The Final Countdown 1980 theme John Scott 

Thank you for your service, sir. Your shipmates did an outstanding job in this movie; it came out the year I was born, and I watched it constantly growing up and still enjoy it to this day.

What did you fly?

@@UltraEntertainment_Plush He didn't say he was a naval aviator, he served aboard the ship. With a crew of over 5,000, they were all there to support the mission, which is to project power to any point in the world. Most of the aircraft in this movie I refueled when I was a POL troop at Offutt AFB forty years ago. I remember the "U.S.S. NIMITZ" logo painted on the side of the A-6 Intruders, S3-A Vikings and, of course, F-14 Tomcats.

@@UltraEntertainment_Plush VA-82 was one of the two A-7E Corsair II squadrons embarked on the Nimitz at the time the film was made. Their aircraft are the ones with the blue markings seen in the movie. Their sister squadron, VA-86, was the one that had one of their aircraft land in the barricade shortly after they went through the first time storm.

You know this theme song became the unrep tune for Nimitz. Hope to see it again before its scrapped.

Commander Eddington... RIP

RIP Commander Owens...And also Richard Tideman

Captain Yelland.

Captain Kirk....he was dubbed by Gottfried Kramer in Germany...cool voice. He will now get his orders from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Chakka⚔

@@tarekal-hakim4643 Captain Kirk? 😂🤣🤣

The time paradox, in a nutshell

The end scene when Lasky meets Laurel and Commander Owen is epic and the final music and score are absolutely haunting and beautiful and epic all at the same time. Film, music, actors all outstanding. One of my top ten favorites of all time.

trha2222 No. Retired in 2009!

Hearing the music, and looking at the picture makes me have regrets not listening to my best friend (A highly trained nuclear technician) in joining the Navy.

Autoshopwing Thank you for your service. My nephew served on the Nimitz as part of a S-3 air crew.

First, Autoshopwing, Thank you for your service. Isn't it funny how movies inspire? Growing up in the 80's, I had two movies starring the F-14 inspiring me to serve. My fav of the pair is Final Countdown (far less Hollywood BS in my opinion). Similarly to your launching models from your bed, my older brother, and I flew our G.I.Joe Tomcats around our back yard on "patrol for bogies" At any rate, fast forward a few years, to my joining the Navy, and witnessing ALL of my childhood dreams unfold. My first command was with VF-101, an F-14 squadron out of NAS Oceana as an enlisted tech. Then after leaving the O-Level community to SOD with AIMD, I set sail with CVN-65 Enterprise, and finally CVN-68 USS NIMITZ! TWICE! While it's true that not everyone can bost what I can, that ALL of my boyhood dreams came to fruition, but mine did. Also true, there were some things that weren't so glamorous, but how often is it? To be clear, I took what I could get, and have no regrets, plenty of fond memories, and great acquaintances. I can even say I've taken two Cat Shots, granted, facing the back of the plane on a COD, but still! Granted, I only served for 14 years, HYT, but still I wouldn't change a thing. AT2 (AW)

Thank you for your service.

"Sound General Quarters!"

Me too.

I don't blame you with this piece of music playing! Who wouldn't?

Might had been better. In the movie most of the cuts were set wrong. Much of the brilliant story got lost that way. Back then there were BOOKS TO FILMS published. Was before the days of VIDEO CASSETTS and DVDs for everyone. So I had known that the storyline could have been brougt over better. For the book they had used an older, much better skript-draft. So when I was seeing the movie the first time after reading the book I had been so disappointed. The book should be still around on the second hand market or you even know someone having it in an old moving box or in a quiet corner on his/her bookshelf But the music was fine, yes.

I like you I think we could be friends

+Bondek It's a nightmare.

I must be dreaming.... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Still think it's a dream?

And that's exactly what happened! They went for a swim!

Love the fighter pilot's eager, bloodthirsty tone when he replies, "Yes, sir!"

10 -4

AND kATE rOSS ages badly

Who is talking about remaking this movie? You can't improve upon perfection.

