The Film Where Mel Gibson Gets Taken Out By the Deep State

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  • Imagine your average crazy man on the internet. Imagine if the government tried to take them down. Because it turns out their insane rant was correct.
    That's this movie. And it stars Mel Gibson.
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  • @PointlessHub
    @PointlessHub  ปีที่แล้ว +2727

    Please don't take my video down TH-cam this is for the funny

    • @iguanavic4834
      @iguanavic4834 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Dark of the moon?

    • @DrNotnert
      @DrNotnert ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Susan Wojcicki laughs at your cries for mercy

    • @swyjix
      @swyjix ปีที่แล้ว +9

      But they do be theorizing
      BUT THAT’s JUST A THEORY.
      A GAME THEORY

    • @CordellPotts
      @CordellPotts ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Why would they take it down?
      You speak of conspiracy theories as if anyone who believes any of them is crazy.
      This exactly the kind of content they love 😂.
      Now if you did a video on all the conspiracy theories that turned out to be 100% true....
      Then they'd censor you.

    • @rocko7711
      @rocko7711 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eww, this movie is so gross
      It vindicates all the incels

  • @bruhbruh-us6gl
    @bruhbruh-us6gl ปีที่แล้ว +4812

    Having the government chase a conspiracy theorist for getting a conspiracy right, but having the conspiracy theorist not know which conspiracy he got right is such a genius setup for a story that no matter what turn the story takes, it will not be a satisfying answer. I would’ve kept the exact conspiracy Mel Gibson got right as a secret the entire movie and have him being an MK ultra victim be something totally separate from that.

    • @Jimbo55151
      @Jimbo55151 ปีที่แล้ว +516

      Alternatively they could set it up like Burn After Reading. Where the agents are just as confused as to what he figured out.

    • @huanquocmanh416
      @huanquocmanh416 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Ye is right

    • @merlenclownshuffles
      @merlenclownshuffles ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Jimbo55151 XD

    • @dodojesus4529
      @dodojesus4529 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At the end it turns out that he didnt get it right the deepstate just thought he did

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      @@Jimbo55151 Loved that movie... "We all learned something from this." "What did we learn?" "Hell if I know."

  • @DrNotnert
    @DrNotnert ปีที่แล้ว +6638

    The best part about this movie for Mel Gibson is that he didn't even have to act, he was just himself for the entire movie

    • @officialmorbius
      @officialmorbius ปีที่แล้ว +186

      The entire movie is actually just Gibson getting bowfingered

    • @theprofessionalfence-sitter
      @theprofessionalfence-sitter ปีที่แล้ว +277

      He did have to act - took him years of hard work and training to be able to turn down his nonsense enough to be in this film.

    • @graceskerp
      @graceskerp ปีที่แล้ว +62

      The role he was born to play.

    • @vitorafmonteiro
      @vitorafmonteiro ปีที่แล้ว +132

      Eh, not really, there's very little racism in Jerry's variant of crazy conspiracy. There was some effort for Gibson.

    • @hamkeyentertainment7324
      @hamkeyentertainment7324 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      spittin facts

  • @Tinyuvm
    @Tinyuvm ปีที่แล้ว +791

    This a beautiful Romeo and Juliet romance: A 4chan Schizoposter and a Fed

    • @my9thaccount140
      @my9thaccount140 ปีที่แล้ว

      I genuinely wonder if there’s been one relationship that started on that premise. A modern day lady and the tramp between a federal agent and a half psychotic dollar general employee.

    • @silverprimus321boi9
      @silverprimus321boi9 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Someone should actually try a story like that. A fed is posing as this mentally ill loners gf and instigating him into doing a Mass shooting, but the loner isn't insane enough to actually kill people and the fed is starting to fall in love with him. Cue hijinks and dark jokes.

  • @tatersalad76
    @tatersalad76 ปีที่แล้ว +1028

    Half convinced this movie is just a film crew, Julia Roberts, and Patrick Stewart just following Mel Gibson around and recording him on his day to day

    • @SiRenfield
      @SiRenfield ปีที่แล้ว +20

      That would be an interesting improv game that’s for certain

    • @thegodofalldragons
      @thegodofalldragons ปีที่แล้ว +15

      So literally the plot of Bowfinger.

    • @dimitriwarchief301
      @dimitriwarchief301 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Patrick stewit was not ready for his nose to be bittin

  • @somethingwithultra7231
    @somethingwithultra7231 ปีที่แล้ว +2393

    This movie adheres to the most damned fantasy of all. The feds actually finding someone dangerous who seemed to be on their radar.

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 ปีที่แล้ว +255

      Usually they just find people who are dangerous and talk them into acting out

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish ปีที่แล้ว +161

      They always find them, usually they "engourage" them to act out in flashy and horrifying but ineffectual ways.

    • @NeverSaySandwich1
      @NeverSaySandwich1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mrscruffles801 Exactly, so many FBI honeypots and then pushing others to commit crimes. Like the recent Whitmer kidnapping plot, total entrapment and they deny all involvement

    • @herohalv4543
      @herohalv4543 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      "hey everone i found one! the government actually found someone we were looking for!"

