's a totally talentless hack. But I did like 1941, which he was also responsible for.By "classic," Crothian means "mediocre but covered by a mucous-like gloss of nostalgia"!
Even when I saw it the adventure in the goonies was really sub-par compared to the adventure I could have pictured in my head. Scads of lost potential and plot holes and just dumb choices. Re-seeing it as an adult, it was even worse than I imagined.
Plus, it featured Short Round, and he still has a lot to answer for from Temple of Doom.
Goonies? Is that the one with annoying kids going into caves but there wasn't any real fantasy to it? I vaguely recall boring trailers for it and assumed it was a straight-to-video thing.
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