Way better imho. White House down was snooze fest, this one made me excited
shareYes it pretty much is but Olympus is a HELLUVA LOT BETTER !!
shareTechnically White House Down is the same movie as Olympus Has Fallen. Olympus came out about three months ahead.
shareThat's what I thought as well but wasn't sure.
shareI think both movies worked as action flicks, but I preferred OHF to WHD due to the nature of the villains. OHF broke from the usual Hollywood paradigm of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
I don't know about anyone else but I have long been weary of Hollywood's obsession with the VRWC. It is a very major turn-off for me.
The only VRWC was the one to frame Bill Clinton for an imbroglio with Monica Lewinsky. Oh, wait, that wasn't a conspiracy, it really happened.
shareClinton was not framed about anything. The 'imbroglio' with Ms Lewinsky actually did happen. It was his lying under oath about it. Perjury and obstruction of justice.
shareHollywood often releases movies in pairs. Someone has an idea no one likes, so it sits on the shelf. Then some other studio announces their movie on the same topic, and the other studio rushes their own bad idea into production to compete.
shareThis was better because it didn't use the hackneyed premise of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. The bad guys are not neo-Nazis, racists, and Klansmen, but actually Marxists here.
I get so sick of Hollywood and its' obsession with the VRWC.
Like Volcnao and Dante's Peak.
Interesting Trivia: In the 1970's, two rival studios bought rights to different books about a fire in a high rise. Rather than compete they pooled their resources and produced Towering Inferno together.
And simultaneously OHF is a rip-off of Die Hard, filmed 3 decades after this had ceased to be a fad in US cinema
shareExcept that WHD is a gay Leftist creampuff and OHF is an awesome, brutal action thriller for adults.
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