I was on the Nimitz when this was filmed..... :)

@Konleb

3 жыл бұрын

I was on the russian trawler, lol.

@Comanchee0689

3 жыл бұрын

How was 1941?

@PopcornNSodaProductions

3 жыл бұрын

Really? What was your job on the Nimitz?

@annawojtas3403

3 жыл бұрын

@@Comanchee0689 lol

@0lig4rch19

3 жыл бұрын

@@Comanchee0689 mcscuse me? The first Nimitz class carrier was proposed on may third 1975

When the movie was released, the Nimitz was the largest and most powerful warship ever built. I find this scene renders well the feeling of might.

@motaz1975

2 жыл бұрын

she may be the oldest active carrier we have but make no mistake, she is still a beast!

@emperorpalpatine7540

2 жыл бұрын

In a way is still the biggest ship ever build. Because only recent the new Gerald R. Ford class is bigger than the Nimitz class. And only slightly bigger.

@chumline577

2 жыл бұрын

USS Enterprise was slightly largest

No matter how many times I watch this scene. It ALWAYS gives me goose bumps! Especially the aft shot at 0:27! Synced to the soundtrack! Proud Navy moment! I was an F14 mech with VF213 serving aboard USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72! Nimitz class carrier!

This movie gets better every year.

@husenharir313

3 жыл бұрын

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@kv-2222

3 жыл бұрын

It need remake

@sadiqahmed4143

2 жыл бұрын

@@kv-2222 yeah

@gamingboonboon087

2 жыл бұрын

What the movie?

@Kgio-2112

8 ай бұрын

​@@kv-2222no no no It will be ruined with today's dumb humor and effects

I stayed at the Navy Lodge in 2017 at KITSAP, Literally the Nimitz was moored adjacent to the hotel. It was so awesome to look out my hotel room window and see that beautiful carrier just sitting there.

@danielmalloy6093

6 ай бұрын

I played the trumpet on her flight deck many times in Norfolk, pier 12.

God. How I love 0:26 with the music!!! That aft shot of the Nimitz! Makes me proud to have served! I get goosebumps every single time! I love showing my daughter this. She can see daddy’s aircraft. The F14! I served with VF 213 CAG 11. Very first air wing assigned after commissioning Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln. CVN-72! God Bless Our fine Navy!! And all who serve!!!

USS Nimitz CVN-68. Lead ship of her class and the largest and most powerful warship in the world at the time of the movie, only recently surpassed by the recently-commissioned USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78.

@ilttpvvm

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't USS Enterprise CVN-65 the world's largest and most powerful warship at the time?

@Orca19904

3 жыл бұрын

@@ilttpvvm Enterprise is the longest carrier the US has fielded at 1,123 feet bow to stern vs 1,092 feet for the Nimitz and Ford-class that succeeded her, but the latter were heavier, each displacing over 100K tons to Enterprise's 93+ thousand tons.

@valashar5313

2 жыл бұрын

Nimitz was originally slated to be the second ship of the Enterprise class. This changed once it was determined that making carriers using cruiser scale reactors wouldn't be feasible in the long term. Enterprise was built using reactors originally designed for the USS Long Beach (CGN-9) in order to streamline design and attempt to create a uniform standard power system for future nuclear surface vessels. Enterprise ended up requiring seven of those reactors to supply sufficient power, and it was decided that it would not be feasible for all future Enterprise-class carriers to be built along those lines. So carrier scale reactors were designed and the Nimitz was designed around them. With such radically different specs Nimitz was commissioned as the flagship of a new Nimitz-class of carriers and Enterprise remained in a literal class of its own.

When this movie was being filmed and released, the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) was brand new, and the largest warship for its time (only being recently surpassed by the USS Gerald R Ford-class with the lead ship USS Gerald R Ford (CVN-78) being first deployed just last year), also Nimitz was with the US Atlantic Fleet at the time and wouldn't be deployed to the Pacific until 1987 where it has been operating ever since and is now near the end of its life having spended most of it in the Pacific fleet which the movie did get right in the end.

Well done........how to change a routine helicopter landing into dramatic visual footage....sound + footage = great films.

Biggest Navy ship I've been on was the Missouri. I was open-mouthed when I saw it. I can only imagine what my reaction would be seeing a behemoth like a Nimitz-class carrier.

A fantastic film, loved every minute.

I so wish Hollywood did a remake on this movie.. But had the balls to let them crush the Japanese Armada at the end... It's a movie... have fun with it.

@eq1373

3 жыл бұрын

They would fuck it up today. I don't want Hollywood anywhere near TFC

@Razzy1312

2 жыл бұрын

@@eq1373 Yeah, knowing modern Hollywood they would probably try and spin it and make U.S. the bad guy in a way. Like the carrier goes back in time and the crew decide to stop the US military of 1945 from dropping the nuclear bombs so they can find a more peaceful end to the war that doesn't involve mass civilian death.

@Kgio-2112

8 ай бұрын

​@@eq1373exactly. With today's dumb humor . Ruined

USS Kitty Hawk was used for the Pearl Harbor scene -- USS Nimitz was actually in the Atlantic Fleet at the time (and during filming, sent off for the Iran hostage rescue attempt)

@richardlamb5888

3 жыл бұрын

Shame they didn't have any Dwight D Eisenhower footage instead. I think it was initially based in the Pacific.

@tieroneactual2228

2 жыл бұрын

I have a friend who was on the USS Kitty Hawk during Vietnam. Not sure of the exact years but they were off the coast & he was involved in launching the F4’s whenever they would go out on a mission.

@DPBGMODELRAILROAD

15 күн бұрын

@@richardlamb5888pretty sure Eisenhower wasn’t commissioned maybe not even built at this time,

@DPBGMODELRAILROAD

15 күн бұрын

My only concern was when the Nimitz returned to port and the senior commanders were coming to find out where they had been and they were announced arriving the commands were all Atlantic Fleet commands not Pacific!

Sorry, I'm not a musician, nor an American. I'm just here for the aviation scenes.

Bass trombone ! Yes!

Perfect film to be remade…

@unpaintedleadsyndrome

2 жыл бұрын

NOOOOOOOO Just NO! I've had with remakes and reboots... Come up with new stories, you lazy hollywood hacks.

Omg the soundtrack!

Awesome! 👍

Such a great film!

Brilliant film one of Kirk Douglas best movie.

I was aboard the Nimitz when they Filmed this movie

best movie ever

She was shiny brand-new when this was filmed.

USS Nimitz an American Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier

Oh Snap....my lucky lottery number on that helicopter. Gotta buy a ticket.

My Dad was on the Antietam, the 1st slant decker. Flattop Sailors the best in the world 🌎.

Charlie Sheen told me that he was 9 years old, when he flew on a chopper with his father, during filming of The Final Countdown. I was onboard during the filming. A cook in the chiefs mess. Got kirk douglas and james farrantinos autograph.

@johnheffner3950

4 ай бұрын

I was mess. Cooking in CPO mess aboard the Forrestal CVA 59 WESTPAC July 29 1967 what memories loved that movie! Where do you go cmdr Owens?!

At the 0:07 mark in the upper right corner you can see a silhouette of a big ship in the back(looking by the arrangement of it's tower and what appears to be a smoke stack),is there any chance that this is a battleship ? Iowa,New Jersey etc. ?

@Hide.the.Salami

3 жыл бұрын

None of the Iowa Class ships were in service in 1979 when this was filmed; the profile or size-at-range doesn't quite match for that either. The most likely possibilities are that the ship seen there is either a Virginia or California class nuclear guided missile cruiser; based on the extremely low, long, and flat fore and aft sections I would expect that would be one of the Virginia Class (USS Virginia, Texas, or Mississippi).

@borkoalkoholtariiisk

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hide.the.Salami Thank you for the info

@WardenWolf

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hide.the.Salami Agreed, it looks like a Virginia Class. They had a rather distinct superstructure.

I liked the music.

I love this movie which is about a giant US Aircraft Carrier being sucked in a time vortex and sent the USS Nimitz back in time to the day BEFORE the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor and sank the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941. USS Nimitz is 100,000 ton ship carrying Jets and Helicopters.

@Gotobar

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is this movie. You didn’t need to describe it for us

@steveschierholz5272

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you admiral

@Kgio-2112

4 жыл бұрын

Yet Top gun is more popular. Most of the public is lame..

@ravenking1822

4 жыл бұрын

k Gio yea, i prefer this movie over Top Gun

@Biden2024_

3 жыл бұрын

Gotobar 1313 lmaooo ikr

U. S NAVAL PRESENCE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD IS A DETERRENT TO ALL TYRANTS...

Back when being American meant something.

