Tina Turner once screamed, “We don’t need another hero”, but in this case, we at least need one hero or the President will be dead. It goes without saying you would take either of these guys over Abbott or Rudd any day of the week. While Foxx is funny, Eckhart is a badass. He too is strong, proud, loyal and unable to be corrupted. He is also fond of America and, in particular, former President and current skeleton, Abraham Lincoln. On the other hand, we have Jamie Foxx (black guy) playing President Sawyer, who is pretty much Obama with glasses. Aaron Eckhart (white guy) plays President Asher, the strong, honest, leader of the people. Is it about ancient Greece? Is it about someone dropping their digital camera? No and sort of.Īh, a difference. However, from the outset, there is at least a little ambiguity about the theme of Olympus Has Fallen.
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You know what you’re getting with White House Down. The words you’re looking for are “thank you”. Both films, fairly obviously, are about a bunch of baddies taking down the Presidential crib – but why see both? Aren’t they the exact same movie? I’ve taken time out of my busy schedule to watch both of these modern classics and put together a comparative study.
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White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen carry on the long held tradition of coming out with the exact same movie in the very same year (See Dante’s Peak/Volcano, Deep Impact/Armageddon, Antz/A Bug’s Life, Jurassic Park/Schindler’s List). Barack, if you’re reading this, stock up on UP&GOs, lock the door of the Oval Office and hide under the desk – the terrorists are coming and it’s going to be both mildly entertaining and high-grossing. It’s just too bad Mitch Rapp couldn’t have thwarted those White House terrorists five years ago - it would have been fun to watch.Ĭontact Tony Hicks at /BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or /insertfoot.If you happen to be the President of The United States, 2013 is not your year. Thankfully for thriller geeks, good writers are still producing good books for their loyal fan bases. So this weekend could be the end of the spy/thriller genre for a while. Nelson DeMille could have scored big, had someone decided that his books featuring John Corey - whose sense of humor makes him the most entertaining bad-ass in the spy thriller world - would appeal to filmgoers more than “The General’s Daughter,” which had a plot involving rape and murder that many understandably found distasteful. The same thing happened when someone decided Lee Child fans would buy Tom Cruise playing the 6-foot-5 overpowering military policeman Jack Reacher.
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Films featuring Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character were done in by the casting director who decided to reboot the series with Ben Affleck in the lead. The Jason Bourne series - which inspired me more than a decade ago to start reading Robert Ludlum novels like I was getting paid big bucks to do so - has gone off-track since Matt Damon stopped playing the lead character. The evidence is already pretty strong that the thriller/spy movie genre is shriveling on the vine. It means the market is saturated, ideas are obviously repeating themselves, and filmgoers will start to look in other directions. The arrival of conjoined films usually signals the end of a subgenre. Chris Hemsworth is said to be in talks to play Rapp.Īlas, they might be too late.
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Flynn said he envisioned Willis in the role as soon as he introduced the Hurley character.
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Bruce Willis reportedly has signed on to play Rapp’s grumpy-but-deadly mentor, Stan Hurley. He died just as CBS Films finally got on track with a Rapp movie, plans for which remain in play, the network told the Huffington Post. Funny enough, the plot involved terrorists attacking the White House and only being vulnerable to a single armed superstud on the inside.
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Fourteen years ago, Vince Flynn, who died of cancer last week at 47, wrote a book called “Transfer of Power,” which introduced thriller geeks everywhere to Mitch Rapp, the CIA superspy/assassin who became the protagonist of his next 13 books. This pair of similar films coming out around the same time joins the pantheon of movie twins, including “Turner & Hooch” and “K-9,” “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact,” “Volcano” and “Dante’s Peak,” Tombstone” and “Wyatt Earp,” “Snow White and the Huntsman” and “Mirror Mirror,” and various animated films about penguins that dance and/or surf and lions with issues who escape New York zoos.Įven before “Olympus” was released in March, some of us had already heard this one before. Hicks: ‘White House Down’ could signal end of spy thrillers for a while – The Mercury News