Warren Lasky arrives at the Nimitz. One of the most power-driven soundtrack moments in American film history. Giant Oo-rah moment. All credit to composer John Scott, Polyc International, the Bryna Company, and United Artists.
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.
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!
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!!!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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. ?
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).
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 !!!!!
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.
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.
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
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
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 RU-vid! You have been warned.
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 ?
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
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