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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:35:54 PM EDT
.....is on Netflix. That is all.
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:37:14 PM EDT
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If you don't own it, you're a queer.
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:40:00 PM EDT
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Some of the best Tomcat flying scenes on film, IMO.
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:40:20 PM EDT
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 ETA: What? The movie? Nevermind.  |
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:43:55 PM EDT
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"...I say again, splash the Zeros!"
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:44:52 PM EDT
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We're heading for Venus and still we stand tall...
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:46:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:48:54 PM EDT
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Somebody got the bright idea to use the movie's theme song as CVN 68's breakaway song. It still annoys me to hear it.
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:50:13 PM EDT
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One of my favorite childhood movies, and I almost broke my neck snatching it out of
the $5.00 DVD rack at Walmart recently. Unlike a lot of other movies, this was STILL a good movie almost 30 years later. |
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:50:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:50:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:54:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/3/2011 4:11:30 PM EDT
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If you don't own it, you're a queer. That was some of the best flying I've seen to date, right up to the part where ___ ___ ____. |
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Posted: 8/4/2011 6:01:27 PM EDT
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I haven't seen that movie since the early '80s, and fortunately it was still pretty good. A bit of cheese –– the XO 'losing it' a couple of times, but overall it aged well enough. Mostly. Some of the sailor's hair and mustaches looked decidedly ...odd.
The scene with the F-14 appearing out of the clouds behind the Zero was pretty danged awesome. m |
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Posted: 8/4/2011 7:18:48 PM EDT
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I haven't seen that movie since the early '80s, and fortunately it was still pretty good. A bit of cheese –– the XO 'losing it' a couple of times, but overall it aged well enough. Mostly. Some of the sailor's hair and mustaches looked decidedly ...odd. That is how they looked back then; even the airwing Marines had hair parted in the middle; many of the guys who wore glasses wore the submarine service (John Lennon style) glasses. |
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Posted: 8/4/2011 7:21:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/4/2011 7:25:07 PM EDT
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Quoted: .....is on Netflix. That is all. So is "The Final Option." |
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Posted: 8/4/2011 7:35:32 PM EDT
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It had to be done.
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Posted: 8/4/2011 7:46:10 PM EDT
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 Whamo when he was a plane captain with the "Japanese zeros" in the background. The flying shots were filmed in Key West.  Two Jap Kill Flags on 203  Kate Ross!!! |
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Posted: 8/4/2011 8:32:17 PM EDT
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Cool pics, Whamo, thanks for sharing!
I just watched that movie for the first time in 15 to 20 years. It really was a love letter to the 1980's Navy. I never served, but the attitude seemed "real" to me, chessy mustaches and beards and all. |
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Posted: 8/4/2011 8:34:14 PM EDT
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Black Cloud ... Have you been doing unauthorized rain dances again?
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Posted: 8/4/2011 8:35:32 PM EDT
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Quoted: http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest003.jpg Whamo when he was a plane captain with the "Japanese zeros" in the background. The flying shots were filmed in Key West. http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest002.jpg Two Jap Kill Flags on 203 Kate Ross!!! Now she's just all kinds of fine, ain't she? |
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Posted: 8/4/2011 8:44:16 PM EDT
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a true classic...
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Posted: 8/4/2011 8:57:16 PM EDT
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Gonna let um do it again
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Posted: 8/4/2011 9:01:14 PM EDT
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I'm embarrassed to admit I've never seen it.
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Posted: 8/4/2011 9:01:50 PM EDT
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I had a really stressful night at work recently (psych nurse) and decided to watch that when I came home.
I hadn't seen it since my dad (Cmdr, USN ret.) and I had watched it when it originally came out. Brought back great memories of both my dad and the early '80s and I slept great after it. |
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Posted: 8/4/2011 9:08:40 PM EDT
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Watched it with my son the other night, I had not seen it for a looooong time.
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Posted: 8/4/2011 9:12:20 PM EDT
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Great album. Europe was a very underrated band. Cherokee was a great hit....
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Posted: 8/4/2011 9:39:57 PM EDT
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Great album. Europe was a very underrated band..... 
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Posted: 8/4/2011 9:43:20 PM EDT
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That movie had as much of a climax as a hooker.
