ShortJohnSilver
13th May 2013, 06:38 PM
So this weekend, I watched the movie "Olympus Has Fallen" with family members.
Summary: one lone honest cop (Secret Service agent in this case), vs. a terrorist mastermind intent on wreaking havoc on a lot of innocents. He has taken the President and Cabinet members hostage and is holding them inside the White House super-secure underground bunker. In many respects, this story is very similar to the first Die Hard, though it is more grim and not as funny.
If you like action/suspense movies, it is not bad. Of course the incest-maker Morgan Freeman makes an appearance, thankfully not as God or the President, but as Speaker of the House who is trying to fix things after the President and VP are out of commission - but his part is rather lightweight and he is not around enough to annoy me.
It has enough twists in the plot to keep your attention, so in that respect it is well written. I didn't see much in the way of Talmudic influences either.
However, it unintentionally made me realize something...
The President's life is in danger and it is very possible that he will die, as the mastermind has killed many others... and everyone in the movie treats what is going on in the White House as being of utmost importance.
Then I realized - even if WashDC were to be utterly destroyed ... it wouldn't really matter, would it? I mean, they don't produce anything, they have no factories, no agriculture, have nothing of value to offer the rest of us. You would have more effect on people's lives if you blew up Amazon.com's server farms, or took out the cell phone network of the Northeast USA (or even, destroyed the company factories that make Red Bull!).
You might say, well, the Supreme Court and the head of the Executive Branch that rule on and enforce the laws are there - so? Do they really enforce the actual laws, or are they just engage in the act of justifying the plunder that is going on?
What value, what worth, does WashDC have to me? Answer: NONE.
Summary: one lone honest cop (Secret Service agent in this case), vs. a terrorist mastermind intent on wreaking havoc on a lot of innocents. He has taken the President and Cabinet members hostage and is holding them inside the White House super-secure underground bunker. In many respects, this story is very similar to the first Die Hard, though it is more grim and not as funny.
If you like action/suspense movies, it is not bad. Of course the incest-maker Morgan Freeman makes an appearance, thankfully not as God or the President, but as Speaker of the House who is trying to fix things after the President and VP are out of commission - but his part is rather lightweight and he is not around enough to annoy me.
It has enough twists in the plot to keep your attention, so in that respect it is well written. I didn't see much in the way of Talmudic influences either.
However, it unintentionally made me realize something...
The President's life is in danger and it is very possible that he will die, as the mastermind has killed many others... and everyone in the movie treats what is going on in the White House as being of utmost importance.
Then I realized - even if WashDC were to be utterly destroyed ... it wouldn't really matter, would it? I mean, they don't produce anything, they have no factories, no agriculture, have nothing of value to offer the rest of us. You would have more effect on people's lives if you blew up Amazon.com's server farms, or took out the cell phone network of the Northeast USA (or even, destroyed the company factories that make Red Bull!).
You might say, well, the Supreme Court and the head of the Executive Branch that rule on and enforce the laws are there - so? Do they really enforce the actual laws, or are they just engage in the act of justifying the plunder that is going on?
What value, what worth, does WashDC have to me? Answer: NONE.