GameZilla Media.com Welcome to this week's episode of The Last Action Podcast. I am LPJ and I am joined by a man who texted me right before we started recording and said really the only thing unrealistic about this movie was a black man as president. I don't think there's going to be a lot of North Koreans listening. That might be offensive to a lot of other Asian people though. That's not what that's only what North Koreans sound like. That's not at all what any other Asian sounds like.
Well, I'm pretty good at like my word. That's not what we sound like. Well, the Tush is here. Everybody as you can tell. I like to think that him and LPJ like to have a little competition to see you could be the most controversial at the start of the episode. Number last time Tush was on, he said that old people should kill themselves. Oh yeah, couple times. Oh yeah, that was a couple times. I'm even interpreted it. Okay, today's episode we're talking about Olympus Has Fallen.
This movie was released on March 18, 2013 and I will say this, I was convinced I had not seen this movie, but then I rewatched it by the way I finished watching it like an hour ago. I have definitely seen this movie once before because it were parts of it. I really remembered and then there was stuff I didn't remember at all. I haven't seen either of the sequels. I know Tush says the second one's the best one I think is what he said.
And I haven't seen the Channing Tana movie that's basically the same thing that came out the same. White House down. Yeah. What about you Tush? It's fine because I think I just missed this for a reason or theater and then I saw that when that flip was actually discs, I loved it because I saw it lead up to what's certain point I'm like, wow, Gerard Butler is awesome. You know, and I saw the sequel and that was so great. Look at these are, they're sweet. And so I've seen the others in the theater.
And now I see Everett Gerard Butler moving the theater. Even that like Romantic comedy he made with Catherine Higel. Yeah, the ugly truth that movie slaps. Slaps, wow. Yeah. What about you, Ellie Jen? I had never seen this movie before, but I have never seen this. You picked it. I know, but I have heard Dave say a million times this movie is great. So it's like, all right, well, you know, and well, that and the equalizers fantastic. And this is from Antoine Fuqua.
And a lot of the cast from this movie is in the various move, the very same one. He did Antoine. He did both Oscar winners in this movie. Right. Did Antoine Fuqua direct the Celillo? Did he direct the sequels? He didn't. No, he didn't. He just directed this one. The other ones were directed by somebody else. I don't know. Okay. Gotcha. I think that I, because I kind of, I was, I rewatch the Canon documentary, electric Boo Boo.
And a lot of the producers of this movie got their start with Canon, that Abby Lerner, Boaz, Yemen or whatever. And like, they're all, like, they all were kind of junior executives at Canon. So and that's kind of what is this kind of like, you know, the classier version, like, kind of movies they make now, they're evolved into the expendables and stuff like that.
And like, they make, you know, like action movies that do okay, you know, okay, a good in the theater, but then do really well on streaming and, you know, back when DVD was a thing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that leads right into the numbers, Tush. Good segue. This movie has a budget of $70 million. A domestic gross of $98 million in a worldwide gross of $170 million. So obviously makes money. You can see why they made a couple sequels. I didn't look into the numbers on the sequels.
So I don't know if it was diminishing returns, but bigger budgets, bigger budgets, slightly smaller returns, but they're still talking about making more or a series. Yeah. There's a lot right now. Really dry but there's like, Hey, you said you're going to make these or something. Oh, yeah. Interesting. What's happening?
Okay. So the rotten tomatoes for Olympus is fallen is 50%, which is much higher than the 9% by really Hills Cop 3 has and obviously 50% higher than the 0% that Deathboard deservedly has. And then the audience score for this is 66%, which seems probably about right. But again, who knows what the audience score actually is. Okay. Top grossing movies of 2013, which by the way is a year that we have not covered that much.
So the top grossing movies of 2013 are number one, the Hunger Games catching fire. Number two, Iron Man 3 and number three frozen. This movie Olympus is fallen comes in 36th in the domestic box office. And the only other movies we've covered from 2013 are number 34 Pacific Rim and number 101 Escape Plan. So there you go. You said Iron Man 3, right? Yes, I said Iron Man 3. That does not feel like it was 10 years ago or 11 years ago at this point. Well, it was. There it is.
I mean, and to be fair, I might have missed one because again, as I've always stated, I don't have any kind of master list of movies we've covered. I just scroll through the top like 100 and just like, oh, yeah, we covered that one. So who knows? Okay. The cast of this movie, Tish already mentioned Gerard Butler. We have Aaron Eckert, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Dylan McDermott. It's a big guest. Well, let's Leo Rick Yoon Cole Hauser. The lady that was in pitch black. How do you say?
Great. Great. A Mitch, Roda Mitchell. Anyone else you guys want to talk about? This really hit. We can't wait. I'm forgetting. Oh, Robert Forster, RIP. Oh, yeah. I think you said Robert Forster. I didn't say him, no, RIP. Robert Forster. He gets really, he gets a talking to you by Morgan Freeman in this movie. Yeah, he does. No, that's about it. All right. LBJ, I know you kind of touched on the, oh, no, sorry, before the director, we got to do net worse. I am sorry.
You think that I'd remember the format at this point. Yeah, come on. Net worse. Let's go. Let's start with Rick Yoon. He's got that sweet, sweet, die another day money LBJ. What do you think about Rick Yoon? He's got that sweet, sweet, fast and furious money. Guys, nobody crosses Ricky Trand. Sweet, sweet. It's not Ricky Trand. Whatever it is. Tommy Trand. Johnny Trand. To be fair, the first one's called the fast in the furious. What? The fourth one's called fast and furious.
But anyways, Johnny Trand, don't mess with Johnny Trand. I'll go five million. Okay. What do you think, Tish? Well, he's got that sweet, sweet. I just had to look up to make sure that I was about to say he was in something that he wasn't in. So I'm not going to be an athlete right, racist. For a second, I thought he played age in zero slash Maverick and X, my original green. And that was a different Korean guy. So he's got that sweet, sweet man with the iron fists money.
Okay. What do you think you didn't make a guess? Oh, then he's got, I'd say 10 million. $3 million. $3 million. I'm not being racist, I forgot. Next up is Melissa Leo. She's got that sweet, sweet, Tremay money. What do you think? Tremay. Yeah, it was the show about New Orleans, like after Hurricane Katrina. Oh. All right. I only know that because one of the facts is about how she had to wear a wig during this movie because she was making Tremay and didn't want to have to cut her hair.
Okay. Tush, what do you think for Melissa Leo? She's got that sweet, sweet, the fighter money. Okay. I think she's maybe got $3 million. Okay. What do you think, L.P.J.? Guys, you are sleeping on Melissa, Melissa Leo. She's got that sweet, sweet, Mr. Woodcock money. Ooh. Wait, did you have to look that up or did you know? I looked it up. Okay. I'll go, I'm going to go $12 million. $4 million. $4 million for Melissa Leo. $4 million. Next up, Cole Hauser.
He's got that sweet, sweet, too fast, too furious money. What do you think, L.P.J. for Cole Hauser? He's got that sweet, sweet, also in pitch black money. I bet you he made a fair amount on Yellowstone. I'll go, I'll go $15 million. All right. What do you think, Tish? He's got that sweet, sweet, the breakup money playing one of Vince Vaughn's brothers. I think, oh, he's also in good, well hunting. I forgot his in that. He is in good hunting.
I think, yeah, he's probably made a lot in the last, made more in the last couple of years than ever. So, I think he's got $25 million. $8 million for Cole Hauser. $8 million. You don't care what kind of stuff is taking those profits. I have a guy suing him for putting, like, making Yellowstone coffee or something. He's kind of crappy. Taylor shared it. Yeah. He said, like, oh, it's the same font. Taylor shared it is a dirt bag. He really is.
Like, he's like, basically, yeah, I'm going to make all these shows and sue everyone. We're turning the podcast into a Taylor shared and bashing fun. We love him. He'll turn on to me. Yeah. That's true. Okay. Next up, Angela Bassett. She's got that sweet, sweet black panther with conda forever money. Tush? Yeah. No. Yeah, Tush. We green lantern money. She's a green lantern. She's a blue lantern. She played out Amanda Waller, but like not all right. Wow. Yeah. What a party.
I'm going to say she has 20 million. Okay. What do you think? I'm going to say she's got that sweet, sweet house Stella got her groove back money, guys. That's a good one. I'm going to go. I'm going to go 25 million for her. Boom. Right on the button, LVJ, $25 million. Next up, Morgan Freeman. He's got that sweet, sweet, bruise almighty money, LVJ. What do you think for Morgan Freeman? He's got that sweet, sweet, invictus money. I'll go. I'm going to go 60 million for Morgan Freeman.
Okay. What do you think, Tush? He's got that sweet, sweet, Evan almighty money. I was hoping someone to do that. So I think he has 75 million. Wow. You guys just lowball the shit out of Morgan Freeman and all his sweet, sweet, deep impact money. He's got $250 million. I'm sure he deserves it. We could do a whole podcast of just saying different sweet, sweet movies for Morgan Freeman. We could. That guy makes more movies. That guy makes more movies. Yeah, Morgan Freeman voice.
That guy says, that guy says yes to everything like Danny Glover. Well, in fact, I just read something that a day where he really, he really did say that to someone like, why do you intend to? He's like, I like making money. Yeah, literally one of the facts I read about this movie is that he just, he shared it in mid-auties. Like, yeah, I just did it for the money. I think I'm going to have any interest in the script or anything. I just needed the payday. So good for him.
Okay. Last two Aaron Eckhart. He's got that sweet, sweet, the dark night monies. Also, it wasn't Eckhart, the name of the, the gap in the original Batman. That's right. I can't think about the future. Okay. What do you think? LBJ for Aaron Eckhart. Guys, he's got that sweet, sweet, I Frankenstein money. Damn it. You stole mine. What an obscure pick for him to steal from you. I spot in the theaters on opening weekend. Well, at least he didn't say that sweet, sweet, thank you for smoking money.
What do you think LBJ for Aaron Eckhart? I'll go 20 million. Okay. What do you think? Tush. He's got that sweet, sweet, the dark night, the ride at Six Flags Great Adventure for Great America. What's with him in it? It's him. He's the only cast member that appears. Wow. All the movies and you had the reference that one. Okay. Go ahead. What do you think? It's the one ride. Anyway, I think he's got 15 million. Really close. 12 million dollars for Aaron Eckhart.
He's got the number one movie on Hulu. It's about like, it's basically a serious version of Turner and Hooch. They came in a dog with like titanium teeth solving a crime. But finally, Gerard Butler, he's got that sweet, sweet, plain money, a movie that I started watching but forgot to finish. Good movie. I got Luke Day to that. I know. It was enjoying it. I had forgotten finish. I watched about it. I watched about half of it. Everybody knows how long ago did you start this?