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Posted: 8/4/2011 9:44:05 PM EDT
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Quoted:
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest003.jpg Whamo when he was a plane captain with the "Japanese zeros" in the background. The flying shots were filmed in Key West. http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest002.jpg Two Jap Kill Flags on 203 http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest011.jpg Kate Ross!!! Awesome pics 
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Posted: 8/13/2011 3:11:33 PM EDT
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I'm embarrassed to admit I've never seen it.
OK, just watched it. That was a much better flick than I expected. I'm pissed I waited that long to watch it. What's up with the beards? Is the clean shaven military a recent phenomenon? |
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Posted: 8/13/2011 3:13:51 PM EDT
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Black Cloud ... Have you been doing unauthorized rain dances again? "Take a look at the scope sir" |
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Posted: 8/13/2011 3:32:56 PM EDT
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What's up with the beards? Is the clean shaven military a recent phenomenon? PO3s and above were allowed to grow beards. Beards went away 1 Jan 85. |
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Posted: 8/13/2011 3:33:33 PM EDT
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I spent 15 years working on Aircraft Carriers at NNS, Final Countdown and The Hunt for Red October are two of my favorite movies. They are in my DVD collection, need to look for blue rays.
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Posted: 8/13/2011 3:43:58 PM EDT
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Awesome movie
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Posted: 8/13/2011 3:52:37 PM EDT
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Quoted:
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest003.jpg Whamo when he was a plane captain with the "Japanese zeros" in the background. The flying shots were filmed in Key West. http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest002.jpg Two Jap Kill Flags on 203 http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest011.jpg Kate Ross!!! WINNING 
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Posted: 8/13/2011 5:28:58 PM EDT
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Thanks OP!
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Posted: 8/13/2011 5:31:16 PM EDT
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I damned near popped the dust covers!
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Posted: 8/13/2011 5:47:57 PM EDT
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At the time it came out it was a somewhat novel concept...now alternate history is old hat, still a watchable film though.
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Posted: 8/13/2011 5:48:31 PM EDT
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First thing that came to my mind. |
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Posted: 8/13/2011 5:59:58 PM EDT
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I spent 15 years working on Aircraft Carriers at NNS, Final Countdown and The Hunt for Red October are two of my favorite movies. They are in my DVD collection, need to look for blue rays. I just watched Hunt for Red October on Netflix last night. I think I might watch Final Countdown tonight.
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Posted: 8/13/2011 6:05:53 PM EDT
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Quoted:
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest003.jpg Whamo when he was a plane captain with the "Japanese zeros" in the background. The flying shots were filmed in Key West. http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest002.jpg Two Jap Kill Flags on 203 http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd119/jimf0rce/Final%20Countdown/KeyWest011.jpg Kate Ross!!! It's interesting to see how young Charles Durning looks in that picture considering he was a veteran of the Normandy invasion. Well, that movie is rather old now...but time sure does fly. |
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Posted: 8/13/2011 6:16:12 PM EDT
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At the time it came out it was a somewhat novel concept...now alternate history is old hat, still a watchable film though. I dunno, I found that aspect of the movie pretty intense. The ability to win the whole Pacific war with one ship is just one pretty intriguing idea brought up. |
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Posted: 8/13/2011 6:18:20 PM EDT
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Saw it in the theater with my Dad when it came out.
Wait, no comments on the old school M16s? I remember thinking, "Wouldn't firing a rifle in an enclosed compartment hurt their ears?"
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Posted: 8/13/2011 6:20:10 PM EDT
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Whamo: were part of the film?
This is still to this day the only DVD I have ever purchased. 
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Posted: 8/13/2011 6:55:24 PM EDT
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Quoted: I'm in a scene on the flight deck for almost 1-1/2 seconds Whamo: were part of the film? This is still to this day the only DVD I have ever purchased. |
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Posted: 8/13/2011 6:56:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/13/2011 6:56:11 PM EDT
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Both. Anything with the name The Final Countdown is going to rock. |
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Posted: 8/13/2011 6:57:15 PM EDT
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Fuck, just reading the thread title put this song in my head.
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Posted: 8/13/2011 7:01:36 PM EDT
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Now, there's one that could use a remake.
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