I didn't know a flare gun could become a "rocket launcher" and blow up a helicopter lmao

@aden09077

5 ай бұрын

same same

@Whykickamoocow

5 ай бұрын

It sure can...if the script calls for it. 😂😂😂

@alucardbrahmstone6659

5 ай бұрын

yet your not concerned how they were able to go back in time hehehehe

@jamezzz0035

5 ай бұрын

yep altho flares generate intense heat and can ignite flammable materials, potentially causing a fire onboard the helicopter. once a person shoots the flare gun inside the helicopter tho. that fire could rapidly spread in the confined space of the aircraft, leading to loss of control and potentially a crash... in this case, BOOMBASTIC 💥🔥💨

@darrellhall6622

5 ай бұрын

This was before MacGyver. Mac used a flare gun as a rocket launcher to escape with a down fighter pilot from big guys on a high cliff.

Love how they called the helicopter landing on the island around 10:30 a plane and then they called a flare gun a rocket launcher

@bibby659

4 ай бұрын

I mean, apparently that flare gun was a rocket launcher cause it was fired and caused the whole thing to explode... for some reason.

@achillelegrand1680

4 ай бұрын

@@bibby659 you know why ? because its the same flare gun as the pocket mortar

@rickmiller1429

2 ай бұрын

Listen to the voice over, it is AI.

@achillelegrand1680

2 ай бұрын

@@rickmiller1429 here is at the right of the Dislike Button the number of People who ask

@blackswanrevelations

2 ай бұрын

Also the voice was created by ai

I would NOT change anything about the attack on Pearl Harbor because of the saying that if you change ONE thing in the past, then you WILL change the entire future too.

Fun Fact: The Nimitz had nuclear weapons in 1980. So a bunch of nukes were sent back in the film.

We need a modern movie like this but with actual combat

@Ryuu1010YT

4 ай бұрын

it will change history and not coming back to where they are

@nocillis

4 ай бұрын

That'll be the great thing about it. A time travel movie in 'now' modern times, about an event that didn't happen (at least to us it didn't happen). Of course involving the navy again. and the outcome of that event is todays moden life as we see it

@superboats2

2 ай бұрын

There is a novel series, "Axis of Time". An entire international armada from the year 2021, fighting the global war on terror, inexplicably get sent to 1942 and screw up the battle of Midway.

@canadapapers

Ай бұрын

So right

Seizing a rocket launcher... LOL!

I was onboard when this movie was made. I managed to get a small part during the scene in CIC.

I saw this film in the theater when it came out. I wish it would come on TV more often. I rarely see it. I think a remake of it would be great. With today's technology, they could make it look awesome. Even better, would be a twist ending. Have the Aircraft Carrier stop the Pear Harbour Attack. Then return to present day and show the changes that took place. That would be too cool!

@dennispersson9466

Ай бұрын

Ever hear of DVD's ? There are actually stores, that resell used, but good ones, and SOME Libraries, get collections , from Estates' donations ! (It's possible.)

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid.

@noelht1

5 ай бұрын

Mine too I must watch it again

@imtheboss7422

5 ай бұрын

Can somebody tell me the name of the movie please and thank you?

@nelsoncabrera6464

5 ай бұрын

@@imtheboss7422 "The Final Countdown" 1980 film.

@aerospacematt9147

4 ай бұрын

Yeah! This movie was actually my introduction to the F-14, saw it many years before I ever saw Top Gun.

@alexdegeling8294

4 ай бұрын

Loved this movie! Saw it first at a drive-in (French's Forrest in Sydney, after a day at the beach in Mona Vale), then many times on recorded VHS.

The Final Countdown proves one thing. Certain events in history can never be changed. They are written in stone.

