London Has Fallen

Agent Coulson

Sequel to Olympus Has Fallen to be released in January 2016.

Trailer is out.

Have to admit I didn't even know this was in the works.

constitutionus

oh if its HALF as much fun as olympus im well in.

I still think that White House Down was much better. Wonder if a sequel of that will be released too.. 10 Downing Street Down.

dreamers75

thats looks ok, 1st one wasnt bad.

Agent Coulson

Even if it's half as dumb as the first one it will be pure popcorn fun.

Dempsey

Looks decent. Looking forward to it

Mr E

Full trailer. This looks like a leave-your-brain-at-the-door and get-an-extra-large-popcorn bundle of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AsOdX7NcJs

Theboinkmaster

Can't wait for London has fallen looks awesome!

Agent Coulson

I'm not going to lie that looks fcuking awesome.

silverharp

I watched the first movie after seeing the trailer for the second. It was worth it for the aircraft scene at the start of the attack, the pilots were too cool , they could have been out of one of the transformer movies.

Why do these films come out in pairs? White House Down I assume was made around the same time? does everyone find out that someone is getting a White House being attacked movie getting made and another studio rush a copycat film to ride on its coattails?

OwaynOTT

What's next, Moneygall Has Fallen?

Victor

I saw it today.

The amount of times I thought "explosions don't work like that" was disturbing. But the shooting bits aren't too bad.

The first film had a good premise, even if there was copying going on ("Hi, White House Down!"). I can only imagine this being considered the bad middle film of a two-part trilogy.

Padraig Mor

Saw it last night (haven't seen the first one). Completely ridiculous, full of plot holes etc - yet it manages the rare feat of being SO ridiculous and SO full of plot holes that it rather transcends these petty limitations and ends up being a solidly enjoyable, balls to the wall action flick. Great fun! Some of the CGI was a bit dodge though.

weiland79

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Saw it last night (haven't seen the first one). Completely ridiculous, full of plot holes etc - yet it manages the rare feat of being SO ridiculous and SO full of plot holes that it rather transcends these petty limitations and ends up being a solidly enjoyable, balls to the wall action flick. Great fun! Some of the CGI was a bit dodge though.

so the same as the first one then?

I'm in.

Duggy747

Olympus was an alright film, probably the closest "80's / 90's" action film of recent times with OTT action and an enormous body count. I thought the CGI was horrendous for a film with that budget, some scenes of actors against a green screen looked incomplete.

Should've been a Die Hard film instead of the horseshít that was DH5.

I'll watch this though when I get the chance.

branie2

I saw it this evening, and I really enjoyed it

Agent Coulson

gandalf

I'll probably wait for this to come out on DVD.

The original is a guilty pleasure of mine mainly for the AC-130 Spectre attack scene and is a total braindead action film.

Memnoch

Worst film in the cinema so far this year that I've seen. Has more cliches than bullets.

FunLover18

Terrible. Truly terrible. The CGI is fúcking abysmal, like something out of a PC game I can't convey how bad the CGI is. The green screen during the car chase is so obvious and it totally jarring. The problem with upping the ante Die Hard style is that you've got to up your game as well and this just doesn't. The plot holes are bigger and the ridiculous cliche one liners seem out of place. It's also pretty racist, I have no problem with middle eastern terrorists but

Butler's character delivers a speech at the end to the bad guy which is essentially "The west will always come out on top"

I remember quite enjoying Olympus (although I still prefer White House Down) but this genuinely left a bad taste in my mouth and I feel bad that I've contributed to its box office.

Victor

FunLover18 wrote: »

It's also pretty racist

I notice a few bits like that - I'm not sure if this is meant to be a parody on not, because he also talks of

a 1000-year reign

Arnold Layne

What age group does it suit? would it be ok for 11 year olds to see?

FunLover18

Arnold Layne wrote:

What age group does it suit? would it be ok for 11 year olds to see?

I think it's 15A, It's very sweary and stabby.

constitutionus

FunLover18 wrote: »

Terrible. Truly terrible. The CGI is fúcking abysmal, like something out of a PC game I can't convey how bad the CGI is. The green screen during the car chase is so obvious and it totally jarring. The problem with upping the ante Die Hard style is that you've got to up your game as well and this just doesn't. The plot holes are bigger and the ridiculous cliche one liners seem out of place. It's also pretty racist, I have no problem with middle eastern terrorists but

Butler's character delivers a speech at the end to the bad guy which is essentially "The west will always come out on top"

I remember quite enjoying Olympus (although I still prefer White House Down) but this genuinely left a bad taste in my mouth and I feel bad that I've contributed to its box office.

i didnt leave with a bad taste in my mouth but it was most definetly "america fuk yeah !".

it actually made butlers character unlikeable which i dont recall from the first one.

the CGI is awfull, particularly the helicopters IMO , which makes no sense considering it proably cost more to digitise the things instead of using real ones. i coulda put up with crap CGI for when they get taken out if they'dve used practical effects for the just flying from A to B stuff.

i did enjoy the whole hit scene where various world leaders are taken out but on the whole the film felt a bit too bloated. having all the stuff kick off a the white house worked alot better than the extended car chase stuff that went on here.

i wouldnt tell someone not to go see it but its not as much fun as the first and TBH i cant help thinking it couldve been more craic if they actually

DID kill the president live on youtube. they actually had a good bit of supsense going on at that point and couldve done something different with the film. hell failing in his job wouldve explained butlers character being such a dick in this one ALOT better. particulary THAT speach.

i give it a 5 outta 10.

if its cheap day at the cinema day ya can stick it for the action sequences, which are fairly brutal it has to be said. but its nothing more than popcorn fodder.

Saw it Friday and taken for what it is, it's a decent time killer that features some questionable moments. Butler does what he does, he shows up and kills all in sight and I'd not be the least bit surprised if it turned out that he was behind the whole thing given how much he relishes torturing and killing the various terrorists. That only he and the terrorists use a Mac may be a hint, especially when everyone who doesn't enjoy murdering is sat behind a Dell.

The various accusations that the film is racist are a little ridiculous. Sure the film has some some truly awful lines and yes the people behind it all are of the non-white variety but to say that the film is anymore racist than any other Hollywood blockbuster involving terrorism is nonsense. What really is somewhat offensive is the truly awful CGI and abundance of stock footage, much of was obviously shot on a different format/stock than the rest of the film. The first car explosion looks like it was created with a free add for an editing software. That the next scene features a number of cars blowing up and looking rather damn good makes it all the more baffling. It could simply be a case of different FX houses tasked with different scenes and then there being no time to fix it all.

London Has Fallen isn't a patch on the original and for some reason it assembles a great supporting cast and gives them absolutely nothing to do. Watch as Melissa Leo, Jackie Earle Haley and Robert Foster are given a line of dialogue apiece and then forgotten about. Perhaps if the production had cast lesser names in these parts then the FX could have been a little more impressive.

FunLover18

Deleted User wrote: »

The various accusations that the film is racist are a little ridiculous. Sure the film has some some truly awful lines and yes the people behind it all are of the non-white variety but to say that the film is anymore racist than any other Hollywood blockbuster involving terrorism is nonsense. What really is somewhat offensive is the truly awful CGI and abundance

I think it was the way it was all handled. I have no problem with middle eastern terrorists, that's unfortunately the world we live in. But at the start of this film the main bad guy

is hit by a drone attack at his daughter's wedding with plenty of innocents present

and this is just completely glossed over. I think there's one line from the President about how he didn't know which is ridiculous. There was a trailer for Eye In the Sky before this which looks like a really good film about the morality and necessity of drones, I didn't want this film to get into a meaningful debate on it but it doesn't address it at all. The

Go back to ****headistan

line is definitely racist, it's not even said ironically or with tongue in cheek. It's not just that the masterminds are Arab, ALL of the bad guys and their henchmen are Arab, the only non-Arab bad guy is the

MI6 guy

and I think of a single Arab good guy (open to correction). I'm trying to remember, I could be wrong but I have it in my head that Banning uses the term 'You people' in his final ****-you-speech. I don't know if it was someone on here or a critic but I heard this movie referred to as Team America without the satire.

That's just my take, I'm in no saying that if you enjoyed this you're racist, I want to make that clear. It was just a bit much for me, personally.

Constitutionus, I also enjoyed the various leaders being taken out (except the horrendous, horrendous I want to unsee it so badly CGI) but I was wondering why the Japanese President was stuck in traffic.

Victor

Aren't they Pakistani, not Arab?

The "we will be here in a thousand years" bit has an awful hint of 1000-year Reich about it.

Harry Palmr

As this seems to be likely to do quite well, can we expect a *cough* franchise *cough* that will take in every capital city? Can we brace ourselves for Dublin has Fallen which naturally shall be set on March 17th during the parade? Maybe Moscow has Fallen in which Putin is rescued by a thoroughly self hating Gerrard Butler? :pac:

FunLover18

Victor wrote: »

Aren't they Pakistani, not Arab?

The "we will be here in a thousand years" bit has an awful hint of 1000-year Reich about it.

See!! This film has turned me racist!!

FunLover18

FunLover18 wrote: »

I think it was the way it was all handled. I have no problem with middle eastern terrorists, that's unfortunately the world we live in. But at the start of this film the main bad guy

is hit by a drone attack at his daughter's wedding with plenty of innocents present

and this is just completely glossed over. I think there's one line from the President about how he didn't know which is ridiculous. There was a trailer for Eye In the Sky before this which looks like a really good film about the morality and necessity of drones, I didn't want this film to get into a meaningful debate on it but it doesn't address it at all. The

Go back to ****headistan

line is definitely racist, it's not even said ironically or with tongue in cheek. It's not just that the masterminds are Arab, ALL of the bad guys and their henchmen are Arab, the only non-Arab bad guy is the

MI6 guy

and I think of a single Arab good guy (open to correction). I'm trying to remember, I could be wrong but I have it in my head that Banning uses the term 'You people' in his final ****-you-speech. I don't know if it was someone on here or a critic but I heard this movie referred to as Team America without the satire.

