End of Days (1999) Retrospective/Review 

This is so spooky. I've been posting loads of comments on this film on other channels recently.

Imagine Tom Cruise had gotten the part!!! He was the original choice.

I had a dream about The Usual Suspects last night. This film paraphrases the greatest lie quote from it. Both films star Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Pollak. It is Kevin Pollak's birthday today. Before this notification appeared on my phone. I was thinking about this film.

Yeah really awesome job of joining the collective manifestation on Doomsday/Judgement Day/Armageddon bs. Like this dumb movie is REALLY worth the "Retrospective". The more you keep these halfwit slaves drooling over this mindless content, the happier your Masters are right OLLIE?

666 is the Emperor Nero's full numerical name in Latin

Chuck Norris beat-up that Copyrights guy

In my country, Arnold movies are often titled as "Demonic ____" to emphasize his badass status, like Demonic Terminator, Demonic Commander (Commando) and Demonic Destroyer (Eraser). So when End of Eays came out everybody was like "Yeah, of course it has come to this."

There are no modern equivalents, hence such films are a product of a bygone age, sadly.

@@inlpwetrustBy Reselling "Demonic", They've Normalized "Fear". Freddy, Michael, Jason...horror film victims will mention those names like they would an angry neighbor or abusive ex. Instead of the Zombie DEMON EX..ecutioners we're so familiar with.

@@Grandmastergav86 The Rock does come close. Black Adam was kind of pitched as The Rock vs Superman.

I still remember laughing out loud in the theater when the priest character flipped 666 to 999.

Factual……..

Agreed. The 6th Day is also pretty good but under rated.

Its the only non-Terminator movie where he dies. I became emotional when I saw it at the movies because it made me realise that time passes and no one lives forever. Arnold was my hero when I was a kid, and seing him not be this invincible superhuman made me sad.

Gabriel Byrne did a good job but they wrote the devil so piss poorly

No way. Best action hero and T2 in my opinion, were his arguably best performances

It was a solid performance as he wasn't just a one liner machine and attempted to be a bit more dramatic. Man's range is limited but in this and Total Recall mf was trying and I appreciate it.

I think Twins is his best acting. EoD is good too

His performance in the first Terminator is his least 'Arnie-like'. Menacing and inhuman.

Arnold I think channeled the struggles in his personal life nicely here with his health complications, his dwindling action career and probably hiding his love child.

Ghostbusters 2 and Constantine are really similar to it.

i liked this movie alot just people hated it because it was not your typical arnold flick

@@torquetheprisoner Just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad. People should get that.

@@shadowleon659 exactly

@@shadowleon659 unfortunately some people can’t just switch off their brain and enjoy a good Arnie action flick

Or “ should’ve just killed the bastard, less paperwork “

He also played a priest in a very short lived comedy show on abc but it got cancelled after like 5 episodes.

And wearing similar clothes

My favourite song from the soundtrack is "So Long" by Everlast.

"you're a choir boy compared to me. A CHOIR BOY!!!"

"When flying poodles seem to travel much faster than predicted by theory, researchers start mumbling incoherent gibberish about futuristic metal cockroaches destroying the world to sway the narrative. In Lagrangian points there will be a build up of sunflower seeds when chain reactions occur due to cyberpunk accelerometers. If you want to stick your head in the sand and pretend that poodles don't fly, go ahead and do so, but that won't change the facts about emus. Everyone should own a rubber chicken for a surreal experience motivated by ideological agendas and not anything remotely connected to the pursuit of vector spaces of wave functions. The mass of the system must be conserved with equations of motion garnished with the isospin symmetry of liquid nitrogen. It is a reality-based analysis. Trust and believe that it’s mathematically similar to lots of neat thingies. The importance of critical thinking about the Van Der Waals force is what enables spicy kimchi-flavored ramen to keep up appearances with rarefied gas particles. An orange cat grooming a blue rabbit will consolidate gravels on ancient lake beds. The spice must flow." ---Albert Einstein

Yes, he is one of the best reviewers on RU-vid. In my opinion of film, especially past ones, There are info about films, especially this one I had absolutely no clue about. It's always interesting to see how movies like this get made

definitely

Yeah, Especially his funniest Arnold impression, as well as Arnold's appearance in WWE, that was cool.

I agree...I put them on while u am doing things around the house....His voice is so good for listening to...

@@samanthareninger4667 I put it on at night to fall asleep. Lol.

Too right!

That version of OMG is essentially a demo. Axl was messing with it literally while the courier was waiting to take the disc to the printing plant. I'm a bit of a Chinese Democracy nerd. There is a different version floating around and it's much better. All the vocals on CD were done basically in 00/01 and the version done around then, imo, is much better.

I was going to reply the same. My old neighbor was a computer programmer at the time and involved in all the recoding. He said people don't realize how close everything was to being a disaster. Since nothing happened, it became a joke, but little did they know...

Hyams sounded like a prick about the lighting. Perhaps he should have taken some cues from Cameron.

Would have been different and successful.

If Cameron had made it the female character would have developed into a badass like all his other female characters by the end. The movie would have focused more on the dramatic elements of why people would be tempted by Satan himself and why they would join him as opposed to being against him and the soundtrack would have been a bunch of rock and rap songs over and over. Cameron's movie would have been more about the drama with the action coming from the drama of the story itself and the female lead would have gotten more development into her life drama-wise. What we ended up with was a silly but entertaining Arnold vs Satan movie in the standard action format and formula.

Best looking Devil ever!!!!

"Cheese is cheesy because it's cheesed with cheesiness." ---Albert Einstein

I laugh in the face of those calling this movie "badly lit". They're absolute idiots.

@@constantinezh7156 The lighting sucks. Arnold was right. 💯 😜

Arnold is always Arnold in every movie he stars in except for like 2 films. In Maggie and Aftermath he gives good dramatic low low-key performances the fun with this movie if you are going to have fun with it is the absurd idea of Arnold vs Satan. The movie's script is silly but its entertaining if you like Arnold films and can just meet this film on the level its at which is Arnold vs Satan.

@@sid6856 I am cinematographer and I do this for a living.

At the time, I thought it was more a supernatural thriller.

Weird. I was thinking about this film before this flagged up on my phone.

Well Al has played the part of Satan in the Devils Advocate…..so I can see how one might get mixed up.

I was 25 and concur. Cheers

Yeah,stinker era-6th Day,Collateral Damage,T3.

🤣

I seen this in the cinema when it came out and seeing him grab that chicks tit and then the restaurant blows up.. Was like yeah... This gonna be good. I don't live too far from where Gabriel grew up so great to see him appearing in all these great films. And Jay I have to ask if I can borrow that exquisite phrase 'trim he was slaying'? Epic!

@@mccarthy5825 yes by all means be my guest.

@@JayStone1 thank you Jay 👍 you legend, May you slay trim like Arnie slays baddies in Commando

Yes, he has acting talent but he certainly isn't very versatile. He's a good action and comedy star, but don't let him near something that needs actual emoting.

@@Bale4Bond You do not need to show emotion to portray or feel emotion...

He's very castable, but not versatile.

@@babalonkie first time i have ever read this. Congratulations on that "brave" take.

@@Bale4Bond The man has *successfully* done Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Romance and Drama. Facts don't lie.

Best Devil design ever!!!!

The Terminator V Satan.

@@anubusx definitely,the devil design in this was crazy!!!

@@adamski60 This Ghostbusters 2 and Constantine are really similar.