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

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2022
  • 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.
    Twitter: / hubpointless
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  • @PointlessHub
    @PointlessHub  Год назад +2720

    Please don't take my video down RUclips this is for the funny

    • @iguanavic4834
      @iguanavic4834 Год назад +19

      Dark of the moon?

    • @DrNotnert
      @DrNotnert Год назад +40

      Susan Wojcicki laughs at your cries for mercy

    • @swyjix
      @swyjix Год назад +9

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

    • @CordellPotts
      @CordellPotts Год назад +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 Год назад

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

  • @DrNotnert
    @DrNotnert Год назад +6629

    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 Год назад +185

      The entire movie is actually just Gibson getting bowfingered

    • @theprofessionalfence-sitter
      @theprofessionalfence-sitter Год назад +276

      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 Год назад +62

      The role he was born to play.

    • @vitorafmonteiro
      @vitorafmonteiro Год назад +130

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

    • @hamkeyentertainment7324
      @hamkeyentertainment7324 Год назад +4

      spittin facts

  • @Tinyuvm
    @Tinyuvm Год назад +781

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

    • @my9thaccount140
      @my9thaccount140 Год назад

      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 10 дней назад

      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.

  • @bruhbruh-us6gl
    @bruhbruh-us6gl Год назад +4797

    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 Год назад +515

      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 Год назад +37

      Ye is right

    • @merlenclownshuffles
      @merlenclownshuffles Год назад +16

      @@Jimbo55151 XD

    • @dodojesus4529
      @dodojesus4529 Год назад +1

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

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 Год назад +139

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

  • @longlivethesheet4561
    @longlivethesheet4561 Год назад +2898

    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 Год назад +62

      Not all conspiracies are false

    • @longlivethesheet4561
      @longlivethesheet4561 Год назад +370

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

    • @GG_1318
      @GG_1318 Год назад +80

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

    • @lego007guym8
      @lego007guym8 Год назад +261

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

    • @andrewmanchiraju8005
      @andrewmanchiraju8005 Год назад +236

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

  • @mrscruffles801
    @mrscruffles801 Год назад +3438

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

    • @NotBot0251
      @NotBot0251 Год назад +204

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

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia Год назад +28

      @@NotBot0251
      “Criticized,” of course

    • @GenericProtagonist118
      @GenericProtagonist118 Год назад +67

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

    • @EternalEdgeLord
      @EternalEdgeLord Год назад +7

      Lemme guess, found him through the Transformers videos?

    • @nieznajomy4398
      @nieznajomy4398 Год назад +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.

  • @somethingwithultra7231
    @somethingwithultra7231 Год назад +2389

    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 Год назад +254

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

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish Год назад +160

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

    • @NeverSaySandwich1
      @NeverSaySandwich1 Год назад

      @@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 Год назад +60

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

    • @donpollo3154
      @donpollo3154 Год назад +11

      ​@@herohalv4543 EPA EPA

  • @tatersalad76
    @tatersalad76 Год назад +1023

    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 Год назад +20

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

    • @thegodofalldragons
      @thegodofalldragons Год назад +15

      So literally the plot of Bowfinger.

    • @dimitriwarchief301
      @dimitriwarchief301 9 месяцев назад +3

      Patrick stewit was not ready for his nose to be bittin

  • @DagothDaddy
    @DagothDaddy Год назад +470

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

    • @thepapschmearmd
      @thepapschmearmd 11 месяцев назад +25

      This is a wildly underrated comment.

    • @my9thaccount140
      @my9thaccount140 11 месяцев назад

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

    • @a22024
      @a22024 10 месяцев назад +61

      IT WAS ME, BARRY!