That's just my take, I'm in no saying that if you enjoyed this you're racist, I want to make that clear. It was just a bit much for me, personally.

Constitutionus, I also enjoyed the various leaders being taken out (except the horrendous, horrendous I want to unsee it so badly CGI) but I was wondering why the Japanese President was stuck in traffic.

I was humming the Team America theme to myself throughout, it's not a subtle film and it's all played far too straight but to call it racist is a little ridiculous. Many of the lines are somewhat borderline but I don't think it's intended to be racist. Does the film need a good Arab character, surely pandering in such a manner would be far more offensive than what we got. The "go back to..." line would have been at home in pretty much a dozen 80s and 90s action films and while in the current climate it's a little out there, I don't believe it was in any way malicious or intended to be racist. It's just a dumb line in a dumb action film.

veXual

Pure sh!te to be honest worst thing I've seen in a long time.

I'm curious to know

Did anyone else notice that the conversation between Butler and Morgan freeman just simply didn't happen in the real world when recording the film? How hard would it have been to get the two of them on the one set for one day? It was fairly obvious it wasn't Freeman walking away after the conversation had ended

rob316

Absolute rubbish and I loved the first one. Really bad like 2nd worst film I have seen this year after zoolander 2

omerin

rob316 wrote: »

Absolute rubbish and I loved the first one. Really bad like 2nd worst film I have seen this year after zoolander 2

agree with this. A blatant pro US film that could only be compared to the German propaganda films of ww2. I know these films are best viewed when your brain is switched off but ffs, were the terrorist blind that they couldn't aim properly during the final act. A TV movie at best

Gwynplaine

Deleted User wrote: »

I still think that White House Down was much better. Wonder if a sequel of that will be released too.. 10 Downing Street Down.

I hear there's an Irish version of it coming up in a few years. 'Áras an Uachtaráin Down'
Cast : Marty Morrissey as the Hero. The Healey-Raes as the bad guys.

Cantona's Collars

Gwynplaine wrote: »

I hear there's an Irish version of it coming up in a few years. 'Áras an Uachtaráin Down'
Cast : Marty Morrissey as the Hero. The Healey-Raes as the bad guys.

Will their parts need subtitles?

Gwynplaine

Gwynplaine wrote: »

I hear there's an Irish version of it coming up in a few years. 'Áras an Uachtaráin Down'
Cast : Marty Morrissey as the Hero. The Healey-Raes as the bad guys.

You kid, but I'd absolutely love to see that. Michael D lugging and firing a rocket launcher would make a sight to see.

Arghus

It was bad, terribly bad. But, I must confess, I enjoyed it.

It was just so stupid that I couldn't bring myself to hate it.

Skerries

its one saving grace was it was short

Agent Coulson

And we have a Threequel.

Gerard Butler to Star in ‘Angel Has Fallen’ Threequel

Gerard Butler will star again as Secret Service agent Mike Banning in “Angel Has Fallen,” the third film in the “Fallen” franchise comprised of “Olympus Has Fallen” and “London Has Fallen.”

Millennium Films is launching sales next week at the American Film Market and is planning to begin production in the first half of 2017. No director has been set. Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt are writing the script.

“Olympus Has Fallen,” directed by Antoine Fuqua, generated $160 million at the worldwide box office in 2013. This year’s “London Has Fallen” grossed more than $195 million globally.

“Angel” will focus on attackers trying to take down Banning’s character. Producers are Butler, Alan Siegel, Mark Gill, John Thompson, and Matt O’Toole. Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, and Christine Otal will exec produce.

“London Has Fallen” was directed by Babak Najafi and written by Rothenberger, Benedikt, Chad St. John, and Christian Gudegast. Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Alon Moni Aboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Jackie Earle Haley, and Melissa Leo also starred.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/gerard-butler-angel-has-fallen-1201901397/

Heckler

Enjoyed the first for the nonsense it was. And I love the hell out of Die Hard type films.

The second was utter scutter. The CGI was brutal for a budget like it had.

Spare us a third !

Ipso

The bottom of the barrel has fallen.

Star_Nupa

Not sure about the premise. I know there's aren't many details, but bad guys going after one Secret Service guy....hmmm.

FunLover18

Star_Nupa wrote:

Not sure about the premise. I know there's aren't many details, but bad guys going after one Secret Service guy....hmmm.

It will probably be a relative of one the baddies from the previous two.

TerrorFirmer

Would probably allow them a lower production budget as well.

I liked the first one as a piece of far-fetched fluff, but London Has Fallen was really just far too stupid, even by the standards of these kind of films.

ohnonotgmail

Deleted User wrote: »

You kid, but I'd absolutely love to see that. Michael D lugging and firing a rocket launcher would make a sight to see.

Anybody know if Danny De Vito can do an irish accent?

JP Liz V1

This year’s “London Has Fallen” grossed more than $195 million globally

So more than the first :eek: