With Hollywood enamored by remakes and long-awaited sequels, The Goonies keeps coming up.

Why create original content when known quantitiestried-and-true intellectual properties permeate the cultural zeitgeist?

J.J. Abrams 2009Star Trekimmediately comes to mind, as does Michael Bays gaudy, cacophonousTransformersfranchise.

And then there are the belated sequels, films who are getting second installments roughly twenty years too late.

The long-threatened but unlikelyBeetlejuice 2fits the bill, as does the excellentMad Max: Fury Road.

Which brings us toGoonies 2.

WhenThe Gooniesturned 30 in 2015, the specter of a long-rumored sequel continued to loom overhead.

This was an important milestone for a beloved film that has heretofore avoided the dreaded remake/reboot.

The reason for Astorias razing?

The aforementioned misfits include Mikey Walsh (Sean Astin, long before he wept on the slopes of Mt.

Or a pirate ship.

Or a freakish shut-in with a taste for Baby Ruth bars.

Which begs the questionwhy does such a satisfying, self-contained movie about wish-fulfillment need a sequel?

Many die-hard fans are dead-set against a new movie, circling the wagons around their own childhood memories.

Story matters just as much as shiny visual effects, if not more.

One would think that if the right script hasnt come along yet forGoonies, it most likely never will.

Most people, myself included, would have been just fine with the halting of Hollywoods metaphorical bulldozers.

And then theres NetflixsStranger Things, which took many of those elements and refined them even further.

After all, Goonies never say die.