The Truffle Shuffle

Some interesting discoveries about The Goonies, courtesy of IMDB:

The pirate ship was entirely real. All the shots were filmed in the ship, not on separate stages. After the film, it was offered to anyone who would take it, but sadly, no one wanted it, so the ship was chopped into scraps.

What the hell? There are so many things wrong with this statement, so many reasons it shouldn't be true. First, it's a pirate ship. Second, it's from The Goonies. Third, it's One-eyed Willie's pirate ship from The Goonies! They couldn't find one person cool enough to take this ship? Not even Corey Feldman? I think a bigger problem would be that nobody is worthy of owning it. But to say no one wanted it? I was 2 when the movie came out...I wanted it!

Richard Donner kept both One-Eyed Willie's head and a model for the ship.

Richard Donner kicks ass. "What's that? Oh, not much. Just ONE-EYED WILLIE'S HEAD!!!1!"

The number of times a character says the word "shit" (or its derivative, "bullshit") is nineteen, not counting the line "Holy S-H-I-T!"

Sweet. Gotta love those foul mouthed Goonies. That's tied for the most number of "shit" sayings in a kid's movie with Aladdin.

The cast was not allowed to see the pirate ship before the scene was shot. When they did see it, some of the kids said "holy shit!" so the scene had to be re-shot without them cursing.

So the actors themselves cursed like cute little sailors. Awesome. It was probably Feldman's influence. Or Senor Spielbergo.

The last name of the brothers who are chasing the Goonies is Fratelli. Fratelli means "brothers" in Italian.

It's so damn literal.

Cyndi Lauper co-wrote the theme song "Goonies R Good Enough", and shot a music video that features a cameo by the film's executive producer Steven Spielberg.

That song was great. They should mention that the video also featured Captain Lou Albano. "Who is he?" you ask. He was a professional wrestler. But even better - he played Mario on The Super Mario Brothers Super Show. I friggin' love the mid- to late-eighties. and yes, Lou Albano is in the running for "Hippest Cat Ever" - an award that needs to change its antiquated name. On a related note: what ever happened to Cyndi Lauper?

Mouth (Corey Feldman) wears a Purple Rain (1984) t-shirt throughout the film.

Corey Feldman: you da man. And so is Mouth.

The name "Rube G" can be seen painted on the contraption that opens the yard gate for Chunk near the beginning of the movie.

Rube Goldberg references instantly make any movie awesome. In this case, more awesome.

According to Sean Astin, he was allowed to keep the treasure map used in the film. However, the map was lost forever when his mother discovered it several years later, thought it was just a crinkled piece of paper, and threw it in the trash.

Sean Astin's mom...you better watch your back.

So what happened to The Goonies?
Sean Astin (Mikey) - he's Samwise Gamgee...and maybe he has other jobs that don't matter
Jeff Cohen (Chunk) - he's an entertainment lawyer...how sweet is that? Truffle Shuffle = instant case win
Jonathan Quan (Data) - fight coordinator for such movies as The One and X-Men. kickass
Corey Feldman (Mouth) - sigh
Josh Brolin (Brand) - he was in Hollow Man...haha
John Matuszak (Sloth) - sadly, he died in 1989 of heart failure. HEY YOU GUYS
Lou Albano (not in movie) - still looks like Ron Jeremy

So the success of The Goonies is pretty hit or miss. But in general, they're all pretty cool.

On to less important things: Land of the Dead came out on DVD yesterday! How awesome is that?! And I totally didn't know until late last night. I'm a jackass. But I'll get it today. It will be mine...oh yes, it will be mine.

Hey, this is my 50th post. Cool. As a gift for sticking with me, I give you this: a statue of a monkey riding a turtle: