Usually I'll do a "random thoughts" piece after watching the movie,
but while watching "Olympus Has Fallen" it occurred to me I should
instead do a "cliché" piece, due to the fact that I was laughing so hard
at every bullshit Hollywood cliché found in this movie.
(1) Why do they insist on using codes while speaking about everything related to the President? Olympus, Sparkplug, Mustang??? Do you honestly think just be speaking in codes the enemies won't realise you were talking about Mr. President?
(2) Yes, the Asian are the bad guys, and it always is North Korea (actually, I have no complaint for that) cuz' this is the only country Hollywood can afford to go against without bombing (pardon the pun) its own box office (yes, news flash, no one watches Hollywood films in North Korea).
(3) And so the bad Asian guys always speak fluent English. And they are always very intelligent when it comes to military and technology stuff, and they are always one step ahead of the national security team.
(4) Every control of every room and every chamber can be easily taken over. You just need a cool looking guy / girl sitting in front of the keyboard and type nonsense things without even looking at the keyboard. And he / she always types so fast that when you really look at it he / she might just randomly type !@#$%^^&* onto the screen but miraculously he / she gets control of the whole White House.
(5) The hero of this kind of action thriller always had some complicated Middle Eastern military experience or some background that is so hard to pronounce you'd believe they are actually true so the hero is indestructible even when he gets punched or shot repeatedly. Yes, all of these are just because of those complicated background so he's one tough guy.
(6) The enemy shoots the security team repeatedly and everyone is down. Everyone, except our hero. He runs and runs and runs but the bullets missed him every single time.
(7) When our hero roams in the dark around the White House, it is a very high risk that he will come across the enemies. But luckily for him, the enemies always seem to act or scout the place alone, so our hero encounters them separately and kills them easily.
(8) There is always a stubborn and think-he-is-the-best commander-in-chief who looks down on our hero and prefers to use his military way to solve the issue.
(9) Whatever bombs or nuclear weapons the enemy activated, trust our hero to shut it down... 3 seconds before it goes off, no less.
(10) It always ends with the President delivering an uplifting speech about how the crisis unites the people of United States, we are not falling down we will stand up again blah blah blah... accompanied by some cheesy background music.
(1) Why do they insist on using codes while speaking about everything related to the President? Olympus, Sparkplug, Mustang??? Do you honestly think just be speaking in codes the enemies won't realise you were talking about Mr. President?
(2) Yes, the Asian are the bad guys, and it always is North Korea (actually, I have no complaint for that) cuz' this is the only country Hollywood can afford to go against without bombing (pardon the pun) its own box office (yes, news flash, no one watches Hollywood films in North Korea).
(3) And so the bad Asian guys always speak fluent English. And they are always very intelligent when it comes to military and technology stuff, and they are always one step ahead of the national security team.
(4) Every control of every room and every chamber can be easily taken over. You just need a cool looking guy / girl sitting in front of the keyboard and type nonsense things without even looking at the keyboard. And he / she always types so fast that when you really look at it he / she might just randomly type !@#$%^^&* onto the screen but miraculously he / she gets control of the whole White House.
(5) The hero of this kind of action thriller always had some complicated Middle Eastern military experience or some background that is so hard to pronounce you'd believe they are actually true so the hero is indestructible even when he gets punched or shot repeatedly. Yes, all of these are just because of those complicated background so he's one tough guy.
(6) The enemy shoots the security team repeatedly and everyone is down. Everyone, except our hero. He runs and runs and runs but the bullets missed him every single time.
(7) When our hero roams in the dark around the White House, it is a very high risk that he will come across the enemies. But luckily for him, the enemies always seem to act or scout the place alone, so our hero encounters them separately and kills them easily.
(8) There is always a stubborn and think-he-is-the-best commander-in-chief who looks down on our hero and prefers to use his military way to solve the issue.
(9) Whatever bombs or nuclear weapons the enemy activated, trust our hero to shut it down... 3 seconds before it goes off, no less.
(10) It always ends with the President delivering an uplifting speech about how the crisis unites the people of United States, we are not falling down we will stand up again blah blah blah... accompanied by some cheesy background music.
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