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The Final Countdown
Posted on 7/10/18 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 1:09 pm
Did anyone else like this 1980 classic? It was one of my favorite movies as a kid. My son likes to watch it now.
In case you need your memory refreshed, it is about a modern-day (well, at the time) aircraft carrier that goes through a time vortex and arrives one day before the Pearl Harbor attack, and have to debate the consequences of their actions (and inaction).
In case you need your memory refreshed, it is about a modern-day (well, at the time) aircraft carrier that goes through a time vortex and arrives one day before the Pearl Harbor attack, and have to debate the consequences of their actions (and inaction).
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Posted on 7/10/18 at 1:16 pm to TheFonz
Love this movie, Wish they had taken care of business though.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 1:17 pm to TheFonz
Love that movie.
Katherine Ross was so hot.
And you're damned right I would have smoked those frickers.
Katherine Ross was so hot.
And you're damned right I would have smoked those frickers.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 1:43 pm to TheFonz
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The Final Countdown
It would make for an interesting remake
Posted on 7/10/18 at 1:48 pm to dr smartass phd
One of my favorite movies of the 80s.
Will never get over how disappointed I was they didn't get to rip into the attacking Japs.
Will never get over how disappointed I was they didn't get to rip into the attacking Japs.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 2:07 pm to Sayre
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Will never get over how disappointed I was they didn't get to rip into the attacking Japs.
MUH SPOILERS....
Posted on 7/10/18 at 2:08 pm to TheFonz
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Did anyone else like this 1980 classic?
Yes. It's my Gold Standard of military science fiction. And such incredible acting is a treat in a product like that.
ETA: For you military film fans, The Final Countdown was directed by Don Taylor - you'll remember him from various acting roles but probably most significantly as Lt. Dunbar in Stalag 17. Directing wise, The Final Countdown was his last feature effort, although he did a bunch of TV in the 1980s.
For a somewhat well-known film star of that era, he was mainly a TV director. Notable other films he directed include Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Tom Sawyer (1973), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) and Damien: Omen II.
This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 2:15 pm to TheFonz
Posted on 7/10/18 at 2:19 pm to asurob1
I wonder how many Zero's/Kate's/Val's a Phoenix missile could have taken down by itself
Posted on 7/10/18 at 2:47 pm to asurob1
I love the scene where the Zero is flying in the clouds and the F-14 slowly appears out of the clouds behind it.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 3:04 pm to TheFonz
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Did anyone else like this 1980 classic?
It is the mom's-macaroni-and-cheese of time travel movies.
So good.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 3:10 pm to asurob1
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loved watching the tomcats take down zeros
Yep, even better because it was the Jolly Rogers the Navy gave the film crew to work with.
This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 3:29 pm to asurob1
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I just watched this the other day...loved watching the tomcats take down zeros
Supposedly while filing this scene, the Tomcats came close to stalling multiple times because the Zeros were so slow.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 3:36 pm to MorbidTheClown
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Love this movie, Wish they had taken care of business though.
This movie was my first example of what blueballs is like.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 4:40 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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This movie was my first example of what blueballs is like.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 6:09 pm to TheFonz
Posted on 7/10/18 at 8:12 pm to udtiger
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Tomcats came close to stalling multiple times because the Zeros were so slow.
The part where he rolled over and pulled it out on the deck was supposedly a stall and one of the most badassed parts of the whole sequence.
Great film.
This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 8:17 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 8:51 pm to TheFonz
A great modern day military movie. Top Gun couldn’t carry this movies jock.
F14 wet dreams from this movie. The skull and crossbones (jolly Rogers) on the tail of the Tomcats were fricking killer.
Never could figure out the end though. But I’d watch it over and over today.
F14 wet dreams from this movie. The skull and crossbones (jolly Rogers) on the tail of the Tomcats were fricking killer.
Never could figure out the end though. But I’d watch it over and over today.
This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 6/7/21 at 10:54 pm to tigerinthebueche
I just watched The Final Countdown for the first time over the weekend. In addition to some decent sci-fi treatment—they discuss the paradoxes of time travel—there's a lot of great pre Top Gun footage of carrier operations and the carrier-based aircraft of the early 1980s, including the F-14, A6 (several versions), A7, F8, and the E-2 Hawkeye.
There were also a couple of planes that I was unfamiliar with, the Lockheed S-3A Viking, and brief glimpses of the North American A-5A Vigilante. The A-5A wasn't on the carrier, it was in the background at the air base, but it caught my eye so I had to look it up.
There were also a couple of planes that I was unfamiliar with, the Lockheed S-3A Viking, and brief glimpses of the North American A-5A Vigilante. The A-5A wasn't on the carrier, it was in the background at the air base, but it caught my eye so I had to look it up.
Posted on 6/7/21 at 11:40 pm to asurob1
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.loved watching the tomcats take down zeros
SPLASH THE ZEROES! SPLASH THE ZEROES!
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