    • @donpollo3154
      @donpollo3154 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      ​@@herohalv4543 EPA EPA

  • @LothianNerd
    @LothianNerd ปีที่แล้ว +1605

    Fun story: my uncle is friends with the family who rented out their apartment in New York for this film. Never thought about it again until this video.

    • @galacticupfan7386
      @galacticupfan7386 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn that sucks that their apartment got blowed up by the deep state my condolences

    • @BrokenCurtain
      @BrokenCurtain ปีที่แล้ว +120

      I bet they regretted that decision after the feds had blown up the place.

    • @chrisbaled7471
      @chrisbaled7471 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was the 666th person to like your comment

    • @candygirl4958
      @candygirl4958 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@BrokenCurtain is bad

  • @v.m.9198
    @v.m.9198 ปีที่แล้ว +731

    I legit had a bus driver who would rant to me nonstop about conspiracy theories. This went on for weeks until he mysteriously disappeared. Part of me wants to believe The Man got him but it's far more likely he was arrested again for not paying his child support (which was part of his many conspiracies)

    • @my9thaccount140
      @my9thaccount140 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

      The perfect cover for getting rid of a dangerous individual. Truly diabolical those G Men, truly diabolical.

    • @vfxninja5503
      @vfxninja5503 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@my9thaccount140you joke but this comment section is covered with idiots trying to imply that getting banned from TH-cam for being antisemitic or arrested for breaking the law is proof of (dumb pet conspiracy that makes them feel smart)

    • @vit968
      @vit968 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      @@my9thaccount140
      *"No! That's not my wife! That's not my kid! I don't know you!"*
      *"Please honey, we love you."*
      *"I want my dad back."*

  • @mrscruffles801
    @mrscruffles801 ปีที่แล้ว +3441

    I wish Hollywood had the balls to make more insane movies like this now. The 90s was a wacky time indeed.

    • @NotBot0251
      @NotBot0251 ปีที่แล้ว +204

      It's the one film that would be criticized MORE for not casting a white male lead

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@NotBot0251
      “Criticized,” of course

    • @GenericProtagonist118
      @GenericProtagonist118 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      I feel like Free Guy might be the closest thing we have to that...

    • @EternalEdgeLord
      @EternalEdgeLord ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lemme guess, found him through the Transformers videos?

    • @nieznajomy4398
      @nieznajomy4398 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Did you watched "Everything Everywhere All at Once"?
      Considering it was box office "failure" probably not but this movie is "insane movie" and in the same time actually good.

  • @longlivethesheet4561
    @longlivethesheet4561 ปีที่แล้ว +2903

    This probably would be one of the few films to actually benefit from the “main character is actually hallucinating the plot” trope

    • @GG_1318
      @GG_1318 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Not all conspiracies are false

    • @longlivethesheet4561
      @longlivethesheet4561 ปีที่แล้ว +370

      @@GG_1318 *Most conspiracies are false.
      Also for “some reason” become rather anti-Semitic

    • @GG_1318
      @GG_1318 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@longlivethesheet4561 A massive amount are real and have nothing do with semites

    • @lego007guym8
      @lego007guym8 ปีที่แล้ว +261

      @@GG_1318 Conspiracy #356: "Trees are alive and scream constantly."

    • @andrewmanchiraju8005
      @andrewmanchiraju8005 ปีที่แล้ว +237

      @@lego007guym8 You’re telling me that most people don’t hear the trees screaming?

  • @r0de
    @r0de ปีที่แล้ว +954

    Honestly though, I have to give this movie points for the fact that the Secret-Super-Agent lost with faulty programming and no memory, isn't portrayed as some cold, cool-headed Badass like Jason Bourne... but is instead a nervous wreck, fighting with all kinds of mental illnesses and character ticks, unable to form meaningful connections, while still following some drilled in routines that would seem like an absolute schizophrenic nightmare to an outside observer

    • @WingMaster562
      @WingMaster562 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      The closetest other character I can think of is John Malkovich's in R.E.D.

    • @my9thaccount140
      @my9thaccount140 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      Which is probably what somebody who underwent that sort of thing would realistically be like. Something that makes everything in the movie way funnier.

    • @accountrandomnumber182
      @accountrandomnumber182 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@my9thaccount140funny🙂

    • @blaacksugar7714
      @blaacksugar7714 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Sounds like something The Venture brothers would write.

  • @DagothDaddy
    @DagothDaddy ปีที่แล้ว +477

    If the CIA isn't real who keeps pissing in my bed when I'm asleep?

    • @thepapschmearmd
      @thepapschmearmd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      This is a wildly underrated comment.

    • @my9thaccount140
      @my9thaccount140 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Probably that mongrel dog of the empire Caius Cosades. It’s how he honors the sixth house and the tribe unmourned.

    • @a22024
      @a22024 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      IT WAS ME, BARRY!

    • @tominieminen66
      @tominieminen66 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      ​@@a22024No wonder his suit is yellow

    • @helrem
      @helrem 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      me and your sister

  • @jacktowers7533
    @jacktowers7533 ปีที่แล้ว +351

    I think I’m paraphrasing the movie but when he’s getting taken in by the bad guys and he says something like “wait that means I was right! Wait, which one was I right about?” Which is just brilliant

    • @maclain728
      @maclain728 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      This is an example of a movie with a great premise but poor execution. Some decent acting and a better script, this movie actually could’ve been pretty great

  • @SeruraRenge11
    @SeruraRenge11 ปีที่แล้ว +1143

    See if Mel Gibson also directed this film, it'd be a 10/10 masterpiece. Because for whatever reason, Mel is a really good director.

    • @sergiowinter5383
      @sergiowinter5383 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Because Passion of Christ happened

    • @agonzalez7095
      @agonzalez7095 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      apocalypto and Passion of Christ would like to disagree.

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 ปีที่แล้ว +296

      @@agonzalez7095 you can disagree with the content, historical accuracy, etc of those films. But from a filmmaking standpoint they're very well-made films.

    • @agonzalez7095
      @agonzalez7095 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@SeruraRenge11 true

    • @coladecker3792
      @coladecker3792 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      @@SeruraRenge11 didn't he make hacksaw ridge

  • @johnnye87
    @johnnye87 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    I agree, having him *actually* be the guy who killed her dad under brainwashing - with the later obsession with her being a result of unconscious guilt - is much better than "he was sent to do it but The Power Of Love At First Sight broke his programming".

  • @brenolk4642
    @brenolk4642 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    You should really talk about a Christmas movie called Fatman where Mel Gibson plays Santa and a Santa obsessed hitman is hired by an spoiler Elementary school student to take him out, also the US military wants to turn Santa’s Workshop into a weapons manufacturing plant because of how effective the elf’s are with making toys…for some plot reason

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Mel Gibson is a genius

    • @larrylambert1220
      @larrylambert1220 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Fatman ranks up there with Die Hard as a must see X-mass movie.

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Oh... So that movie's real...
      I thought I hallucinated it someday...

    • @thepapschmearmd
      @thepapschmearmd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Violent Night is another chef kiss of a Christmas movie.

    • @NoahGooder
      @NoahGooder 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      holy ..... that movie actually exists

  • @praporbarton3961
    @praporbarton3961 ปีที่แล้ว +700

    I literally saw this film this week. Conspiracy Theory, Jacob's Ladder and Signs are the holy trinity of conspiracy thrillers

    • @CordellPotts
      @CordellPotts ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Watch The Manchurian Candidate
      The original, not the remake.

    • @starkillersneed
      @starkillersneed ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I'd add They Live and the first MIB

    • @lego007guym8
      @lego007guym8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      This just made me think of a prequel fallout game where you play an on-the-run conspiracy theorist running from the Enclave after finding out about FEV or the Vault Experiments or the Oil Rig etc. It'd be pretty cool.

    • @zhitchcresttail3387
      @zhitchcresttail3387 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      How is Jacob's Ladder a conspiracy movie?

    • @4rtie
      @4rtie ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@lego007guym8 you should check out more media

  • @TimedRevolver
    @TimedRevolver ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Alice 'falling' for him is easily explained: she felt like shit for believing the villain, and thinking he was about to die, didn't want to just be like "You don't love me, you're a stalker you jackass."
    So she just gave him what he wanted to hear.

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      That would've been great if it the movie gave you a tidbit that this is the case

    • @a22024
      @a22024 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I just take as a partially sympathetic/caretaker love. There are real world equivalent relationships.

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@a22024 Someone's gotta stop this guy from going full maniac.

    • @DakotaofRaptors
      @DakotaofRaptors 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@peppermillers8361what's your pfp from?

    • @user-cw3wm9lx7w
      @user-cw3wm9lx7w 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@a22024 maybe.

  • @jesushernanpizarrogonzalez7297
    @jesushernanpizarrogonzalez7297 ปีที่แล้ว +322

    This reminded me of that one movie where Bruce Willis has to protect an autistic child from the government because the kid accidentally decoded a super secret code that the government uses for secret stuff and that for some reason they published as a puzzle in a kids magazine as a joke because they thought no one would ever crack it and now they want to kill the child before someone finds out he knows how to decode this super secret code.

    • @matthiasthulman4058
      @matthiasthulman4058 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Mercury Rising

    • @asnekboi7232
      @asnekboi7232 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why does the deep state always leave oblivious clues to follow

    • @johnnye87
      @johnnye87 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      Why would they want to kill the kid and not put him in a safehouse and train him to become a codebreaker FOR THEM?
      I'm sure there's some story somewhere where a savant is frequently given "puzzles" that are really top secret codes. Maybe I'm thinking of Leonard of Quirm in Discworld.

