1000 Things I learned from Olympus Has Fallen (spoilers) - Olympus Has Fallen (2013) Discussion

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[–] LoneStar35 12 years ago

Wow, Its obvious you have never seen a thread like this before. All my points were not to be taken seriously. You are responding like you think this movie was real. I meant no disrespect if you thought this movie was factual, I was just having fun. Sorry if I offended you.

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[–] qwerty-26 12 years ago

No reason to apologize to what is an obvious studio shill. 5 will get you 10 that freak is related to someone in the production company.

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[–] RobBase086-1 12 years ago

I have friends in the film industry but I am not asking them to help me out. I am what you call a screenwriter because I have pitched my film script to 2 different film companies and neither one of them have nibbled onto my idea. Some people have stated if you want to do something then you pretty much have to do it yourself. I would definitely love to create and make the film that I have written. The problem is that when you do not have the money or the funding to afford to make the film it makes it hard to do.

I liked the film because it was a very good action flick to watch. There were some things that were inconsistent to be honest with you about it.

Dedicated to USA UP ALL NIGHT and the fans! http://usaupallnight.webs.com

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[–] RobBase086-1 12 years ago

That General would have been court martialed because if a team of Navy SEALS were sent on a mission that killed off pretty much several teams he would not have a job anymore to be honest with you about it. Plus, I would have sent the SEALS in different ways into the White House. At least one or two teams by chopper and if there is a defense system on top of the White House like it showed in this film it would have to be taken out especially if the terrorists are using it to keep any person away. Send the SEALS in the front door and back door. The writer did a awful job in writing this script to be honest with you about it.

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[–] proteus122 11 years ago

"a defense system on top of the White House"

You mean that "top secret weapons system" that's been around for 30 years?

Hydra my ass!

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[–] hansbizarre 11 years ago

176. Car doors only ever "jam" when a human life depends on their ability to open.
177. Anyone can bring a gun (and a pair of tiny knives) into the White House without fear of being searched.

artspear.com - just throwing it out there

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[–] RobBase086-1 11 years ago

I am sure they have some sort of defense system on top of the White House but it is not publicly known about though.

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[–] qwerty-26 12 years ago

horrorfreak489 I layoff the coffee will ya! You might try a little meditation, now after me ohmmmmm, ohmmmmm...

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[–] TwentyCenturyFaux 11 years ago

121. No body cares about South Korean prime minister.

www.indrajal.com

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[–] caARACER 12 years ago

12. Beware of trash trucks.
13. A small figurine is impossible to topple.

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[–] maxjabill 12 years ago

14. If you get shot by a bullet, A SINGLE BULLET, you die, UNLESS you're the President of the United States.

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[–] LoneStar35 12 years ago

15. The White House the day after a major holiday will not do a detail background check on visitors.

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[–] jojozlo 11 years ago

refresh me on the figurine part, nagging me

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[–] khaoesmith27 12 years ago

15. The White House the day after a major holiday will not do a detail background check on visitors. Just so you know they said he had a fake name with a clear record but its a movie so....

16. Gunships can easily get stolen in the U.S. by Koreans.

17. Rick Yune has it hard. He gets shot n killed on a dirtbike, dismembered with a sword, and takes a knife to the head.

18. When the terrorists tell you to "walk" outside of the White House and you know they're gonna shoot you in the back as soon as you get on the front porch. Don't dive to either side out of shooting range...jus keep walking till your back is blown out.

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[–] markb66577 12 years ago

19. Hashtag is Shift-3
20. Learn how to do a chimney climb
21. Hydra beats Helicopter

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[–] mintonmedia 12 years ago

22. The most crowd-pleasing way to kill a terrorist is with a big, bronze bust of Lincoln.

We don't get that here. People ski topless smoking dope, so irony's not a high priority.

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[–] bwall003 12 years ago

36. The most important people never gets killed. Mike had his back to Forbes and he doesn't kill him?

These terrorists have no problem killing anyone else, but they lay off the president?

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[–] moonnight072 12 years ago

22. after 2 years out of the white house details one still know the code to the safe of the president and the secret service gun closet

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[–] Blik Revil 11 years ago

22-a: White House Security Codes, especially for the safe in the oval office, won't change in 18 months.

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[–] acharyajoydeep 11 years ago

178. Game of *beep* is what you play with your arch enemy
179. The first lady takes fashion tips from secret service agents
179. Aaron Eckhart is a most implausible looking president
180. Hatred for wall street is a strong motivation for joining north Korean extremist groups
181. Never drive when it is dark and snowing

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[–] Lawdog1527 11 years ago

180 - But apparently not enough to keep you a traitor because once you're wounded you'll have a automatic change of heart and help the good guys.

