White House Down vs Olympus Has Fallen

[Squiggy]

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.)

Because he's black?

^ 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.

Except in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I and II, Korea, and Vietnam.

Outside of that, then yes.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

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 !

The biggest problem here is that people are supposed to believe North Korea of all places is supposed to have pulled this off.

Yeah I'll believe that a country thats pretty much a shithole whose only effective counter invasion strategy is to take South Korea down with them is capable of taking the freaking White House

 

[JarodRussell]

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.)

Because he's black?

Morgan Freeman was also depicting Obama in Deep Impact.

 

[Star Wolf]

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 !

The biggest problem here is that people are supposed to believe North Korea of all places is supposed to have pulled this off.

Yeah I'll believe that a country thats pretty much a shithole whose only effective counter invasion strategy is to take South Korea down with them is capable of taking the freaking White House

As opposed to the Speaker of The House, Aryan Nation, and IMF agent who was disavowed and left in prison being able to do it?

 

[EmoBorg]

The biggest problem here is that people are supposed to believe North Korea of all places is supposed to have pulled this off.

Yeah I'll believe that a country thats pretty much a shithole whose only effective counter invasion strategy is to take South Korea down with them is capable of taking the freaking White House

Don't under estimate the North Korean ability to carry out military operations. They have a military first policy which explains why their civilian population starved during the 1990s famine as they allocated resources to the armed forces first.

The North Korean Special Operation Force has carried out attacks in Seoul in the 1960s and 1970s including an attack on the South Korean Presidential Palace in the infamous Blue House Raid.

They even have a cyber warfare unit called Reconnaissance General Bureau which has attacked South Korean computer systems before. They are not as backward as you think.

 

[Star Wolf]

The North Korean Special Operation Force has carried out attacks in Seoul in the 1960s and 1970s including an attack on the South Korean Presidential Palace in the infamous Blue House Raid.

Or Park Chung Hee being assassinated by his Security chief, something both movies shared.

 

[Mister Fandango]

The biggest problem here is that people are supposed to believe North Korea of all places is supposed to have pulled this off.

Except it wasn't the North Koreans. Kang was a former North Korean who was simply doing this to exact revenge for his parents.

 

[Star Wolf]

The biggest problem here is that people are supposed to believe North Korea of all places is supposed to have pulled this off.

Except it wasn't the North Koreans. Kang was a former North Korean who was simply doing this to exact revenge for his parents.

It is a weakness. if he was not a "North Korean" was his army made up of the Korean equivalent of Aryan Nation and Blackwater contractors like White House Down or where they North Koreans unknowingly working for an agent who went rogue from the Kim government?

 

[Mister Fandango]

He hadn't been a member of the North Korean government for some time. He was simply a terrorist from North Korea who, before becoming one, had been in the North Korean military. But he was a well-known terrorist well before the events in the film.

 

[Star Wolf]

He hadn't been a member of the North Korean government for some time. He was simply a terrorist from North Korea who, before becoming one, had been in the North Korean military. But he was a well-known terrorist well before the events in the film.

All that tells me that as part of the North Korean Impossible Mission Force the secretary disavowed him. It brings me back to the army he lead and their motivation? Why would they give up their lives for the mission.

 

[Mister Fandango]

The same reasons any movie terrorist group would.

 

[Star Wolf]

Because Kim asked them to do it?

 

[Mister Fandango]

More like how, in Moveland, all terrorist organizations are super organized, have unlimited resources, and (aside from the mooks intended to be easily dispatched by the hero) are all super awesome ex-commandos the likes of which few have ever seen before.