Movie "The Final Countdown"

[Huxter]

The "Passengers" thread made me watch "The Final Countdown" movie again. And yes - great dialog for many characters. It shows a lot of aircraft maneuvers on aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Great eye candy - especially for the battle against the Japanese fleet attacking Pearl Harbor.





I kept hearing Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone" during the plane launches! It sounded great in my mind anyway. They just didn't include hit songs in the soundtrack back then. Someday, I should mix that song into the launch scenes?

 

[Rob Campbell]

Fun movie. I remember seeing it in the theater in1980.

 

[Tyeeking]

It’s a sleeper. Have it in my DVD collection.

 

[dr wogz]

the guy at the end, who got left behind & became rich (obviously!)

I wonder if he had any influence on various world events?!?!

 

[Tech 68]

I enjoy Ward Carrol's YouTube explanations of Naval Aviation subjects. Great detail on "The Final Countdown"...

 

[kuririn]

the guy at the end, who got left behind & became rich (obviously!)

I wonder if he had any influence on various world events?!?!

He got rich and got Katharine Ross.
Hubba hubba.

 

[kuririn]

I wonder if he had any influence on various world events?!?!

He bet on sporting events like Biff in Back to the Future.

 

[dr wogz]

had to look her up!

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

I don’t remember seeing this movie. It sounds like an interesting one.

 

[prfesser]

I don’t remember seeing this movie. It sounds like an interesting one.

It's excellent. You have to discount the bit about going thru the "storm" but Kirk Douglas makes a great captain. Martin Sheen and the others round out the movie very well indeed.

 

[PhlAsh]

I first saw it on IKE (CVN69) once it hit AFRTS. I was "mess-cranking" and slid down to my home-division's berthing. Afterwards, I came back up to the messdeck and noticed my watch was ticking back and forth. Took me a sec to realize the battery was dying!

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Looks like it’s streaming on several services, ranging from free to a couple of bucks.

 

[Jeff Lassahn]

I saw it a few weeks ago. It's got some good moments, and the film of all the aircraft and carrier operations stuff is nicely done. But the more I think about it the less it makes sense as a story.
I fundamentally don't understand why most of the people do most of the things.

 

[neil_w]

I recall enjoying this movie quite a bit when I saw it years and years ago. I love a good time-loop story (hope I’m remembering the right movie…)

 

[Funkworks]

I know nothing of this movie yet but now I have this song in my head.