Saturday, December 28, 2013

Movie Similarities and Problems

The Action Movies White house Down and Olympus has Fallen are both movie which aired in the year 2013 which both have the same story of having the white house over run by terrorist forces.
Not only do these two movies have extremely similar plots but also each of them have their own problems.

The White house down movie has several problems in the story, first of all, a mere tour guide and a little girl should not know classified information regarding the white house such as the location of the P.E.O.C., second, why does the military let people gather so close around heavy artillery, military personnel and the danger zone which is directly in range of the heavy machine guns and RPG's of the enemy and not considering the fact that civilians might get caught in the crossfire and starting an assault with an Abrams tank without clearing them out, third, why is it that the terrorists did not use the daughter as hostage as soon as they found her identity to make the main character surrender, fourth, why does the media continue to broadcast information without the restriction of the government knowing that the terrorists are listening to the broadcast which could alert them regarding military activities of the government such as the black hawk helicopters approaching the white house at low altitude to avoid detection by the terrorists but was seen by the media and also, flying incredibly low is dangerous even for experienced pilots especially over thousands of people who may be casualties if the helicopter crashes, and fifth, why is it that a news chopper was able to hover above grounded airspace over the most secured airspace in the united states while in the midst of a terrorist attack. The White house down disappointed and was considered a flop but despite its flaws, the movie has good action scenes as well as comedy scenes of both characters.

The Olympus has Fallen movie despite it being significantly better than white house down in terms of action, it lacks comedy and is quite serious but even if it is better, a few flaws are still present in the movie.
First, the main characters of the movie overly used a foul word in the movie to the point of exhaustion, and second, the general of the military in certain times acted unprofessionally during a national crisis and did not exhibit descent behavior and continued to talk in a dirty manner and used foul words extensively, he did not exhibit significant decision making skills and showed over optimism which caused the death of several military navy seals. The movie is significantly better in terms of action scenes and story of the movie with the absence of comedic behavior.

The Similarities of the two movies is clearly the plot and story, the movies themselves are like counterparts due to their plot, the main character is left alone to defend and retake the white house, in white house down, the character has the president with him while fight, in olympus has fallen, the character struggles to save the president from enemy hands, the scenes of military troops are also quite similar with the scene in white house down having helicopters fly at low altitude in daylight and shot down by enemy Javelin S.A.M. weapons, in olympus has fallen, the helicopters fly in at high altitude at night and shot down by a next generation weapon system with only one helicopter survivor. It is almost as if the two movies were created for the directors to test their abilities against each other literally by having themselves compete with the same movie genre and plot.



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