The Goonies (1985):

I'm not sure what I was expecting to be honest. I had always something of a peripheral understanding of the Goonies as this thing with a pretty potent place in a lot of peoples childhoods and in culture general, but I had never actually really gleaned many details about it. I guess if I had to say anything about my expectations is that I was expecting something more akin to Peter Pan, a group of kids gets whisked into a magical land with strange creatures and pirates.
And it's definitely not that...not that that's a bad thing, it just isn't. As far as I could tell, and this may just be a side effect of the fact I was watching this on a drive in screen in downtown Edmonton so the sound was echoing off buildings like crazy, but it seemed like 80% of the runtime is kids bickering and/or panicking at the top of their lungs in their whiny little kid voices. 15% is the movie Speilberging it's goddamn brain out, and 5% is actually a fun little adventure. Like I said, I may have to watch this again to see if there was anything actually interesting going on while the cacophony of high pitched yells and screams were slowly turning my brain to mush.
Honestly, I didn't really see much that would have made the Goonies into THE GOONIES that everyone knows and talks about, aside from maybe it hitting a lot of people at just the right time to go pedal to the metal on the full nostalgia button. <shrug> wasn't bad, wasn't great. Moving on.
Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy):

Came across this on Netflix tonight, and couldn't resist. It's a concert version of The Life Of Brian written by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, performed by same, with a ton of special Monty Python guest stars and a whole lot of wackiness. The filmed version was a special one night presentation in celebration of Monty Pythons 40th anniversary.
It was damn fun, that's really all there is too it. It was 90 minutes of Eric Idle with a full orchestra and choir, with 4 amazing vocalists as the main characters being entirely silly. And yes, Monty Python can still kick ass and be just as weird and wild 40 years later, it was awesome. If you're at all a Python fan and haven't seen it, check it out.