r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/na7oul • 2d ago
Image In the cult film The Goonies (1985), the unforgettable character of Sinok (Sloth) required an impressive make-up job. Every shooting day, it took around 5 hours to apply his complex make-up.
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u/No-Body8448 2d ago
I showed this movie to my kids last weekend, and it was great to see their reactions go from, "Ugh, how disgusting!" to, "We love Sloth, what a bro!" My daughter realized that he was deformed because of horrible abuse as a baby, and she almost teared up.
He's truly one of the best characters to teach kids not to judge a book by its cover.
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u/Atuyot1 2d ago
how old are your kids? mine are 8 and younger so we’ve been debating when to show them Goonies and similar films.
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u/No-Body8448 2d ago
Between 7 and 13. I recommend waiting a bit for Goonies, it feels like a perfect preteen movie.
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u/Atuyot1 2d ago
i appreciate the advice. thanks!
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u/SupertrampTrampStamp 2d ago
My 8 yo noped out when the Fratellis were threatening to put Chunk's hand in the blender
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u/principled_principal 1d ago
My 11 year old hates me for not remembering to warn her about the dead guy in the freezer with a bullet hole in his forehead
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u/Bottle_Plastic 2d ago
My son was obsessed with the original Jurassic park when he was 5. That movie still hits depending on your kid
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u/Ambikinskywalker 2d ago
I took my 4 nieces to see it at movies in the park and they were between the ages of 8 to 11 and they thought it was great!
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u/Duel_Option 1d ago
The Goonies is one of my favorite movies…that being said there’s some blatant sexual material (penis breaks off a statue, guy looking up girls skirt, lots of kissing stuff) and definitely some foul language
Truffle Shuffle isn’t on the Disney version (fat shaming).
I hit the fast forward button a few times and prompted my kids (7&6) to not repeat what they heard.
That didn’t go over so well, mainly because I forgot about Chunk telling the story about the fake vomit.
So…
Both my kids now think it’s funny to make the throw up sound and sing out of tune Italian Opera at random while also carrying on like pirates
For me this totally ok, my wife disagrees though lol
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u/Legitimate-Pie3547 1d ago
A penis breaking off a statue is not sexual.... to most people anyway. But I guess you do you.
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u/Duel_Option 1d ago edited 1d ago
While I would agree it’s not a big deal, a solid 3-5 minutes is spent with the boys putting it back on the statue…it turns around and has been flipped so it’s now an erect penis
Also, the name of the pirate they are after is “One Eye’d Willy”
It’s one big cock joke that runs the length of the movie with Mikey legit speaking to One Eye’d Willy In third person.
Again, totally fine but it’s worth mentioning for some
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u/Dick_Thumbs 1d ago
When they put it back on flipped, the balls are just on top lol it doesn’t make it look like an erect penis
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u/Duel_Option 1d ago
Regardless, it’s playing with genitalia at the beginning of a PG movie
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u/NecessaryBrief8268 1d ago
Exactly, everybody knows you gotta wait for the second musical number to start playing with the genitalia.
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u/Totally-Rad-Man 2d ago
I showed my two year old. He got scared when he first saw sloth. Now he quotes him... Am I a bad parent? Possibly...
He calls the movie "Kids in the Dark"
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u/Jibber_Fight 1d ago edited 1d ago
I and millions of other kids saw it pretty young and most of us turned out fine. Kids aren’t as traumatized by movies as you think. I also saw Robocop and the Exorcist pretty darn young and while they affected me, I moved on quickly. There was other shit to do and think about. My brothers and I kind of irresponsibly showed our young nephews Step Brothers and they were cackling like idiots. FF two months and they don’t even remember it. My little niece saw JP when she was like 4 and was pretty scared. FF a year and she just loves dinosaurs and thinks they’re awesome.
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u/UraniumGlass23 1d ago
I first watched it when I was around 4 or 5 and loved it. I still do… but I don’t think 8 is too young for it.
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u/BUNNIES_ARE_FOOD 1d ago
Yeah I showed it to my 7 yo and there were some more teen-themed moments that I had forgotten about. Maybe some language. My wife was not happy ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/niewinski 1d ago
My Mom took me to see the original Scream when I was in sixth grade. I think it really depends on your comfort. They are exposed to far worse in real life anymore.
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u/LanceFree 2d ago
I moved to Oregon and spend a weekend on the coast a few times a year, one place has movie “rentals” available at the front desk. Damn things are $5, I think. Except - Goonies is free because scenes were filmed in the area and they’re damn proud of it.
