“Good enough, for you it’s good enough…” I have always loved, loved, loved the film, The Goonies from 1985. I was 9 years old when it came out and would have died to go look for that pirate ship. Anyone else relate to this film? I still get a kick out of watching it every time it comes on! Here are some fun facts about the film. Hope you are having a great weekend friends.
–The pirate ship was entirely real. All the shots were filmed in the ship. After the film, it was offered to anyone who would take it. No one wanted it, so the ship was scrapped.
–Richard Donner kept both One-Eyed Willie’s head and a model for the ship.
–When the boys are sitting in the living room watching MTV, they weren’t actually watching the Cyndi Lauper “Good Enough” video, which was developed six months after filming wrapped up.
–When the Fratelli brothers argue Anne Ramsey really slaps Robert Davi. She was told to hit him as hard as she could.
–Jeff Cohen got the chicken pox after he got the role of Chunk. He showed up to the set anyway, afraid that they would have replaced him otherwise.
–The cast was not allowed to see the pirate ship before the scene was shot. When they did see it, some of the kids said “Holy shit!” The scene had to be re-shot without them cursing.
–When Chunk and Sloth head down through the grate to follow the gang and the Fratellis, Sloth is wearing an Oakland Raiders T-Shirt. John Matuszak, who played Sloth, was a former Oakland Raiders football player.
–The kids who played the Goonies were allowed to bring some of their families into the final scene where they are reunited.
–According to Sean Astin, he was allowed to keep the treasure map used in the film. Several years later his mother discovered it, thought it was just a crinkled piece of paper, and threw it in the trash.
–One Eyed Willie’s ship, The Inferno, was 105 feet long and took 2-1/2 months to construct. It was modeled after Erroll Flynn’s ship in The Sea Hawk (1940). The sails required more than than 7,000 square feet of material. Some of the ship’s rigging was recycled from the Pirates of the Caribbean ship at Disneyland, which was being renovated at the time.
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I LOVE this movie!! The goonies is one of the movies that if its on TV I always watch it. That poor Pirate ship!! I would have taken it!! hehe.
I never saw this one, and it’s yet another for my list.
Awww the goonies.
Great movie, but it came out when I was born. I love the trivia!
When my sons were little this was one of their favorite movies!
I have funny memories of that film.
My sister had a boyfriend she wasn’t all that keen on, she was trying to end it but didn’t quite know how. He invited her to the cinema to watch this film and my sister took me along too(I am 4 years older than my sister). I felt like that a gooseberry, his face when he saw me accompanying my sister.. He was not expecting me there. My sister wouldn’t go without me. It was awkward all round…
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Love this movie! Great insider information too. 🙂
Who doesn’t love this movie!?!
It’s a total classic, and one you can watch over and over again.
I make my bf do the truffle shuffle hehe!
I also have a crush on josh brolin (then and now).
Great great great film…..infact I might just go and watch it hehe
My brother did the “truffle shuffle” for many, many years after he saw it in this movie. And it’s totally in my top 5 of all time!!!!
I loved this movie too. They actually showed it a couple of months ago as a free movie in town and I took my girls. They loved it too. It is a classic.
This is an AMAZING movie – I loved it when I was a teenager and now my kids have a copy and watch it constantly 😀