White House Down vs Olympus Has Fallen

[EmoBorg]

Multiple choice vote for White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen movies. Vote for your favorite 2013 white house action movie. You can vote for more than one choice.

White House Down Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AXbiCdmXgw

Olympus Has Fallen Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-IaAx7s8k

 

[Takeru]

I haven't seen either but I'll voty anyway. Olympus has the better hero and president but I prefer WH's domestic threat. Can't vote on the action scenes.

 

[Admiral2]

I'm voting OHF down the board for a host of reasons:

1. Jamie Foxx is no better or worse as president. He's just Emmerich's second attempt at depicting Obama. (Danny Glover in 2012 was the first.)

2. Gerard Butler's better as a hero cause he was older and more grizzled.

3. Domestic terror is just the leftist director's way of pretending America doesn't have foreign enemies.

4. Action is action. It's not about quality but quantity. The more of it the better.

 

[bigdaddy]

^ And how many times in the last 200 years has a president been a target from forces outside the USA? Lincoln, Garfield, JFK were all killed by Americans.

Even on 9-11 it was debated if the 4th plane was going to attack the White House or capital.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

^ And how many times in the last 200 years has a president been a target from forces outside the USA? Lincoln, Garfield, JFK were all killed by Americans.

Even on 9-11 it was debated if the 4th plane was going to attack the White House or capital.

There's also the fact that any country that tried the Olympus Has Fallen thing would probably wind up invaded in retaliation.

 

[Admiral2]

^ And how many times in the last 200 years has a president been a target from forces outside the USA?

Um, every time the United States has gone to war, because the leadership is always a target of the enemy.

Lincoln, Garfield, JFK were all killed by Americans.

Which is not the same thing as saying The United States has no foreign enemies.

Even on 9-11 it was debated if the 4th plane was going to attack the White House or capital.

And the planes on 9-11 were all flown by foreign enemies of the United States. How is this supposed to disprove my point?

There's also the fact that any country that tried the Olympus Has Fallen thing would probably wind up invaded in retaliation.

A fact that wouldn't necessarily stop them from trying anyway.

 

[bigdaddy]

I'm not saying that the USA has no enemies, I'm saying the times the president has been murdered as always been done by Americans.

Also since when do I go to the movies to see realism?

 

[iguana_tonante]

3. Domestic terror is just the leftist director's way of pretending America doesn't have foreign enemies.

hurr hurr bad libruls

 

[JarodRussell]

Judging from the trailers, Olympus Has Fallen seems a lot better than White House Down.

But both remind me how sad these times are where we don't have good action heroes anymore. A film like this would have been awesome in the 80s and early 90s.

 

[Gaith]

Judging from the trailers, Olympus Has Fallen seems a lot better than White House Down.

But both remind me how sad these times are where we don't have good action heroes anymore. A film like this would have been awesome in the 80s and early 90s.

Try 1997, when it was called...

As for OHF and WHD, I haven't seen either, but if I had the choice, I'd go with WHD for several reasons:

- Gerald Butler, boooo. Not only has he (reportedly) lazed through a number of terrible and societally odious romcoms, he's yet another furriner in a role that clearly calls for either a native son, or at the very least someone who can pull of an accent as flawless as, say, Hugh Laurie's. Which the But cannot.

- I like Eckhart plenty, but President Foxx sounds more fun.

- WHD features numerous short cutaways to The Young Turks contributor and former At the Movies host Ben Mankiewicz, which is pretty darn cool.

- WHD scores a 52 on Metacritic, whereas OHF - whose earlier release should have enjoyed a relative bump due to comparative freshness - only got a 41.

Conclusion: although OHF does get some points for being an R, WHD seems to have more going for it, including the critical consensus that it's the more fun flick.

 

[Mister Fandango]

I've seen them both, and greatly preferred Olympus Has Fallen simply because it's just ridiculously stupid from start to finish, just like a good action movie should be. Everything from the way the Koreans were able to invade, the motivations of the villains, the way Butler was able to basically just walk inside during the invasion, and the various twists were just so completely silly and over the top. White House Down didn't even come close in that regard, especially when it was pretty obvious who the "real" villain was almost from the start of the flick.