    • @tominieminen66
      @tominieminen66 9 месяцев назад +27

      ​@@a22024No wonder his suit is yellow

    • @helrem
      @helrem 5 месяцев назад +8

      me and your sister

  • @gabrielketchen7945
    @gabrielketchen7945 Год назад +1598

    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 Год назад

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

    • @BrokenCurtain
      @BrokenCurtain Год назад +118

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

    • @chrisbaled7471
      @chrisbaled7471 Год назад +6

      I was the 666th person to like your comment

    • @candygirl4958
      @candygirl4958 Год назад +4

      @@BrokenCurtain is bad

  • @v.m.9198
    @v.m.9198 Год назад +726

    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 месяцев назад +120

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

    • @vfxninja5503
      @vfxninja5503 10 месяцев назад

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

    • @vit968
      @vit968 8 месяцев назад +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."*

  • @r0de
    @r0de Год назад +949

    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 Год назад +80

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

    • @my9thaccount140
      @my9thaccount140 11 месяцев назад +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 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@my9thaccount140funny🙂

    • @blaacksugar7714
      @blaacksugar7714 8 месяцев назад +5

      Sounds like something The Venture brothers would write.

  • @SeruraRenge11
    @SeruraRenge11 Год назад +1142

    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 Год назад +18

      Because Passion of Christ happened

    • @agonzalez7095
      @agonzalez7095 Год назад +37

      apocalypto and Passion of Christ would like to disagree.

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 Год назад +295

      @@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 Год назад +7

      @@SeruraRenge11 true

    • @coladecker3792
      @coladecker3792 Год назад +93

      @@SeruraRenge11 didn't he make hacksaw ridge

  • @jacktowers7533
    @jacktowers7533 Год назад +350

    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 Год назад +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

  • @brenolk4642
    @brenolk4642 Год назад +400

    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 Год назад +52

      Mel Gibson is a genius

    • @larrylambert1220
      @larrylambert1220 Год назад +64

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

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro Год назад +45

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

    • @thepapschmearmd
      @thepapschmearmd 11 месяцев назад +2

      Violent Night is another chef kiss of a Christmas movie.

    • @NoahGooder
      @NoahGooder 22 дня назад

      holy ..... that movie actually exists

  • @jesushernanpizarrogonzalez7297
    @jesushernanpizarrogonzalez7297 Год назад +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 Год назад +51

      Mercury Rising

    • @asnekboi7232
      @asnekboi7232 10 месяцев назад

      Why does the deep state always leave oblivious clues to follow

    • @johnnye87
      @johnnye87 10 месяцев назад +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 месяцев назад +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 месяцев назад

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

  • @johnnye87
    @johnnye87 10 месяцев назад +59

    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".

  • @praporbarton3961
    @praporbarton3961 Год назад +700

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

    • @CordellPotts
      @CordellPotts Год назад +48

      Watch The Manchurian Candidate
      The original, not the remake.

    • @starkillersneed
      @starkillersneed Год назад +34

      I'd add They Live and the first MIB

    • @lego007guym8
      @lego007guym8 Год назад +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 Год назад +19

      How is Jacob's Ladder a conspiracy movie?

    • @4rtie
      @4rtie Год назад +8

      @@lego007guym8 you should check out more media

  • @TimedRevolver
    @TimedRevolver Год назад +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 месяцев назад +11

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

    • @a22024
      @a22024 10 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 7 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @DakotaofRaptors
      @DakotaofRaptors 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@peppermillers8361what's your pfp from?

    • @user-cw3wm9lx7w
      @user-cw3wm9lx7w 4 месяца назад

      @@a22024 maybe.

  • @dashampootester1274
    @dashampootester1274 Год назад +221

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

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 11 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @chinsaw2727
    @chinsaw2727 Год назад +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 Год назад +64

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

    • @MapleovBacon
      @MapleovBacon Год назад +10

      @@forickgrimaldus8301 Amazing

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 Год назад +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 Год назад

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

    • @fallenoak4560
      @fallenoak4560 Год назад +32

      Alright Dr Bright.