    • @jesushernanpizarrogonzalez7297
      @jesushernanpizarrogonzalez7297 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@johnnye87 i don't know, i saw this movie when i was around twelve, all i remember is the savant autistic child being chased by the FBI because he broke a code and Bruce Willis had to protect him.

    • @StupidIsMyJob
      @StupidIsMyJob 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jesushernanpizarrogonzalez7297ngl though, solid action flick, totally forgot I watched it lmao

  • @dashampootester1274
    @dashampootester1274 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    The sequence where he escapes while strapped into the wheelchair is iconic

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's one of the few scenes I remembered despite watching it long ago and almost forgetting about it.

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 ปีที่แล้ว +631

    The way you described the love dynamic in this film made it sound eerily.. I don’t know what word to use other than abusive.
    Like, someone constantly doing creepy shit over and over again, enough to make anyone want to leave, but still doing the occasional good thing which delays that inevitability.

    • @pja6476
      @pja6476 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you have the name of a guy who is a known child toucher.

    • @fallenoak4560
      @fallenoak4560 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Alright Dr Bright.

    • @sergiowinter5383
      @sergiowinter5383 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Protagonist is against the deep state acting like the deep state

    • @akunekochan
      @akunekochan ปีที่แล้ว +64

      yeah. it reminds me of the video from Pop Culture Detective "stalking for love" or "predatory romance in Harrison ford movies" that is a criticism on this exact topic. Those characters treat woman bad but it's framed as a good even "sexy".
      there are others videos from the same channel talking more on weird tropes that Hollywood treat as "romantic" but actually is abusive or straight up crime.
      highly recommend watch
      (sorry if bad english)

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@akunekochan Well Hollywood is pretty well-known for abuse in real life isn't it?

  • @TheOriginalduMan
    @TheOriginalduMan ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Man, the first half of this movie is *so good*. All the setup stuff was fantastic, Gibson brilliantly balances charismatic and creepily unhinged, Stewart is perfect, Roberts elevates what could have been a super generic character, and Richard Donner put it all together as professionally as ever.
    And then the second half very slowly goes off the rails, as it fails to pay anything off effectively. It's not really until the last 15 minutes or so that it falls apart (and even then, Donner delivers some good thriller moments), but man, it's just such a shame that they didn't have the guts to stick with the way more interesting movie that they're setting up.

    • @kinsmart7294
      @kinsmart7294 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah, i feel that it would be best if the enemy was never revealed and only hinted at. Let paranoia run rampant.

    • @TheOriginalduMan
      @TheOriginalduMan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kinsmart7294 That would be the best! But I think they could even have gotten away with revealing it (after all, a former MKUltra boss cleaning up loose ends is honestly a cool answer) if they hadn't had Mel be right about *every* wacko theory and had found a way to keep a degree of mystery and power there even with the answers* hadn't forced that yikes romance and just generally found a stronger last 20 minutes.
      * After all, we know, for example, broadly speaking what Parallax was up to in The Parallax View, but never why or what their ultimate goals are or if they're really powerful and connected or just inconspicuous. But we still get the gist of what they're doing.

    • @HAYAOLEONE
      @HAYAOLEONE ปีที่แล้ว

      You want a hollywood movie to tell you that hollywood, NASA, tehinterwebz/facebook/onlypornfans etc = run 100% by the deep state?
      Ewen Cameron mk ultra stuff and NBC weapons' research is probably the best we'll ever get from mainstream media.
      🙊🙉

  • @RangerHouston
    @RangerHouston ปีที่แล้ว +89

    _It’s not paranoia when they actually are out to get you._

  • @chinsaw2727
    @chinsaw2727 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    So this movie is essentially what happens when a Conspiracy Theorist realizes that they got in to deep, shed their tinfoil hat, and dons a Kevlar Vest.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Basically its like if in Total Recall the Arnold Character wasn't an Average Joe but an insane 4Chan poster

    • @MapleovBacon
      @MapleovBacon ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 Amazing

  • @lordpennyson4782
    @lordpennyson4782 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    I can't get enough of PointlessHub style editing

  • @maxfinazzo2443
    @maxfinazzo2443 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    7.3 on the Richter scale in southern turkey? Is uh... Is NASA still at it?

    • @TheUSgoverment
      @TheUSgoverment 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We cannot deny or approve

  • @deadlydiamond
    @deadlydiamond ปีที่แล้ว +23

    What Pointless actually said: "Forces are at work in the shadows"
    What I though he said, for some odd reason: "Horses are at work in the shadows"

  • @gustavohernandeza.890
    @gustavohernandeza.890 ปีที่แล้ว +325

    Conspiracy Theory had a great premise to be a fun movie. Sadly, the final product is lacking all around. Mel is doing his shtick but his character feels underdeveloped, and Julia Roberts' character more so. The whole conspiracy plot is lame as hell and Richard Donner's direction is barely noticeable. Agree that Carter Burwell's score is the best tho.