It wasn't that long ago. It was maybe like a month or two ago. It was like, well, here's the funny thing now that I'm thinking about it. I started it because it was what I had stars on my prime and I forgot to finish it. I watched like half of it. Forgot to finish it. That I canceled stars. Really? But what I saw was pretty good. So maybe I need to finish it at a point. Not that great, apparently. Okay. So what do you think to his for Gerard Butler?
He's got that sweet, sweet den of thieves money, the movie I call dumb heat and I think he's got 100 million. Okay. What do you think? I'll be check. He's got that sweet, sweet gamer money which I always threatened to say we're going to cover. I'm not getting it in fact. You're not wrong. I'll go 30 million. 80 million dollars. I'm really? I feel like he makes a lot of movies too as well. You're probably doing a lot of movies and he's a producer on most of them. Oh, there it is.
He's got all that sweet, sweet, what was it Dave? The ugly truth money that was a lot of truth. Bounty Hunter with Jennifer Aniston. Oh yeah. All right. LPJ. I know you touched on it already but you want to talk about director right here a little bit. I don't have a ton on them. Okay. As far as director goes. Yeah, it's Antoine Fuqua. He got his like big start doing training day. He's a director training day. He also directed like he also directed the replacement killers as well.
I remember when we saw that. It's ended. I don't know. Mark Walbert and Chellion's fat. But it was like, yeah, it's we just like hard boiled the killer and that's like no it's. Yeah, it's unrelated to Chellion. I think I forgot. Mark Walbert. What was the movie with like the Asian Michael Rooker and me or Serving? No, it's a bit corruptor as Mike is I thought you'd corruptor as my Mark Walbert. This is unrelated to that.
But what was the one with like the Asian action star and Sean William Scott? What was that movie going? Oh, yeah, that was also Chellion fat and it was bulletproof month. Yeah. That's right. He's not bad. Why? Okay. No, right. I would like to know more about this movie, but we can't we can't. There are. So anything else you want to talk about Antoine Fuqua? Yeah, he's he's a great director, but he's like the king of like sleeper hit movies. So like the training day.
But then he did tears of the sun shooter, which is another like sleeper hit. The equalizer, self-pa, magnificent seven, the other two equalizer movies. He did he was the producer of bullet train. He's like, like I said, he's like sleeper hit guy. That reminds me, I have always wanted to watch that magnificent seven remake. I've never seen it, but it's either have either have you seen it? I haven't. No, it's really good. All right, I'll check it out. All right.
So tag lines for this movie, there's only two. The first one is we are never stronger than when we are tested. All right. And then the other one is when our flag falls, our nation will rise. Okay. Anything else you want to talk about before we get into the plot of this movie? No, not really. I mean, I would just say going into this, I like the idea. Basically, this whole movie, and I had to have a laugh at the whole movie, is like, we don't negotiate with terrorists.
Like all they do is negotiate. They immediately negotiate terrorists. That was my biggest issue with all of this. I feel like, and I kind of talk about it in the summer, or it's like, I feel like the whole crux of how we're set up is like, so like, we have things in chat for other people to be the president. Like, technically, he wasn't even the president anymore. So like, yeah, it's true. Yeah, once they can no longer fulfill their duties, they're no longer the president. Right.
So it's like, in a madman that they're lymphocytes, which I feel like, I don't know, I just feel like Morgan Freeman kind of wasn't holding up his end of the bargain of being president. He kept being like, no, we got to save the president. Like, dude, you're the president now. I think the idea was like, okay, string them along. I guess what I thought they were going to have first, but I'm like, okay, yeah, we will pull out, do all this stuff. I don't think you should do that.
You know, we'll get it. We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. Okay. Movie opens with Camp David, Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart. They're boxing. Unless, unless Tencent Camp David and I expect. Wait, what do you owe Tencent? Not nearly as many Tencent as I'd expect on Camp David. Also, I don't think regardless of your relationship, any secret service agent should be the slink throwing jabs and just like hitting the president.
Okay, they're sparring. Yeah. Aaron Eckhart's a president. And Gerard Butler is like the head secret service agent or the head of the president's detail. So they're going to some fundraiser on Christmas Eve, Christmas time. I don't know. His wife played by Ashley Judd. And they're going and it's really snowy and his son Connor rides at Gerard Butler. So then all the cars crash. I'm not sure what happens. Was it here? Oh, it was there.
Yeah. Okay. That's why there's like one of the facts like a lot of people think it was actually Dylan McDermott like, you know, striking early and actually it's like, no, it was a deer. You jackasses. Yeah. But yeah, Dylan McDermott is one of the other secret services agents there at Camp David. We should put that out because you come back. So they run into the deer and the car with Ashley Judd and Aaron Eckhart kind of is like hanging off a bridge and it's going to fall.
And like Gerard Butler saves the president, but he's unable to save his wife, Ashley Judd. So she dies. And then we cut to 18 months later. There were so many secret secret service guys there. All they had to do was sit on the trunk of that car and it was not going anywhere. No, the beast, it's the beast. The beast is very, very heavy. You know, so if more of it's on the other side, including the engine. Then I would have just followed it wouldn't have teetered.
If it's teetering at all, then that means there is a slight balance in the system. And all they've got to do is put a lot of weight on the trunk and they'll be fine. And it's not going to go anywhere long enough for them to cut the seatbelt deer out there. So, Jay, as we were better, if it stopped and had you giving a lesson in like weights on the mathematics. Well, you see it's all fine because, yeah, it would have been better.
Had those dudes sat on the trunk like Gerard Butler told him to and instead of running back and forth between the doors. Sorry. Also, why didn't Gerard Butler immediately just push the president out and then like, it seemed like there was a lot going on. His seatbelt was jammed at first. Lot of conversation. Like immediately cut seatbelt, pulled the president out. That's what I was saying. He pulled him out too quick. It would unveil him sit and then the first lady would definitely die.
So eventually that's what happened. That's why you sit on the trunk. Well, okay. Anyways, so we cut to 18 months later. Gerard Butler, he doesn't guard the president anymore. He works at the treasury. So he's not even a secret service agent anymore? No, the secret service and the treasury were can't in hand. Like, remember in the line of fire. Right. No, I've never seen it.
But apparently a secret service agent played by Dylan McDermott and with Quenese Board, they go with like a big handle counterfeit and stuff like that. So. Okay. So anyways, so excuse me. He works at the treasury now and he has a desk job there because him and the president obviously had a falling out because even though in theory, he did the right thing. The president was kind of like, hey bro, why did you sit on the trunk and say my word? No, I was like, hey, I think he chose to work.
Did he choose to work at the time? I thought they gave the impression that like Aaron Eckhart was kind of upset with them. I because like, I thought they were like when he's talking to Angela Bassin, she's like, everyone knows you did the right thing, like even deep down the president knows you did the right thing or what. Oh, maybe, maybe.
Okay. So anyways, so I like the idea also when we got to Aaron Eckhart getting ready and he has that frame picture of Ashley Judd from the night that she died. In front of the cursory with the dress that she was on the night she died, we'll also introduce the Morgan Freeman. He's the speaker of the house and it's like there's a lot of tension between North and South Korea and the South Korean primates that he's coming to the White House to meet with Aaron Eckhart.
So then a big like bomber, inters like restricted airspace in Washington DC and these two jets come and they're like, Hey, we're going to shoot you down. But then like it has like machine guns built into the side and shoots down the fighter jets here. I got a real problem with the response time of the Air Force on this. I would just going to say like this whole movie is a real like indictment of the response time of the US military and Air Force.
Like, like after she sells those jets, it's like, well, we're scrambling one more jets. Right. One more jet. What they would probably do is scramble a bunch of helicopters because they can get up fast and then scramble jets along with it because they're a little bit slower to get up but can get their quicker. Yeah, it seemed kind of like lackluster and I understand in order to get to the premise of the movie, but it seemed like I was flabbergasted when their response was one jet.
It's like it seems like if there was a plane headed toward in restricted airspace that had shot down post 9-11, no less. Yeah, I feel like that would have been like send up everything we have. Yeah, it's true, especially because there have been like single engine planes that have been shot down. Right. Like since January, it's like, yeah, okay, this is going down. So yeah, I mean, it's one of the suspension of disbelief things.
Right. And then also I have a hard time believing there aren't some kind of advanced anti-aircraft guns hidden on the White House. Yeah. I don't believe that it's under one. I thought there were. Well, that's one they bring in. That's one they bring in. I get a hard time believing there isn't some kind of anti-air defense right there built into the White House. I also heard that believing at one point they're like they saw like, oh, these are North Korean pilots.
So they're not going to be able to do much anyway. They're only going to hacking Sony's emails. Wow. I also find it so many angry North Koreans coming after us. If their computers weren't just like an empty screen with a hamster wheel in it. I also have a hard time believing that there's no that the closest on the ground military assets to the White House of Washington DC are like 15 minutes away. Yeah. They're on their way. It's 15 minutes. Like I've been to Washington DC.
We've all been to Washington DC. There are police stations very nearby. They could have at a minimum sent a full SWAT team in like five minutes. Yeah, they never said I remember. But remember now the roads of Washington DC are full of North Korean drivers. That traffic is a nightmare. Sure. You're right. That's all that's what it was. So that plane is a real dick, by the way, because it just are shooting people on the streets of Washington DC.
This movie was somewhat kind of like, I don't know, like so many innocent people, like not just like secret service agents of whatever, but somebody just innocent people on the street get murdered in this movie. It's crazy. So the plane starts attacking the White House. This is where I have a note that says legit. How is air support not there? And then I said, oh, yeah, sure. Now they show up.
I like also the little fact that once they finally shoot down that bomber plane, it takes out like, I don't know, 25% of the Washington DC. Right. So then there's like a bus in front of the White House of like tourists, but most of them are like North Koreans, the skies is tourists and they blow up the bus and they blow up the gates and they like storm the White House lawn. And they for some reason feel the need to show a dog getting shot in this movie. I don't know why.
The guy who's having dog is immediately shot himself. That's true. I also feel like I don't know. Like, again, I understand the set up the premise, but it's like, I feel like the Secret Service would be a little more organized. Like, yes, this is unexpected, but they seem like completely clueless and like just basically run into the bullets of the Korean terrorists in this movie. Like they can't get out of like cover fast. Not only that, but look at this. Think about this.
You've got Gerard Butler, right, who gets who are eyes on the scene and is immediately in like full on military mode and can handle himself extremely well. You don't think every single one of those Secret Service agents can't do the same thing? I don't because they specifically said that he has a special forces background where a lot of Secret Service have not special forces, but just law enforcement background. I'm sure they have.
I'm sure they're very good at what they do, but they're not as good as him. That's fine. They at least have to know how to put on a bullet, protest, hold a rifle and stand behind a wall and knock it shot. I know I agree with you that the best the worst Secret Service agent would be far better than anything North Korea could produce.
