The Goonies corrections

The Goonies (1985) - 23 corrections

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

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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.]

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.]

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.] 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.] Corrected by Jazetopher

On the DVD commentary, the actors talk about the scene where the boys are in the attic and Data and Brand are looking at the electricity ball; you can hear Data saying "dont touch it JOSH" which is Brand's real name. [If you listen really close you can hear Data say "Don't touch it CHUNK" not JOSH. But I must admidt it is kind of hard to hear cause of all the kids talking in the backround.]

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.]

The reaction you see from the Goonies when they first see the Pirate Ship is their real reaction. Steven Spielberg didn't want them to see the ship before shooting those scenes because he wanted a from the guts reaction. Apparently they were a little 'vocal' in their shock at seeing the ship that the scene had to be re-shot, minus the bad words. [If it had to be re-shot how can it be their first reactions?]

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.] Corrected by shortdanzr

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.] Corrected by shortdanzr

When Chunk unknowingly flags down the ORV (Jeep Cherokee) driven by the Fratelli brothers, right after the one guy sings, in the front shot of the ORV with the hatch open, look under it towards the back. There are cables running from the woods on the left, up into the ORV (possibly lighting the inside of the ORV). (ORV - Off Road Vehicle.) [The 'cables' you see are vague marks on the road, they could even be skidmarks. ]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

Mouth lets out the air of Brndon's bike and to follow Mikey, Brandon 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 Brandon, and when you can see the front of her for a split second, her face is out of focus.]

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 7 in the morning. It could just as well be 8 or 9 or even 10, in which most pizza stores are open by then. Also, how do you know Chunk's parents didnt have a pizza left over from last night? He does appear to be the sort who eats it regularly.]

If the secret tunnel system leads through the pipe-filled passage below the country club, then why have the tunnels remained such a secret? Surely when those pipes were built or maintained, the workers would have noticed the tunnels. [In the original edit, the kids got into a pushing match and one of them was pushed through a brick wall that was made to hide the tunnels. The version that was released to theaters simply had the kids going right into the secret tunnels.]

At the beginning of the movie, when the Goonies find the map in Mikey's attic, Mikey says that the Inferno was chased into the cave by the British Armada, who then sealed the entrance of the cave with cannon fire, trapping One-Eyed Willy and his crew inside. Yet near the end of the movie, Mama Fratelli sets off a trap which makes the blocked entrance of the cave crumble, and revealing the mouth. If One-Eyed Willy was able to build a trap that could do this, why didn't he just unblock the entrance and sail away to enjoy his plundered wealth, rather than stay trapped in that cave and die. [The trap only makes the anchor go up. It is the dynamite that makes the cave collapse, so Willy couldn't have gotten out on his own.]

In all of the shots of the characters holding a prop, the hands are not of the actual actors - they even mention this on the DVD. For example, when Chunk kicks the article about Chestor Copperpot over, it then shows him picking the article up. It is not his arm, as the arm looks older and fatter. [The actors were actually only joking about this on the commentary. The hands are those of the actors themselves.]