[PREVIEW] 🎙🧚‍♀️ #079 - Olympus Has Fallen

2013 will always be remembered as the year the White House fell down twice, which is usually the sign that a building is not going to live to see another full year. The twin film is the less-ambiguously-titled White House Down (coming next). This film takes the more grim, violent approach of the two and plays like someone dusted off and loosely rewrote a rejected Die Hard sequel script that involves North Korea executing a plot to remotely detonate all the nuclear missiles in America BEFORE they're fired. (It also takes the dumber approach of the two films.) Discussed in this episode: The US box office rewarding punctuality over enjoyability The original "secret" of the Secret Service Dylan McDermott Mulroney Completely invisible falling objects - always a hazard when driving Kang the White House Conqueror Leisurely running from giant collapsing monuments, with fatal results The body part you're prepared to lose when you sign up to be handcuffed-to-the-Football man Disgruntled former Secret Service agents telling the world the best way to infiltrate the building they swore to protect with their lives The supernatural foresight of this script: we don't know what's going in North Korea but what if they hate America? The Schwarzenegger-style post-kill one-liner this film desperately needed Why Abraham Lincoln chose to attach his name to the bedroom Morgan Freeman collecting a paycheque, in his own words Your favourite actor with an occupation for a surname Which administration installed the surface-to-air missile turrets on the roof? Feels like a Jackie Kennedy renovation. The best Butler film (it's not The Butler) (if you want to sync it up to the film, we hit PLAY @ 6:46)