Reviews: "Dying of the Light," "Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses" and "These Final Hours"

3/11/2015

Brad reviews the Nicolas Cage/Paul Schrader thriller "Dying of the Light," plus Danny Trejo and Danny Glover in "Bad Ass 2," then the apocalyptic film "These Final Hours."

55 Comments

Luca Tramuta

3/11/2015 06:56:53 am

Hey Blip ..... Good Job ! =)

CarthAnne

3/11/2015 07:10:52 am

Yeah, I think blip has made some updates to their shit so that that delay doesn't happen anymore. So finally, hopefully, that joke can die once and for all.

JayRam

3/11/2015 07:16:18 am

Blaming "Blip" still a thing round these parts?

CarthAnne

3/12/2015 04:48:37 am

It still happens occasionally. Not as often as it used to be, thankfully.

Blip

3/11/2015 01:52:39 pm

Thank you. That's the first time anyone has ever said that to me.

Alastair

3/12/2015 05:14:30 am

People don't give you enough love, you're doing your best. ~hug~

daigotsurezan

3/11/2015 07:57:53 am

Brad, you gotta make "Heaven Is For Real To Prove God's Not Dead By Saving Christmas, With Birdman." Seriously. Have Sarah play "Michelle Keaton" and cast Slaver Brian and Dave as the religious guys.

And as per Jake's suggestion from some time ago, treat the whole thing genuinely, like a good ZAZ film

Morhek

3/11/2015 08:10:47 am

Slaver Brian IS religious. He keeps the black people subordinate, in what he considers their natural, God-ordained state. He lets Leddy run the plantation while he a-wanders, a preacher man dressed in white, to preach the Gospel of the Lord.

SlaverBrianFan

3/11/2015 08:42:58 am

mmm hmm

Gotta love a God fearin' man with a glorious beard

atom smasher

3/11/2015 09:23:44 am

Have Jake play the little kid who sees God... and it's Papa Smurf.

"Sacresmurfalicious!"

C.L.M

3/12/2015 03:08:35 am

No, God has to be Mr. Sun, and he can't stop talking about coffee and random breakfast foods!

Ahri Man

3/11/2015 09:46:44 pm

I'd pay to see that one.

Fart

3/11/2015 08:29:54 am

A third Bad Ass film was released last week.

sciencemile`

3/11/2015 11:46:40 am

Bad Ass 3: Even More Ass?

Inquisitor

3/11/2015 07:08:38 pm

Bad Ass 3: The Third Cheek

Kahler Hahn

3/11/2015 08:47:55 am

Ok... I am seriously gonna check out These final hours. Sounds fucking awesome!

CommanderZx2

3/11/2015 09:27:26 am

At least one of the three movies turned out to be good.

The Hand of Onan

3/11/2015 10:44:06 am

Brad,
It might be time for the ban hammer. You're getting neo Nazis!

SlaverBrianFan

3/11/2015 01:52:50 pm

Well it was bound to happen. After all the Braddy Bunch does have a slave owner AND a Nazi smpathizer

Adam

3/11/2015 11:44:05 pm

"The Braddy Bunch"?

I am NOT calling it that... I'll stick with "Team Snob", thank you very much.

SamJ

3/13/2015 07:37:21 am

Brad is just watching us squirm. Like the malevolent god of the website.

SamJ

3/15/2015 01:12:01 pm

It was fun while it lasted.

don't name the who?

3/16/2015 05:53:59 am

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trikucian

3/11/2015 10:53:09 am

Sadly, for me, I just can't watch apocalypse movies, they just make me way too sad. There's a big difference between apocalypse movies like The Final Hours and a post apocalypse movie like Mad Max. An apocalypse movie just plain has no hope, none whatsoever, and I just can't watch a movie like that, it's too damned depressing. I know films like this and Melancholia and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World are well made and considered good by many, but I just can't get behind a movie with zero hope to it.

Aussie Michael

3/11/2015 12:45:40 pm

The thing about Mad Max is though that its kind of mid-apocalypse. Through the whole thing everyone is trying to keep a hold of their lives. The police force is getting stretched further and further. The gangs are getting worse and worse, and even Max realises that there's no real difference anymore.
I like to think that the movie ends as it all comes crumbling down.
By the time Mad Max 2 comes around (That's the Road Warrior to most people) the whole things gone to crap.

As you say though, there is hope. Bartertown in 3 proves that people are trying to put it back together. Sure its rough, but its still an attempt at civilisation.

Michael P.

3/11/2015 05:46:40 pm

Sheesh, hope you don't ever visit Detroit.