As for presidents, I did prefer Jamie Foxx out of the two, but Eckhart was perfectly fine in the role. Foxx just added a bit more humor to his portrayal, plus he fired an RPG while hanging out the window of a limo. So he wins just for that scene alone. Eckhart's president did have better motivations and story, though.

 

[Kirby]

I haven't seen either movie yet, so I didn't vote, but both sound like Air Force One meets Die Hard. Think I'll go watch The Expendables again.

 

[MacLeod]

Olympus Has Fallen definantly has the better title.

 

[JarodRussell]

I've seen them both, and greatly preferred Olympus Has Fallen simply because it's just ridiculously stupid from start to finish, just like a good action movie should be. Everything from the way the Koreans were able to invade, the motivations of the villains, the way Butler was able to basically just walk inside during the invasion, and the various twists were just so completely silly and over the top. White House Down didn't even come close in that regard, especially when it was pretty obvious who the "real" villain was almost from the start of the flick.

Wait, the Emmerich film is LESS ridiculously stupid?

 

[Mister Fandango]

With the way they took out the White House in particular? Yes. Yes it is. They literally flew a stolen USAF aircraft to it, that they've had long enough to add all kinds of custom gear to. Oh, and they managed to smuggle a state-of-the-art ultra-high-tech air defense system into the White House, too, which the military had no idea about.

 

[Mr Light]

I've only seen "White House Down" so far but it was very enjoyable Emmerich LCD popcorn entertainment. Though there were a couple bits in the ending that even I had a hard time swallowing...

 

[the G-man]

Answer here: http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/characters/giant-douche-turd-sandwich

 

[Shakaar]

I preferred Olympus Has Fallen on almost every level. Yes the method for takeover of the White House was improbable, to say the least. But it's staged and shot well on screen. The two Air Force pilots have apparently never intercepted another aircraft before.

However, I would have rather seen an adaptation of Vince Flynn's Transfer of Power.

 

[Star Wolf]

At least the Secret Service was able to fight back in Olympus Has Fallen, they were just overwhelmed since a C-130 gunship had knocked out much of their firepower. But even with the boss in on it on White House Down having the entire detail go down without firing a shot, because of a nail gun, Snoop would be proud while being on full alert because the Capitol Dome was just hit by terrorist trumps a Trojan horse gunship and battalion sized ground assault

^ And how many times in the last 200 years has a president been a target from forces outside the USA? Lincoln, Garfield, JFK were all killed by Americans.

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You can make the argument that John Wilkes Booth saw himself as a Confederate and maybe a Marylander. And the Puerto Ricans who failed on their attempt at President Truman in the Blair House did not see themselves as Americans just because the US had defeated Spain in a war.

I too am a big fan of Olympus Has Fallen I think it is the best Die Hard movie since Under Siege or maybe the iconic Die Hard itself. It is on my buy list when the home video becomes available. Even if White House Down more slavishly followed plot points like attacking the building with one armored vehicle until it got taken out by an anti tank rocket and killing the Special Forces, FBI Hostage Rescue Team versus Delta Force, attack in their helicopters Olympus had more of the feeling of Die Hard

 

[EmoBorg]

I agree with Star Wolf that Olympus Has Fallen has the better Terrorist takeover the White House scene.

You got a captured AC-130 attack aircraft taking out the snipers on the White House rooftop and softening up the place so that the Korean commandos can blast their way through the gates. The Secret Service launched a counter attack but the Korean commandos were expecting that and used heavy machine gun fire and RPG attack at the U.S counter attack and the counter attack failed as a result.

Then you had those huge modified garbage trucks parked right outside the White House gate, complete with heavy machine guns, to prevent U.S reinforcement from reaching the White House during the critical capture phase. It was an excellent and well planned scene.

The only problem that i had with the scene, is that the entire South Korean prime ministerial security team turned out to be North Korean agents. In the movie, the South Koreans did a very shitty job of screening the agents who protect their Prime Minister. Even the sole white guy in the South Korean security team, Dylan McDermott, was working for the North Koreans !