Yeah. You know, I certainly agree with what you're saying there because you know, you're just you know, eating dirt and like, you know, like you're pumping rocks over there. Really? Taking it. Like, because the literally like the terrorists are just like walking, shooting and like, like the the Secret Service guards, like they get like high behind stuff or whatever, but they seemingly are just getting at. Where are the snipers on the roof?
Because, because that yeah, because that wall, the plane took out the snipers on the roof. But, and so then, and then they these garbage trucks pull up and they've garbage trucks have machine guns in them. And apparently that's like the one thing the White House was not prepared for was machine guns because it takes out like 50 Secret Service agents with these. Well, those were 50 cows like. They were like Rambo. Yeah, they were there.
Yeah, it can those, I mean, those can really do a lot of damage. Right. So a lot of Secret Service agents get killed. The bad guys make it into the White House. So destroyed Butler. Then Cole Hauser. We barely knew you. He liked to go over his head of the president's detail. He gets killed, but he does get to invoke the title of the movie and get on the radio and say that Olympus is fallen. And like after all the shit goes down the military finally shows up. They're like, hey, we're here now.
We're here. We're going to maintain a perimeter. So so Rick Yoon Kang, he's the leader of the North Korean terrorists. He what's his deal? He's mad because him and his mom were fleeing North Korea. And his mom's equally mad at both Koreas. Because North Korea execute is dead. And they were saying his mom like stepped out of land. And then in the DNZ, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Which by the way, Rick Yoon loves making movies about the DMZ because wasn't that where James Bond is driving that hovercraft around. I think it's a date. Because James Bond get captured by the North Koreans. Oh, he does. For a while. For like a year and a half or something. That movie's got a dark. Super dark. Like listen, I don't know if you can go back and listen to our episode. It was a long time ago. But I remember that the like the Madonna song which is terrible.
It's like over like montage. James Bond being tortured by North Korea. And then like, Rick, you but doesn't Rick, you become like Toby Stevens. And then the white stupid, the thing is like, yeah, it comes a white guy. Yeah, that movie is so bad. Okay, sorry. Okay. So anyway, so yeah, so Rick Yoon kills the South Korean primit Prime Minister and he tells like the military. He's talking to like all the big wigs, the military is like, hey, stand down and they do.
To our butler, he goes into like the security office and he turns off all their like internal surveillance. And that's just one. So turns off all their internal surveillance because after 18 months, his code still work. His rental scan. His rental scan still works after 18 months. It was not thinking this. I'm friend. I guess whatever was what it was is they thought that they didn't they left codes with him and Durant Mulroney. So they're like, oh, Durant Mulroney's code still works.
Sure. So, um, Dylan Durant, I mean, yeah, Dylan, this is when they find out that Morgan Freeman is as a speaker of the house is now the acting president. Gerard Butler sneaks into the oval office and gets the president's sat satellite phone and he calls Angela Bassett, who's the head of the Seagot service and Morgan Freeman. I also liked it when the Korean terrorist comes in and he kills them with the bust of Abraham Lincoln's head. But I will.
And so then we find out that another thing that guys brain from his skulls. It's true. And then he finds out we find out that King also wants them to pull out of the DMZ and pull back the fleet and all this stuff. Any wants the service service service code? Okay. My favorite original dog from hell. You mean server.
My favorite line in this movie comes up next is when Gerard Butler is talking to Angela Bassett and he talks about how he killed the guy with the thing and she's like, or she's showing him the tattoo on the back of his ear and she's like, is he alive? And he goes, ask me a serious question. That was my favorite line in this movie. So okay. I need someone to explain to me what the service code is.
Yes. Because I thought I understood and then at the end when it gets activated, I'm like, I guess I don't understand. It basically lets you blow up all of like the nuclear missiles. Like basically set them off. But the idea is that it is like, oh, we accidentally launched a missile. We can blow it up before it actually started. If even if someone else got the launch codes, then they could still be a fail safe. Okay. Got it.
But the only place it's housed is at the White House, hardwired in, which means that if this happens when the president is not at the White House, we're screwed anyway. Also like, hold on, I'll get to it in a minute. So I like, I also like Dylan McDermott tells Kang, which I keep thinking of the guy from Ninja Turtles, not to be worried. He's like, nah, don't be worried. He's like, don't be worried about Gerard Butler. I mean, you should be.
He also sneaks around inside the walls of the house, which I don't know. Historically accurate, that is. No, it's pretty accurate. Oh really? There's all kinds of stories about like Kennedy, like going in like his mistresses, like there's secret passages in the White House. Okay. So anyway, so he goes in the wall and he finds a president's son there. And then he gets, he conner, he gets the president's son out of the White House.
So he gets the president's son out because that was like the big thing. Because the people that have the codes are the president and in Melissa Leo and somebody else. President, the vice president and the chief of staff. It's not, oh yeah, isn't, okay. And so like, they're basically like, he's like, I'm going to kill the vice president if you just give the code. And the president's like, given the code, because I'll never give mine.
But like, then they're like later on like when Kang's kicking the crap out of Melissa Leo to get her code, the president's like, we'll just give it to him because I'll never give mine. But it's like, well, if, what if you threaten to kill Melissa Leo again when you just like cough up your code? Well, that's the trick is then that doesn't even happen because they weren't, they just had to crack one more code. Yeah. He never gives them the third code, but they crack it, you know, so.
