This one goes out to someone who’s never seen The Goonies.

We watched The Goonies in class in fourth grade, like it’s part of the cur­ricu­lum. I hope your pal watches this fine piece of cin­ema soon!

Oh man, it’s e-mails like that, that I dream of. Seri­ously! H̶a̶l̶f̶ (Most) of the fun of being a movie/pop cul­ture dork is shar­ing this stuff. Be it movie-watching d̶e̶m̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ sug­ges­tions or lit­er­ally mak­ing some­one sit down and watch some­thing with you post-haste. When I look at the obscene amount of flicks I own on DVD I know it was an invest­ment so that I would be able to grab a flick at a moments notice and share it with some­one. Some­times this back­fires and the movie just doesn’t seem to live up to the hype and the p̶o̶o̶r̶ ̶u̶n̶f̶o̶r̶t̶u̶n̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ unini­ti­ated will look at me like I was crazy, but I still love that feel­ing of com­mu­nal movie watch­ing with flicks I love.

Cripes, this makes me want to do some sort of movie-watching event over skype sometime…

Lucky bas­tard!

I only saw The Goonies within the past 5 years or so. I don’t know how it hap­pened either. Maybe it’s because I“m 5–10 years older than those who swear by it but I def­i­nitely loved it.

As a teacher there was noth­ing bet­ter than find­ing a legit rea­son to show a movie. Stand and Deliver, Rudy and Hoosiers is easy. The Matrix was harder. We had a school movie the­atre in the attic of the school on the mil­i­tary base. We always got full movies like the Sun­down­ers and all those Dis­ney films about nature or Com­put­ers that Wore Ten­nis Shoes.

Love the Goonies. I get that stereo­type some­times and will be the first to admit I haven’t seen every­thing that hit the­aters in the 80s. Goonies was the quin­tes­sen­tial 80s kids adven­ture movie so not sure how this par­tic­u­lar per­son might have missed it.

For me, I never need a rea­son to go back and watch some­thing I missed. The excuse of being out­dated that some peo­ple use never sits well with me either. I love see­ing old arcade games, out­dated soft drinks, and the overuse of phrases like “dead meat.” If you don’t like that stuff any­more then you must think today’s pop music is the best ever too.

Hon­estly, I only saw The Goonies within the last year or two (and I’ve still never seen Back to the Future, the Indi­ana Jones movies, and at least one other tril­ogy you nerdlings love)… but I kinda wish I hadn’t. All these years folks had been telling me how great it was, and when I finally saw it? HATED it. As far as flicks with relent­lessly annoy­ing char­ac­ters go, The Goonies comes pretty damned close to top­ping my list.

Shun!

I think I saw it around age 6 the very first time.

This will come as no sur­prise to Under­Scoop­Fire Pod­cast lis­ten­ers, but like Wes, I had never seen it until recently either, and hated it. Like Ben, I only got through about 20 min­utes and stopped. I’m sure if I had seen it when I was SUPPOSED to have seen it (and thus, my stan­dards for good movies were much lower) I’d have liked it. Watch­ing it today and hav­ing no frame of ref­er­ence or nos­tal­gic fond­ness for it was bru­tal. The first 15 min­utes is just kids scream­ing over each other. The dia­logue is unin­tel­li­gi­ble at points. Again, as a kid I prob­a­bly would have liked it. Today, nope. And there are at least 2 oth­ers who’ve already com­mented here that have already chas­tised me for this con­fes­sion I made last year.

There are a lot of major movies that I have never watched nor do I plan on for var­i­ous rea­sons such as Titanic and King­dom of the Crys­tal Skull and a few oth­ers so am not ter­ri­ble sur­prised your friend not see­ing the Goonies but to me this is one of those movies that I feel peo­ple should watch at lest once.

Dude, are you sure you watched it cor­rectly? ;) Just kid­ding. Well, kind of.

I didn’t see the Goonies until I was prob­a­bly 15 or 16. I was chat­ting with an older friend online and I men­tioned it was com­ing on the Dis­ney chan­nel, but I had never seen it and he ordered me to watch it. Hon­estly, I liked it, but didn’t love it. It wasn’t until I saw it a few more times that I really began to appre­ci­ate it. I didn’t have the nos­tal­gic con­nec­tion that my friend’s had, but I started lov­ing it because it sub­con­sciously con­nected to the other 80’s adven­ture movies I remem­ber watch­ing. I can’t quote it line for line, but I’m not stranger to a Goonie’s ref­er­ence anymore.

Plus it’s got two Tur­tles, my favorite Hob­bit and the best part of Tem­ple of Doom, so what’s not to love?

And am I the only one who thought Stef looked like Mouth in drag? Cause she does.

Big­ger than the not watch­ing Goonies ques­tion why do you have over 1000 emails in your spam folder?!