Olympus Has Fallen

Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

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Corrected entry: As the attack begins, a large propeller cargo plane flies towards the White house. Two fighter jets pull up beside the cargo plane before they are blown away with miniguns. The problem is that the fighter jets must travel at two to three times the speed of the cargo plane just to remain stable in flight. There is no way they could fly as slow as the propeller plane.

Correction: This is not true at all. Aside from landing, fighter jets routinely fly at lower speeds when refueling for example. They also fly at slow speeds during air shows, and are quite easily able to match speed with aircraft from the World War 2 era.

Correction: You only ever hear him referred to as Mr. Speaker or Mr. Trumball after his name appears on screen at the very start.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie as the Marines are once again raising the flag on the White House after the terror attack you can see that the roof is still brutally damaged and there has been no repair work done. When the camera pans over toward the Washington monument, you can see that the monument is already being reconstructed with scaffolding all around it. (01:45:30)

kansascia

Correction: Yes and no. Yes, the roof is badly damaged and yes, the Washington Monument has scaffolding up around it. But, no time scale is given as to how long it has been since the attack. The White House has much more damage to it, and work would have started to secure the actual house rather than starting with the roof, so it's entirely plausible that no work would have been done by this point.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: When a woman is shot in the head, the bullet hole is in the left side of her hat. But then when her hat falls off, the bullet hole is in the right side of her head. No, the bullet didn't pass through both sides. She was shot from the front, so there should only be one bullet hole in the same place. (00:30:00)

MikeH

Correction: It is easy to see that the woman gets shot in her right side and the bullet exits on her left. When the hat falls off it goes to her left with momentum (as it should) and a wound is visible on the right side of her head.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: Near the beginning the Speaker and his staff refer to the lone agent as Ben instead of Mike. The President's name is Ben. Later on the staff call the lone agent Mike correctly. (00:25:00 - 01:00:00)

Correction: They are calling him "Banning", his last name, not 'Ben'. Closed captioning shows this as well.

Corrected entry: During the air attack on the White House, an anti-aircraft battery pops up from the roof, which then completely ignores the attacking plane, allowing it to fly around machine gunning everyone for a while longer until the fighter shoots it down.

Correction: The anti-aircraft battery does target the AC-130 and attempt to disable it. However, the AC-130's pilots released countermeasure flares which disabled the missiles fired by the battery.

You see all 4 missiles from the battery launch and all 4 do get destroyed by the flares.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: The president asks his son to choose a tie from a black or brown one. He gives the black one to the kid and keeps the brown one. In the next scene the president has the black tie.

Correction: He gives his son the brown tie. This could not be mistaken if you watch the scene twice. I will note that, minutes after putting on the black tie, he is in the Oval Office, wearing a crimson tie. For those checking this on the DVD, this could have been poor lighting during the filming, making us see the crimson tie as black when he was putting it on.

DavidRTurner

Corrected entry: The AC-130 only has guns on the port (left) side which are mounted on the back instead of the front and they are not hidden. A gunner is required to operate them instead of the pilots pressing a button in the cockpit. Only older versions of the AC-130 have the dual miniguns and they do not have flare dispensers, so the first missiles fired by the fighters would have shot it down. The AC-130U has flare dispensers but only has one minigun on the left side.

Correction: That plane was custom made by the North Koreans for this purpose, because the US Air Force also wouldn't sell AC-130s willy-nilly to anyone asking politely. One of many instances where the filmmakers lean on North Korea having way overstated resources to make them out as a credible threat.

Friso94

Corrected entry: How come the president is rushed into the bunker with the whole South Korean committee troop? That couldn't be standard procedure at all. You can trust your own security services, not the ones from any foreign president, no matter how dear and close.

Correction: The president orders them to be taken in. Even an agent says it's against protocol but the president just ordered and they are under attack. Not much time to discuss protocols.

Earthling

Corrected entry: Towards the start, when the president and the first lady are in the limo, between shots, her seatbelt is off, then on. (00:05:25)

Correction: In the shots of the President and First Lady, facing their left, it's a bit too dark to see it, but she is indeed wearing her seatbelt. Even when she makes the comment about shaving her head, the seatbelt can be seen over her shoulder by her left arm, whereas in the other angles (overhead shots of her alone and shots facing their right side) the seatbelt is near her neck. (To confirm this I watched the DVD with my DVD player's settings on bright).

Super Grover

Factual error: Near the finale, Kang sends a command to all US based missiles to self-destruct in their silos, thereby detonating their warheads. Ignoring for the moment why "self-destruct in silo" would ever be a desirable scenario programmed into ICBM protocols, detonation of a nuclear warhead requires an extremely precise sequence of events, none of which would include a nearby, conventional explosion. (01:38:20)

stevewaclo

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Mike Banning: You know what? Why don't you and I play a game of 'fuck off'. You go first.

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Question: As the Cerberus codes have been entered, with the time limit set prior to the missile's destruction, how did Jang expect to leave the country within what I assume was the 5 minute time limit and not feel the fallout from the nuclear missiles, or be killed or at least full of radiation, and also, why take the president then?

Answer: Kang wanted the USA to suffer famine and be a 3rd world country. His plan was to get in, set off all the warheads and plunge the USA into the dark ages. During one of the exchanges between Kang and Mike, Kang says "I just want the USA to experience poverty and famine." So he had no plans to survive his mission. He needed the president to gain the 3rd code incase it couldn't be broken by the hacker. He faked the presidents death to give himself more time with the president.

Ssiscool

Answer: My best guess is they went in knowing it was a suicide mission.

That suggested answer doesn't make any sense. Jang idea was to capture the code to start a war presumably between N &S Korea. There is no indication that Jang's computer whiz had the ability crack the code, or was even trying, and that sounds unlikely. I think the whole story line went off the tracks at that point and they were trying to wrap up the shooting. Pretty shaky in my opinion. Just a movie with some good stars and and a lot of stuff got blown-up and the good guys won.

Answer: The Washington monument is destroyed in one scene and in a later scene, it is fully erect.

This isn't an answer, this seems to be a mistake entry.

Bishop73

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