Yeah. Like if they were, I got a hard time believing. They would just sell themselves out to give these people codes like Melissa Leo was ready to die. Yeah. We lost Dave. We'll just pretend he was saying Kang. He was saying something about Kang. So presumably probably saying Kang was really hot. I'm pretty sure he had a crutch on Kang. And he likes to watch that scene in Diana the day where the diamonds get blown into the guy's face and he likes to pretend it's just who?
Who do you think Dave has a bigger crush on the Kang from this movie? I'm saying Kang from turtles. Oh, Kang from turtles 100%. Okay. So I'm back. I've heard that you said that I was saying is when Kang is beating the crap of a lady, doesn't it remind you of Jonathan Majors? Wow. Really? You came back for that one? I have a great man. The day you are, you're got all cylinders. We should just come up with the Korean stuff. After he gets the present and sun out, I like he captures those.
I know the part that I love in this movie when he captures those two terrorists and he's like, I'm going to interrogate you. And like the one that kind of like laughs at him and he just like immediately stacks one guy in the like under his like under his chin. And yeah. And then torches the other guy and you get the information. So he's able to tell the military, the worker-freeman and stuff about who Kang is. So they're able to figure that out. Kang talks to Gerard Butler on the phone.
I don't remember what they talk about. He just brings not too far about what I'm off from what I'm saying. He gets the other Cerberus code from Melissa Leo after beating her up. Gerard Butler and Dylan McDermott fight. He tries to convince, it's like it's very much like die hard. He tries to convince Gerard Butler, Dylan McDermott, that he's like, oh, I'm not a bad guy, but then he like, I don't know. He tries to beat him by like flicking a cigarette and it doesn't work.
And he kind of gets his ass kicked. But he does convince him before he dies to call Kang and tell him that Gerard Butler is dead. So then the government's like, hey, you know what, Robert Forcer's like, things are good. We're going to send in these seal teams. And Gerard Butler's like, hey, I don't know if the roof is clear. Don't send them in. And they're like, the roof is definitely not clear. I can't say how about I said it. Yeah, they have a Hydra 6, which is some kind of next gen weapon.
They're like, don't send them in. And Robert Forcer's like, they're probably fine. They are not fine. Five of the six helicopters get trashed for Gerard Butler kills a bunch more of the terrorists and then blows up the Hydra. Greek mythology inspired named things in here. There is Olympus Cerberus Hydra. You know, lots of stuff like that. I can't remember all of it. I can't remember what the code, I can't remember what like the code name for the president's son is. It has something to it.
I can't anybody. Anybody? Okay. So all the seals are basically toast. The White House is just getting trashed. So then Kang's pretty mad at this point. So he kills the vice president. And then Morgan Freeman talks to Gerard Butler. And this is where Robert Forcer's like, don't do anything. And Morgan Freeman is like, Morgan Freeman's like, just the fuck up and don't talk again. Unless I ask you a question. And he tells, it is not a good Morgan Freeman impersonation.
He tells, he's like, shut the fuck up. I don't know what I can do. So that was worse. It's not like Dr. Evil. Not better. All right. You know what? I'm not an impressionist. So Morgan Freeman gives Gerard Butler 30 minutes to kind of finish sort of things out. But before he goes to say the president, he calls his wife and checks in with her. There's a lot of scenes where we check back in with Gerard Butler's wife. And she's just like at the hospital working.
But I kind of skipped over all of them because they're kind of pointless. So then like even after making a big point of having Dylan McDermott tell Kang he's dead, Gerard Butler just like gets on the video. Cautious. I'm alive. I'm so thankful for something. I remember for five minutes when he thought I was dead. And I do like when he kind of like he tells him that he's like, I'm going to stick a knife through your brain. And then he does. He delivers on it.
It's like, it's like, you know, anyways. So Gerard Butler stops him from killing Melissa Leo. She gets out. Also, so, okay. So one of the things that Kang wanted was he's like, hey, I want this. He's like, I want to go to the helicopter to land on the lawn so we can get out of here. And so they put all the prisoners in the terrace and they all like put on these like like mask outfits. Yeah. Yeah. Change the stuff together.
And so they're going to the helicopter and they're like, oh, can you tell who the president is? They're like, no. And I was like, well, at this point, when you just like snipers like shoot them all in the foot or something like this, I got to kill the president. But like, when that makes sense to do something, I think they're still thinking that like, okay, we have a tracker on that.
Like, you know, but I don't know if you would shoot the president in the foot because there's still a chance that you're going to be president. He's not the president at this point. Yeah. I mean, at this point, the sun's safe. Yeah. The president's expendable at this point. Like as soon as there is no threat of the president giving up the code, he's expendable. This movie just makes it. It's just like, we're just supposed to be like, I don't care.
It's so dreamy knowing about something to get killed. Yeah. I'm not going to be accurate. He's got such a great jawline like he's got to be president. So anyway, so the helicopter with the hostages immediately blows up. So they think the president's dead. And then I have a notice this weight. They get a hack to code this whole time because they finally hacked the last code.
And I guess they do cover it because they're like, well, it's possible to hack it, but it would take forever to hack all three and because they only needed the last one. So once I get the last code, Kang activates it and I did have a note that said I'm not sure what it does, but you guys explain it to me. So basically they're going to blow up all the missiles in their silos and turn the United States into like a nuclear waste. So the president, so Gerard Butler finally gets into the bunker.