@philiprice7875

4 ай бұрын

lets think what would have happened if they did stop the attack with a pre,emptive strike sail into pearl harbour announce what they done no day of infamy could the US go to war? would the Amercian public have supported (and paid) for the war? US has no money to develop nukes soviet union stop at the Atlantic coast goes sunbathing on the costa's

@benjamin6813

4 ай бұрын

the ussr would have never made it into germany without the allies help. Probably never even been able to defend their homeland as due to the lend-lease agreement they managed to scrounge up enough bullets (almost for everyone) and tanks also logistics vehicles such as trucks to defend and then retaliate @@philiprice7875

@Tomoesong

2 ай бұрын

@@philiprice7875 There is Japanese novel Zipang. Japanese destroyer went back to time, just before Battle of Midway. Modern Japanese destroyer tried to avoid the battle and didn't want to change course of war. But american carrier Wasp intercepted them and sent 80 planes to destroy this 'new model of' imperial japanese navy. Cornered modern japanese destroyer destroyed attacking planes and quickly retaliated, sinking Wasp in the process. Problem is after the fight it was really hard to replace depleting ammo and supplies.

@rickjohnston2667

2 ай бұрын

Possibly.

@rickjohnston2667

2 ай бұрын

Kind of like that original Star Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever. In that story, one person's alternate fate changed the course of the U.S. entering the war and the Nazis prevail as a result.

Awesome movie. Watched it so many times

@HossBlacksilver

2 ай бұрын

One of my favorites.

In this movie, there was a near crash of the F-14 during the Zero fighter scene. You see the F-14 dive toward the water with full afterburner. The F-14 nearly stalled and had to nose down to regain control ..

@LuisSantos-hu6gy

5 ай бұрын

?? f14 pulls down, and nearly stalls ??? your comment doesnt make sence

@brandonbrownlee643

5 ай бұрын

What’s the movie name called

@PrivateMemo

5 ай бұрын

@@LuisSantos-hu6gy He's saying that the F-14 had to pitch down to avoid stalling?? Makes perfect sense.

@christalbot210

5 ай бұрын

The maneuver was intentional (i.e. planned). The camera zoomed in on that point to make it look like he was getting too close to the water. Higher ups watching a screening asked the pilot how low they went to which the pilot responded, "500 feet, sir", ... which was okay with the higher ups.

@G_de_Coligny

5 ай бұрын

@@christalbot210well that’s not what the extended dvd interview report… but sure… you do you…

I saw & loved this film in 1979-80! It's funny how fast time goes! More time has passed since this picture was made than the 1941 attack, to this film's making! p.s. My uncle, Army Pvt. Ken Cooke, Hickham Field & great uncle, Navy Chief Ed Gaudet, USS Tennessee, were both Pearl Harbor Survivors!

I finally discovered my new favorite movie thank you for sharing Spoiler Lab 👍

It was a fun movie actually.

Excellent movie, and highly underrated. Im thinking the main plot of this movie is that even if time travel were somehow possible, whether by a man made time machine, or in this case an act of Nature/ God via a powerful and in explainable exectromagnetic storm of unknown causes, it would be pretty much impossible to change the past without altering the future. By interfering with the attack on Pearl Harbor, they may have created a different timeline where the USS Nimitz was never built, and perhaps most of the crew members having a different path in life, in other words a Paradox. If in that altered future timeline, if the ship was never built and her crew took different pathways in their lives, then how could the Nimitz and her crew be transported back in time via anomalous electrical storm seemingly out of nowhere , and interfere with and change a major historical event? That is the Paradox.

this was one of the best what ifs movies ever....i read alot of time travel littiture and such but this one move summed it up well and truely.

One of my favorite lines in any movie is, "So, all we have to sail through some storm at sea and BINGO! We're suddenly much more clever than Einstein. "

@atomicwedgie8176

2 ай бұрын

Tesla was far more intelligent than Einstein... he actually, made fun of his theory of relativity.

Enlisted always the last to know anything. Good movie one I like rewatching. Would love to see a follow up movie on the two that got left behind and what they all changed.

Final Countdown was a cool movie!!

Great film Thank you for reshowing it I think that this was the First time a film crew was allowed on to an active Front Line War ship I THINK ! ?