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[–] nhwa 12 years ago

The hashtag bit made me laugh out loud -- one of many times that I LOL'ed during this film. And I loved it!

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[–] lighthouseboy 12 years ago

37. The White House monitors the news feeds from Australia.

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[–] artis5001 12 years ago

38. When even in a dire situation always try to keep your spirits up. After savagely being beaten ask another hostage, "How does my hair look?"

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[–] TheMasterPlan 12 years ago

39. The secret service don't give a fvck about taking cover during a firefight.

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"I...declare...BANKRUPTCYYYYYYY!!!"

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[–] JoeyAbs 12 years ago

47) The President's kid gets cool Secret Service codenames like "Sparkplug"

48) Traitors easily repent their ways and assist the Hero after mere seconds after getting beat up

49) Mike Banning loves knives to people's brains

50) It's always a good idea to keep the President and Vice President in the same bunker in times of crisis

51) South Korean background checks are the worsts

52) All Mike Banning shots are head shots or bloody shots. His knife thrusts as well

53) Terrorists have tiny knives that seem less scary than prison shanks

54) A veteran, heroic Presidential Detail Leader gets demoted to Department of Treasury which is a completely different branch though he did curse out the Speaker of the House once

55) The Speaker of the House can get over being cursed at if he's their only hope

56) Koreans just love to kill Dogs at any moment (Stereotype)

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[–] LoneStar35 12 years ago

57) when all the phone lines in the area are down only if you use the presidents phone it goes through every time. Which of course the bad guys can't tract.

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[–] uscpsycho 12 years ago

I know this isn't a discussion of plot holes or anything, but several of you seem to have missed some key points.

57) He's using the President's satellite phone. They say it clearly.

Also, Mike was still a Secret Service member, he just wasn't on the POTUS detail any more. So he would still have all the access codes, etc.

Here are a couple of my own though:

58) When a hijacked gun plane is flying around DC shooting up everything, the best place to hide (or just loiter) is right beside the Washington Monument.

59) If the enemy has stolen your advanced weapons system specifically designed to take down aircraft, don't worry about it -- fly your 6 helicopters straight in saying "shouldn't be a problem."

60) If your inside source, hero, who has done everything asked of him so far, asks for a moment to recon said advanced weapons system before you fly your 6 helicopters in, deny him outright.

61) If you have two hostages to interrogate for information, the funniest (err, I mean best) way to extract that information is by offing one at the outset.

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[–] Dukeleto99 12 years ago

66. I am not the only person who, at the end of Morgan Freeman's little speech, said "Titty Sprinkles".

And yes, I'm serious, I said it in tandem with somebody else, which caused quite the chuckle.

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[–] nhwa 12 years ago

"56) Koreans just love to kill Dogs at any moment (Stereotype)" LOL

I give props to this film for actually showing (or do you just hear the noise?) a dog getting shot.

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[–] CaZSuede 12 years ago

59. When you get a non-korean asian woman playing a Korean language role, even Koreans will be thankful for the subtitles.

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[–] somf 12 years ago

60. If you are the President and faced with a choice to let a 70 year old man die or let 50 million Americans and several million South Koreans perish. The obvious choice is to let the 70 year old live even if it is likely to be only an hour or two.

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[–] mintonmedia 12 years ago

@ CaZSuede: Thanx for the accent update. LOL

We don't get that here. People ski topless smoking dope, so irony's not a high priority.

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[–] gslex-johnson 12 years ago

22. The most crowd-pleasing way to kill a terrorist is with a big, bronze bust of Lincoln.

<Arnold Schwartzenegger accent> You've been busted.</Arnold Schwartzenegger accent>

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[–] mintonmedia 12 years ago

LOL Yep...woulda worked. Today's films need more cheesy lines like that.

We don't get that here. People ski topless smoking dope, so irony's not a high priority.

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[–] clever-username 11 years ago

You are abolished.

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[–] jackothomson120 11 years ago

138) When a hospital has an emergency and has to take care of patients with gunshot wounds, all the medical staff will all gather around the TV to watch the acting presidents speech and just leave their patients.
189) Instead of stopping the lift the Hydra 6 is on, try and disarm it.
190) Harvey Dent is now the president.

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[–] jackothomson120 11 years ago

138) When a hospital has an crisis and has to take care of patients with gunshot wounds, all the medical staff will gather around the TV to watch the speech and just leave their patients unattended.
189) When you see the Hydra 6 being raised to the rooftop by a lift, don't try and stop the lift.
190) Harvey Dent is now the president.

