A crew member in CIC at this time. In September '79 Nimitz began a Med cruise. At Christmas stand down we got new orders to form up with USS California & USS Texas to depart the Med and transit down around the tip of Africa and up to GONZO station where we spent the next 144 days before arriving back in Norfolk in May of '80 about two days after Mt St Helen blew it's top. Fair winds and following seas to my fellow shipmates. Salute!!
Fun Facts: 'Carrie' (76) gave us William Katt as the Prom King and Nancy Allen as John Travolta's twisted GF. 'The Final Countdown' (80) gave us an aircraft carrier which time-warps thru an ocean storm into Pearl Harbor (1941). 'The Greatest American Hero' (81) gave us William Katt as a school teacher gifted (by aliens) with a SUPER SUIT, but having lost it's op Manuel, Katt fights crime by luck and laughs. One of Katt's students... Michael Pare'. 'The Philadelphia Experiment' (84), gave us a scientific accident aboard a Navy vessel which transports two sailors into...1984. One of them, Michael Pare', meets Nancy Allen. Later in the 80s, a silly Rock group came and went with magazine looks and two popular songs. Most hit and run groups then had a rocker, and a ballad (for the girls). 'Europe' provided two which were COINCIDENTALLY titled: The Final Countdown'... Carrie. Trust me, the 80s WERE the Yellow Brick Road!!!
I always kinda felt that this movie was made specifically for me, long a sci-fi geek with a special liking of tine travel movies AND a serving Marine who watched it during its first release at an open-air theater at Camp Pendleton. There really wasn't much story, though, and we never got the face-off between the Nimitz and Kido Butai that the movie promised us.
Oh I loved this film, and I still do even today. It's just so goofy. As stated there doesn't seem to be any reason why the time storm happens, but who cares, its just fun from start to finish. It's up there with the Philadelphia Experiment and Time Rider as being of its day, but good enough to become minor classics. Great review. "Splash the zeroes" :)
One of my favorite sci fi / fantasy movies. Thank you for this! Well done on the part of your son and I confess, I have the song on my car memory stick!
I'm a.big fan of this movie, even though they cut Kirk Douglas saying "little bastard" when they brought him aboard the NIMITZ as a prisoner, knowing that.the pilot had strafed Katherine Ross and Charles Durning. Watching your review I was reminded of a scientist saying that unless gravity trumps time, time traveler's would depend on tons of luck, since the earth might not be in exactly the same place when they get to where they're going and coming home. Thx for reviewing a favorite of mine. And looking at a website for scientists, they all agreed that 2012 was the least accurate sf film and.THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD one of the most accurate.
Reminds me of the STarfighters-the 1960's era Scifi film about a squadran of F104's that where the plot was subsumed by gootage of aircraft taxiing, taking off, flying overhead and refueling inflight. They had a ball with it on MST3K.
'WE'RE LEAVING FOR VENUS!!!' (Your Son nailed-it by the way!) Loved this Flic when I was a kid! Actually had a discussion with my Mom's fiancé at the time (a retired Army Colonel) on a single U.S. Flattop defeating the entire Empire of Japan.
@Mr.DeStylez Uncanny you just suggested 'Saturn 3' to me... as I was just speaking about it on one of my Science Fiction Live Chats. Have seen it many times over the years... love Mr. Keitel in that flic as well!
I always loved this movie growing up. It has some of the best footage of navy planes ever shot for movies. There's a famous shot where one of the F14s almost went into the water during the dogfight with the Zeros, and it actually made it into the movie. The pilot says it was all intended, but he was still within 100 feet of the water on that maneuver. Here's an awesome interview with one of the 2 F-14 pilots who took part in the movie. ruclips.net/video/aMarzSNO5RI/видео.html
I love this movie... My Dad, now late Dad, and I actually went to the theatre when The Final Countdown was released... I have a copy of the movie on Blu-Ray...
