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The FRiday Night Movie - The Final Countdown (1980)
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Posted on 04/10/2015 7:53:59 PM PDT by DemforBush
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Good little popcorn movie. Well-acted, sharply done carrier activity scenes, and just a fun premise. 7/10.
To: DemforBush
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posted on
04/10/2015 7:54:44 PM PDT
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Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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Ping.
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And, again as always, if you ask to be added and I forget, feel free to administer a Leroy Jethro Gibbs headsmack.
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posted on
04/10/2015 7:55:44 PM PDT
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DemforBush
(Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
04/10/2015 7:58:44 PM PDT
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Figment
To: DemforBush
We should have nuked the Japs back then (in the movie). That would be a more satisfying ending. Would have saved my father-in-law a long and bloody trek across the Pacific to Iwo and Okinawa in real life.
To: DemforBush
Oh I remember this one. Nice..
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posted on
04/10/2015 7:59:27 PM PDT
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MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
To: MaxMax
I loved the ending of this movie.
To: DemforBush
This is one of my guilty pleasure movies.
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:10:39 PM PDT
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Vermont Lt
(When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
To: DemforBush
saw it a few years ago....very good movie...no over dramatization...good acting....
I want to recommend two modern movies....Interstellar was excellent and so was the Imitation Game ( some reference to homosexuality but not overwhelming)
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:12:57 PM PDT
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cherry
To: DemforBush
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04/10/2015 8:12:59 PM PDT
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GeronL
(CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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We should have nuked the Japs back then (in the movie). That would be a more satisfying ending. Would have saved my father-in-law a long and bloody trek across the Pacific to Iwo and Okinawa in real life. I had the same feeling when I saw it. The ending was a cop out.
To: DemforBush
I spoke to one of the guys flying the Zeros (PT19s) in the scene where the jet flies between two of Zeros.
There were 6 or so based out of Clover Field south of Houston TX in the late 70’s early 80’s.
He said they were warned that there would be quite a vortex coming off of the ends of the wings.
He said there was what seemed like an eternity when he was just a passenger waiting to regain control.
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:15:17 PM PDT
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Clay Moore
(Keep JRandomFreeper in you prayers)
To: DemforBush
Holy CARP! I LOVE this movie!!
Cheesy, but creative.
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:15:29 PM PDT
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RandallFlagg
("I fell into a hundred foot ravine" -Marcus Luttrell)
To: DemforBush
A wonderful movie! I highly recommend.
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:18:09 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: DemforBush
One of my favorite Navy films. and that was made back in the days when sailors were allowed to grow beards.
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:22:17 PM PDT
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stbdside
To: DemforBush
This is one of my 5 all time favorite movies.
I have pedestrian taste, unapologetically so, so don’t bother.
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:23:07 PM PDT
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publius911
(If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
To: DemforBush
I can even remember seeing this one in the theater way back when. A fun movie.
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:30:29 PM PDT
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drbuzzard
(All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
To: DemforBush
I watched it during Navy Recruit Training, probably in December, definitely 1980. Needless to say it was a friendly audience and the film was well received.
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:31:11 PM PDT
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ExpatGator
(I hate Illinois Nazis!)
To: DemforBush
Please add me to your ping list for movies. Thanks! Spunky
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:31:44 PM PDT
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Spunky
To: DemforBush
This was the very first movie I rented on VHS. With the way it bridges the two genres of WWII war films and sci-fi, I can’t help but like it.
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posted on
04/10/2015 8:33:01 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
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