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End of Days (1999)
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End of Days?
It's more like the end of Arnold Schwarzenegger. What prompted him to take on this piece of shit? It must
have been the heavy cigar smoking that poisoned his mind. Thanks to the abuse of anabolic steroids during the
heyday of bodybuilding, Arnold Schwarzenegger had his first open-heart surgery two years prior. It's clear
in the film he looks fat and is no longer muscle-bound that he used to be.
Among the biggest mistakes are ripping off the storyline from The Omen,
making the vision too dark, using an idiot director by the name of Peter Hyams, and casting one of the worst
actress of all time to play Christine York: Robin Tunney. The two hours of nonstop brain-dead action only serves
to drain me further. There's no reason for Satan not to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger's character midway.
I was sick of the whole Y2K hysteria when it happened back then. Of course, nothing came of it. Even worse, the
millennium doesn't actually take place on January 1, 2000, but the following year because if you think about it:
the calendar begins with 1, and you count that off until the year of 1000 which constitutes the first millennium
and is then reset on January 1, 1001. However, it can be perceived to have been made up because there's no
scientific evidence of an exact date, considering that Earth is 4.5 something billion years old.
All in all, you can stick a fork in Arnold Schwarzenegger because he's done.