I kept meaning to see this film since it came out, but strangely only managed to see it a few years ago when i picked up a DVD copy at a flea market. I like the film thou it misses quite a few opportunities! Yes to hell with it i did want to see the Nimitz obliterate the attackers of Pearl Harbour , to hell with the time line (: I could sit n watch this stuff all day long love the US Navy. Mmm favourite time travel movie ? Probably the George Pal Time machine or Terminator don't know if that counts (:
My favorite time travel movies: Time After Time and the Time Machine. I could also cite Run Lola Run. Admittedly, people may view it as being like a video game, but I did see it that way when I watched the movie. Since Lola seems to be willing the restarts to the "saved point", it seems like a time travel movie with people changing things and the movie showing the consequences of those changes.
This film remains as one of the sci-fi classics. The part where Japanese pilot is told what is about to happen in PH is chillingly unforgettable and I like a more mature stance of "we shouldn't meddle because consequences could be too dire" instead of going full blast at the Japanese fleet. That would make it over the top sci-fi action film just for sake of throwing as many action scenes as possible instead of serving a story. The characters seem fine to me, most of them are career military personel on a job, not civilian characters on a vacation. There are some quick comments and jabs here and there, but otherwise everyone act in a professional way as to be expected.
Thank you for this video! I had seen this movie many moons ago, so a little time tunnel of my own has just occurred :-) By the way, what is the incidental music you use in this video, sounds similar to part of Psycho III's soundtrack....
The ending of this movie pissed me off. I WANNA SEE F-14's FIGHT ZEROS! Like seriously, I wanted to see a full squadron of F-14 Tomcats fight the Japanese Zeros attacking Pearl Harbor. But It never happened, and now I'm left with an insatiable desire to watch World War 2 planes get blown up by modern jets.
Stunning the gubmint sued the production when they did noting but benefit from it. I often forget Katharine Ross has been around so long. We just saw her in the old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode called THE DIVIDING WALL. KUDOS to your son.
I can't recall the reason exactly why the ship winds up time-traveling to the specific one-day-before Pearl Harbor date? Off hand, this reminds me of the tv series THE TIME TUNNEL where almost every week the time-falling guys just happen to wind up at a precise super-important time (and place) in history---like on board the Titanic. But, does this film avoid that problem? The premise and setting I recall as intriguing but, also recall leaving the theater with us shrugging our shoulders in vague disappointment.
It's hinted that there was something....special....about the Nimitz that either generated or was about to go through...the time warp. A blink and you will miss it type thing....
A guilty pleasure of mine. I like it. Agreed, kinda thin story, but good cast 🎭. Ironic…I just watched this last week on Tubi TV. Popcorn movie 🍿. Europe, “The Final Countdown” a MTV regular back in the day!
Agree fully with this review, I could have said some of the exact words as you. Great movie the first time I saw it, less great on later viewings and as I got older.
Is the origina "Journey to the Center of the Earth" your next review? I first watched "The Final Countdown" at a drive in. The real star of the movie was the USS Nimitz. Often times forces are beyond anyone's anyone's control. In that sense it's faithful to "The Time Machine" novel. It also takes the "past can't be changed" version of time travel. The 1960 version of "The TIme Machine" is my favorite time trave movie.
Journey to the center of the earth was my mystery movie. That movie you see somewhere on a different series, you can clearly tell it's a real movie, and can't find it. An x file if you will.
It was an interesting story plot. I liked the movie but didn’t care for how it was carried out. Trivia… a friend of mine the navy was on the carrier they filmed the movie on. He said it was interesting to watch but was disappointed that Kirk Douglas was very unfriendly and sort of snobby.
I read a similiar post from someone who was serving on the Nimitz but he said everyone from the film crew and cast were great except for Katherine Ross who acted like she didn't want to be there.
Cool concept, but this movie outcome is just to do another US Navy advertisment. Still waiting for a movie that use the "high technology travel in the past of humanity and contaminates it" in a satisfying way. As for what I've seen, the only scene that I found that really works is the twin uzi attack to rob a gold carriage in Timecop.
You know, the number of youtubers who say something like "the copyright bots prevent me from exercising fair use" makes me wonder if there's a class action lawsuit in here somewhere. I know the American legal system has largely been corrupted to solely funnel more money to Google, the RIAA, and Disney etc, but while "Fair Use" is still on the books it's possible that some judge somewhere might see reason...