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 ปีที่แล้ว

      Julia Roberts should've been cut entirely, and replaced with someone with a role to fill besides generic love interest

    • @rileyfreedman
      @rileyfreedman ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Not only that but the whole relationship dynamic between Julia roberts and Mel Gibson is so problematic that it weighs down the viewing experience for most people

  • @DHCR-core
    @DHCR-core ปีที่แล้ว +214

    God I REMEMBER this shit. It was hilarious as a kid and I completely forgot it existed.

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same, although the scene with Gibson strapped to his chair with his eyes open wide with duck tape is a very memorable moment for me unironically.

  • @garythescouttrooper4908
    @garythescouttrooper4908 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    "This man is a 4chan poster that wound up as the main character of a political thriller."
    This simple sentence just creates the most ridiculous plot for a Jason Bourne-esque film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon as the 4Chan poster.

  • @griffinkealey6043
    @griffinkealey6043 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I'm going to tell my kids this was Stanley Kubrick's eyes wide shut

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Close enough.

    • @Plantmej23
      @Plantmej23 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I just watched that last night I can’t believe we in a world like this … something crazy gotta happen for it to stop

  • @joelbrydon7710
    @joelbrydon7710 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I'd like to thank pointless hub for introducing me to that theme. Now I can have an appropriate sound track as I rant about how alternate History channels are a Psy op to prepare us for time travel shananegens.

    • @Jsay18
      @Jsay18 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hope. Get me outta here.

    • @my9thaccount140
      @my9thaccount140 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’d be really funny if in the future time travel was invented entirely for the purpose of banishing people back in time. Like in the future you post some crime stats, feds immediately kidnap you and instead of reconditioning you, they send you back to the 1800s with enough resources to start a cotton plantation and tell you to go nuts.

  • @sharrpshooter1
    @sharrpshooter1 ปีที่แล้ว +397

    The idea of NASA having all of this power and being the villian might be the funniest unexplored plot I have ever heard of. It sounds like it was made by someone who doesnt understand science so obviously they fear it

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      NASA wishes they were this powerful.

    • @TheSlicktrickz
      @TheSlicktrickz ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s the thing with NASA conspiracies that make them sort of stupid. NASA is full of autists who find stuff like finding moon rocks and crashing drones into asteroids fascinating. You know who doesn’t? The American government. There’s nothing tangible to be gained just scientific data. You think if NASA was that powerful they’d go and grovel for more funding from the government? Of course not

    • @roseCatcher_
      @roseCatcher_ ปีที่แล้ว

      What's scarier than these movies is real life though. Because in real life we see people who "understand science", like you, do horrible, immoral stuff at the behest of politicians, be it building the atomic bomb and watch a thousand powdered, or finding newer ways to torture Jews in concentration chambers, or maybe even dismember Chinese people at Japanese facilities to see how long they live. But obviously that dude in the gas chamber doesn't understand science, right?

    • @unfairjarl
      @unfairjarl ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Ah yes, the Lovecraft method of being deadly afraid of AC

    • @Optiganone
      @Optiganone ปีที่แล้ว +52

      What is also funny is that this movie, being titled "Conspiracy Theory", with NASA as the main antagonists IS NOT about flat earth somehow :/

  • @ApostleOfDarkness
    @ApostleOfDarkness ปีที่แล้ว +96

    My favourite conspiracy is everything is going to be alright

    • @derhugo0135
      @derhugo0135 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      That's just ridiculous, it'll never happen. Get your head out of the gutter

    • @voxpopuli7910
      @voxpopuli7910 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      With the actual situation, yeah no

    • @KOTYAR0
      @KOTYAR0 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      everything is going to be alright. I'm Russian, so you know, i have a lot to obsess about

  • @WTFisTingispingis
    @WTFisTingispingis ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I can't deal with the idea of Patrick Stewart being a villain in anything. He's too nice!

    • @muggzo
      @muggzo ปีที่แล้ว +3

      he plays the main villain in this horror film called green room where he's a murderous neo Nazi lol

    • @WTFisTingispingis
      @WTFisTingispingis 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@muggzo Damn now I wanna see how he does that.

  • @VagusDoc
    @VagusDoc ปีที่แล้ว +43

    “This is the Black Panther for flat earthers.”
    Laughing aaaaaaand dead

  • @hanscuperwithavengence3445
    @hanscuperwithavengence3445 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I absolutely saw this movie and had completely forgotten it. Thank for bringing back 90 something minutes of my life that had been lost.

  • @misterzygarde6431
    @misterzygarde6431 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Curious on your thoughts on when he played Santa Claus
    Also imagine if Conspiracy Theory took place in the South Park universe

  • @Brianna-eo8nu
    @Brianna-eo8nu ปีที่แล้ว +11

    From the goofy music heard in the film clips and the absurd premise and plot elements, I thought this movie was supposed to be a dark comedy or conspiracy thriller parody.
    According to Letterboxed, however, Conspiracy Theory (1997) is a thriller action mystery and drama.

  • @NextToToddliness
    @NextToToddliness 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This movie is literally every paranoid-person-on-the-internet-porn.

