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Goonies, Baby, Goonies
This week’s Friday Flashback comes to me in an email reading: What was the first movie you ever saw? What was your first notable movie memory? And what effect did it have on you?
I wasn’t sure at first. I didn’t know if I’d get to play this week because how many people want to hear about how I sang “It’s a Hard Knock Life” to my record of the Annie Soundtrack
But then I remembered The Goonies. Remember The Goonies? Unless you lived, or live, in the northwest, preferably in SW Washington or NW Oregon, you might not. Having grown up in Houston, I’d never think twice about it except that we moved to Washington in 1989 and drove by the house of The Goonies about three times a year.
I don’t clearly remember The Goonies. But I do remember wanting to kiss Sean Astin. And being a little scared of the basement. And watching it with my eyes closed unless Sean was on screen.
Did I mention Sean? I think I was a little boy crazed as a pre-teen. (Which is evident from my Jr. High journal. Le Sigh.)
In fact, thinking back, I rarely remember anything at all about the movie minus the cute boy, the scary basement, and the fat kid. So this trailer was like a new release for me.
Do you remember?
** Other Badass Mothers remembering their youthful Hollywood intros include **
Oh The Joys
Mamalouges *updated with the actually right URL. Because I rock the typo.
Izzy Mom
Her Bad Mother
Sweetney
Do you have a debut Hollywood Film you recall? And is it different now that you look back? Or is your childhood mind sharper and more focused than mine?
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Yes…I slept with a poster of Sean Astin…yes, I was a bit in love with the boy…still think he’s quite cute…even as a hobbit!
When we moved to the NW…we went drove to the Oregon Coast on our honeymoon…on my honeymoon I went through Astoria! So much fun!!
So the lisp girl went for the asthma boy…hmmmm. I loved Goonies and just introduced it to Drake a few weeks ago. Our administrator actually used one of the clips yesterday in a meeting - the one where Chunk has to do the belly dance to get in the house. (smile) Such a classic!
I loved the Goonies. This was one of my own picks too.
Not a mom, but I played anyway! Neener neener.
Sigh! Sean Astin!
Who could forget the Goonies? “No sign!”
My first movie memory is Star Wars. We went to the first showing and sat through every showing except the last two.
LOVED Goonies.
Goonies never say die! Love that movie. Love Astoria, Oregon.
Not sure what my first memory is but it could be Annie, Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back, specificially) or Poltergeist. GAH.
Love the goonies! Adore the Goonies. One of the best movies evah! I thought S.A. was pretty darlin’ back then, too. Target has the Goonies DVD for 9.50 right now.
You know you wanna go get one!
First you gotta do the Truffle Shuffle!
Goonies was a favourite when I was a young teen. And now I watch it with my 12 and 16 year-old daughters…we all love it.
The Goonies is one of my favorite movies, ever!
I love The Goonies. My daughter learned her first curse word from that movie not too long ago. “Oh Sh!t!” from the opening sequence when Chunk dumps his milkshake on the window.
Oh, dude, I LOVE Goonies. It’s a movie that still rocked, even when I saw it a mere 5 years ago. It’s also on the list of “movies I can’t stop watching whenever I run across it on tv.”
Confession time: I’ve never seen the Goonies.
Lost Boys. Oh, Keifer. What times we had….
Lost Boys. Oh, Keifer. What times we had….
I could probably have said Star Wars, too, but the one with the Ewoks. (dude, which one is that again? Tsk Tsk on me)
I’m glad I’m not alone with the Goonie memories. I thought I totally pulled it out of my butt, which I’m wont to do.
Oh, The Goonies. Those were the days. My dad and I used to watch that all the time. He loved Chunk and Sloth the best I think. I really need to go buy that on DVD one of these days.
We just got a copy of Goonies on DVD for $8; our kids LOVE it! It’s good retro fun…I thought Josh Brolin was the shit, especially with those hot shorts & knee high socks.
Good stuff
Ben - can’t believe you have never see Goonies - you have been deprived! I forgot about Lost Boys too, another yummy boy movie.
I played this week as well
I’d love to share my movies, but I’m off to get a hold of the Goonies—I feel so left out!
Goonies up on my Netflix queue, right after Sweeney Todd and 27 dresses, but before Serpico.
This better be good for me to delay Serpico…
Oh don’t you go and say people from Houston don’t know the Goonies. It is one of the first movies I remember…and yes, I own it now.
Totally loved the Goonies. It came on a few weeks ago and my son is a pirate fanatic and he loved it too!
So did you hear about THIS??
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Better clicky link re: Goonies Sequel!
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you know, being as I am from Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, ID* is just spitting distance away I have seen good old Sean and Mackenzie a few times during the summer months. They have..well, changed from the hunks I used to think they were, but they’re not all that bad.
*Their mom Patty Duke resides in CDA and often does theater in Spokane
P.S.
SLOTH LOVE CHUNK!
P.S.S. My first movie in a theater was Life of Brian. But I was like 3 years old or something. But the first I remember seeing and the one that I begged her to take me to was Return of the Jedi and from then on everything was Ewok ewok ewok!
Looove Goonies. “This right here, this is my wish. And I’m taking it back”. Le sigh.
Oh and my teenage obsession was Ralph Macchio from Karate Kid. Posters, magazine clippings, evvvverything. I shudder at the memory…at least Astin is actually cute.
This is my confession: I watched the Goonies so much as a kid that at age 9, my dad actually FORBADE me from ever watching it again. And I held to that until I was in high school, when I bought it on VHS and snuck it into the house to watch.
He hadn’t even remembered banishing the movie, so it was ALL. GOOD.
All my friends LOVE The Goonies, but I can’t stand it. I’m of the firm opinion that if you didn’t see it when you were a child, you will never get it.