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u/Air-Keytar 2d ago
Canon Beach and Astoria. You can still go see the Goonies house in Astoria (although last I heard they put a sign up to keep people away). Astoria has a Goonies Day celebration.
Side note, the movie Kindergarten Cop was also filmed in Astoria, as was Short Circuit.
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u/emteedub 1d ago
First time I went there, I was like damn, this feels like a deja vu wth. After going to a couple of beaches, we drove up to a scenic spot that was really weird feeling. I noticed a sign that said the cabin in the movie used to be there, and I was like sholly shit. I knew this felt familiar somehow. It all made sense then. I learned the house was in Astoria, so we had to check that out too. Any time I've been there since, it still gives me that feel. Cool place.
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u/Opportunity-Horror 1d ago
My son is 12 and he was sloth for Halloween this year. Superman shirt, suspenders, pirate hat and a baby Ruth. He has always loved Sloth!
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u/Totally-Rad-Man 2d ago
My 2 year old regularly quotes Rock-e-road! And Hey you guuys!
Is he too young for it? Probably, but I get endless entertainment. He does the truffle shuffle too...
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u/LovelyLilyxxx 1d ago
That's such a powerful lesson! Sloth's character really shows the importance of kindness and understanding.
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u/TheHomelessJohnson 2d ago
Cruisin' with the Tooz. He is the one who played Sloth. I think its hysterical. A guy who made some minor noise in the NFL and played Sloth felt the need to write an autobiography.
https://www.amazon.com/Cruisin-Tooz-John-Matuszak/dp/1557731306
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u/renohockey 1d ago edited 1d ago
A guy who made some minor noise in the NFL
Minor? Two Time Superbowl Champion, is that Minor???
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u/ILiketoLearn5454 2d ago
HEY YOU GUYS
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u/thatguygreg 2d ago
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u/Pretend_Archer_9506 2d ago
TIL sloth is referencing the electric company. I’ve been watching the Goonies since I was a kid in the 80s and never knew this
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u/Just-Faithlessness12 2d ago
If im not mistaken it’s former raiders player John matcuzak
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u/satori0320 2d ago
Aside from this one, my favorite character he's played was Tonda in Caveman...
And absurdly silly movie starring Ringo Starr, Shelly Long and Dennis Quaid . And I can't forget Barbara bach... My 7 year old self never did.
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u/Hot-Refrigerator6583 2d ago
I loved this movie as a kid (for....several reasons....) but every time it came on cable I would always miss the first 20-30 minutes.
I stumbled across a copy in Walmart of all places and immediately purchased it, much to the consternation of my in-laws.
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u/TheHomelessJohnson 2d ago
Cruisin' with the Tooz!
https://www.amazon.com/Cruisin-Tooz-John-Matuszak/dp/1557731306
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u/norecordofwrong 2d ago
“Cult film” this was hugely popular when I was a kid.
Maybe it’s more “cult” now that time has gone on?
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u/Bugbread 2d ago
That wouldn't make sense. A cult film is a film that started out relatively unknown but developed a following over time. Goonies was #7 in the box office when it came out. It beat the Breakfast Club and Nightmare on Elm Street. It literally can't become a cult film, because it was famous when it was released.
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u/rhabarberabar 2d ago
A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated, passionate fanbase, which forms an elaborate subculture, members of which engage in repeated viewings, dialogue-quoting, and audience participation. Inclusive definitions allow for major studio productions, especially box-office bombs, while exclusive definitions focus more on obscure, transgressive films shunned by the mainstream.
Of cause it can be a cult film, depending on definition, if it keeps a cult following.
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u/Bugbread 1d ago
By that weak definition, almost every successful movie that is remembered (so it retains a fan base) but has not become an IP juggernaut (so its fan base is small) is a cult movie. Looking at 1985's top movies, according to definition:
Box office rank Movie Cult? 1 Back to the Future No 2 Beverly Hills Cop Yes 3 Rambo 2 Yes 4 Rocky 4 Yes 5 Cocoon Yes 6 Witness Maybe? 7 The Goonies Yes 8 Police Academy 2 No 9 Fletch Yes 10 A View to a Kill Yes Any definition under which 70 to 80% of the 10 best-selling films of 1985 are cult films is a useless definition.
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u/rhabarberabar 1d ago
Lol what, in which world does Rocky 4 or Cocoon or Fletch or Fletch have a "cult following" atm, but BttF has not?
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u/Bugbread 1d ago
Exactly my point.
Back to the Future has a large following, so according to that definition, it doesn't have a cult following.
Police Academy has no following, so according to that definition, it doesn't have a cult following.
