Travis' Top Ten Movies of "All Time" - #9 Goonies

Here is another film that scared the bejesus out of me as a kid in places. Perhaps I am starting a theme as to what stuck with me growing up. It became the quintessential representation of what a middle grade adventure could be, before we even had anything defined as middle grade.


There was the mob, pirates gold, a weird . . . monster guy who might represent a lot of different things about love and friendship, and the pure spirit of adventure we all tend to forget about when we move out of our childhoods.


And of course, we can't leave out the truffle shuffle.


Like Never Ending Story, Goonies is a classic I have enjoyed passing down to my kids and it deserves its spot on this list.

Travis' Top Ten Movies of "All Time" - #10 The Never Ending Story

I got roped-in to doing a chain-post event. I know, I got distracted by the Holidays and such and didn't finish my Netflix animation series. That series will resume soon.


Still, this discussion of my top ten favorite movies of "all time" could be a good way to give this blog another jump start. I figure, if I am going to work at such things on Facebook I might as well give maximum effort.


The original post is copied and pasted below. However, I won't be following its commandments closely. Obviously, I WILL briefly explain my choices. Also, my picks are ranked in order.

THE FACEBOOK CHAIN POST

"I have been nominated to post my favorite 10 films of all time over the next ten days. I must post one-sheet (movies poster) for each of my choices No explaination is needed regarding the choices and I must nominate someone each day to do the same."

#10: THE NEVERENDING STORY 

Many of you will agree this is a good movie with a lot of nostalgic value, but you may scratch your head as to why it makes my top ten. It doesn't really age all that well, and

First, a bit of a disclaimer. I did my best to choose films that were films first, rather than books made into movies. Widely known books made into film like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter, and the Lord of the Rings got bumped down when I tried to come up with my final ten.

THE NEVERENDING STORY was a book by German author Michael Ende, yet it was obscure enough that most people don't even know it was a novel. (Hell, I didn't. I had to google the fact). 

I had to pick one film that traumatized me as I kid. There were moments in this film that to this day, haunt my dreams. Swamp of Sadness anyone?

Something about this quiet fantasy manages to speak to the ancient mythological soul within each of us. There is a hero's journey, a battle of God's and a motif of what it means to keep a live imagination. If this were a list of films that effected me most during childhood, this one would be somewhere near the top three. But there are other contenders . . .