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Going through my stash of CD's last night I came across a movie that I hadn't watched in some time.

The movie was "Final Countdown" from 1980 with Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen to name just a couple of the actors.

The story is about the USS Nimitz on maneuvers in the Pacific when a huge eerie storm overtakes them sending them back in time to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Best part of watching the movie was all the "what ifs" going through my mind if time travel was real.I'm sure the writers could've added another 30 minutes into the film to show what the Navy would've done to the Japanese fleet even if it hadn't really happened upon returning to the present.

Reading up on how the movie was made was also very interesting.Great flick with a great ending!
 
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Watched enough TV shows lately showing how screwed up trying to fix the past can be.I realize it's all conjecture but one must assume that changing something in the timeline affects everything that would've come after.

Just another of the "what ifs" that I like to think about when my common sense is out to lunch.
 
It is a misconception to believe there are no "Time Travelers". I am one! I am very limited in my abilities, I can only go forward in time, and I can only travel at the rate of 1 Day: 24 Hours. However My exploration of the future has been very exciting! I would like to return to the 1970's and inform myself of a few stocks to buy!

Ivan
 
coltle6920 said:
Watched enough TV shows lately showing how screwed up trying to fix the past can be.I realize it's all conjecture but one must assume that changing something in the timeline affects everything that would've come after.

Just another of the "what ifs" that I like to think about when my common sense is out to lunch.
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Imagine you have great great lunch or dinner, and could go back and repeat it over and over, then go go back before that great meal so you stayed at your weight!
Simple minds revolve around FOOD?
Everybody would be happy and remain happy!

Back to OP, I enjoyed that movie years ago!
 
Final Countdown has a glimpse of sailors playing a board game called Squad Leader, a game which I still play with a group of friends, except now its Advanced Squad Leader.
 
I saw that movie in the Camp Casey(?) post theater in Korea in '81.

The theater was full of GIs and their Korean girlfriends.

When the two Zeroes got shot down by the F-14s, the Korean girls gave a prolonged standing ovation that made it impossible to hear the movie for minutes.

Want to sell more movie tickets in Korea than all of the Star Wars movies and Jaws combined? Make a sequel in which the Nimitz sails to Japan and nukes Tokyo.
 
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There was a Star Trek one that they go back in time and Bones saving a woman's life who was a anti war person made it that the crew members now had no contact with the Enterprise since the Germans won WW II.
Had to go and let the woman die to make things right again....

BTW, play that DVD of the USS Nimitz going back in time at least once a year. :)
 
I also enjoyed this movie a great deal, primarily due to the 4+ years I was onboard the Enterprise. It also seemed to me that the Big E would have been a better platform to base the show on, as there was an existing Enterprise at the time, would have generated some interesting twists in the past. The one Zero that got Vulcanized should have instantly been reduced to toothpicks.
 
There was a book written about a group of mercenaries who are sent back in time, with modern weapons, to help the Texicans hold the Alamo. I know I saw it, and think I read it many years ago.

Google is a wonderful thing. It's called "Remember the Alamo" and it's available on Amazon.

I remember the first time I saw "Final Countdown." That scene where the F-14 rolls over an drops like a rock toward the water, made me grab my seat, and take a DEEP breath (I hate roller coasters.) Watching it just a few minutes ago, had almost the same affect.
 
Good movie. Saw it the first time in Japan in a Japanese theater. The Americans cheered when the Zeros were splashed, and we booed when the strike was called back from attacking the Japanese carriers.
 
jimbo728 said:
If I could go back in time I would go for 1967 and purchase a 435 HP 427 CI Corvette Stingray Roadster for $6500.00 and bring her back with me to now.
Final Countdown was a very entertaining movie and certainly thought provoking.
Jim
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I'd go back to the Trail of Tears, WWI Armenia and Babi Yar and pass out AR-15s and loaded C-MAGS.
 
I first saw it on the mess decks of the frigate I was stationed on while at sea, around '80 or '81. It was on an old reel to reel projector where the reels had to be swapped out two or three times depending on the length of the movie. It always seemed it was at some sort of a cliffhanger part when a reel would run out. Great movie though! And very popular with Navy folk.
 
jimbo728 said:
If I could go back in time I would go for 1967 and purchase a 435 HP 427 CI Corvette Stingray Roadster for $6500.00 and bring her back with me to now.
Final Countdown was a very entertaining movie and certainly thought provoking.
Jim
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You understand you could get a real Cobra for that money. Drive the Vette and fund your retirement with the Snake.
 
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