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Olympus has Fallen spoilerIt was bad. And I mean really bad. Here's the basic rundown. the plot
The president is meeting a Korean Prime Minister at the white house, when an unidentified C-130 (piloted by North Korean commandos or something) flies to the White House and starts spraying it with minigun fire. The president and his guests are taken to the bunker, and the building is locked down. The plane gets shot down after causing a bunch of damage, and then a whole bunch of enemy commandos in the crowds outside the White House perimeter pull out a bunch of guns (small arms, vehicle mounted machine guns, RPGs, etc) and storm the building. They kill off all of the secret service, and they have control. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister and his buddies in the bunker take it over, and take the POTUS hostage. It only takes them 13 minutes to do all this by the way. While this has been going on, a reassigned secret service agent/operator/something fights his way inside, and lo and behold, he is the only one in a position to save the pres, as he is an absolute bad-ass or something. The big-baddy wants the code to the Cerberus system, which is a made up plot device that is used to detonate a nuke before it can reach its destination. He wants the codes, as well as for the troops along the DMZ to be withdrawn, using the POTUS as his bargaining chip. Long story short, the president's cabinet go along with his demands, the main character agent confronts the bad guy, he stops the Cerberus system from being put into action, and woohoo we all go home.
problems
This movie is bad. There are so many problems with it that my family and myself couldn't stop ourselves from bursting out laughing from the horrible writing. Here are some problems I had with it.
1. You are trying to tell me, that the POTUS could be so easily taken hostage by only infantry storming one of the most defended buildings on Earth in only 12 minutes? Really. I can see them breaking into the White House that quickly if they stormed it with tanks, but infantry? WTF.
2. Why are our secret service and SEAL teams so damn incompetent? Seriously. They do not take cover. When the enemy was flooding across the front lawn towards the house, the SS walked slowly towards them out in the open. Why the hell did only ten of them take cover? And why did they keep streaming through the front door like idiots after having everyone in front of them cut down by machine guns? "Hey, the people in front of us just died. I guess it's our turn to run through this door and stand in the center of the porch." And our SEALs flew their helicopters towards the house, despite having no plan or intelligence one what was going on inside, and knowing that there was a "next generation" anti-aircraft gun on the roof controlled by the enemy. No wonder 5/6ths of them died. God, they make our military and security look like fools.
3. Why are we listening to the demands of terrorists? Okay, the POTUS is taken hostage. He is expendable now. Why did they completely ruin national security for just one man? There is a reason we have a damn chain of command. Sheesh, the whole world was brought to a halt because one guy was taken hostage.
4. Okay, you are going to use the Cerberus system to activate the self destruct device in all of the nukes, and the resulting explosion will set off the nuclear warhead, thus destroying all of the American population. SERIOUSLY?! Couldn't you have at least Googled how a nuclear warhead works? They don't get set off just because of a nearby explosion.
5. Korean. None of the actors were fluent in it apparently. The words were correct (mostly) but the stresses were put on the wrong syllables. It did not sound Korean at all.
6. The CGI was terrible. It'd be alright if you were posting it on youtube, but when you are a multimillion dollar movie, hire some people that are competent at it. People that do it as a hobby are showing you guys up.
7. The final fight between the the main character and the antagonist. It was a brawl. They had a ton of weapons around them and it came down to a fist fight. And the president made me laugh. He was laying down nearby, not tied up, telling Mike (the protagonist) he could beat him. He is laying there, surrounded by weapons as his buddy gets beat up, and he is cheering him on. He might as well have been shaking pom poms saying, "Giiiiiive me and M! And and I! K! E! GOOOOOOO MIKE!!!" for all the help he was. I know that when I'm fighting for my life, I want my friend to be my damn cheerleader instead of stabbing the enemy in the back.
8. Why did it take forever for the people to notice a C-130 flying to the White House? You can hear that thing coming for miles. There is no way it would have gotten that close without being shot down miles away.
There are so many problems with this movie it is insane. It was a serious movie, but I was laughing through it so much. If you can suspend your disbelief (and you'll have to do it quite a bit) you might enjoy it as an action movie, maybe. But if you are one for basic details, you're going to have a bad time. Poorly researched, poorly constructed, poorly written. Thank goodness I didn't spend money to go see it.
But seriously, I know you need to suspend disbelief a little bit when watching a movie, but there is a limit to that.
Also, the Koreans zerged the White House. I really got a laugh out of that idea.
Senakysam
over 7 years agospoilerIt was bad. And I mean really bad. Here's the basic rundown. the plot
problems
1. You are trying to tell me, that the POTUS could be so easily taken hostage by only infantry storming one of the most defended buildings on Earth in only 12 minutes? Really. I can see them breaking into the White House that quickly if they stormed it with tanks, but infantry? WTF.
2. Why are our secret service and SEAL teams so damn incompetent? Seriously. They do not take cover. When the enemy was flooding across the front lawn towards the house, the SS walked slowly towards them out in the open. Why the hell did only ten of them take cover? And why did they keep streaming through the front door like idiots after having everyone in front of them cut down by machine guns? "Hey, the people in front of us just died. I guess it's our turn to run through this door and stand in the center of the porch." And our SEALs flew their helicopters towards the house, despite having no plan or intelligence one what was going on inside, and knowing that there was a "next generation" anti-aircraft gun on the roof controlled by the enemy. No wonder 5/6ths of them died. God, they make our military and security look like fools.
3. Why are we listening to the demands of terrorists? Okay, the POTUS is taken hostage. He is expendable now. Why did they completely ruin national security for just one man? There is a reason we have a damn chain of command. Sheesh, the whole world was brought to a halt because one guy was taken hostage.
4. Okay, you are going to use the Cerberus system to activate the self destruct device in all of the nukes, and the resulting explosion will set off the nuclear warhead, thus destroying all of the American population. SERIOUSLY?! Couldn't you have at least Googled how a nuclear warhead works? They don't get set off just because of a nearby explosion.
5. Korean. None of the actors were fluent in it apparently. The words were correct (mostly) but the stresses were put on the wrong syllables. It did not sound Korean at all.
6. The CGI was terrible. It'd be alright if you were posting it on youtube, but when you are a multimillion dollar movie, hire some people that are competent at it. People that do it as a hobby are showing you guys up.
7. The final fight between the the main character and the antagonist. It was a brawl. They had a ton of weapons around them and it came down to a fist fight. And the president made me laugh. He was laying down nearby, not tied up, telling Mike (the protagonist) he could beat him. He is laying there, surrounded by weapons as his buddy gets beat up, and he is cheering him on. He might as well have been shaking pom poms saying, "Giiiiiive me and M! And and I! K! E! GOOOOOOO MIKE!!!" for all the help he was. I know that when I'm fighting for my life, I want my friend to be my damn cheerleader instead of stabbing the enemy in the back.
8. Why did it take forever for the people to notice a C-130 flying to the White House? You can hear that thing coming for miles. There is no way it would have gotten that close without being shot down miles away.
There are so many problems with this movie it is insane. It was a serious movie, but I was laughing through it so much. If you can suspend your disbelief (and you'll have to do it quite a bit) you might enjoy it as an action movie, maybe. But if you are one for basic details, you're going to have a bad time. Poorly researched, poorly constructed, poorly written. Thank goodness I didn't spend money to go see it.
But seriously, I know you need to suspend disbelief a little bit when watching a movie, but there is a limit to that.
Also, the Koreans zerged the White House. I really got a laugh out of that idea.