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[–] Lokisgodhi 11 years ago

191. The morons who watched this film obviously did so with the sound turned off. Otherwise they'd have known it was NOT THE NORTH KOREANS who were attacking the White House, it was a SOUTH KOREAN extremist group who blamed America from interfering in the Korean Civil War and preventing there from being a resolution to it.

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[–] noordj 11 years ago

57 koreans have laser eyes and can look through walls, only they cant hit *beep*

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (18458242) 11 years ago

up until a few years ago the secret service actually was part of the dept of the treasury (why they investigate counterfeiting), so that's not the worst stretch, just out of date a little

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[–] bmennen 12 years ago

1001: That if the US had a nuke-missile destroying fail-safe program for our own nukes, it would also be built to blow them up even if they were not fired and still in their silos.

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[–] 007135 12 years ago

61. James Bond let Zao get away alive to appear in this film.

Your feeble skills are no match for the power of kittens.

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[–] mcporche 12 years ago

>>3. The US Treasury is really that close to the white house.

Not sure what you are getting at with this. The US Treasury headquarters is right next to the White House.

>> 54) A veteran, heroic Presidential Detail Leader gets demoted to
>>Department of Treasury which is a completely different branch
>>though he did curse out the Speaker of the House once

That's not that far fetched, as the Secret Service *WAS* a part of the Dept. of Treasury until about 10 years ago.

>>57) when all the phone lines in the area are down only if you
>>use the presidents phone it goes through every time. Which of
>>course the bad guys can't tract.

The implication was that it wasn't a generic cell phone..it was a secure satellite phone to be used wne other communications were not available.

Oh..and as far as the people commenting about how silly it is that the president's son had a codename...don't tell that to Radiance and Rosebud.

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[–] TaraDeS 11 years ago

Contenance, monsieur!

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[–] pfilippone 11 years ago

169. After your wife dies in a freak car accident, don't get upset with the drivers. Instead, get upset with the one person that saves your life. What's more, you will demote him from duty just because he reminds you of that tragedy.

170. If visiting the IMDB forums to read the popular "100 things I learned" thread, you will find that it's now 1000 things, and that people can't or won't keep count.

171. 1000 things? Come on now, don't you think that was too ambitious?

- Your karma ran over my dogma

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[–] epsomsalt 11 years ago

172. White House Down is a far more superior film, and made much more sense.

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[–] TaraDeS 11 years ago

Understandable that the Secret Service doesn't like it to be called SS.

Understandable also that capnsaveemm is surprised about kittie_cat.
It needed 9 months to point on the "SS" ?!
Well, even babies need this time to grow.

Thank you, people!
Had a good laugh.

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[–] TaraDeS 11 years ago

I'm not sitting around like a fisherman with a bobber in the water waiting for a bite.

Yes, normally you prefer a drag net.

Sorry, no fish-smiley here.
Looks leastwise like a blowfish.

Please go on!
Sometimes you're a very nervy frog.
But you can be a really funny frog.

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"shut up" is not funny!
P.P.S.
With the reply before you're encircled by "The Walking Dead"

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[–] Korios 11 years ago

The points on list such as this are not necessarily ironic or sarcastic, they can also be informative.

Fanboy : a person who does not think while watching.

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[–] wuhugm 12 years ago

69. Washington DC has crap for Anti Air defense system

70. SS are a bunch of disorganized militias, except Banning who is a hero

71. Cerberus, the ultimate fail-safe for Nuclear Missiles in flight, has a friggin 5 minutes countdown

72. And the fail-safe is active even when the Nukes are not, the designer of the system needs to be fed to the dogs

73. No one mess with a retired agent, the dude can solo the entire terrorists group which took over the white house

74. US advanced and prototype technologies can easily be operated by terrorists

75. Once again, children and tight places

76. MUST REMEMBER SHIFT+3

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[–] LoneStar35 12 years ago

I love the life these threads take on. Good posts everyone.

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[–] jennysayquaw 12 years ago

And I thank you for posting this thread and to everyone who contributed to it. Early on when the action started to take place in the movie I had the feelings of fear that I had on 9/11. After a few minutes it became apparent that it was just another unrealistic action/adventure movie. At the time, though, I screamed and it seemed real.

Thank you all for making me laugh.

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[–] danny2135 12 years ago

I love this threads. They post 1000 things learned but somehow get stuck at 10 or 11 stuff learned!

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" ALBERT EINSTEIN

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[–] danny2135 12 years ago

No, are you?

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" ALBERT EINSTEIN

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