White House Down simply delivered that better. Like GI Joe 2 levels of implausible. If you happen to be the President of The United States, 2013 is not your year. I read the plot off Wikipedia. It's absurd, sure, but it's much more "Die Hard". and it was rated R and therefore hardcoreeeee. All fights take place at the White House. Purely for that interrogation/knifing scene. Olympus Has Fallen is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. I got about 10 minutes into "Olympus has Fallen" and couldn't watch anymore because I'm too much of a White House nerd. I've only seen White House Down. It didn't go overboard on fantasy tech like Olympus did. I vastly prefer White House Down. Menurut saya, … What a piece of crap. If they thought his background wasn't good enough they wouldn't have bothered interviewing him. Jesus. It's on the cheesy side but the tolerable cheesy. The only thing I disliked about WHD (as a popcorn movie) was that it felt like it tried to sneak some r/conspiracy type message in there about corporations running everything and trying to kill everybody to get what they want. Also, it doesn't look as good but I think it's better directed than White House Down. Comment. With nothing new coming to theaters for the foreseeable future, Film Club, our weekly movie-discussion series, is switching gears. Implausible story in the extreme. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures, Press J to jump to the feed. The crazy ridiculous AI-controlled AA-gun on the roof. Keduanya terekam dalam film Olympus Has Fallen dan White House Down. In Olympus Has Fallen, terrorists attack and infiltrate the White House, and only a disgraced Secret Service agent stands a chance of stopping them. If anything I appreciated the part where he held on to a gun that was out of ammo as opposed to just throwing the thing on the ground and walk away. View Trailer. So we can see who the clear winner is. The daughter waving the flag just had me laughing at the screen. Which one do you guys prefer? While White House Down (which had a decent run at the international box office) was a bit of a flop here in the states, Olympus Has Fallen was seen as a springtime hit. Antoine Fuqua is an inconsistent director but he was on in this case. Which one do you guys prefer? I preferred Olympus Has Fallen for a few reasons, some of them pretty dumb: It has less stupid scenes in it (like the flag waving scene), I actually believe that Aaron Eckhart would be a president as opposed to Jamie Foxx. 36. There are several instances in the history of Hollywood where movies with the same premise are released simultaneously. I just felt that Olympus Has Fallen took itself too seriously considering the plot. Poll closed Aug 10, 2013. Plus, it didn't pull it's punches in the action/violence stakes and had some groan worthy but enjoyable one liners. Basically, one of them sucked, and so did the other. Olympus Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler, pictured, may seem far-fetched, but one Secret Service agent has insisted that that film portrays what White House … White House Down has a bigger budget, it shows, and it is something Emmerich is accustomed to. SPOILERS AHEAD. People write action movies like they are playing video games and new weapons will just be available when you reach the next level. Conversely to Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down carries a PG-13 rating. I'd say "Get your hands off my Jordans!" I'm going to rant about the good and bad parts of the movie to see if anyone else thought similar things, and also to get these thoughts off my chest. Well but his life was a mess? They've morphed into one really bad action thriller in my head, so much so that I can't remember who the heroes/villains were in each of them. One week prep. and it looked like crap because they set everything in broad daylight which made all their shitty CGI look that much more shitty. All right, now I get to the two movies of 2013 most suited for a match up. Reasons if any? Secret Service has a recruiting department, like all big organizations. There was just too much about Olympus that was unrealistic. NOTE: Because The A.V. I recently had the displeasure of watching Olympus Has Fallen, one of a pair of 2013 movies about a terrorist attack on the White House, and a lone hero fighting back like Bruce Willis in Die Hard.Just like when in 1998 the identikit asteroid disaster movies Armageddon and Deep Impact were both released, both White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen were state-assisted productions. Teroris pun berhasil memegang kendali senjata pamungkas Amerika. The film is just ridiculously cheesy with cringeworthy lines. Olympus Has Fallen is far more serious in tone, and trying to be grittier and more "realistic". In White House Down, terrorists attack and infiltrate the White House, and only a wannabe Secret Service agent stands a chance of stopping them. The whole Channing Tatum plot with applying to the secret service annoyed me too. Example: OHF, main character kills a guy in a long drawn out fight with lots of shaky cam and quick cuts. Example: OHF, main character kills a guy in a long drawn out fight with lots of shaky cam and quick cuts. However, if I had to buckle down and choose, I'd choose Olympus Has Fallen because it's a throwback movie to the 80s with some undercover subversive material. "Lets play a game of fuck off. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures, Press J to jump to the feed. Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down came out around the same time, but here's why Gerard Butler's White House attack movie became a franchise instead of Channing Tatum's. Roland Emmerich is the exact same PG-13 director he's always been. By Rob Frappier Published Mar 23, 2013. This Article is related to: News and tagged Aaron Eckhart, Channing Tatum, Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down JavaScript is required to load the comments. Archived. Olympus Has Fallen. For me anyway, White House Down is the better movie. It has a Die Hard feel to it that I really loved. Jamie Fox and Channing Tatum played off each other pretty well and White House Down was more fun for me. I thought Olympus Has Fallen had an old school action movie charm that helped balance out it's OTT nature and cheesiness. No prior knowledge of opponents. Olympus Has Fallen vs White House Down: Part 1. Better lead actors? It's absurd, sure, but it's much more "Die Hard". I liked White House Down more than Olympus Has Fallen. I'm surprised they didn't adapt the Mitch Rapp book about terrorists in the White House. Which of the two had more thrills? Posted on September 16, 2013 by The Cat. It feels a bit more old school than the white house down!!! Main Themes Olympus Has Fallen Plot one of the more obvious themes that is seen throughout both films is terrorism. Olympus Has Fallen vs. White House Down The ‘the President seems like the easiest target for terrorists’ films of 2013 ← View All Movie Battles. in both films the United States and mainly the white house in Washington, D.C is being terrorized by a specific group for a particular reason. I liked White House down, it reminded me of underseige and die hard put together. Olympus Has Fallen = solid action movieWhite House Down = garbage Was it Butler v Jason Clarke or Tatum buddying with Aaron Eckhart? Last week's Face-Off column put a couple of modern espionage operatives against … Olympus was better. He keeps the pace simple enough and camera angles both stylistically close and wide, that it’s almost a refinement of his craft. Share Share Tweet Email. Rank This Matchup. Oh and he says 'I'm going to stab you in the brain' can't beat that line can you really? 3/27/20 3:47PM. I found the first act quite entertaining and even emotional. I know both are equally bad movies but considering both are out at the same time and are almost exactly the same. -click-. Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down have the same story line Olympus Has Fallen Synopsis: Disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack; using his inside knowledge, Banning works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers. You mean they are two different movies, I'll be damn. 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