My wife and I recently rewatched The Goonies for the first time since childhood. My God the screaming! 80% of the "dialog" in this movie is constant screaming. We barely made it through the movie.
I watched The Goonies in theaters a while ago and it was super cool! Do that and not make a sequel. How creatively bankrupt are we that a 2025 sequel for a 90s movie is even a consideration?
It'll never end. They are gonna remake/ sequel/ prequel every classic until there's nothing left
There needs to be sone sort of statute of limitations on film. Like if one of the main characters is old enough to be a grandpa then no sequel or whatever
I mean, to be fair I was the right age for this movie, but it just never crossed my tv set. My Goonies was The Sandlot. I watched Goonies somewhat later in life and…it’s just not my childhood movie. So it was meh to me. Different strokes.
The stereotypes Gen X grew up with that are the characters in this movie don’t work these days. Even the kids being kinda feral isn’t the same. They can’t relate.
There's zero reason to oppose this. There's many more bad movies than good movies. The loss of a potential good movie is worse than any harm that can be done by a bad movie, which happens all the time. No harm can come to the original unless we decide to think of it that way, we're adults and we have free will.
It's also easy to believe that it'll suck. And it likely will.
But it's such a good damned cast (speaking of the team of kids) who have careers of decades full of accomplishments, and I'm curious to see what they pull together.
But if it's they're the parents and there's a new team of kids, it won't work. Might as well make a new Stranger Things at that point.
A new group of kids having adventures would appeal to me more. I don't even want cameos from the OG Goonies, that kind of shit make legacy sequals feel much too bloated.
I don't think a middle aged group would capture the spirit of the original. But I also don't think there's any reason it can't work out any specific way, it comes down to execution.