Jomari my father had finished his tour of duty on the Nimitz one year before they started shooting "The Final Countdown" and so when the movie came out he took the whole family to see it and they actually used real men on the Nimitz as extras, so all through the movie my father would let us know who that person was or this person. I agree it's a great movie (cheesy effects though) but this movie holds a special place in my heart as in my lifetime this movie was one of only two movies that I saw in the theater with my father (the other was Jurrasic Park). My father just isn't into movies like me and my mother are. I've actually been on the Nimitz when my father was stationed on it and the sheer size of that ship is breathtaking. The mess hall alone is the size of four football fields.
