The Final Countdown

December 12, 2018, 09:13 AM

Fire Away

The Final Countdown

I watched this again last night. I really like this movie. It adds quite a twist to Pearl Harbor and is very thought provoking with respect to what might have been.

December 12, 2018, 09:44 AM

Black92LX

I was expecting Europe.

BE DO DO DO...

I’ll have to check this one out not heard of it.

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December 12, 2018, 10:21 AM

RogueJSK

quote:
Originally posted by Black92LX:
I’ll have to check this one out not heard of it.

December 12, 2018, 11:39 AM

Loswsmith

quote:
Originally posted by Black92LX:
I was expecting Europe.

BE DO DO DO...

I’ll have to check this one out not heard of it.

Huh, your posts fail to reflect that you were living in a doomsday vault for 40 years.

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December 12, 2018, 04:21 PM

Sigmund

Hard to believe Kirk Douglas turned 102 on Dec 9!

And yes, good flic.

December 12, 2018, 04:23 PM

StarTraveler

I enjoyed the novelization, too. Like many, it added info that you could only guess about on screen.

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December 12, 2018, 05:41 PM

clubleaf206

I saw the movie at a theater in Denver, Colorado. With the size of the screen it made that Tomcat appear life size, as that black screen morphs into looking up the burner can of that F-14. “SH-3 inbound from the right. Have a nice day.”

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December 12, 2018, 06:39 PM

jljones

quote:
Originally posted by zoom6zoom:
Great flick. Excellent cast.
"Splash the Zeros"

Eagle Control, this is Alert One.....splash two.

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December 12, 2018, 06:39 PM

erj_pilot

I remember seeing it in the theater as well. I have always held in awe the operations of an aircraft carrier. For the time, on a scale of 1-10, this movie had a "cool factor" of 11.

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December 12, 2018, 07:01 PM

Black92LX

I did a little search on my Amazon FireTV and found this film streams for free on the Tubi App.
Whatever that may be.
Now I’ll have to get some free time so it will no longer seem that I have been living in a cave.

December 12, 2018, 07:29 PM

rscalzo

Hate that movie.

My wife would keep asking me questions like "but if they were in 1941, how could they be in 1985????

Just watch the dam movie !!!!!!

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December 12, 2018, 07:37 PM

corsair

Before Top Gun, I believe this was the only movie where Tomcats got screen time to show off their moves.

Also, one of the few times that the magazine areas of a carrier is shown on film.

December 12, 2018, 08:22 PM

mark_a

quote:
Originally posted by Black92LX:
I was expecting Europe.

BE DO DO DO...

I’ll have to check this one out not heard of it.

I was singing the song as I opened the thread.

The rest where you admit to male failure, can't help you with...

December 12, 2018, 08:36 PM

Dawes

I'm surprised that Hollywood hasn't redone this film, considering that they seemed to have re-made every other movie from the 1980's. A remake would have F-18's and F-35's, though.

December 12, 2018, 09:01 PM

mark_a

quote:
Originally posted by Dawes:
A remake would have F-18's and F-35's, though.

You say that like it is a bad thing...

December 12, 2018, 11:28 PM

sjtill

I like the movie, but I’ve never figured out what the title “The Final Countdown” has to do with the movie, the plot, or anything.

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December 13, 2018, 04:58 AM

Black92LX

quote:
Originally posted by mark_a:
quote:
Originally posted by Black92LX:
I was expecting Europe.

BE DO DO DO...

I’ll have to check this one out not heard of it.

I was singing the song as I opened the thread.

The rest where you admit to male failure, can't help you with...

Y’all have to cut me a little slack. The movie came out a few years before I was even born.