  • @venomtron
    @venomtron ปีที่แล้ว +27

    "The Black Panther for earth flatness" 🤣

  • @R_K_S2401
    @R_K_S2401 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My favorite part of all your videos on this channel is the editing. Its so damn chaotic. "Hold on to those eggs dear" 2 seconds later. "Auuuu!" As the old couple in 2012 plow into a giant chunk of rock 🤣

  • @RM2011ish
    @RM2011ish ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I specifically remember the scene where Patrick Stewart kidnaps and tortures Mel Gibson. I know it was probably supposed to be suspenseful but it was so batshit insane I was laughing my ass off the whole time.

    • @gustavoalmanza2673
      @gustavoalmanza2673 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was high when I saw the MK ultra scene and it was terrifying

  • @NigelThrashner
    @NigelThrashner ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I will always use celebrities’ names to summarize a movie to someone. Top-shelf grade A editing this vid!

  • @95keat
    @95keat ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This feels like a eleven and half minute personal attack

  • @cornhorn280
    @cornhorn280 ปีที่แล้ว +209

    I honestly envy people who are absolutely insane like Jerry. I wish I could just be crazy and unhinged sometimes.

    • @NotBot0251
      @NotBot0251 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Careful what you wish for

    • @alastor8091
      @alastor8091 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      Ignorance is said to be bliss, but imagining terrors at every corner with no reprieve is hell. You don't want to be insane.

    • @idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472
      @idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It's pretty easy if you just act like you don't care what anyone thinks

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472 That doesn't make you crazy, that makes you most sane of all

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Want to see someone like Jerry IRL? Look at your average QAnon believer.

  • @Crunchy_Troll
    @Crunchy_Troll ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is a “Literally Me” movie

  • @Leon_George
    @Leon_George ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The newsletter could have been called 'The Conspiratorial'.

  • @mikethedinoman8970
    @mikethedinoman8970 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Edge of Darkness is another “Deep State” Thriller he stars in, I forget a lot about it but I’m noticing a pattern lmao

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yeah, Mel is based as hecc

    • @zillafire101
      @zillafire101 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's got a massive victim complex.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@zillafire101 Pot, meet kettle.

    • @zillafire101
      @zillafire101 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DIEGhostfish What even did I say that makes you think I have a victim complex.

    • @iamthewizardwhoknocks2845
      @iamthewizardwhoknocks2845 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@zillafire101 He knows you're an elf...somehow.

  • @nickleary1982
    @nickleary1982 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The problem with “Conspiracy Theories” is that some of them turn out to be true. And the worst part is that the conspiracy theory about the CIA creating the term to discredit Conspiracy theorists is also true.

    • @TheUSgoverment
      @TheUSgoverment 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Its part of an exam we give all the interns to make some conspiracy up on 4chan

  • @bobmcob1132
    @bobmcob1132 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Wow, the earthquake did not age well.

  • @hewhoneverdies001
    @hewhoneverdies001 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I saw this movie when I was a kid, when it was still fairly new and I always remembered it as being really intense, cool and a bit scary at times (I was like 10 at the time). I recently gave it a second watch, I was a bit underwhelmed but it's still really entertaining, but a lot sillier than I remember. Like that scene with the black helicopters; How can nobody else see them!? ''Silent mode'' or not, they are hovering about 20 meters over the streets of New York.

    • @Rocketboy1313
      @Rocketboy1313 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "New Yorkers! You fucking people think you are so great by playing it cool and jaded all the time! There is a silent running helicopter deploying commandos and I want you all to react to it!"

  • @LCp1RickIlls
    @LCp1RickIlls ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I freakin’ love this channel! You analyze movies and topics that no one else ever really talks about and are extremely funny whilst doing it. You are seen and appreciated my friend! Keep it up!

  • @derhugo0135
    @derhugo0135 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    This has to be the biggest "literally me" in cinematic history

  • @3dartxsi
    @3dartxsi ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I love the fact that the world depicted in this film is one where these shadowy groups are smart enough to pull off these incredible feats like mine control, stealthy black helicopters, and earthquake guns, but cook up these ridiculously impractical plans. Like, how is an earthquake the weapon of choice for a political assassination?
    This is like someone took those Mitchell and Webb sketches and played the concepts perfectly straight.

    • @a22024
      @a22024 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Plausible deniability

    • @tominieminen66
      @tominieminen66 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Sure enough, nobody would even think that somebody would or could assassinate someone with an earthquake xD

    • @huntersandgatherers4610
      @huntersandgatherers4610 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But we have the ability to do that. HAARP has the ability to do it

  • @kolosmaimous
    @kolosmaimous ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Did this movie just predict the massive earthquakes in southern turkey???

  • @marreco6347
    @marreco6347 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Props on this movie and Machete 2 for having an insane person play an insane person.

  • @NathanS__
    @NathanS__ ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I'm not being followed.

  • @toonbat
    @toonbat ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I loved the first twenty minutes of the movie, when I thought this was gonna be a dark comedy. Imagine my chagrin when I realized the movie was expecting the viewer to take it seriously.

