A movie worth watching at least once...

I believe I read someplace years ago that the Navy funded this movie as a recruitment tool.
 
CajunBass said:
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.QUOTE]

This forum is GREAT!

Over 20 yrs ago I would listen to books being read on PBS radio on my drive home. I only caught a couple of nights listening to a story about a civil war camp where some rapid fire rifles were being shot. I have searched the net off and on for years trying to find the book. "Remember Gettysburg" is it! Thank you CajunBass!!!! Last month I was searching for it again when I saw Final Countdown and watched it. I enjoy these types of movies and books for some mindless entertainment.
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coltle6920 said:
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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I seen that! Neat movie. I felt the plot was wasted though.
 
g-dad said:
CajunBass said:
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.QUOTE]

This forum is GREAT!

Over 20 yrs ago I would listen to books being read on PBS radio on my drive home. I only caught a couple of nights listening to a story about a civil war camp where some rapid fire rifles were being shot. I have searched the net off and on for years trying to find the book. "Remember Gettysburg" is it! Thank you CajunBass!!!! Last month I was searching for it again when I saw Final Countdown and watched it. I enjoy these types of movies and books for some mindless entertainment.
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You would probably also enjoy "The Guns of the South" by Harry Turtledove.

Time travelers supply the Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47's and ammo just after the Battle of Gettysburg.
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I have never seen or heard of this movie but it sounds pretty cool. I'll have to watch it now.
 
Ah yes, it was the early days of cable TV and HBO played this movie a LOT! :rolleyes:
Good flick, I liked it.

Old joke:
If nobody travels back through time to stop you, just how bad of an idea could it really be? :D
 
I love this movie. Favorite scene is when the F-14's do a low pass over Senator Chapman's yacht and he doesn't know what the hell they are...and he' the Chairman of the Arms Committee (or something like that...a position where he would know what the military has).
 
I really like "Final Countdown", saw it 10-15 year ago.
Bought it on DVD and watch it on occasion.
 
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They said it took a lot of work to film those scenes.The zeroe's were flying wide open while the F-14's were near stall speed.
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Yeah, I could see it in the footage in the film. Those F14's were having a hard time staying in the air with those "Zeroes". BTW, the "Zeroes" in the film were T6 Texans that were modded to look more like a Zero, originally for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! and that also didn't help out the filming as a T6 has a much less powerful engine than the A6M and is correspondingly slower.

I remember when this movie came out and watched it both at the show and also had it when it came out on VHS tape. A real cool movie and fantastic "What if"!
 
I dont have time for a proper reply but--seen that movie dozens of times-I held the theater door open for Kirk Douglas and some of the rest of the cast when it was 1st shown in Kingsville, Texas. Kirk smiled and thanked me for opening the door.
 
Texasgordo said:
I have never seen or heard of this movie but it sounds pretty cool. I'll have to watch it now.
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Its well worth it. Ive got a complete set of lobby cards lying about somewhere?
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Unfortunately, the laws of relativistic physics do not allow time travel into the past. Except in the movies and on TV. But it is theoretically possible to travel into the future. All you have to do is to travel at very near the speed of light. That way you don't age while everything else does.
 
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DWalt said:
Unfortunately, the laws of relativistic physics do not allow time travel into the past. Except in the movies and on TV. But it is theoretically possible to travel into the future. All you have to do is to travel at very near the speed of light. That way you don't age while everything else does.
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Spoil sport!
 
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