Almost two weeks ago I hauled my sweetie to Astoria with me to attend the Goonies Never Say Die 20th Anniversary Celebration. I was just about the same age as the kids in the movie, so when it came out I was all over my non-attic-having house wishing my dad worked in a museum and looking for Rich Stuff even though I had no Goondocks of my own to save.

It was while we were there, beholding the Truffle Shuffle, that I had that moment that most folks eventually have…the flash of “Holy $#!^ that was 10/20 years ago? That’s SO long but I remember it and…”

Yeah, that moment. It got me thinking about a few different things, so in no particular order, here they are after the jump.

First I considered who I was and what was going on for me at the ripe old age of ten. I was recently released from school, still caught up in the Star Wars universe, reading the Chronicles of Narnia for the second time, and getting my own room. It doesn’t seem like that long ago, but it doesn’t seem like the lifetime TWENTY YEARS seems to convey in my brain.

So I got my Google on and checked it out. There was a LOT of stuff to watch in 1985, as well as noteworthy events (Live Aid, anyone?).

I also wondered if places that were the sites of other movies people hold near and dear were subjected to movie nerds like us running around and quoting lines and trying to get pictures of memorable locations from the films. Do a lot of people make trips to other places where their favorite movies were filmed?

So back to the Goonies, it was a hugely fun event, and the one question on everyone’s mind was “Sequel?”. We found out the unofficially official word is this: Cast is in, director is in, producer is in, and there are rumblings of a good outline for a story. However Warner Brothers, the studio responsible (since they hold the rights to the first one), doesn’t think the interest is there. It was funny to see a clip from Richard Donner during a screening of a documentary where he says that people come up and say oh, you did Superman, or oh, you did Lethal Weapon…are you ever gonna do a Goonies sequel?

Here’s hoping for a HUGE deal for the 25th in 2010 which will include a sequel and the whole cast and a whole stack of cool stuff to do and see and maybe by then I’ll be over all this “whaddya mean two decades?” attitude.

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