Corrected entry: 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.
Question: Wouldn't the plumbers who installed the pipes for the country club have had access to the cavern that didn't require them to face traps? Couldn't the kids have gotten out that way?
Answer: Once Mikey convinced everyone to stay down there and continue the treasure hunt, they stopped looking for a way out. There might have been another passage out of the cavern leading to such a door out, but we didn't see it from our angle and they just chose not to take it.
Answer: The pipes could have been there for decades, and the original entrance had been sealed or bulldozed (though the odds that the pipes never needed maintenance all that time are a little far-fetched).
Except that when they start banging on the pipes, it actually causes chaos at the country club that Troy is at.
Question: How did Brand knows where to find Mikey and The Goonies at the abandoned restaurant?
Answer: Brand didn't know specifically where the Goonies went, but he got on the bike and went searching. Viewers didn't get to see how many places Brand looked before he found them at the restaurant or how much time it took him, but he probably biked down the one road in town until he spotted their bikes and then looked nearby. The fact that Brand apparently found the Goonies within a short amount of time suggests that there were relatively few places that they could have gone, probably because they lived in a small town that was at least semi-rural. Other than old houses, there were only a few landmarks (including the restaurant and lighthouse). There may have been spots that kids tended to gravitate toward and Brand might have had a good idea as to where they most likely went.
It's a plot hole.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: So...you've never heard of a mountain golf course? Hills and mountains add to the difficulty. Golf courses do not require flat land.
I live in the Goondocks and you obviously haven't seen the house. No way was a golf course or anything related to one going to be put on that site. Strange they picked Uppertown but we love love love the Goonies and all the fans so no harm no foul.
Correction: They need land in order to build maintenance sheds and buildings. Maybe that is what was going on the Walsh land.
Correction: The idea of residential demolition is almost always taking the landscape down to the base. During the 70s-80s in the US there were hundreds of thousands of flat, or mostly flat, housing developments made out of very hilly, rocky terrain. Seeing as they would more than likely need to remove all of the dug utilities and update them anyway, the demo/scaping team will be pulling up well below the water table in the entire area. This would not only flatten out enough to build a golf course/country club, but would explain the "pretty soon there won't even be a goondocks anymore" line.
Correction: Literally what a sand trap has is a big hill spot then a slope in which the sand begins. Some of the larger courses have ponds in which they have uneven hills. I mean, play Wii sports and you see hills.
Question: Anyone know why the scene with the Octopus was deleted for the DVD? Data mentions it and it is a continuity error on this site, I just want to know why they would have deleted it.
Chosen answer: It wasn't deleted for the DVD, it was never shown in the cinema or VHS either. The quality of the special effects octopus was such low quality, that they decided not to include it in the final cut of the film.
It was actually in the film at one time. I 100% watched it on VHS and in television growing up. I never understood why they took it out later. From what I read. Stephen Spielberg hated it so much they removed it later.
Corrected entry: In the bone organ scene, before playing the last note, Andy says that she doesn't know if it's an A sharp or a B flat. On a piano or organ with the standard keyboard (and there is no reason to think that this organ uses anything else) these notes are the same and played with the same key.
Correction: That's the whole point. She'll play the correct note either way.
She wouldn't know if she played the correct note because even though she's been taking piano lessons, it's shown that she's a bit rusty.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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 restaurant. Having said this, I can't find this camera person anywhere.
Correction: Every time I've ever seen this film she's speaking Spanish. Mouth struggles to understand her, and he finally translates it.
Krista
I literally watched this film last night, and it is totally untrue that she shouts "Don't sign" in English.