When Hollywood Made Two Movies About Saving the White House
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Published 2022-08-07
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Never having seen either film I always remembered them as "The White House Has Fallen" Of course, "Olympus Down" is the far superior film
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Imagine if in February 2013 the white house actually did get attacked like that and both studios had to awkwardly scramble to cancel the movies
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You know the worst thing is: I gaslighted myself thinking "White House Down" was the only movie, despite actually going to theaters to see "Olympus Has Fallen". Like, the first time I watched "White House Down" I was like, "Hey, where are the Koreans? Aren't they in this movie?" Oh my God.
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5:49 I like this, actually. A pretty realistic take where a rational adult doesn’t randomly blame tragedy on some guy, but instead just wants that guy to go away to not constantly remind him of what happened
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I want to see someone edit these two movies together the best they can and try and show it to an audiance to see how long it would take for people to realize its two movies edited together.
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I like how the villains plan was to blow up the entire middle east so that no American soldiers would die again, completely disregarding all the American troops he would blow up that were in the middle east at the time
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You gotta love how the koreans were used as a stand-in badguys for the chinese because they still also wanted to sell this movie in china
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Fun fact: prince of egypt was supposed to be DreamWorks first movie but then they heard Disney was making bug's life and so they made Antz out of spite.
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In 2017, my mom was watching “Olympus Has Fallen” on tv and when I came into the room, she told me “The North Koreans took over the White House” with no context and a serious face. So since I was incredibly gullible, I thought this was actually happening and I just felt my heart drop. Then my mom explained it was just a movie, but I always remember this moment whenever I hear about the movie
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I remember watching Olympus has fallen in highschool and trying to describe the movie to my friends and they were saying that I was talking about White house down. It was a really confusing moment.
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"Top Gun's sequel broke a billion, simply by being not Marvel" He's out of line, but he's right.
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I’m actually a huge fan of the “Has Fallen” series. I think the movies actually get better as they go along. London feels a bit like a here we go again story, but Angel is really interesting imo.
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I shall forever remember the Roger Ebert review of White House Down, one of his very last ones, where he lambasted the movie and thought all the characters are "stupid, ignorant or clinically insane".
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When I was a kid I assumed these movies were much better than they actually were because I thought they were the same movie and kept hearing about it on TV and stuff after hearing about the first one
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I don't know which is more comedic about Olympus Has Fallen: the fact that a hijacked AC-130 got within a hundred miles of DC without getting vaporized by the entire US Air Force or the fact that hundreds of secret service agents threw themselves at a minigun that was firing nonstop at the front doors.
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Let's not forget that in June 2021, a Japanese fighting game, Guilty Gear Strive, had its main MC protecting the U.S. president after the entire Secret Service got killed by a wizard not wearing a shirt.
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I remember I went to see Olympus has Fallen in theaters with my dad and enjoyed it. Then not long after saw White House Down in theaters with my sister and remember thinking the entire time this is literally just action comedy version of Olympus. I kind of enjoyed both movies but I don’t think my dad and sister are even aware to this day of the other movie they didn’t see lol.
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Surf’s Up is an underrated classic. It’s the only animated sports mockumentary about surfing penguins starring Shia Lebouf and John Heder ever made.
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I can say with confidence that London has fallen and Angel has fallen were both great movies tbh
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For the longest time I felt like I was the only one who noticed these two films being super similar.