I saw it on HBO back in either 1981 or 1982 although The Philadelphia Experiment is a little more better then this. Always was there two characters played by James Farentino living the same time in this movie. This was Martin Sheen last theatrical movie due to his being hard to work with due to his drinking. Enjoy your RUclips videos always intriguing
Martin Sheen's last theatrical movie? Firestarter? Wall Street? And those I just came up with in ten seconds. Check IMDb for me, someone. Don't want.to mention cameos like the one in Hot Shots Part Deux. So I will anyway. He was also POTUS in West Wing for 7 or 8 seasons, which ought to count for something. And wasn't that his first tv work since That Certain Summer in the early 70s?
One modern day aircraft carrier in the past could pretty much win the entire Pacific War for sure! It would have been nice to see the crew have to make some truly terrifying decisions if the time warp never came back to them...Not like a nuclear powered aircraft carrier is going to be able to hide out forever. A more permanent solution would have to be sought if you catch the drift 😉
I love this movie but hated the ending.until I saw a RUclips video on what would happen if a modern carrier...And I then saw what I wanted to see: not a lot of destruction of the Japanese navy beyond the initial destruction of their pearl harbor bound fleet. The reason? Fuel for the carrier and jet fighters and no way to charge the nuclear whatevers. Then the video proposed sending back a carrier task force,.to conserve the nuclear whatevers and to protect the carrier once it and its planes ran out of fuel. And again, not much more of ruling the sea. Fuel and other stuff. Two other complaints, but very minor. When the film came out and on its home video and HBO appearances, Kirk Douglas sees the captured Japanese pilot being brought aboard on the deck, and he pops loose with a very human "little bastard" under his breath. I think this has been permanently cut from all home watching media. The other is the time travel conundrum I could have.lived my life happily without ever hearing or reading about. That is the fact that if one travels any amount of time forward or into the past, one better hope that gravity trumps time or else one would find oneself materializing in space. I don't know what science says, but it certainly would give ME pause. P.S. I feel safe asking you, a.reviewer, about movie reactors. Do they really and truly go in blind? I read. somewhere that believing they do is like believing IMDb and Wikipedia gets its facts.straight or believing in a flat earth. A lot of reactors seem to spontaneously come up with just the right joke or quip or bon mot, where in their intros and outros they mangle the English language. Just asking because I feel like you'd know a reactor or two. And.boy, they make me feel old. Not knowing who Paul Newman or Marlon Brando are? Gore equals scares? Old movies.are from the 80s and back? Yikes! PPS Can you do longer.reviews? Like for when you do Howard Hawks' Monkey Business or Tom Tryon's creepy I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE? Thx. PS....do movie reactors really and
The fuel would not be a problem, The carrier's nuclear reactor will only need to be refueled one or twice over the entire course of it's life and jet fuel is rather simple to make, not nearly as refined as gas for piston aircraft. The real problem would be spooling up the tooling for spare parts and munitions.
@@JoseyWales44s don't have it handy so I'm shooting from the hip, but somewhere on RUclips is a video about this very subject, and it stressed the NEED for a carrier Group, not just a single nuclear-powered carrier. And I remember it stressing the need for reactors to be...recharged AND jet aircraft needing specific aviation fuel. And then there was the question of ammunition, kamikaze tactics by the IJN, and the general feeling that I came away with was that a modern or Nimitz class Carrier Group would have overwhelming success at first, then the nitty gritty would kick in. I'll search, but just enter something in the you tube search field like "could a modern US Carrier Group defeat the entire Japanese Navy at or just before Pearl Harbor?" That's what I plan to do. By the way, great, as in fun, movie but I still hate the ending. And the unnecessary exit. Have you ever read any of Harry Turtledove's fiction? He loves questions like these and turning them into novels and serieses of novels. Like his In The Balance series, about aliens seeking to colonize earth arriving in the middle of WW2.
I was disappointed with this film. There was no major battle scene between the modern aircraft carrier versus the 1940 Japanese navy. I kept waiting for this epic military confrontation but it never happened.
Clearly, the only research you did was minimal. The real Senator Sam Chapman was not from Hawaii and he died before Pearl Harbor. The character in The Final Countdown is a fictional one invented for the film that has no relation to him.