The point of the movie (its argument) is that history can't be changed in major ways. We know from "real history" that the Nimitz was not built by a Tideman Enterprises, and that there was no Senator Chapman. So at least one iteration of time travel has already occurred with these two people. So who are the "engineers" behind the effort to change history? There are two that live permanently in both timelines (1941 and 1980) -- Cmdr. Owens / Mr. Tideman and Laurel Scott. The senator dies in each timeline, and actually never makes it to 1980. Lasky seems genuinely puzzled by things yet he seems like he has enough analysis ability to where Tidemen placing him on the ship could help Captain Yelland make the decision to prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor. That would cause a major change in history. How many iterations has this time warp already gone through? What created the seemingly natural electromagnetic storm and timed it to perfection? Tideman could have taken 1980 technology back to 1941 and leveraged it into creating a time travel machine that would create the storm to travel the ship back in history? Since the "storm" existed in both timelines and only the Nimitz made the trip, was there a "time machine" hidden somewhere in the Nimitz? Reachable by radio or programmed to execute at a certain time by someone? In any event, only tiny changes in history were able to occur. This matches some of the theories on time travel, that it would not be possible to make major changes in history. Of course who is to say that many iterations haven't already taken place, and that substantial changes in the original history haven't taken place? Maybe they will eventually prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor ... maybe in the next time travel iteration!!

Though Owens was a part of the history he read about and became Richard Tideman. The surprise at the end was cool.

I’d love to see it in a theater, with digital remastering for the audio and video.. could you imagine what it’d be like to see them splash the zeros on an imax screen?!

@@mcmjr405 Well, if it was shot on film and not tape, we could easily get a 4K remaster of the video. The audio would be the harder part.

@@EnderMalcolm especially since the audio of the score was never released so it becomes an issue of is it even in existence anymore or would it need to be re-recorded?

Awesome!

Maybe I’ll come visit!

I guess that in 80s you saw it on copyied VHS tape (like me), not in local cinema. This movie had an interesting fate in Czechoslovakia. This movie was officially bought. It was even translated (with subtitles) and promotional materials were printed. But then someone noticed that it actually promotes the US Navy, so it was not released. It circulated on VHS copies on black market. It came to the cinemas after the regime change in 1989. I think that first time I saw public screening was in summer cinema at 1990 or 1991. But ... I still have my VHS copy :).

Hang in there keep hope for freedom

@@xpaul777 No, it was in cinema Radost in Havířov :-) byla to radost to vidět ;-)

@Peter A. What country do come? I saw them the whole nation did. The wore the same horrible boots and uniforms. Occupants, zakhwatchiki. Zmrdi.

@Peter A. we were grateful for liberation, but: USSR violated international treaty with Czechoslovakia and cut away part of Czechoslovakia. (podkarpatská Rus in 1944) that has never before been part of USSR. Ruthinians were forced by NKVD to vote for soviet anexion. I spoku to witness of that act. 2nd. despite the soviet-czech. act about 10 000 czechoslovak citizens were left to die or we can write murdered in NKVD soviet concentration camps during the 2WW. Whole factories were dismantled in the part of CSR liberated by soviets and moved to the USSR. f.eg. Vítkovice steelworks were moved to soviet Ukraine. and in 1985 my greatgranduncle saw it still standing in train wagons. Soviets stole it´s ally´s company and even didn´t used it. What a fucked state it was. 3rd. raping rally - thousands of czech and slovak girls were raped by soviet soldiers. Again I spoke to a witness (my grandmom) 4th with soviets the NKVD came, about 30 000 czechoslovak citizens were moved to USSR and murdered, f.eg. czechoslovak general Sergei Votsekhovsky. 5th there was no reason for soviet occupation in 1968, or tell me reason for moving almoust 500 000 troops with tanks and aircrafts to your loyal ally´s country, to shoot into the unarmed citizens and to shoot into the National Museum´s building. And now, thell me: Are you dumb, or paid by Putin?

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This movie came out the same year I was born, and remains one of my favorites to this day. I even have a model of an F-14 Tomcat in the colors of the Jolly Rogers as seen in the movie.

Yup, same as I. My step-father was stationed in NAS Jacksonville, in squadron HS-9. He remembers the Iran hostage crisis when the Nimitz was at the "Gonzo Station", off the coast of Iran, in the Persian Gulf.

Leon Morales Very haunting. But fits the mood of the screens perfectly.

Leon Morales ..Terrific music...Terrific film.

4:43...

Same. Its funny how a small piece of music can trigger so many thoughts, memories and emotions.

Me too. Saw this at the time, a few times since, not for years now, and had forgotten that bit of theme. Evokes every bit of pain, loss and memory of the scene it was paired with. Movie scoring hardly gets any better.

I'm glad you commented on the great music. It's mind boggling though considering how much military movie music changed considering the Top Gun soundtrack a mere six years later.

I believe he served in the Navy during WWII.

Yup, he did.

He's 102 now. Go, Kirk!

AWWWW, HE DIED YESTERDAY AND THIS WAS ONE KICK ASS MOVIE

Here's the pass down log.

Anytime we leave the house to go on a long road trip I always say this

This song played over the flight deck? Wow. I guess that would be like hearing Take Me Out To The Ballgame, while shagging flies at Wrigley, Fenway, or ANY ballpark!