The Hand of Onan

3/11/2015 11:56:55 pm

Seeking a Friend, does have some hope. 50 year old loser bags kira Knightley and they live out the rest of their lives in loved up bliss. Not exactly the worse way to go.

Barry The Master Of Sandwich

3/11/2015 11:07:29 am

I'm surprised Dying of the Light wasn't directed by Alan E Smithee.

ManiCon

3/11/2015 03:55:33 pm

Just saw These Final Hours. Loved it, great suggestion. I think it was just one Meteor though, but the impact took time to spread throughout the planet.

Rob

3/11/2015 05:27:18 pm

Hey Brad, love the reviews.

Was wondering whether you had seen the Australian thriller "The Mule". It stars Hugo Weaving and centres around a drug trafficker being detained by police.

I'm fairly sure it's available on-demand, I really enjoyed it and would love to know your thoughts on it.

Master Chen link

3/11/2015 10:19:27 pm

In all actuality, "These Final Hours" is really nothing more than just an Australian version/retelling of "Seeking a Friend For The End of The World" (a movie starring Steve Carell and Kira Nightley, which came out in 2012), this movie is almost a literal shot-for-shot Australian take on that, just like "Vanilla Sky" was a 2001 shot-for-shot 'Murican take on "Abre los ojos" from 1997.

Brent Lonkey

3/11/2015 11:29:21 pm

I know, remember when Steve Carell beat two guys to death with a hammer before they could rape a little girl? almost shot for shot, what a rip off!

Brad

3/12/2015 04:12:31 am

My favorite part in "Seeking a Friend" was definitely the orgy party with the Russian roulette competition, or when Steve Carell found his naked sister and her husband in the shower post suicide. For a comedy, that shit was dark!

Rob Cameron

3/12/2015 02:13:42 am

It also sounds like "Last Night". A Canadian independent movie written by Don Mckellar.

Reference to Team Snob Injoke

3/12/2015 04:35:19 am

Yeah, and the Royal Tenenbaums is a remake of Electra Glide in Blue.

The Absurdist

3/14/2015 07:34:28 pm

'Murcian' remake? Cameron Crowe just adapted the screenplay, though apparently the adaptation consisted of it being translated. Of course... given that few people had seen it in the U.S. before the remake.

lia

3/12/2015 02:38:51 am

Did danny glover ever say its just been revoked to the diplomat ? xD

PapaT

3/12/2015 04:32:11 am

Dying of the Light came out on DVD in the UK last week. I kind of wish I'd waited for your review before I bought it, but deep down I know I would have gone for it anyway. I did like Cage's performance, but it was a real mess. Would Schrader's cut really have made any less than this film that was barely released as it was?

And the cashier gave me shit for buying a Nic Cage movie :(

Madeline

3/12/2015 04:37:39 am

Hello, I like the vlog reviews! These Final hours sounds amazing!
Have you heard of a horror movie called "Starry eyes"? It looks interesting. Id like to know your thoughts on it if you've seen it.

Random Soldier

3/12/2015 07:18:04 am

Gettim Connors! OOOOOOOH They're getting away!

Colonel Chestbridge

3/12/2015 10:47:06 am

Let's get straight to the biscuits. Get on Netflix and watch Danger 5. You'll get a sensible chuckle out of it.

And of course, as always, kill Hitler!

That is all

3/12/2015 11:03:03 am

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Corey Bishop

3/12/2015 02:08:51 pm

And? Congratulations, you found a scene from the cinema snob movie, most of us have seen it. The nudies rudies dvd is more explicit than that.

Corey

3/12/2015 11:56:03 am

nice to see that so far 2 australian films this year you have seen and liked brad.and awesome to find out that these final hours is set in western australia and that the city of perth burning. perth is pretty isolated place too.

Barry The Master Of Sandwich

3/12/2015 12:28:01 pm

For the first time ever, I actually paid to watch an on demand movie the other day.

It was Road Hard, Adam Carolla's new movie. What can I say? I have a nostalgic love for the guy. He made me laugh a lot during the LoveLine days, back in the day.

Anyway, the movie was funny, but the ending came out of NOWHERE. It was almost like they ran out of crowdfunding money, and just ended it just when the thing could have gotten to its dramatic heart. BAM -- movie suddenly fucking ends.

I give it 2 and a half mehs out of meh.

Rachel

3/14/2015 11:21:39 am

So when you say that 'The Dying of the Light' was a film taken away from its director and torn apart, does that make it like a live-action version of 'The Thief and the Cobbler'?

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Reviews: "Dying of the Light," "Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses" and "These Final Hours"

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