Live Free or Die Hard = MGS2 Apocalypse? [SPOILERS]

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Live Free or Die Hard = MGS2 Apocalypse? [SPOILERS]

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Tell me I'm not the only one to see parallels between the potential 'chaotic aftermath' of MGS2, and everything that went down in LFoDH. Isn't that what the <B>Patriots</B> had planned for America, a 'fire sale'? (wiki it, DH4 is mentioned.)

And then the way the enemy easily tricked almost everyone (except the early scene w/ McClane, who was onto them as soon as his hacker partner fingered who the voice on the other end of the line was.)

But I won't be taking my cellphone for granted anymore, I can say that much.

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Actually, I think it would be safe to assume you are the only to have seen those parallels, because chances are, you're the only one to have seen the film.
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I've seen it too (it was a awesome movie). Anyway, i don't recall hearing the patirots would do a "fire sale" (as DarkTetsuya said: search for it on Wikipedia), therefore i don't think it has anything parallel to MGS2.
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Post by 87th »

I just saw it earlier tonight. The only thing I could think during the film was "this is utter shit".
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Well, I had to dig through the MGS2 script text to find it, but here's my evidence:
The MGS2 Script dump wrote: No -- a high-altitude detonation. You've heard of the Compton Effect?
The total disruption of electronic equipment caused by EMMA pulse.
Textbook answer. Well, when an average nuclear warhead goes off within the atmosphere,
the result is an electromagnetic pulse of up to 50 billion megawatts.
The EMMA field can reach tens of thousands of volts per meter,
and most electronic equipment will be toast in an instant.
But that isn't their aim.
What they plan to do is "liberate" Manhattan, pull it offline, and turn it into some kind of a republic.
Hence "Sons of Liberty," I suppose.
"Sons of Liberty"...?
Though granted the terrorists in LFODH went on a slightly grander scale, (and didn't really use the method mentioned) they wanted to pull the entire US under, I'd see it as the same ends, albeit with different means.

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