PointlessHubOkay well not terrible. But it’s not great either.
'The Boys' comic and show go in two wildly different directions. Two different experiences. Both bad. If you read the comic you know what I'm talking about. But if you didn't, well, this video should give you an idea.
I liked the comic in my first reading. It's just on retrospect, and how good the show has gotten, that looking back on it leaves me with some opinions.
Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:07 The Show And Comic 04:04 Edge For the Sake of Edge 08:45 Compound V and Power Dynamics 11:15 The Show Improves Homelander 12:59 The Ending
The Boys Comic Was Kinda TerriblePointlessHub2022-07-13 | Okay well not terrible. But it’s not great either.
'The Boys' comic and show go in two wildly different directions. Two different experiences. Both bad. If you read the comic you know what I'm talking about. But if you didn't, well, this video should give you an idea.
I liked the comic in my first reading. It's just on retrospect, and how good the show has gotten, that looking back on it leaves me with some opinions.
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00:00 Intro 03:30 Independence Day 1 08:34 The Aliens 10:33 The Silly Stuff 14:35 The Cast 19:06 Independence Day 2 23:20 Wasted Potential 27:10 A Nothing Sequel 33:52 The Cast (Part 2) 39:22 The EndPlanet of the Apes 2001: A Failed OdysseyPointlessHub2024-05-23 | Marky Mark and the Monkey Bunch. Yeah I know apes aren't monkeys but monkey is funny. Tim Burton tried to reimagine a classic film. For the first time. It did not go well. It never goes well.
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I like the Bumblebee movie. And talking about something good takes less time than talking about something bad.
00:00 Intro 01:09 Bumblebee Prequel 04:07 Robot Designs 05:49 The Iron Bee 08:50 The Decepticons 10:37 The Bad Stuff 11:52 Conclusion300: Spartans, Snyder & ShenanigansPointlessHub2023-09-15 | There once was a battle in Ancient Greece. Thousands of years later that battle became a comic. That comic became a movie. That movie became a meme. And that meme was forgotten until now.
00:00: Intro 02:07: The Comic 05:40: Zach Snyder 09:15: Characters 11:47: Other Characters 14:12: The Persians 14:30: Legacy
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Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:27 The Characters 05:57 The Tone 07:40 The Plot 09:25 Evil Charlie 13:57 China 17:57 Who Dun It 22:15 Del Toro's VisionPacific Rim: Giant Monsters, Robots, and YouPointlessHub2023-07-31 | Monsters. Robots. Both are pretty cool. It'd be even cooler if they fought. So they made a movie about that. Lot of people liked it. Now I'm talking about it.
Twitter: twitter.com/HubPointlessTransformers 5: The Last StrawPointlessHub2023-06-21 | We reached the end. The end of Bayformers. There is a reason why this was the last one.
Transformers: The Last Knight was meant to jumpstart a new universe, and instead it crashed and burned. It is truly a baffling experience.
Chapters: 00:00 Intro 04:45 Failed Plans 07:12 The Plot 11:10 The TRF 13:30 Cybertron 15:20 The Decepticons 21:52 England Times 27:17 The Bayformers Lore 30:38 Back to the Plot 33:56 Failure of the FifthMoonfall: The Greatest Disaster Youve Never SeenPointlessHub2023-05-26 | Ever wonder what'd happen if the Moon crashed into the Earth? No? Well Roland Emmerich did. He's not content destroying just Earth anymore. He can't be stopped.
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Twitter: twitter.com/HubPointlessTransformers 4: Please No MorePointlessHub2023-03-24 | 65 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from this planet with an asteroid strike. God how I am envious of them.
Transformers 4 is a wacky movie that shows that even mediocre franchises can get worse. I defended Dark of the Moon, but I can't defend this. And this isn't even the worst movie in the franchise.
00:00 Intro 02:48 How 4 Got Greenlit 06:44 Movie Recap 10:52 An Unfortunate Plot 18:45 The Worst Trio Ever 22:28 Its Legal In Texas 26:33 The Bad Guys 31:37 The Good Guys 34:54 China 37:08 Please No More
Podel Up Parody: youtube.com/watch?v=YmKrzntYzuQThe Day After Tomorrow: Yesterdays NowPointlessHub2023-02-17 | In 2004 a movie came out that changed the world. Shrek 2. Also this one. Its a disaster flick that is nostalgic for me. It had chills, and it had thrills. It had a lot of people just sitting around in a library.