Such a fantastic underrated movie.

@koiyujo1543

4 ай бұрын

OH trust me it's amazing

I have this movie on D.V.D , I like this movie 👏🇺🇲

This was one of my favourite films when I was a kid

I like this movie. I watch it every time I see it’s on TV. The movie never explained what caused the storm that caused the time travel. I always figured it was a freak event like the Bermuda Triangle.

Final countdown or how I learned to love the F-14 Tomcat.

@darrellhall6622

5 ай бұрын

Before Tom Cruise as Mavrick

@aerospacematt9147

4 ай бұрын

Yeah! Saw this one many years before I ever saw Top Gun. Probably the same amount of time from 1980-1986.

@marcboss6

4 ай бұрын

Well this and Robotech veritech fighters/robots

One of my favorites. This movie was the origin of the idea for Top Gun. The Navy was on board with the whole production. I noticed a few years later the movie Philadelphia Experiment had a similar theme. If you combine the two movies they actually overlap. One scene from that movie shows a portal through time that the sailor is traveling and it's moving. He shuts down the source but the ship materialized some place else. I figured that the Nimitz encountered the same portal. Same time frame. All in all the miniseries The Triangle covers the same territory years later.

Stuck on a desert island with Katharine Ross. I'd go back in time for that. ;O)

I'd be far more interested in how Yelland's debriefing with the navy top brass went.

Watched in cinema in Orange California when came out. Was State of the art back then.

An interference would have altered the timeline and you have no idea what that could have done. Going back to 1980 would be way different than when you left it. You may not have even been born.

Good premise. If the Nimitz had attacked the Japanese fleet the attack on PH wouldn't have happened, the US wouldn't have joined WWII and the Axis powers may have won the war. All in allowing the attack on PH was the winning move.

Looks like a great film, love the concept of time travel.

@rickjohnston2667

2 ай бұрын

I highly recommend it. It was well done for it's time. And the concept is timeless (pun intended.)

While the story and characters were not the best, this was a wonderful movie for Grumman, USN and aerospace enthusiasts because of the scenes with the combat aircraft of the day. My father worked for Grumman Aerospace for 35 years and was a principal member of the LEM design team, focusing on the landing gear and the creation of the Lunar Surface Sensing Probe (affectionately called the "lunar curb feeler" at our home). The musical score by John Scott is outstanding, and continues to be one of the most under-rated aspects of the film. Fun film fact: During the sequence in which a F-14 engages one of the Japanese Zero fighters, the F-14 pilot had to throttle down to match speed and almost stalled his aircraft- and the seemingly dramatic pull-up recovery about 100 feet above the surface was quite real and captured on film. Link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oK6By62jqqnIf8o.html

@andreworiez8920

5 ай бұрын

Another fun fact.... There was an actual inflight emergency involving an A-7 while filming.... The barricade scene was REAL.

Great idea. Watched it when I was younger, but now I realize that the aircraft carrier would be overwhelmed by fighters/dive bombers and eventually run out of ammo against the air craft. So would all the jet’s

Love this movie thanks

39 years between 1941 and 1980 when the film was made. Now it’s 44 years between 1980 and 2024. Kind of funny, especially when they regarded it a big deal in the movie.

The film is good but I got dissapointed because I was expecting an epic battle between the f14s, more advanced but outnumbered, against the Japanese forces, less advanced but in greater numbers.

Good Movie Glad I've Got It on DVD.

This movie was really great for the time it was released. We need the continuation of Final Cowntdown with a modern powerful naval fleet returning back to Pear Harlbor and engaging into war. Would they be able to change history? What will happen in the future by doing so? Will they create a space time paradox ? Hopefully there will a Final Countdown II movie !

Those were some big name actors. 😂

Perfect movie one of the best of all time. The soundtrack is also awesome. I wish for a remake or a sequel.

