MovieChat Forums > White House Down (2013) Discussion > 100 Things I Learned From White House Do...

100 Things I Learned From White House Down


1. The President walks through the White House in the same area where the tour is being given and stops to talk to one little girl and allows her to interview him about foreign policy and put it on her YouTube channel.

2. RPGs can take out M1A1 tanks.

reply

165: This whole movie was an advertisement for Nicorette
166: An entire building filled with tourists and cell phones and only one little girl manages to upload photos/video of the bad guys whether on purpose or not
167:When bad guys are about to take out a chopper, don't bother to snipe them, just video it.
168: When the president pops up at the end of a movie, no secret service spot him
169: With thousands of people milling around at the end of a movie, assume none of them are left over terrorists and let him stroll around
170: Secret exits from buildings can never be used to secretly enter a building
Tanks standing ready do not seem to be ready at all
171: When a bullet proof vest becomes available, don't give it to the president, take it yourself, leave any others still on bad guys
172: Elevators in the white house have so little security they can easily be used to hide on top
173:
White House security video is so awesome the bad guys cannot use it to find the president
174: All the worlds nuclear weapons can be launched remotely by a decent hacker
175: The worlds nuclear weapons only require a numeric code (not even upPer and loWEr case!)
176: The new presidents codes can also be used by the old president
177: No agency is monitoring mobiles/pagers being used in the vicinity
178: A hand only is required for recognition, yet hand print and voice recognition was required to a special room
179: A bomb going off did not seem to make all those security guards suspicious and lock any room down
180: No guards, not even the armaments room guy wore vests

reply

181 military helicopters get shot down, but news helicopters are allowed to fly real close and film eveything and everyone.
182 a tour guide needs to cock a shotgun twice before firing it... Because it looks cool.
183 the president loves his Jordans, but doesn't give a rats ass about the destruction of the White House.



This page will make you a smarter member --> http://www.imdb.com/help/boards/markup

reply

[deleted]

194. Children cope with near death experiences in matter of minutes and then are keen to fly in a helicopter.

reply

195. The vice-chairman of the joint chiefs sounds like Bubba Blue from Forrest gump.

reply

196. People with terminal illnesses are reckless and potentially dangerous. We need to keep an eye on them.
197. The head of the presidential security detail is not subject to regular medical reviews, so if he's diagnosed with a terminal illness that could impair his capabilities or judgment, no one in the entire government will find out.
198. With the Capitol under attack, the crack security/SWAT team deployed to defend the White House does not wear flak vests, and only takes up positions that leave their rear flank exposed. They will never, ever look behind them.
199. The White House has no self-destruct system, or even a blockade system to isolate intruders.
200. Fighter-bombers must fly 200 feet over their target to hit it, and slowly enough so that the pilots can see children on the ground.
201. Being on the White House Threat Matrix will not prevent you from getting a job with White House maintenance.
202. People involved in terrorist conspiracies use their own phones and pagers to organize their attack, rather than the disposable phones that every drug dealer and pimp buys for $29 at Wal-Mart.
203. NSA domestic surveillance cannot detect a massive terrorist plot to seize the White House, even if it involves mobile telephone conversations (see above) between Secret Service personnel, members of Congress, and known security threats.
204. The entire U.S. defense computer grid can be accessed via one convenient user interface, and hacked with a laptop and an ethernet cable.
205. The U.S. president can unilaterally authorize a nuclear strike with just his codes and fingerprints, without following the two-man rule or any re-verification of the order that has been the "football" procedure since its inception.
206. Anyone launching a military helicopter assault to re-take the White House will disregard the warnings from friendlies inside of the presence of advanced air defenses. To make it even easier for the enemy to target them, the assault helicopters will approach the target in formation, from one direction. (I also learned this from "Olympus Has Fallen.")
207. Channing Tatum is lucky he's handsome, because he sure can't act.
208. Roland Emmerich needs twice as much money as Antoine Fuqua to make exactly the same movie.

Those last two were serious :)

reply

209) The presidents RPG has chromium plating.

reply

210) After getting beat up for 90 minutes you escape looking like thisat the end.

Image
http://i.imgur.com/v5786Vs.jpg

reply

211). You can use British/Canadian made Jevelin SAM missile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_(surface-to-air_missile)) in Jevelin Anti-Tank missile launcher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin).



reply

It was a FGM-148 not the British SAM.
The FGM-148 can be used against helicopters using a direct fire mode rather than the top attack mode used against tanks.

reply

212. The guys who get to fix the president's home theatre doesn't have to pass through security measures. They wont have their background checked. They can jus enter and execute their plans.
213. Adding to the above point. The hacker deletes his record from the database. But the people who let him in will have not access to these database.

reply

214. When you are not sure about who the final bad guy is, then use the old "he's dead" routine and bad guy will immediately shout out his grand scheme making it obvious that he is the one. (only thing missing there was Channing pulling off Jenkin's mask and Jenkins saying "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it werent for you meddling kids")

"The bums will always lose"

reply

And not to forget: he even admits that he was the only other one that has the pager number in front of high officials - and thinks that he can stay president?


reply

215. You can yell "hey get down" really loud on top of an elevator with a mesh ceiling and the occupant inside won't hear anything.

reply

2. RPGs can take out M1A1 tanks.


THANK

YOU!!

I've been searching this board high and low for someone else who noticed the tank bull crap. Took all I had to not start furiously punching the TV after that..

reply

216. A bad guy can beep the head terrorist on this pager and the NSA wouldn't know a thing about it. Only calling the number on the pager can reveal the true bad guy.

217. Girls don't know how to use vibrate or silence on a cellphone. Even if she almost got caught once or twice with the ringer.

reply