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I took it as a comedy, it's just I was about half way through it before I realized it wasn't being funny on purpose. Didn't hinder my enjoyment of it though.

    • @toonbat
      @toonbat ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@troodon1096 It did mine. Seeing Mel groan and whimper like he had a stomach cramp, while exposition-dumping mushy melodrama stops being funny after ten seconds, and it feels like that was half the movie.

  • @jaykubisanidiot8657
    @jaykubisanidiot8657 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    It was during this movie I realized Mel Gibson is a serious masochist... Rewatch Braveheart/ Apocolyto/ Passion of the Christ... Even during the Lethal Weapon movies... He's insane and I love him

  • @Akatsuki_716
    @Akatsuki_716 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The best thing about this movie is that the following year Enemy of the State would come out which is a far superior film with a similar premise.

  • @slavvy.mp4884
    @slavvy.mp4884 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    A conspiracy movie actually predicting the turkey earthquakes is so ironic

    • @thedripkingofangmar6778
      @thedripkingofangmar6778 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      There's an earthquake in Turkey every few years

    • @abithefallenhuman921
      @abithefallenhuman921 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@thedripkingofangmar6778 hell Turkey and Greece trade supplies whenever the other suffers from an earthquake it's that's common

  • @JoeRosarioBZ
    @JoeRosarioBZ ปีที่แล้ว +8

    11:05 interesting

  • @andreworders7305
    @andreworders7305 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Since the movie doesn’t look too kindly on the main character most of the time, it kind of works. It’d work better if he actually killed her father.

  • @Gator159
    @Gator159 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This movie isn't referenced enough in todays society.

  • @Her-again
    @Her-again ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Walked in on my dads youtube autoplaying your transformer video in the living room, best random find in months, keep it up I love your sense of humor and your pacing and editing is great 👍 subbed and will share, your a funny dude 😄

  • @freddyarm7927
    @freddyarm7927 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I actually have a conspiracy theory that involves that, pointless hub and alternative history hub ,are actually the same youtuber.

  • @thepopdog1973
    @thepopdog1973 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "It's gravy for the brain"
    Truly one of the greatest movie scenes ever

  • @CommisarHood
    @CommisarHood ปีที่แล้ว +4

    MIB: You have discovered our dark secret and revealed it to the world!
    Jerry: Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

  • @antleymeese2147
    @antleymeese2147 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I’m very happy about you doing this topic because I’ve been watching clips of Patrick Stewart losing it all week and this is the cherry on top

  • @ProvaBeK
    @ProvaBeK 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Mel Gibson warned us about they/them

  • @uclearwhale
    @uclearwhale ปีที่แล้ว +6

    earthquake in Southern Turkey? Thousands dead? Uh oh

  • @rafaellago172
    @rafaellago172 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Typical Hollywood MO: "Hey, here's an absolutely outrageous idea for a comedy, with the perfect cast to boot. Let's make it a dead serious action thriller instead."

  • @mrwuzz2244
    @mrwuzz2244 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "7.3 earthquake in southern Turkey".... oof

  • @guybaldwin8995
    @guybaldwin8995 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Another great video, keep it up!
    I recently re-watched both Pacific Rims, they seem right up your alley for content and would imo be a great review!

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm still waiting for a 3rd one.

    • @9specter528
      @9specter528 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@louisduarte8763
      ...but how could that be when they only ever made one movie back in 2013?
      ...did I fucking stutter?!

  • @declangallagher1448
    @declangallagher1448 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Picard suffered badly under the Cardasdians... Can you really blame him for going back in time and kidnapping Mel Gibson?

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!

    • @a22024
      @a22024 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@louisduarte8763whoa man cool it with the lightphobia

  • @Hungeryan
    @Hungeryan ปีที่แล้ว +90

    This reminds me to the many people I have encountered on the internet, who always told me they knew about a "secretive group of individuals" who rule over the whole world, brain wash everyone into their whacky ideas, watch everyone's every single step and suppress any one who finds out about them. Then days go by, then weeks, then months, then years, they keep telling me about this, and yet they haven't mysteriously dissapeared a single time, their personalities haven't changed a bit even though they've told it to thousands, if not millions of people and even went out on the streets to protest against this world order.
    Makes you think whether these people are just masters of trolling or are actually mentally insane.
    (To be fair though, American, Chinese and Russian corporations as well as governments spying on us, so they can sell the information they collected about us for profit seems reasonable enough for me to belive lol)

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish ปีที่แล้ว +23

      They only disappear the actual threats, or make an example here and there.

    • @sergiowinter5383
      @sergiowinter5383 ปีที่แล้ว

      No secretive group: it's the bankers and the WEF, it's obvious

    • @nieznajomy4398
      @nieznajomy4398 ปีที่แล้ว

      Honestly most unbelievable part of those conspiracy theories is that there are people competent enough to rule the world from the shadows. Like just look at elon musk.
      also about collecting data is 100% true, every cookies on websites are literally collecting your data. To what extent? I recommend video "Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" outside of explaining how this works also he is telling real life examples.