He kills the last of the terrorists. President gets shot. He fights with Kang stabs him in the head like in the brain. Like he told me he was going to like the actual brain, not like the robot brain, the actual like Kang brain. Yeah. I mean, it's a good thing Kang didn't have his robot body to fight. Well, he's never fight. Yeah. So Kang's dead. Gerard Butler deactivates Cerberus. And like we see him leave the White House over like a montage of the president give his speech.
Hold on a second, how do you run dollars? Why is it there? I think probably Angela Basset was like, hey, you should probably come down to the White House. No, fair enough. And then like, yeah, so he like gives a speech like about how the US is going to rebuild. And Gerard Butler's back to being his head of his secret service detail. The end. Yeah. Yeah. We did it. And so Dave, the sequel is in London. People said London is London is falling.
And it's a whole idea is that like they're trying to take out like all the leaders of the West. It's like this angry Pakistani arms dealer. And it's like it's more of a run it's like that. It's almost like an escape from New York type deal where they're like being pursued and like they're coming at they're trying to come after the president's. It's really good. And like, well, got me to go see it originally. In fact, I might have seen part two before I even saw part one.
And like all the reviews referred to it as jingoistic, which means it's always like I want to see that movie. Yeah. I don't know. It's something that bunch of laymas critics like it's got Americans killing bad guys. We don't like this. We are a bunch of magazine writers whose jobs are meaningless now. Dave is a lot of hot takes in this. What's the third one about? Third one is basically like the people he's pissed off over the years like, hey, Gerard Butler's basically a superhero.
We're going to try to take him down. But little did they know this time he's got the help of his dad Nick Nolte. Is that Nolte still alive? Oh, yeah. Okay. Wasn't sure. Got any role reversals LPJ? Just one. When a writer was the first choice to play the first lady, but she's like. No, she's like, you know, I don't like that. I don't know. I'm so. I'm pretty sure this is the same year that home land came out. She was too busy. She's like, no, I got to make this movie where I get railed by.
It's true. It's true. So when hovercraft Joe and I saw it, you went to home land. You saw home land at home front. Home front. Home front. Yeah. Sorry. And these two idiot parents brought their like four and six year old kids. The movie and Thanksgiving night. They're behind us. At one point, one of the kids says, are we seeing Frozen? And they're just a scene in movie where like James Franco is just railing. We know in a writer, Rodog on the hood of a car. Like an auto shop.
And Joe and I look each other like, this is uncomfortable that these kids are here. And yes, home front did come out in 2013. The same years and so when owner right decided to do that one, which that was a lot of his Frozen. So that movie ends with a showdown between Jason Statham and Franco. And it's really stupid. Believe it or not, say them with. Okay. Anything else you guys want to talk about or should we just get to the rating on this thing?
Well, again, I shall also say everything I've said in this episode only applies to North Koreans, not South Koreans or any other Asians. In fact, like Rose from Blackpink, hot as hell, just saying. What about what about what about old people? Oh, no one lives to be that old. You know, so it's not really an issue with this episode. They're all I mean, basically they get to about 50 and then like, you know, they wither away and probably get eaten. Wow, we should get to the ratings.
Hold on one moment. Let me play the music. You think at some point in this movie, Gerard Butler, she had been like, this is I call a Korean barbecue. Wow. Well, maybe if you had a flame thrower. Yeah. Man, that was as that's as needed as Jason Statham needs to have a go. The shot bees and the beekeeper. Oh, big time. All right. Anyway, what's your first? It was fun to go first. You know what? Like I said, as we just established, I like this one a lot. I like the next one more.
I still I say I have all of like the like kind of die hard. I wouldn't quite call it knock off but die hard and inspired. This is my favorite. Like I like it more than under siege. You know, Gerard Butler is doing his most Gerard butlery. Like, you know, the cast is just super solid of just like, you know, there's like, you know, like I said, multiple Oscar winners, nominees, Emmy winners. It's like everyone's really good. And Rick Yun is really great.
You know, like he's playing with kind of cold villain. Yeah, so I'm going to give it four and a quarter machine guns. All right. I'll go next. I enjoyed this movie. It was a fun watch. I like Gerard Butler and like you said, a lot of the supporting cast is all really great, great actors and actresses. I don't know. Some of this movie was kind of ugly. Like I said, like all the innocent people getting killed for no reason.
And just like watching Melissa Leo get the shit kicked out of her while it's kind of like, I don't know if I need to see this. But overall, I enjoyed it. I kind of would like to feel at one point now. I need to watch the sequels, you know, just because I've seen this one. But I'm going to go three machine guns for this one because I liked it, but I didn't love it. Okay. Let's see. I don't want to start this. Okay. The acting's good. I enjoy all of the actors in this.
I think they all do a great job. I think it's directed very well. I like all the action scenes in it. I like Gerard Butler's character in general quite a bit. The issues that I have with this are really nitpicky and dumb, like the whole sitting on the trunk of the car thing and like, I feel like there's a lot of things that could have been handled better by all of these characters in general. Like, you know, the response time of the military, the response time of the police.
The secret service is strategy just being like, let's just run out this door in the gun fire. Yeah, let's just let's just stand in wage war like an 1800s British Army, you know, standing in line. Everyone fire their muskets and then the next people step up and fire theirs. To be fair, isn't one of the main things they trained secret service agents to to jump in front of bullets? So maybe they're training just that miswired in their head. That could be it.