@rickjohnston2667

2 ай бұрын

Sequel. Have Martin Sheen's character working for a secret government agency after their encounter, trying to reproduce the conditions of the storm in a lab and succeeding.

Yes, I remember the movie! Cool !

Ahh what wanderful nam that is 0:54

I have seen this movie before but I haven't seen it in a long time

@enterprisespatton6549

5 ай бұрын

They actually released it on Blu-ray. I know, because I have it.

@rhelwyncharlestimbal2283

4 ай бұрын

Same 😢

I'm governed by the potential Temporal paradox. By altering the past could have unintentional consequences to the time. So quoting Doctor Emmett Brown, BTTF.

@JBofBrisbane

4 ай бұрын

But then Captain Yelland thought, "What the hell..."

That movie is the reason I joined the Navy! Wow

I rather not change anything if u don't want to have BUTTERFLY EFFECT HAPPENING TO U

I still loved this this movie

I remember this movie. Very cool !

0:27 damn that’s a nice badass Aircraft Carrier

@Ryuu1010YT

18 күн бұрын

you can find video about 8.5 billion dollars aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Nimitz by US Military News the carrier was going to retired in 2026 and 2029 get replaced by gerald r ford

Could only imagine reuniting with your dog after 40 years.

Skirting the public and capitalizing on business venture one could amass sizeable fortune on the way into the 21st century .. .

The time from WWII to this movie is LESS than the movie to the Present Day. Meaning Todays Navy would make the 80's Navy look OLD.

Nice.

5:40 That Yacht must be using Nitroglycerin as fuel.

they should remake this movie, i was about 11 years old when i first see it, then a few years later the philadelphia experiment was released with a similar story

@Ryuu1010YT

4 ай бұрын

there was similar to this but Japanese Destroyer jds mirai (Zipang 2004)

@rickjohnston2667

2 ай бұрын

No remake. Sequel!

Love this movie old school and the idea of what if it could happen? And that old classic time butterfly effect if you change 1 thing that it can change everything loved this movie that much i managed to get a original movie poster of this movie wish they did another

nice

Loved this film as a kid

Love this movie and watch it often

watch this way back and it never gets old....we need isekai movies i think these guys started the whole isekai genre

@DartLuke

4 ай бұрын

Isekai was started by Mark Twain

I think they should remake it, too good a premise to pass up

I didn't know this movie was existed but I read a fanfiction about this but great recap. I hope one day there's a sequel or a reboot but I will love to see a movie similar to that instead of a modern warship, how about an entire United States along with their modern warfare, technology and civilians got time travel(or Isekai in Japanese) to WW2? It's like a fanfiction where Modern US forces team up with WW2 British, Soviet and their allies against the Axis Powers while carefully altering some events whereas modern civilians were dealing with 1940s civilians as they show them about movies, selfies, social media and other modern stuff in a confuse but hilarious ways.

@Ryuu1010YT

18 күн бұрын

mostly likely that'll be different.

" what we have here is failure to communicate "😊

This was a great movie.

Going to the past to prevent a war would likely set us back decades technologically. Wars are major contributors to new tech as they forces us to innovate. Almost all major tech leaps we've had are link to a war.

As a decorated captain of IJN in world of warship. I agree w/ this movie.

@Valast

5 ай бұрын

Really? I am a decorated Kriegsmarine Captain in War thunder

@CASA-dy4vs

2 ай бұрын

I am a decorated human

I really enjoy this movie. Sadly it was underated and the title remembered as the title of a song by Europe in the 80's. Always wondered it they actually got the fight the Japanese fleet , Undoubtably they would have won but also changed. It would likely be that a number of the crew would disappear due to the change in history. In a way it did. Commander Owens would have used his knowledge to help in WW2. With the knowledge of future he would have lots of oppurtunities to get wealthy. They would have watched over lasky life and career until he got back. Laurel was probably relieved that Charlie would still be alive after 40 years.

Great movie

Good watch.

