The Goonies 2!

[Fingolfin269]

A movie like Goonies just doesn't work today. We used to ride our bikes far from home. Today I don't think kids are allowed to go outside of the cul-de-sac. A grand adventure today would be discovering something new one street over from your own.

 

[AViking]

That's so depressing. Goonies was basically how I grew up.

 

[poofyhairguy]

What about 80's fashion? Ugh.

Meh, I live in a very hipster town. All those 80's clothing and beards seem almost downright stylish sometimes.

A movie like Goonies just doesn't work today. We used to ride our bikes far from home. Today I don't think kids are allowed to go outside of the cul-de-sac. A grand adventure today would be discovering something new one street over from your own.

Exactly.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Yeah I was a kid in the 80's, but I pretty much only watched horror movies when i was little. I did love The Lost Boys which you mentioned in a later post.

KT

No kid from the 80s who missed The Goonies ever truly lived!

 

[QueBert]

A movie like Goonies just doesn't work today. We used to ride our bikes far from home. Today I don't think kids are allowed to go outside of the cul-de-sac. A grand adventure today would be discovering something new one street over from your own.

QTF I remember in '83 when friends and I found map in one of our attics and used it to go search for pirate treasure in a cave at the beach. We were chased by baddies who wanted to kill us. We ended up finding the treasure and were thankfully able to escape from the crooks. We used said treasure to pay off the mortgage of one of the friends who was about to get evicted.

Kids today with their Playstations and Facebooks don't know shit about that!

 

[manimal]

Saxaphone anywhere

omg this


the pain stick

 

[AViking]

QTF I remember in '83 when friends and I found map in one of our attics and used it to go search for pirate treasure in a cave at the beach. We were chased by baddies who wanted to kill us. We ended up finding the treasure and were thankfully able to escape from the crooks. We used said treasure to pay off the mortgage of one of the friends who was about to get evicted.

Kids today with their Playstations and Facebooks don't know shit about that!

On a serious note in the 80's we did get on our bikes, cross vast distances, and search for treasure.

 

[rh71]

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case in point

Why another remake?

Has Hollywood run out of ideas?

instant following and interest

 

[HumblePie]

Pretty sure I've never actually seen the original movie so I don't really care either way.

KT

WTF!!!!

This is your homework then. If I was I a mod I would hand you an infraction for lack of culture. This was great 80's cheesy movie at it's best.

 

[poofyhairguy]

the pain stick

My wife tried rewatching Spin City recently and I had to ask her to stop because of all the sax.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Pretty sure I've never actually seen the original movie so I don't really care either way.

KT

 

[KeithTalent]

WTF!!!!

This is your homework then. If I was I a mod I would hand you an infraction for lack of culture. This was great 80's cheesy movie at it's best.

I don't know man, I am still trying to make it through the Ninja Turtles movie and it's kind of a slog. Not sure I want to re-visit a lot more of these old kids movies.

KT

 

[Fingolfin269]

I don't know man, I am still trying to make it through the Ninja Turtles movie and it's kind of a slog. Not sure I want to re-visit a lot more of these old kids movies.

KT

The Goonies is so much better than TMNT that putting Goonies > TMNT just isn't good enough.

 

[Linux23]

God i love being a turrrrrrrrrrtleeeeeeeeee.

 

[Linux23]

they really don't make movies like they used to. or tv shows for that matter. 🙁

 

[ImpulsE69]

Nah I know who Sloth is and I know the Cindy Lauper song; I think that's all I need.

KT

Actually it is very good. I just rewatched it a few months ago. Sure it's an 80's movie, but it's one of the better ones.

You of all people should have seen this and if you haven't need to.

Some of it may not ring as well with you not having seen it as a kid, but..eh.

PS: I hated the turtles movies.

 

[poofyhairguy]

they really don't make movies like they used to.

They can't. Audience attention spans are at an all-time low so even a serious picture like The Great Gatsby has to have something new and shiny every other minute. The drama picture or the story development picture has to be independent in order to not be crap.

On the TV side though it has gotten much much better thanks to R-rated shows with production values that beat even the best movies of the 80s.

I would take GOT, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men or Sherlock over any show made in the 80s, even if that cuts out a few seasons of my alltime favorite show (TNG).

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Me to the screenwriters: "HEY YOU GUYS!"

Screenwriters: What?

Me: "Quit screwing with my childhood memories and leave good enough alone!"

 

[QueBert]

If they're going to remake such a popular movie, they should at least put a huge spin on it.
A mash up movie of Goonies & The Warriors could be interesting. The crooks in the original Goonies were lame. Now Chunk and the gang getting chased by bat welding Baseball Fury members could be pretty bad ass.

 

[MarkXIX]

-Children given an unrealistic level of freedom that helicopter parents of today wouldn't allow.

The Goonies suffers hard from the last one. Heck the kid from Big going into the city cuts it close.

My mom's rules back then were that we came home when the street lights came on or before then if dinner was on the table. We rode our bikes everywhere, including when we lived in Germany.

'Round the clock, national/international news coverage has convinced everyone that there's a kidnapper, molester, or murderer on every street corner unfortunately. Statistically, we're safer now than ever.

Hell, in my mind those old movies should be a standard our kids today strive to obtain again! My wife gets mad at me when I let our kids go play in the woods out back, even if they take my cell phone with them for "safety" purposes.

PS - I fucking HATE Nancy Grace because she perpetuates a lot of this bullshit.

 

[smackababy]

My mom's rules back then were that we came home when the street lights came on or before then if dinner was on the table. We rode our bikes everywhere, including when we lived in Germany.

'Round the clock, national/international news coverage has convinced everyone that there's a kidnapper, molester, or murderer on every street corner unfortunately. Statistically, we're safer now than ever.

Hell, in my mind those old movies should be a standard our kids today strive to obtain again! My wife gets mad at me when I let our kids go play in the woods out back, even if they take my cell phone with them for "safety" purposes.

PS - I fucking HATE Nancy Grace because she perpetuates a lot of this bullshit.

It is funny because one of the kids from my neighborhood was actually kidnapped on my block. He got into a stranger's car and was taken somewhere. They eventually found him like 15 miles away or something. And all we got was the "Don't get in the car with strangers" talk a few times and sent back to our own devices. My mother's rules for dinner were "if you're not home when it gets dark and dinner is on the table, you don't get to eat." Yeah, I tried testing that rule once. Never again.

 

[poofyhairguy]

PS - I fucking HATE Nancy Grace because she perpetuates a lot of this bullshit.

The whole mainstream media does in America, its sick. Heck even Hollywood has Taken a few different angles to cash in on that parental fear.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

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[Aikouka]

Pretty much sounds like a boobie twap to me! D:

Actually it is very good. I just rewatched it a few months ago. Sure it's an 80's movie, but it's one of the better ones.

The only thing that I can't stand about The Goonies today is that Data. Yells. Everything.

 

[zinfamous]

Pretty sure I've never actually seen the original movie so I don't really care either way.

KT

can we somehow blame this on your Canadian-nes? I'm not sure how that would work, but I am trying to help you out here. Not sure that I can, though, because this is a really tough thing to admit, much less overcome.

Stay strong, brutha.