You know,nobody really cares what you think of this movie.If you can write a storyline,get an agent,get a film crew to shoot the film and get a movie studio to release it,then by all means do it.
Nobody really cares what you think of this review. If you can write a script, buy and learn the editing software, get your son to play _The Final Countdown_ and film it, then by all means do it. Silly argument.
A crew member in CIC at this time. In September '79 Nimitz began a Med cruise. At Christmas stand down we got new orders to form up with USS California & USS Texas to depart the Med and transit down around the tip of Africa and up to GONZO station where we spent the next 144 days before arriving back in Norfolk in May of '80 about two days after Mt St Helen blew it's top. Fair winds and following seas to my fellow shipmates. Salute!!
Fun Facts:
'Carrie' (76) gave us William Katt as the Prom King and Nancy Allen as John Travolta's twisted GF.
'The Final Countdown' (80) gave us an aircraft carrier which time-warps thru an ocean storm into Pearl Harbor (1941).
'The Greatest American Hero' (81) gave us William Katt as a school teacher gifted (by aliens) with a SUPER SUIT, but having lost it's op Manuel, Katt fights crime by luck and laughs.
One of Katt's students... Michael Pare'.
'The Philadelphia Experiment' (84), gave us a scientific accident aboard a Navy vessel which transports two sailors into...1984.
One of them, Michael Pare', meets Nancy Allen.
Later in the 80s, a silly Rock group came and went with magazine looks and two popular songs.
Most hit and run groups then had a rocker, and a ballad (for the girls).
'Europe' provided two which were COINCIDENTALLY titled:
The Final Countdown'...
Carrie.
Trust me, the 80s WERE the Yellow Brick Road!!!
Your son did a nice job playing the theme song. 😁👍
The novel it was based upon was written by Martin Caidin who also wrote the novel "Cyborg" than inspired "The Six Million Dollar Man"
Loved this movie as a kid. Watched it recently and still great fun.
I always kinda felt that this movie was made specifically for me, long a sci-fi geek with a special liking of tine travel movies AND a serving Marine who watched it during its first release at an open-air theater at Camp Pendleton. There really wasn't much story, though, and we never got the face-off between the Nimitz and Kido Butai that the movie promised us.
If anyone is interested, John Birmingham wrote a trilogy of books 'Axis of Time.' Has ships time traveling to WWII around the Midway battle.
Well, consider *me* interested!
Man, I haven't seen this in maybe 30 years? Absolutely loved this film when I saw it on VHS.
Looking forward to this review of the film. Thanks!
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It was a huge hit in Germany. The first movie as a 14 year old that I saw that had so many viewers that the cinema opened it’s balcony
Oh I loved this film, and I still do even today. It's just so goofy. As stated there doesn't seem to be any reason why the time storm happens, but who cares, its just fun from start to finish. It's up there with the Philadelphia Experiment and Time Rider as being of its day, but good enough to become minor classics. Great review. "Splash the zeroes" :)
From what I recall from the novelization, the time storm was a deliberate result of technology developed by Tideman Industries.
Absolutely spot on. Tideman builds a Time Machine, to dump himself back to 1941!!!
The "Back To The Future" films and some of the STNG episodes
One of my favorite sci fi / fantasy movies. Thank you for this! Well done on the part of your son and I confess, I have the song on my car memory stick!
I'm a.big fan of this movie, even though they cut Kirk Douglas saying "little bastard" when they brought him aboard the NIMITZ as a prisoner, knowing that.the pilot had strafed Katherine Ross and Charles Durning.
Watching your review I was reminded of a scientist saying that unless gravity trumps time, time traveler's would depend on tons of luck, since the earth might not be in exactly the same place when they get to where they're going and coming home. Thx for reviewing a favorite of mine. And looking at a website for scientists, they all agreed that 2012 was the least accurate sf film and.THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD one of the most accurate.
Reminds me of the STarfighters-the 1960's era Scifi film about a squadran of F104's that where the plot was subsumed by gootage of aircraft taxiing, taking off, flying overhead and refueling inflight. They had a ball with it on MST3K.