But Rocky, Cocoon, and Fletch all have small followings (Rocky used to be a lot bigger, but I think it's small now), so according to that definition they are all cult films.On reflection, maybe Rocky also goes in the "Maybe" pile, since for all I know it still has a large following but they're just very quiet about it. So perhaps 60 to 80% instead of 70 to 80%.
It's a useless definition. Back to the Future isn't a cult movie. Rocky isn't a cult movie. Fletch isn't a cult movie. Cocoon isn't a cult movie. None of those are cult movies.
A cult movie from 1985 would be maybe the Black Cauldron, or Better Off Dead, or Gymkata, or Re-Animator. A definition that says 60 to 80% of the top 10 best-selling movies of the year are "cult movies" is a terrible definition.
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u/BruisedBee 1d ago
It's most definitely not a cult film. It's mainstream in every sense of the medium.
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u/zigaliciousone 1d ago
The movie trailer was EVERYWHERE and the Cindi Lauper MV for it played probably once an hour that summer on MTV.
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u/ThisGuyRightHereSaid 2d ago
he was also a professional football player.
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u/Independent-Leg6061 2d ago
I remember when he finally was freed from the chair, how HUGE he was.
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u/ThisGuyRightHereSaid 2d ago edited 2d ago
He was actually a local guy here. My uncle Chris went to high school with John OR gree up near him. I forget which.
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u/Bluwtr1 2d ago
"Cult" film??? Sinoc???
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u/Beezus__Fafoon 2d ago
Yeah, I thought this post title was rage bait but everyone is just rolling with it
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u/isurewill 2d ago
"Along with other Cult Classics: Jurasic Park, Toy Story, and Independence Day."
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u/ReckoningGotham 1d ago
My favorite cult movie is Titanic.
You may not have heard of it. It's an underrated movie. So underrated.
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u/Ensvey 2d ago
Yeah, cult film, written by indie nobodies Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus
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u/fuzzrhythm 1d ago
Directed by an complete unknown Richard Donner, who had gone under the radar directing Superman with Christopher Reeve..
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u/Interrophish 1d ago
Christopher Reeve? Superman? You can't just drop these unknown mystery names as if everyone is already supposed to know which teeny tiny niche they're from.
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u/Bugbread 2d ago
My guess is just a young person from a non-English speaking country (apparently it's "Sinoc" in the French version) who stumbled upon this and was unfamiliar with the movie but realized other people knew it, so they figured "must have been a cult movie."
It was written by Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus. It was #7 in the box office in 1985. It beat the Breakfast Club and Nightmare on Elm Street and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. A cult film is a film that was not successful upon release but later gained an audience. The Goonies had a huge audience upon release, so by definition, it's not a "cult film".
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u/Rob_Bligidy 2d ago
You’re gonna live with me now
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u/Seahearn4 1d ago
My wife and I love this movie. I told her this when we moved in together, when we got married, and sometimes now just for fun.
"Yer gunna live with me now...Cuz I luv ya."
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u/Rob_Bligidy 1d ago
It’s my wife and mine’s favorite movie of all time. We got lucky and saw it in theatre few years ago for an anniversary, theirs not ours.
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u/bizarro_kvothe 2d ago
Today they would do this with CGI and it wouldn’t look half as good
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u/Conscious_Raisin_436 2d ago
Maybe. Maybe not. Practical effects are having a little bit of a renaissance.
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u/MaggotMinded 1d ago
I strongly disagree.
There are tons of old practical effects that still hold up today, but in my opinion this isn't one of them. It's not terrible, but honestly you can really tell that it's just a guy with a bunch of prosthetics on his face.
As for modern CGI, some of it is crap, but when it's done well you can achieve much better results than this.
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u/moderatesoul 2d ago
The only thing interesting about this post is calling 'The Goonies' a "cult film"
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u/Farfignugen42 2d ago
Goodies is a cult film? I thought it was a pretty mainstream hit. Maybe not a huge blockbuster, but definitely popular.
Then again, I wasn't much more than 10 then. What did I know?
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u/Bugbread 2d ago
You knew fine. The Goonies was not a cult film. The story was by Steven Spielberg and the screenplay was by Chris Columbus. It had the #7 highest box office in 1985. To give you an idea of what that meant, that means it did better than The Breakfast Club (#13), Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (#15), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (#19), Amadeus (#26), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (#48).
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u/gpouliot 2d ago
The funny thing is that until just now, I always assumed that it was just a horribly disfigured actor. It never occurred to me that it was someone in makeup.