    • @sergiowinter5383
      @sergiowinter5383 Год назад +74

      Protagonist is against the deep state acting like the deep state

    • @akunekochan
      @akunekochan Год назад +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 Год назад

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

  • @RangerHouston
    @RangerHouston Год назад +89

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

  • @maxfinazzo2443
    @maxfinazzo2443 Год назад +33

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

  • @gustavohernandeza.890
    @gustavohernandeza.890 Год назад +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 Год назад

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

    • @rileyfreedman
      @rileyfreedman Год назад +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

  • @lordpennyson4782
    @lordpennyson4782 Год назад +83

    I can't get enough of PointlessHub style editing

  • @DHCR-core
    @DHCR-core Год назад +214

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

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 11 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @TheOriginalduMan
    @TheOriginalduMan Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад

      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.
      🙊🙉

  • @griffinkealey6043
    @griffinkealey6043 Год назад +95

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

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 Год назад +4

      Close enough.

    • @Plantmej23
      @Plantmej23 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @ApostleOfDarkness
    @ApostleOfDarkness Год назад +96

    My favourite conspiracy is everything is going to be alright

    • @derhugo0135
      @derhugo0135 Год назад +22

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

    • @voxpopuli7910
      @voxpopuli7910 Год назад +5

      With the actual situation, yeah no

    • @KOTYAR0
      @KOTYAR0 Год назад +3

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

  • @deadlydiamond
    @deadlydiamond Год назад +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"

  • @sharrpshooter1
    @sharrpshooter1 Год назад +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 Год назад +87

      NASA wishes they were this powerful.

    • @TheSlicktrickz
      @TheSlicktrickz Год назад

      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_ Год назад

      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 Год назад +55

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

    • @Optiganone
      @Optiganone Год назад +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 :/

  • @garythescouttrooper4908
    @garythescouttrooper4908 Год назад +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.

  • @joelbrydon7710
    @joelbrydon7710 Год назад +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 Год назад +2

      I hope. Get me outta here.

    • @my9thaccount140
      @my9thaccount140 Год назад

      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.

  • @VagusDoc
    @VagusDoc Год назад +43

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

  • @WTFisTingispingis
    @WTFisTingispingis Год назад +33

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

    • @muggzo
      @muggzo Год назад +3

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

    • @WTFisTingispingis
      @WTFisTingispingis 3 месяца назад +1

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

  • @venomtron
    @venomtron Год назад +27

    "The Black Panther for earth flatness" 🤣

  • @NextToToddliness
    @NextToToddliness 7 месяцев назад +6

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

  • @RM2011ish
    @RM2011ish Год назад +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 11 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @misterzygarde6431
    @misterzygarde6431 Год назад +112

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

  • @mikethedinoman8970
    @mikethedinoman8970 Год назад +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 Год назад +13

      Yeah, Mel is based as hecc

    • @zillafire101
      @zillafire101 Год назад +1

      He's got a massive victim complex.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish Год назад +13

      @@zillafire101 Pot, meet kettle.

    • @zillafire101
      @zillafire101 Год назад +3

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

    • @iamthewizardwhoknocks2845
      @iamthewizardwhoknocks2845 Год назад +3

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

  • @95keat
    @95keat Год назад +19

    This feels like a eleven and half minute personal attack

  • @nickleary1982
    @nickleary1982 11 месяцев назад +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 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @Brianna-eo8nu
    @Brianna-eo8nu Год назад +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.

  • @hanscuperwithavengence3445
    @hanscuperwithavengence3445 Год назад +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.

  • @cornhorn280
    @cornhorn280 Год назад +209

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

    • @NotBot0251
      @NotBot0251 Год назад +34

      Careful what you wish for

    • @alastor8091
      @alastor8091 Год назад +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 Год назад +9

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

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 Год назад +4

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

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 Год назад +21

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

  • @bobmcob1132
    @bobmcob1132 Год назад +16

    Wow, the earthquake did not age well.

  • @R_K_S2401
    @R_K_S2401 Год назад +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 🤣

  • @declangallagher1448
    @declangallagher1448 Год назад +35

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

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 Год назад +12

      THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!

    • @a22024
      @a22024 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@louisduarte8763whoa man cool it with the lightphobia

  • @3dartxsi
    @3dartxsi Год назад +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 месяцев назад +6

      Plausible deniability

    • @tominieminen66
      @tominieminen66 9 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @huntersandgatherers4610
      @huntersandgatherers4610 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @Crunchy_Troll
    @Crunchy_Troll Год назад +6

    This is a “Literally Me” movie

  • @Leon_George
    @Leon_George Год назад +8

    The newsletter could have been called 'The Conspiratorial'.