'WE'RE LEAVING FOR VENUS!!!' (Your Son nailed-it by the way!) Loved this Flic when I was a kid! Actually had a discussion with my Mom's fiancé at the time (a retired Army Colonel) on a single U.S. Flattop defeating the entire Empire of Japan.
There's a series of anime videos with the premise of an AGEIS Destroyer vs WWII ships.
@@rsacchi100 Can you place a wager on the outcome???
@@thrashpondopons8348 I don't think so, but from what I've seen of the anime, if it's possible bet on the AGEIS. I wish I could find it.
@Mr.DeStylez Thank you. Yes, I've seen Saturn 3.
@Mr.DeStylez Uncanny you just suggested 'Saturn 3' to me... as I was just speaking about it on one of my Science Fiction Live Chats. Have seen it many times over the years... love Mr. Keitel in that flic as well!
I sort of have the reverse "problem." I saw the movie when it came out in 1980, so now when I hear the song I always think of the movie.
I always loved this movie growing up. It has some of the best footage of navy planes ever shot for movies. There's a famous shot where one of the F14s almost went into the water during the dogfight with the Zeros, and it actually made it into the movie. The pilot says it was all intended, but he was still within 100 feet of the water on that maneuver. Here's an awesome interview with one of the 2 F-14 pilots who took part in the movie. ruclips.net/video/aMarzSNO5RI/видео.html
I like this film, and have watched it more times than I could count.
"Splash the Zeros" has to be in favourite quote from the film.
Love this movie, and thank vinyl siding companies for giving me gems like this on a Sunday afternoon
Time Bandits is one of my favorite time travel movies.
I love this movie... My Dad, now late Dad, and I actually went to the theatre when The Final Countdown was released... I have a copy of the movie on Blu-Ray...
I had tried to sell the movie poster for 6 month on eBay for just $3 but nobody seemed to remember it . Gave the poster away for free to a kid
The jokes on you, that song was already in my head.
The music soundtrack by film composer John Scott was memorable!!!
Great work thomas 👏 and great review buddy! I haven’t seen this film, but you’ve sparked my interest 😁
I kept meaning to see this film since it came out, but strangely only managed to see it a few years ago when i picked up a DVD copy at a flea market. I like the film thou it misses quite a few opportunities! Yes to hell with it i did want to see the Nimitz obliterate the attackers of Pearl Harbour , to hell with the time line (: I could sit n watch this stuff all day long love the US Navy.
Mmm favourite time travel movie ? Probably the George Pal Time machine or Terminator don't know if that counts (:
My favorite time travel movies: Time After Time and the Time Machine. I could also cite Run Lola Run. Admittedly, people may view it as being like a video game, but I did see it that way when I watched the movie. Since Lola seems to be willing the restarts to the "saved point", it seems like a time travel movie with people changing things and the movie showing the consequences of those changes.
This film remains as one of the sci-fi classics. The part where Japanese pilot is told what is about to happen in PH is chillingly unforgettable and I like a more mature stance of "we shouldn't meddle because consequences could be too dire" instead of going full blast at the Japanese fleet. That would make it over the top sci-fi action film just for sake of throwing as many action scenes as possible instead of serving a story.
The characters seem fine to me, most of them are career military personel on a job, not civilian characters on a vacation. There are some quick comments and jabs here and there, but otherwise everyone act in a professional way as to be expected.
Thank you for this video!
I had seen this movie many moons ago, so a little time tunnel of my own has just occurred :-)
By the way, what is the incidental music you use in this video, sounds similar to part of Psycho III's soundtrack....
The ending of this movie pissed me off.
I WANNA SEE F-14's FIGHT ZEROS! Like seriously, I wanted to see a full squadron of F-14 Tomcats fight the Japanese Zeros attacking Pearl Harbor. But It never happened, and now I'm left with an insatiable desire to watch World War 2 planes get blown up by modern jets.
I also like your son's rendition of "The Final Countdown". Maybe more in the future.
Stunning the gubmint sued the production when they did noting but benefit from it. I often forget Katharine Ross has been around so long. We just saw her in the old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode called THE DIVIDING WALL.
KUDOS to your son.
Saw this in the Theatre. It could of used a writer like Rod Serling.