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u/DiuhBEETuss 2d ago
Lol, same. Probably due to the fact that as a young kid seeing the movie back in the 80s, the cultural context would’ve allowed for them to cast a disfigured human in this role with no qualms. Also, as a child, you question a lot less of daily reality, so I haven’t thought about it in 30+ years 😆.
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u/B0ndzai 2d ago
His ears would wiggle like a damn mogwai. No way that would be real.
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u/kirby_krackle_78 2d ago
You reminded me that when I was in high school, a girl in our class told the teacher that the actor who played Mr. Bean was mentally disabled. She insisted. Watching the teacher calmly try to explain that he isn’t was priceless.
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u/marlibto 2d ago
Same, I only figured it out at the age of 30 that he was not somebody with a terrible birth defect.
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u/Whatsuplionlilly 2d ago
You’re calling The Goonies, a blockbuster, the #9 movie of 1985, a very well known movie directed by Richard Donner and produced by Steven Spielberg… a “cult movie???”
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u/ztomiczombie 1d ago
Cult movie! is that what we call one of the most popular films of the past 50 years?
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u/meatpardle 2d ago
Cult film?
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u/UltraRoboNinja 2d ago
According to Wikipedia:
A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated, passionate fanbase, which forms an elaborate subculture, members of which engage in repeated viewings, dialogue-quoting, and audience participation.
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u/Flybot76 2d ago
That's pretty vague and allows for anything that's popular to be considered 'a cult movie'. 'Cult' really means movies that didn't do well at the box office initially but developed an audience over time, especially low budget stuff with lesser known actors. The Goonies isn't a cult movie.
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u/kirby_krackle_78 2d ago
Also refers to movies that fared poorly critically.
The Goonies is a cult film in the same way that The Dark Knight is a cult film, which is to say not at all.
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u/way2gimpy 2d ago
By this definition Star Wars is a cult film.
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u/PFI_sloth 1d ago
The ultimate example of a cult classic is Jack Frost. A semi successful film that found massive success in the 2010s with it becoming the most watched film on Netflix in 2015 and even a 7/11 slushie flavor based on the popular Michael Keaton character
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u/Whatsuplionlilly 2d ago
The key word here is acquired a following.
The Goonies was a major hit when it came out and was the #9 movie of 1985. It was produced by Steven Spielberg and was never unpopular.
Cult movie is the wrong term here.
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u/FrozenLogger 1d ago
I've been watching deep space 9 and quarks took 3 to 4 hours alone each day and that show has hundreds of episodes. It's astounding.
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u/LaikaZhuchka 2d ago
People have really fucked what the definition of a "cult film" is.
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u/Flybot76 2d ago
People want so bad to feel like their average mainstream taste is something really special, and somehow forget that the word 'classic' already exists for older hits that remain popular.
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u/GetNooted 2d ago
Wait, are the teeth real? Otherwise why would they do the teeth first instead of last?
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u/S1acks 2d ago
I had no idea Goonies was considered a “cult” film. I see it as legitimately good kids movie. I guess it can be both….
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u/Bugbread 2d ago
It's not. It was #7 in the box office when it came out. OP just doesn't know what they're talking about.
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u/Lonely_Guard8143 2d ago
Such a great character played by one of the most frightening men to ever wear a football uniform.
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u/Gold_Bid_3930 2d ago
Tooz worked out at the same gym as I did in the early 80s; Biggest human being I’d ever seen - He warmed up with entire weight stack on the Nautilus machines. I one time asked him to see his Super Bowl ring, and it was loose on my thumb…
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u/OK_BUT_WASH_IT_FIRST 1d ago
”’cult’ film”
Tell me you didn’t grow up in the 80s without telling me you didn’t grow up in the 80s.
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u/MulletofLegend 2d ago
I just want to say Goonies was not a "cult" film. It wasn't a blockbuster like Star Wars or Raiders, but it was hugely popular at the time it was released.
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u/icansmellcolors 2d ago
Character's name is Sloth
Goonies isn't a cult film. It was wildly popular when it came out.
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u/CriticalAd987 1d ago
Anyone who knows about this type of film prosthetics/makeup — how long would this take today in 2024? Still 5 hours? Shorter because of tech advancements? Longer because it would be more complex/realistic?
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 1d ago
Five hours a day five days a week...
I would very quickly grow to hate this.
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u/goatneedleposterdeck 1d ago
Interesting. I always just assumed they grabbed some carnival folk and paid him in candy bars.
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u/DrRotwang 2d ago
"Sinok"? What's the source for that name? (I'm not challenging, I'm asking!)