@c.s.oneill2079

7 күн бұрын

It still does. I served on USS George Washington (CVN-73) and it was every bit as awesome an experience as you might image (albeit with less time travel). It's true that a lot of our countrymen have lost it, but we, the patriots, are still the majority. The only way to lose for certain, and thereby lose America, is to surrender. So don't. You are by far from alone. America is more than its past. It is and has always been an idea for a better future, for both its people, and those of the rest of the world. Humans are imperfect, but they can also be heroic. Your choice, my friend. Which will you be?

Imagine that were really true it goes back in time to change history.

NOICE

Amazing, underrated movie with a rousing score. Was always disappointed that they copped out on a final battle for the storm conveniently arriving inopportunely to ruin the fun

They need to re-make this movie with a modern version with f-22 raptors and F 35's and they need to let them engage the Japanese at pearl harbor ( Not on the way ) and also let them engage the Japanese at midway and on into the war with a few engagements with the Germans. Then at the end let them return to the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor like it hasn't happened yet and then return home. I mean who didn't want to see our modern navy surprise the Japanese ? Ikr !!! Everyone did. Splash the zeros could have been so much more exciting. A whole modern fleet attacking would have been off the chain good. Or a Ohio class sub surfacing inside the Japanese fleet at midway. Come on Hollywood we are waiting !!!!!

@dynjarren5454

3 жыл бұрын

Sofar there isnt many F-22's that are carrier borne yet. But that would be cool

@alphahead2741

3 жыл бұрын

Woah dude, maybe they would ruin the movie, in this movie in the ending the captain said that he would destroy the whole japanese fleet but got sucked in the time vortex to go back to 1980, the real reason of that they didnt film the fight scenes of the nimitz vs the japanese fleet is because the japanese fleet sunk in midway that it would be impossible to rebuild them so maybe if we got a chance to have a new sequell of the movie, i think maybe we would see the fight scenes of them

So when they got back to Pearl how did they explain the missing helicopter (the one that exploded), it's flight crew, the ship's officer that was on the helicopter and I think there was a Marine shot/killed by an escaped Japanese airman. They just let all that slide.

@WardenWolf

3 жыл бұрын

No, it was all in the incident reports. Not a matter of "let it slide", but all that paperwork nightmare happens after the end of the movie. They have plenty of proof thanks to the Japanese pilot's personal effects and the NEW photos they took that match the historical ones. That would have been kept off standard comms, though, because it was almost certainly to be classified. The deaths would likely be swept under the rug as a "lost at sea" incident due to the freak storm.

@darrellhall6622

3 жыл бұрын

My uncle told us a story which they lost a man at sea when his sub had to drive. The poor man was still on the deck when they had to drive because they were too close to China's water. They could not stop for one man. So he was lost at sea

@Kgio-2112

3 жыл бұрын

They were classified as " mishaps". Next....

I was there 82/83

Helen Martins i valdi

Do youTHINK ITS POSSIBLE THAT THE NIMITS WENT BACKWARDS THROUGH TIME

Whats the movies Name?

@BigLisaFan

3 жыл бұрын

Final Countdown.

@sandwichgamer0575

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigLisaFan thx

@BigLisaFan

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandwichgamer0575 Good little flick overall.

Given the history of WWII, I think it would have been better to have used the Enterprise. I know at the time Nimitz is brand new. Bit just the battle record of CV-6 would be enough for them to use the Enterprise

@paulanerruhrpott6188

8 ай бұрын

But then the Joke would not work where the Senator guy is wondering that the Navy christened a ship with the name of an active Admiral.

@danielmalloy6093

6 ай бұрын

@@paulanerruhrpott6188 Thats right. And knowing how important Nimitz was in our victory, makes this that more interesting.

Great film, with some awesome flying. If only they hadn't called the movie The Final Countdown. Every time I see it I have to think of that damn obnoxious song...be happy when you don't know what I mean, and do not look it up on KZread! You have been warned.

@paulanerruhrpott6188

4 ай бұрын

The movie is from 1980, the song from 1986 so the movie came before the Song.

I was expecting Darth Vader to enter the scene....

Odd since there were only, "2" Nuclear aircraft carriers, in 79' you would think CVN 65, instead of CVN68. ? & what happened to the SSN, sub escort? Nothing in Movie about that ?

@PopcornNSodaProductions

3 жыл бұрын

Technically, Nimitz was a newer vessel, compared to its Kittyhawk counterpart

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@dynjarren5454

3 жыл бұрын

Jesus dont have aircraft carriers, the US does.