  • @kolosmaimous
    @kolosmaimous Год назад +8

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

  • @andreworders7305
    @andreworders7305 Год назад +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.

  • @NathanS__
    @NathanS__ Год назад +13

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

  • @Gator159
    @Gator159 Год назад +20

    This movie isn't referenced enough in todays society.

  • @NigelThrashner
    @NigelThrashner Год назад +9

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

  • @marreco6347
    @marreco6347 Год назад +13

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

  • @derhugo0135
    @derhugo0135 Год назад +38

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

  • @hewhoneverdies001
    @hewhoneverdies001 Год назад +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 Год назад +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!"

  • @JoeRosarioBZ
    @JoeRosarioBZ Год назад +8

    11:05 interesting

  • @slavvy.mp4884
    @slavvy.mp4884 Год назад +31

    A conspiracy movie actually predicting the turkey earthquakes is so ironic

    • @thedripkingofangmar6778
      @thedripkingofangmar6778 Год назад +13

      There's an earthquake in Turkey every few years

    • @abithefallenhuman921
      @abithefallenhuman921 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @toonbat
    @toonbat Год назад +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 Год назад +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 Год назад +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.

  • @freddyarm7927
    @freddyarm7927 Год назад +9

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

  • @thepopdog1973
    @thepopdog1973 Год назад +14

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

  • @LCp1RickIlls
    @LCp1RickIlls Год назад +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!

  • @Akatsuki_716
    @Akatsuki_716 Год назад +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.

  • @CommisarHood
    @CommisarHood Год назад +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?

  • @ProvaBeK
    @ProvaBeK 9 месяцев назад +5

    Mel Gibson warned us about they/them

  • @jaykubisanidiot8657
    @jaykubisanidiot8657 Год назад +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

  • @John-kd2tc
    @John-kd2tc Год назад +9

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

  • @rafaellago172
    @rafaellago172 11 месяцев назад +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."

  • @theodorekaczynski8147
    @theodorekaczynski8147 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @uclearwhale
    @uclearwhale Год назад +6

    earthquake in Southern Turkey? Thousands dead? Uh oh

  • @nahuelzon1712
    @nahuelzon1712 Год назад +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

  • @Madly_Zen
    @Madly_Zen 10 месяцев назад +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

  • @krisztiansturm1690
    @krisztiansturm1690 Год назад +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

  • @mrwuzz2244
    @mrwuzz2244 Год назад +7

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

  • @Zorro9129
    @Zorro9129 Год назад +45

    "Conspiracy theorists" used to be the butt of media jokes made out to be loony and funny, nowadays they're presented as threats. This movie to me seems to don the attitude of that "make fun of them" era, while presenting a real warning.

    • @thelordofcringe
      @thelordofcringe Год назад +1

      They're a threat because conspiracy theories are only theories for like 6 months these days and that's dangerous to the elites. Can't have your plots exposed constantly. From "the vaccines don't prevent catching, they just help you fight covid" being a conspiracy originally, to "aid money for Ukraine is being laundered through crypto back to the US", to "Russia isn't actually that strong and we hype them up to have a convenient bogeyman", it all turned out to actually be true. That and countless more "conspiracy theories" that only "dangerous" insert_buzzwords could possibly believe, all are entirely true.

    • @justinambru8529
      @justinambru8529 11 месяцев назад +7

      Some conspiracy theorists do say that these joke conspiracy types are meant to be a muddying the waters effect, so that when a legit conspiracy comes around no one will believe it.

  • @mikeyahl7363
    @mikeyahl7363 Год назад +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.

  • @CassandraFortuna
    @CassandraFortuna Год назад +6

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

  • @smokedeuch4039
    @smokedeuch4039 Год назад +3

    I feel like there's an entire genre of Conspiracy movies that mostly exist on dropping a plot bomb that goes "Something Something We execute people on our Blood Diamond pile because (Insert something about about primal Instinct)Something Something" And then mostly go on hoping that plot bomb will coast you through the movie.

