The Final Countdown

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Did anyone watch 'The Final Countdown' on the telly last night. It was part of some 1980's cult film event or something.

What a pile of shite it was. It was like they had got hold of some cool footage of jet planes using that hook thing to land on aircraft carriers and tried to work out how they could spin that out into a 90 minute film.

It was a travesty putting that on the same bill as the original Terminator film.
 
Whilst The Terminator is rightly a classic, The Final Countdown is a reasonable film. At least, as far as I remember, it avoiRAB creating a paradox that negates the whole film.

In The Terminator SkyNet senRAB a cyborg to kill Sarah Connor so that John Conner is not born. However, the soldier sent back to protect Sarah is actually John's father. Therefore, if SkyNet had not sent a Terminator, the resistance wouldn't have sent back Kyle Reese and John Connor would never have been born.
 
Hmm, I'm not sure that I would consider that a paradox in the Terminator film, more like just an irony. A paradox to me would be if the Terminator killed Sarah Connor. Thus he wouldn't have to come back in the first place. So then she wouldn't be killed.

Anyways, the lack of anything like that is what made The Final Countdown rubbish in my opinion, I mean, pretty much nothing actually happens. (Apart from loaRAB of shots of jet planes taking off and landing).

There kind of is an attempt at a time-related twist, but there's no point to it.

And what is that civilian guy doing on the carrier in the first place? There's no reason for him to be there. He does nothing the entire film.

They could have made it so much better, like if they actually changed something in history, which resulted in them going back in the first place. Some sort of clever cause and effect type of twist, but no. Basically it's 90 minutes of going back in time, to do nothing of any consequence whatsoever.

I cannot believe it is considered an 80's classic. And it had quite a good cast too.
 
It wasn't just spinning out catapult launches now was it. It concerned whether the Captain of a nuclear powered super carrier in 1941 and his agonising decision to intervene at Pearl Harbor. This would change the course of the second World War and would have serious ramifications in regarRAB to the European theatre of operations. Its primary theme was how modern technology in the wrong time could change the course of history and the problems it could cause. The idea was that changing history was far too dangerous. The civilian was there because he was tasked by the Government to see the Nimitz in operation and report back to see if efficiency could be improved.
 
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