Tuesday, June 08, 2010
The Goonies celebrates its 25th birthday
From denofgeek, Now, this makes us feel old. Richard Donner's classic (in our opinion, at least) family adventure movie The Goonies was released in the US on 7 June 1985, which makes it a quarter of a century old today.
Most worryingly, I can still remember when the young actor Jeff Cohen (who played Lawrence 'Chunk' Cohen) appeared on Terry Wogan's chat show to promote the movie as though it were yesterday. The march of time is a terrifying thing.
But while time has taken its toll on The Goonies' viewers, the film's still an entertaining adventure, despite its antiquated fashions. Sloth's make-up doesn't look quite as convincing now as it did when we were in short trousers, but that only adds to the fun.
So raise a glass to The Goonies, and enjoy this original theatrical trailer, produced all those years ago, and marvel at just how youthful Josh Brolin and Corey Feldman looked...
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Somehow I missed The Goonies back in the day; I didn't see it until just a few years ago. It's 'orrible.
I agree, it's awful. I think it's a generational thing.
Oh, completely. I guess the target generation is probably a few years younger than us, since the goof level is a bit too high for a high school sophomore, which is how old we were.
How bout it youngsters? Be you Goonies freaks?
You guys are joyless jerks. Goonies is great.
the generation gap has been identified -- goonies is an essential childhood memory for my age bracket and was one of my favorite movies when i was a kid.
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