Oh my fucking Christ, it's because of "London Bridge has fallen down", isn't it? I just right now figured that out, all these years later.Īt any rate, London Has Fallen is a pretty great title for the movie it accompanies, because I can't make any fucking sense of that, either. Whereas, "London has fallen" - like, into the Thames? If you're not involved in a war of conquest, cities don't "fall". A place metaphorically equated to Mount Olympus has been corrupted and taken by hostile forces. "Olympus has fallen" - yes, we can do something with that. Those italicised words have no business at all as we show up to talk about Olympus's highly improbable three-years-later sequel, London Has Fallen, which already sounds like ridiculous bullshit just from its title. So it was with 2013's " Die Hard in the White House". Olympus Has Fallen is a bad garbage movie, but it is at least a functional object the reason that " Die Hard on a _" became a cliché was because it provides such a clean, effective, plug-and-play formula for an action movie.
Time for me to face the music and deal with the fact that I never reviewed the second. This week: I regret to say, Angel Has Fallen exists now, bringing back Gerard Butler's meaty Secret Service agent Mike Banning for a third go-round. Intermittently this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases.
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