Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax2.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Very Short review of GOONIES Message-ID: <792@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 01:40:51 EDT Article-I.D.: vax2.792 Posted: Sun Jul 14 01:40:51 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 05:47:06 EDT Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 31 Went in to see GOONIES on a double bill yesterday, and was very pleasantly surprised after all the nasty reviews I had been seeing. I have to admit that in the field of real-life adventure, I should probably wait for _The_Emerald_Forest_; but for an adventure for kids, I think you could hardly do as well, these days, as GOONIES. I laughed a good deal through this, as many of the one-liners provoke chuckles; and I think that what GOONIES loses in credibility (with Sloth, etc.), it gains as a film that kids will enjoy. If you go in with total suspension of belief, I think you'll like it. Also, two of the complaints I heard -- the kids were hard to understand because they talk at the same time, and that all the kids were one-note stereotypes -- strike me as completely bogus; I had no problem following the dialogue at any time, and many of the kids came through emotionally on several levels. Besides, as an ex-Oregonian, it's worth it to see California real estate developers thwarted any way they can be. PS Donner's use of the music from _The_Sea_Hawk_ was a brilliant idea. I just wish he had credited Korngold for the sources (every time I hear the theme to _The_Sea_Hawk_, I'm ready to grab my cutlass and board those corporate swabs right out). "He was sweet and sincere and giving and good... AND A CHERISHED NEIGHBOR UNDESERVING OF SUCH A FATE!! "Nevertheless, better him than me. Amen." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsri}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA