#london has fallen

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The unintentional homo-eroticism of these movies (seen for the first time this weekend) now means I must write something for this teensy but lovely fandom.

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hot take of the day!

problematic as they may be, one thing i like about movies like White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen is that at least ninety percent of the time, the antagonist is fueled by (or at least partially fueled by) the desire for vengeance on behalf of a lost loved one.

White House Down; main antagonist Martin Walker (former head of presidential detail) seeks revenge for his marine son that was killed in Iran (presumably due to a failed mission president Sawyer ordered)

Olympus Has Fallen: main antagonist (leader of terrorist group Koreans for United Freedom) Kang Yeonsak's mother was killed my an american land mine.

London Has Fallen: main antagonist (heavy weapons dealer) Aamir Barkawi's entire family was killed by an american drone strike - during his daughter's wedding, of all days.

yes, revenge isn't the sole drive for these antagonists, but it's clearly the back-breaking straw for these people that pushes them over the edge. you gotta admit, there's something so pure about being loved so much, that your child/parent attempts to annihilate the most powerful nation in the world out of grief for you.

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hey, how's it going? ask game: what's your fave movie and or tv show?

Thanks so much for the ask, well, it's going, I am not at my best but I could be a lot worse.

Favourite movie?! Iron Man 1, I love this movie with my whole heart. I also love London has fallen and Die Hard, God they used to be my whole personality before I learned about Marvel

Favourite TV show?! Hawaii 5-0 is in the number one position, made me who I am today and I will always love it deeply. Other than that, Brooklyn 99 holds a very dear place in my heart (RIP to our Captain, I was devastated, he was one of my faves) and Poirot (1989-2013) is an oldie but goldie, I still watch it from time to time, I read all the books as a kid and Hastings was the first who made me think of a career in the army.

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[mestruazioni]

does the movie london has fallen at least end with the potus giving an erotic kiss with tongue to this bodyguard dude or is the movie really just about americans sucking their own dick clean

[samwichshiro]

me when i fixate on a movie but haven't watched the 2nd movie yet so i have to refrain on reading fanfics/consuming fanwork that include 2nd movie spoilers and its so painful because because WEREWOFL TRANSFORMATIONRAJAAHA GAGAAHGRRRRRRRAAAAAAAA

[kajaono]

Having hell of a week, but look what arrived today!

Cinema 👌✨

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My Top 10 Go To Movies!

What are your top ten favorite movies? Hunt for the Wilderpeople John Wick Olympus Has Fallen London Has Fallen Angel Has Fallen Hunter Killer Gods of Egypt Edge of Tomorrow Knight and Day Passengers Honestly I could easily add another 5 or so movies to this list! Whenever my parents and I get together for a movie session, particularly around Christmas, we always gravitate to these…

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Movie Review | London Has Fallen (Najafi, 2016)

Despite being released a few months before the 2016 election, this feels like it could be a key cinematic text of the Trump era, in that it essentially has the same politics of films that defined the Bush and Reagan eras, but is substantially lower rent and less glamorous. As this movie argues, when it comes down to it, all of America's allies are entirely useless in a crisis situation, and only when America takes matters into its own hands (personified in a key moment by the President himself picking up a gun to off a terrorist, which is immediately met with a quip about coming out of the closet) can it defeat the legions of swarthy foreigners who hate it for its freedoms.

At one point the hero, secret service agent and presidential bodyguard played by Gerard Butler says that from hereon out, they must assume that everybody they run into is an "asshole terrorist", at which point the movie graduates from eyeing every brown extra suspiciously to gleefully gunning them down. There's no covering of the ass with a guy from said demographic in the control room. Torture in American movies has become depressingly commonplace, to the point that the Rambo series, whose hero suffered PTSD from being tortured during the Vietnam War, and which previously only featured torture to highlight its villains' sadism, has in its fifth installment turned around on the subject to the point that the hero wholeheartedly employs it without remorse. But there is a certain boldness in this movie's depiction of torture, which the hero repeatedly employs but admits serves no real tactical purpose. After he twists his knife into an opponent for an agonizing length of time (or maybe he was choking him out, apologies if I got my torture scenes confused), the President asks him, "Was that really necessary?" To which he responds, without missing a beat, "No." All of this is punctuated by endless speechifying by the hero about the greatness of the American empire as he brutally kills any number of terrorists. "You know what you assholes don't get? We're not a fucking building! We're not a fucking flag! We're not just one man! Assholes like you have been trying to kill us for a long fucking time. But you know what? A thousand years from now, we'll still fucking be here!"

The fact that the movie offers no apology or no bet hedging with its politics is interesting to reconcile with the fact that the director, Babak Najafi, was born in Iran and whose family was separated and fled to Sweden as a result of the Iran-Iraq War. If one wanted to, they could read this movie as a sly satire of this kind of action movie, and certain choices, like when the movie dissolves from the dust cloud in the aftermath of a drone strike to the flags on the presidential motorcade, can support that reading. But I do think we need to be wary of reducing artists down to biographical or demographic details, which can carry its own kind of condescension, especially when we don't have much else to go off in the way of their work. It's perfectly possible that Najafi took this on as a journeyman, or sympathizes with the views expressed by the movie.

I mentioned earlier how low rent this feels. Rambo: First Blood Part II and Bad Boys 2 looked like they had sizable budgets. The Delta Force, whose brand of racism this likely takes most after, benefited immensely from location shooting (and let its villain be an actual character rendered with an actual performance by the great Robert Forster, who has about a minute of screentime here). This depicts London with a number of totally unconvincing establishing shots and otherwise keeps the lighting dim and the settings nondescript to hide the fact that it was shot in Bulgaria. And while a budget of $60 million these days only gets you so far, the big special effects sequences here look like something out of an Asylum movie. (What should be cool enough helicopter shit to save this movie ends up being irreparably lame as a result.) But at the same time, there are stretches of strong B-movie craft, like the shot that trails the smoke grenade, or the digitally enhanced long take, which understands that the power of such sequences is less about feigned technical virtuosity than in navigating the geography from the hero's perspective and building forward momentum. And it does spend its approximately hour and a half runtime letting its hero brutally kills bad guys at a steady pace.

So if I had to summarize this movie, it's like a sloppily wrapped, extremely greasy cheeseburger that makes you feel like you're inching closer to the grave but also kinda, sorta hits the spot, served by a racist McDonald's employee who's making everybody uncomfortable by not shutting the fuck up about their awful views.

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[ohmsservice]

I am now watching the “Has Fallen” trilogy and it’s possibly the shippiest thing I’ve ever seen. I mean, up your game 007! Mike Banning eyes on his President are positively goooooo…..

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Romantic. In a paranoid, doomsday planning kind of way ⚔️

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Action  Thriller

[bobcat-pie]

i need to be completely honest. for the past year i've been seeing posts about "fallen london" and i thought people were just making jokes about normal london

[shazzbaa]

(audio from portal 2!) This is how that dream conversation went right????? au where everythings the same but poor edward is from the west country,

ANYWAY LMAO HI I've been learning animation just to make this!! FOR SOME REASON!!! IT TOOK TWO WEEKS TO ANIMATE. this quote was my IMMEDIATE thought as soon as Poor Edward said "I've had to make ALL the sacrifices for this marriage!" so i just needed to bring it into being outside of my brain. tbh IM PRETTY PROUD OF IT...... anyway sweet dreams samuel!!

[video transcript] [Poor Edward, from below, gesturing with exasperation]: I've done nothing but sacrifice to get us here! And what have you sacrificed? [Cut to Samuel, feeling around him to figure out that he's in a coffin, panicking as the sides start closing in] Poor Edward: Nothing. Zero. [/end transcript]

additional notes:

thren and I both did the riot rather than burning down the orphanage, so instead of burn scars, Edward got his hands broken. He might have new skin but making a fist is still a lil lopsided,

one of the friends in our flondon group has been making an impassioned case for Edward favouring regency-era looks and I must admit ive adopted this into my belief system, so thats leaked into his outfit here. i havent been keeping sam's outfit historically accurate tho so i dont know why i think this is something i need to clarify

this animation was done in Krita, which is a free open-source program that was pretty easy to get the hang of -- Jesse J Jones and Animate with Dermot had tutorials that helped me a lot if anyone else wants to try it!