Twitter: twitter.com/HubPointlessJingle All The Way: A Christmas Battle RoyalePointlessHub2022-12-19 | Jingle All the Way is a 1996 American epic about a father who must fight the greatest warriors in Minnesota to get his child an action figure. Will he be victorious? Or will Sinbad stand triumphant. Find out.
Twitter: twitter.com/HubPointlessTransformers 3: When PG-13 Pushed Its LimitsPointlessHub2022-11-13 | Transformers Dark of the Moon was a brutal and oddly depressing ending to the trilogy. But a lot of people today kinda like it, including me. Why? Well I'll sort of answer that.
Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:02 Transformers 3 03:50 Megan Fox Leaves 07:40 Brutal Violence 10:06 Design of the Robots 11:04 The Plot I Guess 14:18. Conspiracy Part 17:13 Megatron's Plan 18:45 The Part Where the Robots Blow Up 21:36 War Crime PrimeDr. Giggles: The Goofiest Slasher Flick EverPointlessHub2022-10-30 | Horror movies can come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes that shape is a guy with a knife. Yet there is one slasher that is better than all the rest. One that truly is just...bizarre. Dr. Giggles.
Twitter: twitter.com/HubPointlessThe Film Where Mel Gibson Gets Taken Out By the Deep StatePointlessHub2022-09-30 | 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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Twitter: twitter.com/HubPointless2012: The Most Disaster-est Disaster Movie EverPointlessHub2022-02-11 | There was once a prediction that the world would end in 2012. And then it didn't. But hey we got this movie out of the whole thing. One where the world really does end for the fun of it. Twitter: twitter.com/HubPointless
00:00 Intro 2:16 Why Giant Boats 4:50 Okay Now the Plot 9:56 China AdventuresBattleship: The Blockbuster Attempt That Sunk ItselfPointlessHub2022-01-20 | In 2012 Hasbro got greedy and attempted to plague audiences world-wide with adaptations of their board games. The first try was Battleship. An idea that was already not great, with aliens slapped on for good measure.
Ten years later, I felt like talking about it.
Twitter: twitter.com/AltHistoryHubHalo Legends: When Weebs Drank Gamer FuelPointlessHub2021-12-21 | In 2010, Halo took an interesting detour...into anime. Seven shorts were created by Japanese studios all set in the Halo universe and put together in a collection called Halo Legends. Some were good, some were bad. All I'm going to talk about right now.
This took way too long and could have been better but its the end of the year and I am tired.
0:00 Intro 0:49 Origins 4:45 The Duel 7:13 Homecoming 9:43 The Package 13:00 The Prototype 15:29 The Babysitter 17:07 Odd One OutTransformers 2007: Its All Downhill From HerePointlessHub2021-11-25 | There once was a series about robots that turned into stuff. The series itself would perform the biggest transformation of all. Into a horrific abomination spanning five movies.
But before that happened, there was a single movie. A single dream. A single spark of actual integrity. The one and only decent Micheal Bay Transformer movie. Transformers 2007. I'm not going to simply make fun of this movie. I want to understand it. How did it come to this.
Chapters: 0:00 - Before Time Began 1:13 - Introduction 4:10 - How This Began 7:23 - Transformers 1 8:08 - A Quick Recap 11:30 - The Bad 12:12 - Inside the Bay 16:57 - A By Gone EraBattle Los Angeles: The Peak of GamingPointlessHub2021-10-26 | Battle: Los Angeles is a 2011 Game developed by Treyarch disguised as a movie. It was about aliens attacking LA and some Marines try to survive.
When it launched players reported the camera being too shaky, and the plot a little thin. I remember loving it. I have not watched it in ten years until now.
Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:04 Battle LA: A Film 02:24 The Actual Film 07:30 Cannon-Fodder Alien 09:56 Tirade About Halo 1 10:50 Alien Design 12:00 A Movie For the Military 13:00 Knowing Better 14:43 ConclusionDeadliest Warrior: Real History For Real MenPointlessHub2021-10-12 | There was a time on SpikeTV when Spartans fought ninjas. When pirates fought knights. When mannequins exploded and men were men. This was Deadliest Warrior. A show we all watched but certainly not recently.
This is the first video on this new second channel. A channel where I talk about whatever I want. So I did this as a starter.
Twitter: twitter.com/AltHistoryHubWelcome To PointlessHubPointlessHub2021-10-12 | Welcome to my second channel. We'll talk about movies, games and other media that doesn't matter.