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From: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: GOONIES
Message-ID: <688@dataio.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 05:21:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 05:21:57 1985
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In article <829@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes:
>     Spielberg is now rich and powerful enough that he doesn't have to
>listen to anyone telling him that something is a dumb idea.  Pity--he needs
>it desperately.  He continually undercuts the credibility of his story by
>throwing in absurdities.  In one scene,he has somebody shaking a waterpipe
>somehow create a geyser to blow somebody off a toilet.  The gag brought
>giggles from a few of the eight-year-olds in the audience and for the rest
>of us it looked pretty stupid.  One of the kids is a walking bag of the
>children's equivalent of James Bond gizmos.  That's stupid right there.  Yet
>if you figure the total volume necessary for all that the kid is supposedly
>wearing, there is no room in the clothing for the kid.  The gizmos are used
>with a Road-runner level of believability, too.

Some other ridiculous things about the movie:
	o 300 year old ropes lying in the damp still will hold wait.
	o a 300 year old ship still floats, still has sails that hold
	  air, etc.
	o the kid with all the gizmos reminded me of Batman with 'I just
	  happened to have on my utility belt...'.
	o the kids seemed to be way out in the country in one scene, and
	  under the city in the next, just by walking a few steps in
	  the tunnels.
	o where did the power come from to operate the organ?