9 👍's up S Lab thank you for sharing 😅

If I be traveling back to that time I would be a trillionaire today…

Meteorological Officer " Black Cloud" 😂😂😂😂.

They should redo this into a Mini Series where a Carrier from 2024 goes back to Pearl Harbor, destroyed the Japanese Strike Force then stays rather than returning to the future. Not only would it deal with advanced weapons that could win the war, but there are other things that would add a lot of Drama like when the people of 1940's America see the Modern Carrier has non segregated crews and female crew as well as female pilots. And it would also be cool to see what the U.S does with such power. The Carrier wouldn't be useful for long due to the lack of proper fuel and spare parts, but a lot of stuff can be reverse engineered.

@dazlockd316

Ай бұрын

Ever heard of the Axis of Time trilogy? Basically this. One of my favourite book series that is about to be made into a TV show apparently.

LOVE THE MOVIE

Quite a good recap. Could have been a bit shorter thou.

imagine the look on the zero,s pilots faces seeing the modern fighter jets !

Im surprised no one screamed "Aliens!!!!!!!!!!!"

For a 44 year old film it's pretty good.

Prime Directive still applies.

@momokochama1844

5 ай бұрын

to quote a certain captain: "To hell with the Temporal Prime Directive" 😄

@mikestory2269

3 ай бұрын

Alii laddy but she could have been the enterprise cv 68.

The logistics chain must have been a nightmare.

Love this film.

The super carrier did NOT end up in the midst of WWII. Japan has not yet attacked Pearl Harbor.

@cherylm3445

4 ай бұрын

It did end up in WWII, because Europe is at war with Germany isn’t it? Please correct me if I’m wrong.

@lukeskywalker5392

4 ай бұрын

It ended up 2 years into WWII. Start of the war was 1st of September 1939. Pearl harbor was 7th december 1941

Its one of the movies to gain popularity to join the navy like top gun.

The bad thing about changing the past bad things, is it would change a lot of good things, too.

POV: Warthunder custom battles

Dude my dad just mentioned this movie about me and then I saw this

While on a Westpac cruise serving on a DDG 69 and 71. Several times after dark sitting on the fantail we would speculate wha tit might be like if our ship traved back to WWII.

Be good to remake this now and change the outcome.

Modem? Modern as of 1980.... But that was over 40 years ago.... The only fixed wing still in service from back then were the Hawkeyes and Greyhounds!!!!! Be better if you had titled it "Nuclear carrier travels 40 years" or something similar

I loved this movie a

the present is built on the past. Attempting to change past events is not possible

@teresaravenshaw5477

5 ай бұрын

If it is, then any future one might return to would be somewhat different to the timeline we originated in.

@philiprice7875

4 ай бұрын

to travel back in time you need to collect, store enough energy to re-set the entire UNIVERSE your not going to do that with a kilo of plutonium

You have to ask ? Just what was Commander Owen & Larual intension of sending Laskey aboard the then USS Nimitz ... other than to fetch the dog Charlie!

This would be a tough call if you could what sort of ripple effect would that have on the future my grandmother add two boys killed at the bombing of Pearl Harbor

@puirYorick

4 ай бұрын

A handful of i980s Marines and sailors got shot and their lives ended back in 1941 so that has to ripple forward and change stuff too. The pair of Zero pilots may have also been destined to have altered timelines. Time travel stories never clean up their timelines in theory.

Plot twist the Japanese soldier is thrusted into the future where he finds himself in Vietnam as a Colonel who holds US service members hostage. He would have had a good life but he crossed paths with Chuck Norris.....

rofl at 9:43 a 77 set sitting on a can beside a 523 radio and he's talking into a modern handset from the 80's yea real believable

Im more interested to know what is the music being used in the background.. its nice and soothing.

@pigeonhawk4832

Ай бұрын

The music is Dreamer, by Hazy

So much for the CAG to think about as he’s on a remote tropical island with Katherine Ross…

Top Gun before Pete Mitchell has escaped from sac !