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The Final Countdown (1980)
★ 6.6 · 661 ratings on TMDB
Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
DirectorDon Taylor
The emergence reading
The Final Countdown keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timea mysterious vortex transports a modern aircraft carrier and its crew back to 1941, breaking linear temporal flow for that locality (physics · local)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Gladiator (2000)E8/E12 · rare rung
Wonder Woman (2017)E8/E12 · rare rung
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)E8/E12 · rare rung
The Hunger Games (2012)E8/E12 · rare rung
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)E8/E12 · rare rung
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)E8/E12 · rare rungSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Avatar (2009)E9/E10/E13 · Action, Science Fiction
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)E9/E11 · Action, Science Fiction
Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · Action, Science Fiction
Snowpiercer (2013)E9/E10 · Action, Science Fiction
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)E4/E10 · Action, Science Fiction
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)E9/E10 · Action, Science FictionAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
