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The Goonies (1985) - 25 corrections

Directed by Richard Donner, starring Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano, John Matuszak, Jonathan Ke Quan, Josh Brolin, Martha Plimpton, Robert Davi (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery

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In the scene where the Goonies descend into the fireplace, Ma Fratelli, Jake and Francis walk into the room. Ma Fratelli makes a comment about someone having been there, as the water jug is busted. Jake replies that maybe it was just a tremor. She responds by saying she'll show him a tremor and slaps him. As she does, she accidentally yanks Francis's headphones out of the jack and he almost drops the walkman he's holding. He starts to crack up with laughter, but manages to hold it together. [How is this a mistake? He thought it was funny that his brother got in trouble, but held it together so as not to draw his mother's ire upon himself. Perfectly in character.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
When Troy, Andy and Stef are in Troy's car, Troy tilts the mirror to look up Andy's skirt. However later when Andy and Stef sneak up on the boys outside the Lighthouse lounge, Andy says to Brand Troy was looking down her shirt. [There is absolutely no way to look up a skirt from a mirror placed above your head. He's trying to look at her cleavage. ]
Edit Corrected by Garlonuss
When Mikey holds the doubloon up from a distance, the two rocks and the lighthouse are a perfect match for the three holes in the coin. If the coin was really from 1632, how could the lighthouse even be in it? Lighthouses weren't made until a LONG time later in the 1800's or so. [First of all, lighthouses have been around since the Egyptians (Pharos lighthouse was built in 280 BC). It's lens-based lighthouses that were constructed starting in the early 1800's, but there's no reason there couldn't have been another structure or a rudimentary "warning light" station where the present lighthouse was constructed, that the doubloon was made to reference.]
Edit Corrected by JC Fernandez
In the shot where Data busts through the screen door, you can see his cap fall off as he crashes into Mikey. In the following shot, as the others begin to recover from the pile-up, Data's cap can be seen on his head again. [We don't even see Data in the following shot. It isn’t until three shots later that we actually see Data, and by this time he's wearing the baseball cap - plenty of time for him to put it back on his head.]
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At the end of the film when the Goonies reunite with their families, Rosalita goes over to Mikey and takes off his hat and cop jacket that he was wearing and puts a blanket on him instead. In the very next shot, Mikey is still wearing the hat. [Mikey isn't even in the next shot, so we really can't see if he wears the hat or not.]
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In the scene where the kids are entering the hole in the basement of the lighthouse (i.e. the start of the tunnel), Data is seen wearing a pair of white Nike shoes. In the next shot, where his feet are coming down the tunnel, his shoes have changed to a pair of grey/black Nikes. [Those are not Data's sneakers they are Mouth's black Nikes. We first see a close-up of the bottom of Data's legs, wearing the folded blue jeans and white high-top Nikes with the blue swoosh, stepping down just over Stef's head as she is descending. Then we see a close-up of the bottom of Mouth's legs wearing his zippered space pants and black low-top Nikes. Then we see a shot of Data's face as he is heading down. Data's sneakers never change.]
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When all the kids are in the well and they're all shouting at Troy at the same time, the name "Troy" is shouted twice by one of the characters and the second "Troy" overlapped the first one. [That's an echo.]
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The scene with the octopus wasn't originally a deleted scene because I remember as a kid watching this movie, they put a tape player inside of the octopus mouth and it starts dancing to it, so the Goonies get away. I have never seen the movie on VHS or DVD so I shouldn't know this. [The Octopus scene was absolutely not in any theatrical release of the Goonies, this is confirmed on the DVD commentary multiple times.]
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At the end of the movie when they are all looking at the ship sail off into the sunset, there is one problem: this took place in Oregon and the sun sets over the ocean in the west, which is correct. But the kids coming out the cave takes place in the morning, so the sun would not have been there, as it comes up in the east. [It NEVER once mentions that it is morning. 1) Sunlight can be seen entering the cave that holds Willie's ship from the first time they arrive, well before all the scenes on the ship even take place. 2) One of the beach patrol officers CLEARLY states that the kids were not there earlier, indicating that some time has passed since first light. The sun setting on the sea is accurate based on the timeline of the movie.]
Edit Corrected by Jazetopher
