Olympus Has Fallen : 1000 Things I learned from Olympus Has Fallen (spoilers)

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.

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

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was part of the dept of the treasury (why they investigate counterfeiting), so that's not the worst stretch, just out of date a little

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.

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


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

>>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 codenamedon't tell that to Radiance and Rosebud.

Contenance, monsieur!

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

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

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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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!
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With the reply before you're encircled by "The Walking Dead"

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

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Fanboy : a person who does not think while watching.

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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

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

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.

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

No, are you?

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" ALBERT EINSTEIN

77. Secret Service agents can be recruited by Korean terrorists because they hate American capitalism and the way the President is elected; yet, when said agent needs to kill one of his former colleagues outside the bunker, he will have a crisis of conscience and reject the Korean revolution. Unfortunately, that will be too late for redemption.

78. The President and his main bodyguard are best buddies in private when they practice sport. Romantic bromance should have been explored deeper after the First Lady's death.

79. When the White House is under attack by Korean terrorists, the strategy chosen by Secret service agents is to leave the building one after the other and get killed by rifle. None of them will realize that there's something wrong going on outside.

80. If the new acting President and his staff see a helicopter exploding with hooded people in it, they will automatically think that the President was killed and will send the news to the world, without even checking the body or trying to think whether it was a ruse by the terrorists.

81. One of the most wanted terrorists in the world is a Korean crazy man who was trained in the Middle-East: everybody knows that Islamists are eager to help their Asian friends to destroy the White House and capture the President of the United States. Next time, they will think of coalition.

82. Melissa Leo is a subtle actress.

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83. A fail safe mechanism designed to self destruct a nuclear missile before it reaches it's target will detonate the nuke inside the missile instead of just the missile (which will probably cause massive EMP damage and radiation depending on where it explodes at in flight, or will just kill millions of people after exploding inside the silos!).

84. Nuclear launch codes can be easily changed by the Pentagon when the president is compromised (True); but fail safe codes that can prevent a nuclear retaliation from occurring are kept with three people in one location, can only be used or changed in that one location (which means if an accidental launch occurs and the three people with the codes aren't in the White House and/or out of communication, that nuke will destroy whatever it's launched at), and can still be hacked. (Makes me wonder why Morgan Freeman's character didn't just order a bunker buster bomb to destroy the Presidential Bunker when the second code was entered, knowing what was at stake. The US Government would still function with him as president as per the US Constitution.)

85. F-22 fighters intercepting a C-130 will both fly directly next to the aircraft instead of one hanging back and the other flying aside to get the attention of the unresponsive pilot, making them perfect targets to be shot down by hidden miniguns.

86. The decoy C-130 attacking the White House and surrounding people will have flare decoys to defend against incoming Stinger missiles fired from the White House (or any Secret Service with a shoulder fired Stinger launcher, which would be more realistic than a SAM box on top of the White House), but forget to use chaff against any possible radar guided missiles from an intercepting fighter aircraft.

for 84, Morgan Freeman already showed that he was willing to give up South Korea to have a chance to save the presdient's life. He was a horrible leader, he should have just said no to any demand.

I agree, he acted tough in the White House briefing, but broke down during the hostage negotiations when he was actually needed. It makes me think if this happened in real life with John Boehner becoming president in a similar situation, that guy would be crying in two minutes flat! Then he would launch nukes towards Russia because Pat Robertson says it will make Jesus come back quicker! Boehner: "Pat, are you sure about this? You know it's North Korean terrorists who stormed the White House, not the Russians." - Robertson: "Just shoot them off John, this world needs to be reborn in Jesus image!"

What we needed there was Speaker of the House Glenallen Walken (West Wing) sitting in that chair.

"Kong is it?"

"Kang"

"Yeah, whatever. Let me tell you how this is going to go. You walk out of that bunker with the President and all the others unharmed within five minutes or I'm going to turn North Korea into a giant sheet of glass. You get my drift Chang?"

"It's Kang!"

"I don't care if it's King Kong. In the words of Lieutenant Sulu, if you test me, you will fail."

Of course, the movie would have ended right there and wouldn't have been nearly as fun.

Lol. Maybe I need to give west wing another shot.

Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?

62% of Muslims live in Asia. The Middle East is in Asia. They are Asians. Indonesia has the highest population of Muslims. About 13% of the 62% are in Indonesia alone.

That statement you made is stupid.

-Nam

I am on the road less traveled

Yeah right because you think that North Korean opponents are Muslims and are prone to collaborate with middle eastern terrorists. And you probably think that there are training classes about "How to become a good terrorist" provided by ISIS to any potential North Korean student in terrorism in the International School of Terror in Damascus with an exchange programmes with Pyongyang. Time to check some basic geopolitical facts, duh

87. When the Washington Monument get destroyed, it is possible to put up scaffolding the next day, when the Marines raise the flag after a disaster.

88. The joint chief of staff is a weeny who knows that if he gives up his code, he puts the country at risk.

89. As mentioned previously the super secure code can be easily broken in just a few minutes.

90. The President can over-rule the Secret Service (by having the "Koren Prime Minister" join him in the bunker) regarding his security [NOT].

91. There is a provision in the Constitution for an "acting President" [NOT].