And you know, and that's the fault of the government. And then my other issue is, you know, the way all of the hostages acted, like if they're these codes are as important as they say they are, then they should be willing to die to keep them from people's getting. I think they were. I think that's on an record. I agree. Both would have died and not given the codes, but Aaron Eckhart was like, don't do it. Just give him the code. So that's on Aaron Eckhart. That's 100% on Aaron Eckhart.
Bad president. And at that point, just let him, let him get killed. Like it's okay. You have another president right now who is taking command and is in charge. And it would have been his second term because he was president during the deep impact. He already has the experience. It makes perfect. If it makes you guys feel I'm better by Angela's fall and he is the president. So I do feel like though that maybe Morgan Freeman gets killed and deep impact.
I haven't seen it in a while, but he might die anyway. It doesn't matter. My point is, I think there's a lot of, I have a lot of issues with the plot itself, but it is a fun movie. It's super enjoyable to watch. Like it's, you know, if you don't think about it too hard and be nitpicky, it's, it's, there I have no issues with it. It's fun. I don't love it as much as Dave does, but I don't hate it as, I don't dislike it in the same way Joe does.
So I'm going to go three and a half machine guns on this one. And I'm going to say people should absolutely watch it. It's absolutely. Oh, I agree. I think people should see it. I just, it didn't connect with me as well. But I definitely think it's something people should see if they haven't seen it. I want to be clear about that. Yeah. I just want to have room to go up because Dave says the sequel is better. So. I mean, you would give the, give the sequel five machine guns in. It's very close.
I'm going to rewatch it, but very close and also in the sequel, Aaron Eckhart gets to kick a little bit of ass. So. Right. It's because he got those boxing lessons from Gerard Bowler. I think in the sequel they established, oh, yeah, he was a Marine. So he actually knows how I handle himself a bit. Oh, all right. But not as a president, apparently. No. His decision made his decisions. I'm going to make a tough decisions. All right. Anyway, so there we go. We've rated it. Moving on. Flugs, plugs.
Touch. What do you want to plug? Your book has always my book over time, Adventure in Lesnar Hell, Available on Amazon. Got almost finishing up a short story collection. You have that on there soon. And yeah, and also I'm not stealing a hovercraft. But I noticed something insane on to be right. That's just terrible. I'm not plugging to be anymore. We're anti. This is anti-A2B.
They are putting weird edited versions of those terrible skin-a-max movies from like, you know, the early 2000s with all the sex scenes cut out. And it's like, what the fuck is this? So you were mad. You were mad. You were mad. Did you put one on? They did like, what? Well, I looked at saying it said it was like, it's run time 35 minutes long. I'm like, what is this? Like, turn it on.
It's like, yeah, because obviously, you know, nowadays you don't need that sort of thing because there's much better things that, if you're whatever you're into. But it's just like, I'm like, who is this for? You know, it's bizarre. Fuck to be. I, as always, would like to plug the 1986 cartoon series Silverhawks. They are partly metal, partly real. And they have wings of silver, nerves of steel. And LBJ apparently owns the whole series on DVD. How many? Check it out.
If you're not familiar with the Silverhawks, at least listen to the theme song, because as Tosh would say, it slaps. What about you, LBJ? I'm going to plug. I'm just switching up a little bit. I'll plug this, according to the second here. I'm going to plug Transformers Generation 2 Toys. I recently was gifted a box of old generation 2 Toys, including a G2 Megatron, which is a tank. It's very large. It makes noises still to this day. It makes noises. I got to clean them up a bit, you know.
But I never got into the G2 Toys. I'm curious to see where this takes me in my collection. I collected a lot of G1 Toys. I have a whole shelf full of them. But we'll see. We'll see the G1s and how the G2s and how that goes. So thanks to Craig WK for providing me with those, that box of Transformers. And then I guess, yeah, even though it hates me and the people on there really hate me, Discord. Join us on Discord. You know, join the fun. Join the fun of making my life miserable.
Yeah, good times, head by all. Discord. Actually, we're on Instagram as well. Join us on Instagram and you can find our links to all the other stuff too. That's it. That's all I got. I've got one more thing. I recently downloaded some old Marvel annuals. I was on vacation. Like, these are raised to read as an occasion. They used to come up, come out during the summer. So I read the Lifeform series, which is the Punisher, then Daredevil, then the Hulk, and then the Silver Surfer.
Excellent. And I read The Hero Killers, which are the three Spider-Man titles, then the New War years. And then the Bulls were excellent. So yeah, I read those as like a flashback to my youth and it was on. They were all very good. That reminds me, it's not an annual one, but there's a good, if you can track down the issues that you can find them all digitally. It's across over the Punisher, Daredevil in No Man. It's called Dead Bands Hand. Oh, that's a good one. They're all in Las Vegas.
It's pretty good. Anyway. All right. Well, I guess I'll have to plug Max, Max, I'm carnage. You should, you should, you should, you should, you should, you should, uh, Atlanta's attacks. That was one that was all through, uh, annuals. I didn't read that one though. Wait, that might be the next one I get. One of the fur, I'll play it and put it up. I'll play it and put it up. Max, I'm carnage because you can, you can, you can read the series and then go play the game.
One of the, uh, first comics I ever owned was a spectacular Spider-Man annual and it was a Atlanta's attacks, uh, Tyon. So there you go. Still have it in my cloud. All right. All right. All right. All right. Anyway, uh, yeah, that's all the plugs. We're good. We're, we're winding down here. Um, good. Anything else? No, I'm good. Let's end. Okay. Yeah. Try to do it now. Okay. This episode of the last action podcast has been terminate. But we'll be back. For you.