During the diner scene, in which Chunk tells Mikey that this is not the sort of place you want to go to, in the bathroom we see a camera man moving from our right to left, in the mirror behind them. [Mikey never goes to the bathroom at the diner. He tells her he has to go, and she tells him where it is. He then goes downstairs, and straight to the room where they are keeping Sloth chained up. Then Josh comes and takes him out of the resteraunt. Having said this, I can't find this camera person anywhere.]
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The Goonies discover a bunch of candles in Chester Copperpot's backpack and take them; among them is a stick of dynamite. Dynamite essentially consists of nitroglycerin soaked in sawdust or diatomaceous earth; old dynamite tends to 'sweat' the nitroglycerine, which makes handling the stuff very dangerous. Since the stick has been lying there for about 50 years, and with all the jostling the Goonies go through from that point, it should have gone off. [A: Old dynamite doesn't always sweat nitroglycerin. It depends on the condition of the dynamite and the storage space. B: Nitroglycerin is a highly instable substance. Sometimes a tiny shake can set it off. Other times it can be hit with a hammer and not go off.]
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The movie says that the Goonies' house is in danger because it's wanted for a golf course. But they live on a very steep and hilly street - exactly the opposite of the open, flat (if with low hills) kind of land needed for a golf course. [They need land in order to build maintenance sheds and buildings. Maybe that is what was going on the Walsh land.]
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In the end, Rosalita is the one who saves them all by running over and shouting (in Spanish, which Mouth translates) for them not to sign the contract, since they have the jewels they can use to get the money they need. But since it's already been established that she doesn't understand English, how would she know that they needed money? How would she know that they're signing something precisely because they didn't have it? Mouth never told her, and nobody else speaks any Spanish to have told her. [Simply because she wasn't told in the movie doesn't mean that Mouth or someone else didn't tell her at some other point.]
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When the boys run out on Brand and Mouth flattens his tires, Mikey is wearing a denim jacket. When they are looking for the restaurant after riding their bikes, he is wearing a yellow coat. [With the weather being quite rainy Mikey and Mouth brought raincoats. When they are on the beach both Mikey and Mouth are wearing a raincoat over their jackets. Their original clothes did not change, they just put something extra on.]
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When Mouth is talking to Rosalita about the attic, you can see that the door pulls down from left to right, but when the Goonies are walking up to the attic, they are walking from right to left. [If you were to walk up any staircase, then turn left by 180 degrees at the top of the stairs, they would appear to descend from left to right as shown in the shot. Not a mistake in the least.]
Edit Corrected by Reformed Dispatcher
At the end of the movie when Rosalita finds the jewels in Mikey's marble bag, she tells Mikey's mum to hold out her hands while she tips them out, Mikey's mum holds out both hands but throughout the movie she has had her one arm in a sling. [You can still put your hand out even though it's in a sling, just not as far out, which is what she did.]
Edit Corrected by Toolio
At the end, it is Rosalita who saves the Goonies' homes from being sold, because she opens the marble bag to find all the precious jewels and runs over to everyone shouting "Don't sign." There's a huge problem with this though: it's already been established that Rosalita doesn't speak English. [Every time I've ever seen this film she's speaking Spanish. Mouth struggles to understand her, and he finally translates it.]
Edit Corrected by Krista
All the scenes in the cave with the pirate ship would surely have been a lot darker, after all they're completely enclosed in a cave with no light source, it would have been pitch black. Instead everything is brilliantly and brightly lit. [This is such a frequent directorial decision, that it does not even qualify as a deliberate mistake.]
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Mouth lets out the air of Brand's bike and to follow Mikey, Brand steals the pink bike from the little girl next door. She says something like, "Give me my bike back." You never see the little girl move her lips. [You never see the little girl move her lips because most of the time she has her back turned away from the camera or is behind Brand, and when you can see the front of her for a split second, her face is out of focus.]
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When the Goonies are walking on the beach at the end of the movie, they meet up with their parents. It is assumed it's morning time. How did Chunk's parents get a pepperoni pizza from Domino's at 7 in the morning? [It's never said that it's 7am, it could just as well be 8 or 9 or even 10, in which case most pizza stores are open by then. Also, how do you know Chunk's parents didn't have a pizza left over from last night? He does appear to be the sort who eats it regularly.]
Edit Corrected by RJR99SS

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