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean the World Economic Forum? Or the CIA? I don't get what about that is so insane to you, the media exists solely to brainwash people, and plenty of people like Vince Foster and Jeffrey Epstein have been offed for the very reasons you mentioned.

    • @nuttmc4803
      @nuttmc4803 ปีที่แล้ว

      When most people think that these people are crazy there is no need to make em disappear snowden exposed the corrupt goverment and people did nothing like nothing at all and they even think he is a traitor because he escaped to russia no need to kill him western "democracies" are way better at control than the most authoritarian goverments

  • @CassandraFortuna
    @CassandraFortuna ปีที่แล้ว +6

    the comments section is trying to out-LSD the movie about a literal LSD-doped sleeper agent

    • @GG_1318
      @GG_1318 ปีที่แล้ว

      ???

  • @michaelanderson6394
    @michaelanderson6394 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    5:36 Am I the only one who wishes that we got to see that Deadliest Warrior clip again in this moment? You know the one I’m talking about. It would’ve fit so well!

  • @jesuisunstroopwafel
    @jesuisunstroopwafel ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I discovered your channel with your Sharknado episode. Never I thought watching Alternate History Hub's videos on Red Alert would make me want more videos on dumb action films.

  • @junkyardjoe1419
    @junkyardjoe1419 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My man you are getting me through this hurricane and my surgery recovery. Appreciated.

  • @hospitalifter
    @hospitalifter ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's good to have you back Hub of the Pointless

  • @Longshanks1690
    @Longshanks1690 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    * the documentary

  • @nahuelzon1712
    @nahuelzon1712 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I remember watching this movie when I was a kid cause the part in the wheelchair and the cartoons and Mel screaming all the time was very funny to me. For some reason I confused it with "Ramson", another crazy old Mel Gibson movie. And that soundtrack, it is so rare and it doesnt blened in the scenes either, but it's very characteristic

  • @SuperSaiyanGuyver
    @SuperSaiyanGuyver ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That score is incredible. The theme that plays early (and later when Julia Roberts is riding her horse) is a real standout.

  • @pokemonduck
    @pokemonduck ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I liked the wall where you connected a picture of a frog with a rainbow flag to Alex Jones :D it's the details that make this channel so good

  • @John-kd2tc
    @John-kd2tc ปีที่แล้ว +9

    If he did kill her dad, it would basically be the story of Hitman.

  • @jonerikson5925
    @jonerikson5925 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "I dare Hollywood to remake this"

  • @vojtaliska1430
    @vojtaliska1430 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My favorite conspiracy theory is that everything will be alright.

    • @ed8212
      @ed8212 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you're delusional, get help

  • @Madly_Zen
    @Madly_Zen 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I agree with your theory that the entire movie is in his head. We’re just shown the world he always thinks he’s living in. One where he thinks the deep state will come full force after some random nobody who’s never taken seriously, where women despite all his many flaws are attracted to him, and most importantly, a world where he’s somebody important. He’s not just some lunatic, he’s a perfectly normal guy who was just MADE to seem crazy by the deep state making him a professional killer.
    I think the movie if it explored that route had a lot of potential

  • @theodorekaczynski8147
    @theodorekaczynski8147 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The cabal spending so many resources and ruining themselves to kill a guy with 5 subs is realistic

  • @krisztiansturm1690
    @krisztiansturm1690 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The worst thing about this movie is that it has genuinly good (or at the very least fun) ideas AND Mel Gibson in it and it still fails

  • @newrecru1t
    @newrecru1t ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm just here for when the Deep State gets taken out by Pointless Hub's Sharknado franchise review.

  • @stages_of_mania
    @stages_of_mania ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are the most generous man in all of history; “ *strangest* love dynamic “ is putting it SO nicely

  • @treefingers1183
    @treefingers1183 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oh fuck
    I killed myself doing my best Bill Clinton out loud for that quote at the end
    Thank you for that

  • @mikeyahl7363
    @mikeyahl7363 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I want this movie to be remade, but the Riddler from "The Batman" playing Mel Gibson's role, & Julia Robert's character just pretends to believe/love him until she gets the cops to take him away at the end.

  • @Leitis_Fella
    @Leitis_Fella ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Using an earthquake to kill the president"
    I'm a geologist; earthquakes are very difficult to impossible to detect beforehand. They should have gone with an volcanic eruption instead

  • @jacksonlarson6099
    @jacksonlarson6099 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Of course it's MK Ultra. It's always MK Ultra.

  • @AndreTheEntree
    @AndreTheEntree ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hearing the bit at the end about nasa making an earthquake in Turkey was whiplash considering the recent conspiracy theories about it.

  • @XYBAheart
    @XYBAheart ปีที่แล้ว +4

    ... Wait. Is, was this why Stewart was the CIA director in american dad? Was that a long-bomb deep injoke?