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.
158. An 11 year old has an iphone, a youtube channel (you need to be 13 to have an account) and a contract that allows her to upload videos through 3g, and has the media following her already to know when she posts something interesting.
She could have lied about her age to get an account.
224. Only in America would they have three different Presidents in charge, in the space of a few hours
225. If your name is John Cale, you can somehow avoid getting hit by several bullets
226. If James Woods is cast in any action flick, you can guarantee that he'll be the bad guy, even if it seems like he's on the side of good at the beginning..
227. Precious artifacts should be preserved, even though the main part of the white house has already been blown up and not as important!
228. White House tour guides take their job very seriously
229. Maggie Gyllenhaal's character Carol never sleeps...
230. 11 year old know-it-all's should never be allowed in the White House
231. Somehow the directors & producers can spend/waste $150 million on a film, and still make several glaring mistakes and major plot holes (most of which have been listed on this thread) and still get paid handsomely for their work!!
232. When opening the doors to the PEOC (vault) knowing bad guys may be right behind you make sure you are at attention and saluting, not ready to fight back.
233. Super soldiers in black hawk helicopters can't shoot people off roofs, even if they see them far in advance. "I guess these are the hostages dressed as paramilitaries and holding guns"
234. 100s of national guards can't give cover fire to the roof when the helicopters attack or attack terrorist chasing the president 10 feet away
235. Instead of getting as close to the roof as possible, the helicopter stays way up so it takes like forever to drop off soldiers - and nobody is guarding it
236. As third in line of presidency, the speaker of the house can transfer his launch codes to an traitor to start WW3 - and still thinks he can stay president just because everybody has to listen to him
237. The hero sits on top of the lift when the head of operations and the head of the play are there. Two head shots and the whole thing stops there. Because the one knowing the white house (and has a sinister plan) is dead and the other one who controls/lies to the troops about the real also. They take the money and leave.
238. When you're the vice-head of Secret Service and you're about to interview a guy for a job, after having done extensive background checks on the dude, only when he actually stands before you do you realize he's the guy you were banging back in your first semester at college.
241) The podium in the press room will protect you from a grenade explosion.
242) Every parent will turn evil and support killing lots of innocent people, including the President, so long as it's in the name of their wrongly killed son.
243) Right wing talk show hosts hang out at Democratic White Houses. (small assumption that the prez is a Democrat)
244) Politicians will hire various terrorists, kill everyone in the White House, shoot down Air Force One, and launch 24 nuclear missiles at a single country, and turn the entire country into chaos just to satisfy a few campaign donors.
241) The podium in the press room will protect you from a grenade explosion.
Um, I was thinking that the secret service would have already armored the podium for extra protection from a possible threat from a "reporter" with a smuggled gun or maybe from flying shoes. Seems stupid not to armor the podium.
245. The bad guys never seem to know that heroes ALWAYS get a unstoppable second wind regardless of how one sided the fight is.
246. The President's daughter loves the film Night of the Living Dead (the original). Too bad it wasn't Godzilla or another film directed by Emmerich. 247. If you are a tour guide and someone guesses the exact location of the Peoc, just move on to something else to distract everyone else. 248. You are supposed to stay with the tour group yet if you have to go to the bathroom, they'll allow you to go downstairs to it by yourself. 249. Reporters don't realize the correct term for Emily at the end is "heroine" not "hero". 250. You might as well tell the guy you are with what your name is, even though YOU ARE THE DAMN PRESIDENT!
251. If the president of the US finds out he is save from the terrorists at the top of an elevator, he doesn't stay up there. I gets down to fight the terrorists themself 252: there are mobile atomic bomb launch panels 253: nobody thinks about running away with #252 254: doesn't matter if the original president is still alive. Bomb the *beep* out of the white house... unless you see a girl waving a flag, which is more important 255: you can see a small girl waving a flag from a F22 jet flying at 500+ kph 256: said girl waving a flag lets all people nearby storm a place that could still be filled with armed terrorists. Also they just ignore that the place is going to be bombed in seconds.
282. It's perfectly ok to talk rudely to your President as long as you are in a chaotic situation. Oh, and you can ask him to make you a sandwich while at it.
283. Despite having several hand grenades at your disposal, throwing them at your enemy while they're all grouped up in tight corridors while pursuing you is the wrong way to use them, rather it's better to save them all up in case you need to do a Mortal Kombat style finishing move.
284. If you do happen to use a grenade, make sure they have a loud obvious ticking noise to help indicate they're active and also make sure to throw the grenade immediately, as opposed to throwing it at the last second so the enemy can't just kick it back.
285. If the Olympus has Fallen terrorist group had attacked the White House Down white house they would have accomplished their objectives within two minutes and found that they completely overplanned their attack. If the White House Down mercenary group had attacked the Olympus has Fallen white house they would have all been gunned down in a hail of bullets in about 5 seconds.
286. An evil right wing mercenary will show no emotion after his idol has been killed, despite most of his character arc be entirely about worshipping the man.
287. Evil right wing mercenaries show no respect to the original founding father
288 - If you are a highly trained soldier and face ONE old-man kidnapping the president in front of the most secure room in the white house. You "save" the president and go away with him to fight 50 other mercenaries in an "open world" scenario, instead of killing one man (their leader), and securing the president for good.
293 - a fighter jet flying full speed ahead can spot a little girl at grown level waiving a flag over a mile away 294 - you can shot a ballistic missile from NORAD and hit Air Force Run which flies with a secret flight plan 295 - so you have access to NORAD with enough nukes to destroy the world... but you want to use the presidential nuclear football, just because
296. Never tell a terrorist that you would have to go thru them to get to another hostage because THEY WILL DO THAT!!!!! 297. Independence Day, the film, existed in this world, since it was mentioned. Too bad they didn't do other film references by the same director. 298. Stentz doesn't like the first President of the US. I wonder why?
Chronological order 303. White House janitors can easily bring bombs. 304. People trained to protect the president are either not armed, don't use their guns well, and/or are generally bad at their jobs. 305. Disguises will fool the most important security force. 306. There is little security inside the White House. 307. The US Government has no secret off-site security that can override a hack on the White House. 308. A NSA hacker writes a program that shows a very helpful percentage counter for the hack even when he has no idea what is on the computer he is going to hack. 308b. Also, the fact that he even bothers with a big percentage counter. 309. The US government has no secret override in case all known systems are compromised. 310. The hero is only vulnerable in the third act. 311. Bad guys loose because they have poor communication skills, don't tell each other parts of their mission, and flip out when the learn the secrets. 312. No... FREAKING... security.
313-100 octovigintillion: N-o S-e-c-u-r-i-t-y
100 octovigintillion and 1: No security.
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316. Secret Service agents defending areas they know well can't hit anything with their submachine guns but attacking terrorists are deadly.
317. When shooting at someone behind a wall or door, trained terrorists always just lay down a barrage of fire rather than moving around the obstructing object and using controlled fire. (This applies to just about every movie, ever.)
318. After stopping the terrorists and having a piece of glass in your stomach and generally getting your ass kicked all movie, don't go to a hospital, just go for a ride in a helicopter. And assume no terrorists are around even though they said they had eyes in the sky, and they couldn't know for sure no one was around the city and all the bad guys were dead. 319. It's been said before but it's so ridiculous, I'll repeat it. After an attack on the White House, just let anyone walk inside. And the kids mom can break through the security perimeter and just go hug her kid and no one stopped her or tried. 320. Like in die hard, helicopter pilots will shoot at the good guys on a roof