  • @SuperSaiyanGuyver
    @SuperSaiyanGuyver Год назад +4

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

  • @antleymeese2147
    @antleymeese2147 Год назад +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

  • @AtomicR053
    @AtomicR053 Год назад +31

    I can only imagine that a modern version of this movie would be all about Qanon

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 Год назад +29

      I'd watch a version where the conspiracy theory protagonist actively makes things around him worse than how he imagines them to be, but he's too paranoid to notice it.
      Oh, wait, that sounds too realistic.

    • @colonel1003
      @colonel1003 Год назад +2

      4chan the movie when

    • @colonel1003
      @colonel1003 Год назад +1

      who is this 4chan

    • @seventeenseventythirteen7465
      @seventeenseventythirteen7465 Год назад +2

      Ends with an epic finally of them storming the White House, now dubbed by Q the "Black House" as they say too many black people visit it at a time making it tainted... Hey these are their thoughts not mine, like legit they'd say shit like this not kidding. Anyways, they'd storm it and try to unmask the deep state president as the real Epstein, who didn't kill himself but faked his own death.
      Then in the end Hillary Clinton dies and every body clapped.
      To be honest, IDK how a movie about Qanon would go, I just imagine it's pure nonsense like what I wrote but with a lot more racism and anti-Semitism.

    • @colonel1003
      @colonel1003 Год назад +1

      @@seventeenseventythirteen7465 jesus i feel like im on pol rn

  • @jonerikson5925
    @jonerikson5925 Год назад +5

    "I dare Hollywood to remake this"

  • @atalbrecht
    @atalbrecht Год назад +243

    I'm surprised that today's conspiracy nuts haven't latched on to this movie, it's the perfect wish fulfillment movie for them

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 Год назад +64

      MK Ultra was real btw

    • @nachgeben
      @nachgeben Год назад

      @@mrscruffles801 Don't tell them that. They might have to realize there was a whole mass class action lawsuit from Canadians the CIA did MK Ultra testing on and completely destroyed their lives with.

    • @manboy4720
      @manboy4720 Год назад +42

      @@mrscruffles801 oh shit it's mel gibson!

    • @mrscruffles801
      @mrscruffles801 Год назад +8

      @@manboy4720 It's me, in the fur!

    • @308enjoyer
      @308enjoyer Год назад +22

      MK Ultra was real
      Really funny lmao

  • @Her-again
    @Her-again Год назад +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 😄

  • @michaelanderson6394
    @michaelanderson6394 Год назад +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!

  • @XYBAheart
    @XYBAheart Год назад +4

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

  • @MrAlsachti
    @MrAlsachti Год назад +10

    Great books for conspiracy theorists: *Foucault's Pendulum* and *The Prague Cemetery* (granted, that's a level above your average Hollywood movie.)

  • @fdumbass
    @fdumbass Год назад +94

    Mel Gibson is literally me.

  • @briancoulombe4517
    @briancoulombe4517 5 месяцев назад +3

    I love how retroactively ironic the casting of all of Mel’s movies have become

  • @vojtaliska1430
    @vojtaliska1430 Год назад +7

    My favorite conspiracy theory is that everything will be alright.

    • @ed8212
      @ed8212 Год назад +2

      you're delusional, get help

  • @midori_the_eldritch
    @midori_the_eldritch 10 месяцев назад +2

    and in a more reasonable world, they took 1 look at this man and when "he sounds nuts, nobody would believe him"

  • @newrecru1t
    @newrecru1t Год назад +7

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

  • @AndreTheEntree
    @AndreTheEntree Год назад +3

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

  • @Natalia-jb7vv
    @Natalia-jb7vv 8 месяцев назад +2

    Maybe, the real conspiracy was the friends we made along the way.
    Hold on, someone's knocking on my d-

  • @Leitis_Fella
    @Leitis_Fella Год назад +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

  • @junkyardjoe1419
    @junkyardjoe1419 Год назад +9

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