I can't recall the reason exactly why the ship winds up time-traveling to the specific one-day-before Pearl Harbor date? Off hand, this reminds me of the tv series THE TIME TUNNEL where almost every week the time-falling guys just happen to wind up at a precise super-important time (and place) in history---like on board the Titanic. But, does this film avoid that problem?
The premise and setting I recall as intriguing but, also recall leaving the theater with us shrugging our shoulders in vague disappointment.
From what I recall from the novelization, the time storm was a deliberate result of technology developed by Tideman Industries.
in the movie, it just happened 😂 because....
It's hinted that there was something....special....about the Nimitz that either generated or was about to go through...the time warp. A blink and you will miss it type thing....
Kids playing 1980s music, that is a parenting win. My 17 year old can play the tune on his saxophone 😄
Excellent!
A guilty pleasure of mine. I like it. Agreed, kinda thin story, but good cast 🎭. Ironic…I just watched this last week on Tubi TV. Popcorn movie 🍿. Europe, “The Final Countdown” a MTV regular back in the day!
Have you already reviewed The Philadelphia Experiment? A fun time travel film. Yet had some pathos as well.
Not yet, but it’s on my list!
Always thought Badlands put Martin Sheen on the map
Agree fully with this review, I could have said some of the exact words as you. Great movie the first time I saw it, less great on later viewings and as I got older.
Is the origina "Journey to the Center of the Earth" your next review? I first watched "The Final Countdown" at a drive in. The real star of the movie was the USS Nimitz. Often times forces are beyond anyone's anyone's control. In that sense it's faithful to "The Time Machine" novel. It also takes the "past can't be changed" version of time travel. The 1960 version of "The TIme Machine" is my favorite time trave movie.
Journey to the center of the earth was my mystery movie. That movie you see somewhere on a different series, you can clearly tell it's a real movie, and can't find it. An x file if you will.
It was an interesting story plot. I liked the movie but didn’t care for how it was carried out. Trivia… a friend of mine the navy was on the carrier they filmed the movie on. He said it was interesting to watch but was disappointed that Kirk Douglas was very unfriendly and sort of snobby.
Aw, that is disappointing to hear.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek Yeah sorry i know what you mean, it was for me too.
I read a similiar post from someone who was serving on the Nimitz but he said everyone from the film crew and cast were great except for Katherine Ross who acted like she didn't want to be there.
Would have been good if James Farentino hadn't polluted it with his presence. No one has forgotten how he terrorized Tina Sinatra.
Cool concept, but this movie outcome is just to do another US Navy advertisment. Still waiting for a movie that use the "high technology travel in the past of humanity and contaminates it" in a satisfying way. As for what I've seen, the only scene that I found that really works is the twin uzi attack to rob a gold carriage in Timecop.
I love this movie.
A great song! 😆
You know, the number of youtubers who say something like "the copyright bots prevent me from exercising fair use" makes me wonder if there's a class action lawsuit in here somewhere. I know the American legal system has largely been corrupted to solely funnel more money to Google, the RIAA, and Disney etc, but while "Fair Use" is still on the books it's possible that some judge somewhere might see reason...
I saw it on HBO back in either 1981 or 1982 although The Philadelphia Experiment is a little more better then this. Always was there two characters played by James Farentino living the same time in this movie. This was Martin Sheen last theatrical movie due to his being hard to work with due to his drinking. Enjoy your RUclips videos always intriguing
Martin Sheen's last theatrical movie? Firestarter? Wall Street? And those I just came up with in ten seconds. Check IMDb for me, someone. Don't want.to mention cameos like the one in Hot Shots Part Deux. So I will anyway. He was also POTUS in West Wing for 7 or 8 seasons, which ought to count for something. And wasn't that his first tv work since That Certain Summer in the early 70s?
@@cwdkidman2266 oh
One modern day aircraft carrier in the past could pretty much win the entire Pacific War for sure! It would have been nice to see the crew have to make some truly terrifying decisions if the time warp never came back to them...Not like a nuclear powered aircraft carrier is going to be able to hide out forever. A more permanent solution would have to be sought if you catch the drift 😉
I see a Godzilla origin story in there. 😁
@@TheUnapologeticGeek OMG you're right!