I thought they still called it Unreps?

My father joined the NAVY after PEARL HARBOR and I still have the 48 STAR WOOL AMERICAN FLAG that flew on his battleship

@@carlgalloway2660 how did you get it?

My grand uncle on my fraternal grandmother's side was at Pearl on December 7, 1941. He was in the army, Hickum Base. He was working on a half track. He used it for shelter twice. When he headed back to his barracks, it was gone. All of his buddies were obliterated. He told me his experience only once, and in person.

82 YEARS Arizona forever wave

+J. Conner A fantastic, Twilight Zone like story absolutly, but they should have followed the flow of the book. The cuts had been irratating. With a more skilled director and cutter this movie would have become much more sophisticated. I would have put the point more towards the Frame Story. The idea that the lost members turn up as the organizers of this time warp enterprise had been more interesting to me as the known historical advent which got stuffed more or less into the Story without sensebility. TIME TUNNEL and JAG did in this respect a much better job with their PEARL HARBOUR EVENT INTERPRETATION

And for Owen to build the Nimitz so he could meet Ms Scott Did NOT know there was a book should not be a surprise

'Yes back in those days when the movie got out it was a fashion to publish the scripts as book to the movie. This way I had known STAR WARS IV before I ever had the chance to see it in a cinema for example. Sometimes that had been very interesting because sometimes not the final one had been used for publishing as in the case. This gave you in interesting insight in the developing process because there were scenes in it never realized.

I've always found the ending bittersweet, especially when you see the Nimitz pass by the USS Arizona Memorial.

One of my favourite movies.

When the title theme kicks down to 2/4 time and bass I always think the same thing when they do the long pan of the carrier. "U.S.S. Nimitz. CVAN-68. 1,100 feet long. 122,000 tons. 100+ aircraft. 6,000 men. Two nuclear reactors, 35 knots+. The most awesome engine of mobile destruction ever conceived by the mind of Man." Adapted from a line in "First Lensman" by E.E. "Doc" Smith.

Getting them now and haven’t heard it since the early 90’s.

Nimitz will always be my favorite carrier. Thank you for your service, sailor.

The Nimitz is an awesome ship and the final countdown is my favorite movie even though I was born in 2009. my dad has been on that ship... I think. Thank you for you service

ARRRAAAUGH!!! TOUGH!!!

Actually it was Capt. Yelland's X.O. that said it. It's my favorite movie too. Watched it all the time with my father.

"Cats, you've got green lights, get 'em in the air!"

The thing about changing history, theoretically, is that you change EVERYTHING, including many of the lives that brought-about what we have become, perhaps even preventing some people FROM existing. Don't fret about changing the past, learn from it, and prevent the same type of mistakes from being repeated in the future.

Great comment. A movie is only as good as the soundtrack. Thank god there are so many great films with great soundtracks that make a film worth watching.

Great comment. A movie is only as good as the soundtrack. Thank god there are so many great films with great soundtracks that make a film worth watching.

I think it could be done if they use the same care and respect that was shown on Top Gun: Maverick.

+Darren Scott Do you want to know the japanes version of the tale? Look for the anime Zipang.

Could Charlie Sheen be kept clean long enough to film his scenes?

One of the few films that actually shows Marines conducting their traditional role of shipboard security.

Um, that was actually a Twilight Zone episode. "The Seventh is Made Up of Shadows". Definitely one of the eeriest episodes of the series. A nearly as eerie non-SfF/fantasy episode on the same subject was in the second season of Have Gun-Will Travel starring Richard Boone. The title is "Comanche", and concerns the only (real life) survivor of Custer's command.

It was The Twilight Zone, not Outer Limits. Great episode!

I hummed the tune of the theme to my daughter when she was in the NICU incubator.

I too greatly enjoyed the movie. The realism of time travel? I'm sure you mean the other parts. Charlie!!!

George you are right. You served in the Marines but both the story writer and the film director surely didn't. What you describe is a major problem and the carrier captain could loose all his medals and insignias. A US senator was also killed in the film as a normal event. It's just a movie.

well I don't think the navy going to have much trouble telling the family's they died in an unfortunate training accident, and yeah maybe the captain my loses his medals or maybe not because he did his very best in action and if u don't think that they wont believe him wait until they check the Russian trawlers radio report that it was sending to believe him plus the gun camera footage from the tomcats, also that senator was from the 40's and dies anyway they wouldn't care because he's not from there time.

George Johnson its a MOVIE not the reality

VELOCITYPON3 The Point was taken on by the one JAG Episode about the lost submarine

I envy you. My first was Scaramouch in 1952. There were no films yet on TV.