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quoia

geordie_ben wrote: »

***SPOILER ALERT*** ONLY HIGHLIGHT THE REST OF THIS MESSAGE IF YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN

What bit at the start didn't you like? For me it was the plane scene.. it would never have even made it near the American border without being shot down in real life

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Surely it depends where it took off from and what its flight plan was - could have been an internal flight initially on a legitimate route - don't remember seeing anything relevant until it was intercepted.

quoia

Queenriderbrekke wrote: »

I agree Ben, I like to think it would have been in our country as well!

There just seemed no plan as to how to stop terrorists entering except to line up man power and hope they survived!

I also like to think that if there were 3 people with codes for cerberus(If it exists) that they would damn well make sure that they were not all in the same place at the same time???

Regards FLUFFY

But that's like saying the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Foreign Secretary could never all meet together.
And if these aren't the 3 top people who should be in "control" of such a mechanism then who would be and how far do you devolve the responsibility from "the top"?

Under "normal" circumstances ALL 3 would most likely be in a room together IF they had just decided to launch nuclear warheads and a "recall" might be necessary - losing contact with just 1 of them to get the code means FLUFFY has gone on a one way trip to the vets :eek:

My only gripe was that ANY implementation of a ABORT facility on ANY missile, carrying a nuclear warhead or not, would ONLY become active AFTER it had been LAUNCHED !!!!!
(And the missile guidance system would definitely know this fact)

The_Old_Bag

Where to start......
Firstly a great piece of 'entertainment', and think Gerard Butler was really enjoying himself.

Storyline has as many holes in it as the White House security apparently.
For example......

**** Spoiler Alert *****

Why was the President so sure he would not reveal the code when he had already caved in and told other 2 to tell their code... if he succumbed to seeing them being tortured, why would he suddenly get a back bone and stand tough when they asked for his code?

What is the likelihood of all 3 code holders being in one location at the same time?

Why would US have codes which could never been changed.... what would they do when any of code holders were ill, dying, dead ?

What is likelihood (given sept 11) that a plane could get that close to WH without being intercepted much, much earlier ?

A couple of dozen of other flaws in the plot/logic, but I did thoroughly enjoy the film - I just needed to suspend reality and common sense for the duration.
As others have mentioned, a cross between Die Hard, MI, Bond, Independence Day etc.

Yes pretty interesting timing, given current situation with NK - but then US do these military exercises every year, and there always seems to be something going on causing 'tensions' - so it is just at a higher level at the moment.

Queenriderbrekke

quoia wrote: »

Regards FLUFFY

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May be the PM/President, Chief of Defence staff and the head of MI5?

OMG! I'm sooo sorry about the spoiler I quoted, I even spotted that the white bit was showing on the green and deleted it, or so I thought:(

geordie_ben

old bag..... DOH!

quoia

When quoting WHITE TEXT ......

changing it to COLOR=#E6F3DF

makes it the same color as the QUOTEd background

geordie_ben

quoia wrote: »

When quoting WHITE TEXT ......

changing it to COLOR=#E6F3DF

makes it the same color as the QUOTEd background

or just highlight the text and press "white"

quoia

Queenriderbrekke wrote: »

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May be the PM/President, Chief of Defence staff and the head of MI5?

Not sure it changes anything

Still 3 people likely to all meet together once in a while



And Queenie :wall: :rotfl:

quoia

geordie_ben wrote: »

or just highlight the text and press "white"

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geordie_ben

quoia wrote: »

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Not on my screen... nice and white