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Final Countdown
Aug. 11th, 2004 02:54 amWho-all remembers this movie? late 80's, came out about the same time the Intrepid became the Sea-Air-Space Museum of New York. Pretty much a Navy promo-film before Top Gun came along. Science fiction and with Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen.
The basic premise is that the USS Nimitz, a nuclear aircraft carrier, gets pulled back in time by a weird storm to 06 December 1941. It's been estimated that a modern CVN/CVA has firepower equal to all that expended in the Second World War. So obviously this should cause some serious ethical quandries. Well, it doesn't quite happen that way, which is a shame. Then again, the film was just a fun bit of fluff. And for some reason it depressed me.
( Why, you ask? Good question. )
Today coming out of the grocery store I had another one of those moments of memetic clarity, in that the air and wind was just right that it reminded me of one of those days in Florida when I'd be pushing my cart out of Albertsons for some after-class shopping and the clouds were starting to gather, but there was no cooling wind yet though you could tell that it was going to rain even if it didn't really feel like it yet.
Oh, yeah. And I had a buffalo burger again after so long. I don't know who of you out there have ever had buffalo, but let me tell you: if you haven't, you're missing out. The stuff is LEAN. A bit dry but with a touch of char-broiling it tastes... yum. I can do quite well without the fat, kthxbye. If you are at all omnivorous, carnivorous, or bambivorous you should try one.
Also finished reading Dan Brown's Deception Point. Same Dan brown of The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons. He's got a great attention to detail and stuff that at least sounds like it's scientific fact. And of course, the villain isn't quite who you expect it to be. Though I hope he doesn't pull that in many more of his books. it'll get so that you're going to start looking for the least likely person to be the villain and probably won't be disappointed.
So. Enough lollygaggling. Still bugged that a fluffy movie like Final Countdown got to me. There's no REASON for it to.
By the way, anyone know anything about an anime called RahXephon? It looks to be a bit different from the usual run of anime.
Okay, that's it for me for now. Pax. ^^
The basic premise is that the USS Nimitz, a nuclear aircraft carrier, gets pulled back in time by a weird storm to 06 December 1941. It's been estimated that a modern CVN/CVA has firepower equal to all that expended in the Second World War. So obviously this should cause some serious ethical quandries. Well, it doesn't quite happen that way, which is a shame. Then again, the film was just a fun bit of fluff. And for some reason it depressed me.
( Why, you ask? Good question. )
Today coming out of the grocery store I had another one of those moments of memetic clarity, in that the air and wind was just right that it reminded me of one of those days in Florida when I'd be pushing my cart out of Albertsons for some after-class shopping and the clouds were starting to gather, but there was no cooling wind yet though you could tell that it was going to rain even if it didn't really feel like it yet.
Oh, yeah. And I had a buffalo burger again after so long. I don't know who of you out there have ever had buffalo, but let me tell you: if you haven't, you're missing out. The stuff is LEAN. A bit dry but with a touch of char-broiling it tastes... yum. I can do quite well without the fat, kthxbye. If you are at all omnivorous, carnivorous, or bambivorous you should try one.
Also finished reading Dan Brown's Deception Point. Same Dan brown of The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons. He's got a great attention to detail and stuff that at least sounds like it's scientific fact. And of course, the villain isn't quite who you expect it to be. Though I hope he doesn't pull that in many more of his books. it'll get so that you're going to start looking for the least likely person to be the villain and probably won't be disappointed.
So. Enough lollygaggling. Still bugged that a fluffy movie like Final Countdown got to me. There's no REASON for it to.
By the way, anyone know anything about an anime called RahXephon? It looks to be a bit different from the usual run of anime.
Okay, that's it for me for now. Pax. ^^
