[central_va]

The Final Countdown, a guilty pleasure. There is a cool subtle scene where a fat senator form 1941, before the alpha strike on the jap task force, asks the CO of the carrier if 24 planes(A7 and f14s) is enough planes to do the job, it didn’t sound like a lot of planes. the CO responded in a laconic style “It’s enough”.

[bert]

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[tanknetter]

The Final Countdown, a guilty pleasure.

Kirk Douglas as the Nimitz Capt., James Farantino (sp?) as the Nimitz CAG, Charles Durning as the 1941 US Senator and Martin Sheen as the circa 1979 tech-rep/systems analyst.

It's one of my favorite movies. I've had friends over to watch it for the first time, and they think it's really dumb. Right up until the Tomcats vs. Zeros scene. Then they get hooked.

About eight years ago I was in a used book store and there on the shelf, for US$0.50, was the frikkin' NOVELIZATION of the movie. Ok, I just HAD to have the thing - just for the sake of having it on my shelf - and would have paid a heck of a lot more for it.

So I get it home and read it. It's completely different than the 1970s/1980s novelizations of movies. It actually reads like the book was written first, THEN the movie adapted from it. The book literally fills in every single hole/discrepency in the movie. And the last chapter is the conversation ("we have a lot to talk about") between Laskey and Tideman that takes place AFTER the movie ends.