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 http://olympusmovie.com/ Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74F_pts7Uhg From IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2302755/ IMDB posted:When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster. Written by FilmDistrict Starring Butler. Gerard Butler  "Hash yuh got ahny Anglish paypul fer may to kell laddie?" Aaron Eckhart as "I believe in PresiDent" and Morgan Freeman as  Rick Yune as dastardly North Korean superagent  Ashley Judd as the first lady of action  Movie of the year or Movie of the Decade? Discuss
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 10:58 |
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| # ? May 26, 2013 02:48 |
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Gerard Butler kind of looks like Jeremy Renner. I think he should keep his Sparta beard. Hell just bring that character over to this movie.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 12:15 |
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Ever since that video of N.K. trying to shoot a missile leaked I can't take any movie seriously that implies them being able to do a thing well.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 14:28 |
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A black hole needs to erupt in the middle of Hollywood so a movie like this is never made again.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 16:05 |
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The poster makes it look like the President is saved by robot-Gerard Butler. His skin looks like David's from Prometheus.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 16:25 |
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I dunno, it's yet to be rated, but if it's hard R, it might make for some mindless fun. The trailer already makes it look look like a big budget mid 90's Steven Seagal movie, and it's even produced by Millenium AKA Nu Image, who have churned stuff like this for what seems like forever.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 17:05 |
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I think I read a Vince Flynn book in high school that had a similar plot.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 17:14 |
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foodfight posted:I think I read a Vince Flynn book in high school that had a similar plot. My first thought was "so they finally made a movie based on Bad Dudes".
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 18:47 |
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Isn't this the plot to, like, the sixth series of 24?
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 20:49 |
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weekly font posted:Ever since that video of N.K. trying to shoot a missile leaked I can't take any movie seriously that implies them being able to do a thing well. Apparently they've managed to hack one of our C130's using their high technology Went to Hell posted:Isn't this the plot to, like, the sixth series of 24? Yes, season 7, but that was done by Africans and Obama didn't like that because he's trying to take away are guns Goreld posted:My first thought was "so they finally made a movie based on Bad Dudes". I would watch the gently caress out of a Bad Dudes movie starring Gerard Butler as both dudes Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2013 around 23:20 |
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Alan Smithee posted:I would watch the gently caress out of a Bad Dudes movie starring Gerard Butler as both dudes Wouldn't that just be "Double Impact", starring Jean Claude Van Damme?  Anyway, I'm not liking the "Yellow Peril" overtones to this film. It's the "Red Dawn" remake all over again.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 23:23 |
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I saw the trailer and the first half looked like it could be a sane, interesting film about a secret service agent coping with his perceived failure to protect the first lady. Then poo poo started blowing up.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 00:24 |
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It'd be awesome if Rick Yune turned out to be Toby Stephens in disguise.
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Great Enoch posted:It'd be awesome if Rick Yune turned out to be Toby Stephens in disguise. It's just not the same without diamonds embedded in his face. VoodooXT posted:Anyway, I'm not liking the "Yellow Peril" overtones to this film. It's the "Red Dawn" remake all over again. Meaning it'll bomb I'm actually Asian myself, I used to worry about this poo poo and then 9/11 happened and we had it good relatively speaking. Better they throw us under the bus since nobody thinks we're actually do anything at the end of the day. Rob a bank with our kung fu grip? I think not Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at Feb 12, 2013 around 02:34 |
| # ? Feb 12, 2013 02:27 |
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Looking over Antoine Fuqua's filmography, I have to ask- was Training Day just a huge fluke, or did it suck as well and just seemed cool when I was 14?
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Jewmanji posted:Looking over Antoine Fuqua's filmography, I have to ask- was Training Day just a huge fluke, or did it suck as well and just seemed cool when I was 14? Shooter was decent enough.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 04:35 |
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This is so going to be poo poo. The unspeakable awful cgi alone makes this look like a bad DTV movie from the 90s. Its telling that they're rushing to release this before the big budget White House Under Attack movie that comes out in June. It still baffles me that Hollywood keeps making 2 identical-premise movies and releasing them within months of each-other. I mean how surreal will it be when people go to Olympus Has Fallen and see a trailer playing before it for White House Down.
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Young Freud posted:Shooter was decent enough. Shooter was a lot of fun. Bobby Lee Swagger is the best iteration of the hyper-competent action-hero thing Mark Wahlberg likes to do, and Michael Pena plays his character's growing worship of Swagger nicely. I'm a fan of the movie beyond what I know to be reasonable. This looks completely terrible, unfortunately. The two Antoine Fuqua movies I like both have at their center an exaggerated portrayal of an archetypal character: a corrupt urban cop and a backwoods anti-government survivalist. I'm not seeing anything that interesting here, either in the characters or Gerard Butler's performance.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Shooter was a lot of fun. Bobby Lee Swagger is the best iteration of the hyper-competent action-hero thing Mark Wahlberg likes to do, and Michael Pena plays his character's growing worship of Swagger nicely. I'm a fan of the movie beyond what I know to be reasonable. Yeah, I really wish they had keep the "George Washington created the first snipers" monologue, because it explains so much about Swagger and Wahlberg sounds pretty sincere when giving it. My guess it was excised for time and pacing (it's supposedly before the climax on the mountain). Also, I love Ned Beatty as the corrupt Senator. The whole performance is a nice callback to Arthur Jensen in Network.