Always reminds me of this clip: ruclips.net/video/_m5PfKTwMFY/видео.html
😂
I love this movie but hated the ending.until I saw a RUclips video on what would happen if a modern carrier...And I then saw what I wanted to see: not a lot of destruction of the Japanese navy beyond the initial destruction of their pearl harbor bound fleet. The reason? Fuel for the carrier and jet fighters and no way to charge the nuclear whatevers. Then the video proposed sending back a carrier task force,.to conserve the nuclear whatevers and to protect the carrier once it and its planes ran out of fuel. And again, not much more of ruling the sea. Fuel and other stuff.
Two other complaints, but very minor. When the film came out and on its home video and HBO appearances, Kirk Douglas sees the captured Japanese pilot being brought aboard on the deck, and he pops loose with a very human "little bastard" under his breath. I think this has been permanently cut from all home watching media.
The other is the time travel conundrum I could have.lived my life happily without ever hearing or reading about. That is the fact that if one travels any amount of time forward or into the past, one better hope that gravity trumps time or else one would find oneself materializing in space. I don't know what science says, but it certainly would give ME pause.
P.S. I feel safe asking you, a.reviewer, about movie reactors. Do they really and truly go in blind? I read. somewhere that believing they do is like believing IMDb and Wikipedia gets its facts.straight or believing in a flat earth. A lot of reactors seem to spontaneously come up with just the right joke or quip or bon mot, where in their intros and outros they mangle the English language. Just asking because I feel like you'd know a reactor or two.
And.boy, they make me feel old. Not knowing who Paul Newman or Marlon Brando are? Gore equals scares? Old movies.are from the 80s and back? Yikes!
PPS Can you do longer.reviews? Like for when you do Howard Hawks' Monkey Business or Tom Tryon's creepy I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE?
Thx. PS....do movie reactors really and
The fuel would not be a problem, The carrier's nuclear reactor will only need to be refueled one or twice over the entire course of it's life and jet fuel is rather simple to make, not nearly as refined as gas for piston aircraft. The real problem would be spooling up the tooling for spare parts and munitions.
@@JoseyWales44s don't have it handy so I'm shooting from the hip, but somewhere on RUclips is a video about this very subject, and it stressed the NEED for a carrier Group, not just a single nuclear-powered carrier. And I remember it stressing the need for reactors to be...recharged AND jet aircraft needing specific aviation fuel. And then there was the question of ammunition, kamikaze tactics by the IJN, and the general feeling that I came away with was that a modern or Nimitz class Carrier Group would have overwhelming success at first, then the nitty gritty would kick in. I'll search, but just enter something in the you tube search field like "could a modern US Carrier Group defeat the entire Japanese Navy at or just before Pearl Harbor?" That's what I plan to do.
By the way, great, as in fun, movie but I still hate the ending. And the unnecessary exit. Have you ever read any of Harry Turtledove's fiction? He loves questions like these and turning them into novels and serieses of novels. Like his In The Balance series, about aliens seeking to colonize earth arriving in the middle of WW2.
I was disappointed with this film. There was no major battle scene between the modern aircraft carrier versus the 1940 Japanese navy. I kept waiting for this epic military confrontation but it never happened.
Seriously ?
@@FP194 yes
There wouldn't have been a battle. Just a massacre.
Great movie, terrible review. Senator Samuel Chapman was a real person. Do some minimal amount of research before posting mistakes. Two thumbs down.
Clearly, the only research you did was minimal. The real Senator Sam Chapman was not from Hawaii and he died before Pearl Harbor. The character in The Final Countdown is a fictional one invented for the film that has no relation to him.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek Also, he wasn't a senator. He served in the House for four terms.
Love time travel movie’s enjoyed this one but the acting was terrible and story felt disconnected.
You know,nobody really cares what you think of this movie.If you can write a storyline,get an agent,get a film crew to shoot the film and get a movie studio to release it,then by all means do it.
Nobody really cares what you think of this review. If you can write a script, buy and learn the editing software, get your son to play _The Final Countdown_ and film it, then by all means do it.
Silly argument.
Subbed, I loved it!!! Grow your following with Promo'SM!