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A few weeks ago she had Gerard Butler as Lynn Jacobs, head of the Secret Ser- as a guest and then Aaron Eckhart a few vice. Dylan McDermott as Dave Forbes is nights later...both promoting Olympus Has great in a villain role...ex-Secret Service Fallen...both very handsome actors. I de- agent, working for the South Korean Prime cided to check it out when I read that Angela Minister’s private security detail but actu- Bassett and Morgan Freeman were also in ally working for Kang. Ashley Judd as First the film...both are very fine actors. I’m not a Lady Margaret Asher has the sweetest role big fan of action/adventure films but I really in the movie...she’s dead in the first five enjoyed Olympus Has Fallen. minutes. Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is head Olympus Has Fallen was written by of President Benjamin Asher’s (Aaron Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Eckhart) Secret Service detail. President Benedikt, directed by Antoine Fuqua. It’s Asher, the First Lady (Ashley Judd), and from Millennium Films, produced by Gerard their son Conner (Finley Jacobson) are at Butler, Alan Seigel and Mark Gill. It was Camp David. It’s Christmas and they are released March 22, 2013 and distributed by headed back into DC for a big party. It’s Film District. According to Box Office Mojo snowing heavily, ice on the roads and a it had a $70 million budget and as of April 4th deer runs out in front of the motorcade on had grossed over $79 million. a bridge. There is a big wreck, Mike saves It was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana the President but the First Lady is trapped beginning in mid-July 2012. A 1st floor in the car when it tips off the bridge. Al- facade and entrance to the White House though the President doesn’t blame Mike were built. The opening sequence where for the death of the First Lady, Banning is the 1st Lady is killed, the 2nd floor and the transferred to Treasury, so he is not a daily roof of the White House and the downtown reminder of the accident. DC landscape were computer generated. Eighteen months later, the South Ko- Behind California and New York, Loui- rean Prime Minister, Lee Tae-Woo, comes siana is 3rd in the country in film production. to the White House for a visit along with his In some circles it is known as “Hollywood private security detail and his entourage. South” thanks to the Louisiana Motion Pic- The White House comes under air assault ture Tax Incentive Act of 2002. I read some- and the President and his advisors are where that the Governor is looking to make rushed to the bunker under the White House. some changes to that law, I hope not. In a Breaking protocol, the President brings the state that depends on tourism, being in the South Korean delegation with him. The air movies is free advertising. assault turns into a ground and air assault Olympus Has Fallen was a fun “escape” and the South Korean Prime Minister’s movie. It is the first of two movies this year about staff, now in the bunker, turn out to be part a take over of the White House. White House of the terrorist plot. Down with Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx and The attack is masterminded by Kang Maggie Gyllenhaal will be out June 28, 2013. Yeonsak (Rick Yune), a former North Ko- rean terrorist disguised as a South Korean Roger Ebert 1942-2013 ministerial aide, who is now in the bunker. Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun- His motivation seems to be a desire for Times since 1967 passed April 4, 2013. He was reunification of Korea. He demands the syndicated in more than 200 newspapers world- withdrawal of US troops from the DMZ, the wide. Along with Gene Siskel of the Chicago withdrawal of the 7th fleet and the codes to Tribune he hosted Sneak Previews on PBS until Siskel’s death. In 1975 he was the first film Cerberus...codes that control the US critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 2005 nuclear weapons system. Three codes are he was the first film critic to receive a star on the required with three different people having Hollywood Walk of Fame. I have always enjoyed a code...President Asher, Secretary of other people’s opinions. Ebert kept it simple, Defense Ruth McMillan (Melissa Leo) and unlike some critics. I hate having to get a dictio- Admiral Nathan Hoenig (James Ingersoll), nary out to read a review. Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff. Ebert’s funeral was April 8 in Chicago. Mem- The terrorist have taken over the White bers of the Westboro Baptist Church had threat- ened to picket. They were a no show and for that House, security has been wiped out...it is I say, “Two Thumbs Up.” up to Mike Banning to rescue Conner, the President’s son, save the President and the country...Kang wants to detonate all of Roger Ebert’s 10 Greatest Films of America’s nuclear weapons in their silo’s All Time and destroy the country. Aguirre, Wrath of God - 1972 - Werner Herzog This is where the action/adventure Apocalypse Now - 1979 - Francis Ford kicks in and the suspense begins. Mike Coppola Banning is super-human, he endures ev- Citizen Kane - 1941 - Orson Welles erything that is thrown at him and still walks LA Dolce Vita - 1969 - Federico Fellini out of the White House with the President. The General - 1920 - Buster Keaton I understand no spoiler alert is needed Raging Bull - 1980 - Martin Scorsese here...the action hero always wins; it’s how 2001 : A Space Odyssey - 1968 - he wins that counts. 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