******SATURNIAN-SIZED SPOILERS!****** From my preteen and early teen years eagerly devouring every copy of “Starlog” magazine in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were a lot of movies that caught my attention, even though I often I lacked the means (i.e. transportation) to see them whenever I wished. That, and my parents weren’t keen…
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“Top Gun” enters “The Twilight Zone” in 1980’s “The Final Countdown”…
******NIMITZ-CLASS SPOILERS!****** My late European-born dad, while not exactly a hawk by any means, was fascinated by modern US aircraft carriers; mainly for their awesome size and impressive strategic capabilities. And in early 1985, in my late teens, he and I went on a tour of the Kitty Hawk-class USS Constellation (CV-64); a massive carrier…