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bullet3 posted:Its telling that they're rushing to release this before the big budget White House Under Attack movie that comes out in June.  I thought they were one and the same movie when people mentioned that "white house hostage movie". There's no way one wasn't cribbed off the otheredit: Jamie Foxx is the President in that one. Oh boy oh boy I hope it's about the Tea Party finding their balls to actually do that revolting thing they keep talking about. You know, use their guns to stop the president from taking their guns away for trying to kill him with their guns Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at Feb 12, 2013 around 10:16 |
| # ? Feb 12, 2013 10:13 |
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Reading the plot synopsis for this on Wikipedia makes it sound like someone took the script to Die Hard, changed the names and set it in the White House instead of at Nakatomi.
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 23:01 |
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Gatts posted:Gerard Butler kind of looks like Jeremy Renner. I think he should keep his Sparta beard. Hell just bring that character over to this movie. I liked the way they summarised what are probably going to be the first ten minutes of the film (the Cliffhanger "oh noes, I tried to save her life but I faiiiiiiled"  stuff) right there in the trailer, so it doesn't matter if you arrive late. (And that just reminded me how great the Cliffhanger trailer was; no exposition or Trailer Man voiceover, just random awesome stuff happening to 'Dies Irae'.)
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I love Eckhart and Freeman but this movie has the makings of something really cheesy. A loving warplane over the White House that wasn't intercepted about a hundred miles ago? I think the whole premise is a little preposterous and they'd do well if they acknowledged it and did a whole tongue-in-cheek thing.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2013 20:12 |
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I like it! I'll be there opening night. Well, no I won't, because I have two small kids. But I certainly will watch it on Netflix streaming someday. Also, I had no idea until just now that there were two They've Got the White House movies coming out this year, and that the other one is a Roland Emmerich joint. I hope he can work an earthquake or tsunami or supertornado or meteor or something into that one at some point.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 01:48 |
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it sounds like Gerry is trying SO hard to not sound Scottish for once. Why Gerry, why for this movie why couldn't you have done that for Coriolanis to build up your credibility? I may or may not see this because it looks like Butler is getting out of doing stupid RomComs and I fully support that career decision and the idea of recreating Die Hard sounds intriguing as well, assuming that they pull it off in a way that actually works. If this is just Under Siege 3 but no Seagall then, eeeeehhhhhh maybe?
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Aces High posted:it sounds like Gerry is trying SO hard to not sound Scottish for once. Why Gerry, why for this movie Why should he have done that for Coriolanus? I thought he was excellent.
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GazChap posted:Reading the plot synopsis for this on Wikipedia makes it sound like someone took the script to Die Hard, changed the names and set it in the White House instead of at Nakatomi. Wasn't this a Die Hard script at one point?
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magiccarpet posted:Wasn't this a Die Hard script at one point?
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| # ? Feb 28, 2013 20:04 |
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weekly font posted:Ever since that video of N.K. trying to shoot a missile leaked I can't take any movie seriously that implies them being able to do a thing well. Are you implying that otherwise you would take this "Gerard Butler rescues the White House" movie seriously?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Why should he have done that for Coriolanus? I thought he was excellent. Oh no doubt about that I just felt that considering the lengths he seems to be going for this film maybe he could've eased up a bit in Coriolanus, he was a little hard to understand at times I felt. Maybe what I am thinking is more why work so hard for this movie instead of something that isn't just some Die Hard wannabe? But hey, credit where credit is due at the end of the day and good on him for trying to sound American in a very American role
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Aces High posted:Oh no doubt about that I just felt that considering the lengths he seems to be going for this film maybe he could've eased up a bit in Coriolanus, he was a little hard to understand at times I felt. All of those romcoms are in preparation for this moment.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Are you implying that otherwise you would take this "Gerard Butler rescues the White House" movie seriously? Hahahahahaha
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Payndz posted:I wish it had been; John McClane being invited to the White House to receive a medal for all his past America-saving on the exact day that terrorists decide to attack it would have been a lot better than "John McClane dicks about in Russia for some reason". Maybe we could learn that Hans and Simon had a North Korean half-brother, Kim Gru-Ber. In that case the takeover would be a ruse to steal Lincoln's gold or something. Every ad for this does feel like that at some point this should have become a Die Hard movie. There's a lot of bad movies coming out in March, but this may be my bad movie of choice.
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Red Band clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE5dhEfxz48
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| # ? Mar 8, 2013 08:26 |
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It's like 24. On HGH.
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| # ? Mar 8, 2013 10:24 |
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Is this just Hollywood trying to capitalize on people wanting to see Obama be put in a bad situation or something? Why are there TWO "White House guns bang boom pow" movies coming out?
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rotinaj posted:Is this just Hollywood trying to capitalize on people wanting to see Obama be put in a bad situation or something? Why are there TWO "White House guns bang boom pow" movies coming out? The same reason there were two 'Snow White' movies last year, the same reason there are two Hercules movies coming out next year. Some studios want to take advantage of the subject once the "bigger" movie is announced. If you look back (or forward), the shittier movie of the two is always the one that came before, because it was rushed into production once the "main film" was announced. Like someone said earlier, this Olympus film was supposed to come out next year but then they wanted to get it out there to steal the thunder on Emmerich's White House Down or whatever it is called. You only have to look at the laughable CGI in the first trailer, or the overall tv:ish quality. It's like Hollywood is playing The Asylum with a straight face.
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Jiggs posted:Red Band clip Why did the garbage trucks have to blow up their own tires?
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Probably to prevent them being pushed out of the way. You know, since garbage trucks are so light and easily moved as long as the tires are intact.
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Jiggs posted:Red Band clip Gonz posted:It's like 24. Basically my reaction. I wasn't excited for this at all, but I got free passes to see an advanced screening on Thursday night, and that clip makes it seem like it should be pretty entertaining. So now I'm kind of hopeful that it won't outright suck. Even if it does, who the gently caress cares? It's free 
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