Molehill Mountain Episode 441 – The Horror of YouTube Movie Trailer Thumbnails

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They’re Bad. Not Power Glove bad. Bad bad.

  • 0:00 – I beat Suikoden II and I haven’t been that disappointed in an ending since Bride of Chucky in 1998
  • 19:23 – I’m a film buff but YouTube movie trailer thumbnails are so bad that I find myself watching less and less trailers

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen.  Music in the show includes “To the Top” by Silent Partner.  It is in the public domain and free to use.  Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:59 PM@Rainaharperrr​​👏

7:01 PM@Rainaharperrr​​Ooh fun
7:03 PM@Rainaharperrr​​Same with me and Hereditary!
7:06 PM@Rainaharperrr​​Actually a better example from my movie experiences is Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t from last year
7:08 PM@addictedtochaos2​​If you want to avoid games that drop the ball, then never play Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time.
7:14 PM@Rainaharperrr​​Oh wow
7:16 PM@Rainaharperrr​​Yep brains do that
7:17 PM@jaredknisely6213​​did you get the good ending?
7:19 PM@Sheekago​​Hey Andrew et all
7:22 PM@Sheekago​​Is there a movie named “The”? That would be the worst title
7:22 PM@Rainaharperrr​​Yeah I like putting a lot of fun/revealing details in thumbnails
7:23 PM@addictedtochaos2​​It is Brendan Fraser, playing Eisenhower I believe.
7:24 PM@addictedtochaos2​​It is about D Day
7:24 PM@Sheekago​​Maybe he’s in the middle of a battlefield and he’s concerned because he feels the pressure in his bladder?
7:24 PM@Rainaharperrr​​Ornithopters!
7:27 PM@Sheekago​​He’s not wearing anything to define him as Robin Hood. Maybe he’s looking at Robin’s corpse?
7:28 PM@Sheekago​​At least we know it’s about a dog.
7:28 PM@Sheekago​​Oh no, are they going to abandon the dog in a field?
7:29 PM@Sheekago​​It’s about the game Hungry hungry Hippo?
7:29 PM@Rainaharperrr​​I know what it is hehe
7:30 PM@Sheekago​​The narrator saw a guy fall in the water and the hippos all rushed forward to eat him? Tearing him limb from limb?
7:30 PM@jaredknisely6213​​28 and its a game about stealing marbles
7:30 PM@addictedtochaos2​​I’m more surprised that the Masters of the Universe movie doesn’t look awful.
7:32 PM@Sheekago​​It looks like it’s inspired by Who framed Roger Rabbit?
7:35 PM@Sheekago​​They might all be AI generated
7:37 PM@Sheekago​​I thought it was Luke on a speeder in Endor
7:38 PM@Rainaharperrr​​Great job making the thing you want us to focus on be blended with the background
7:40 PM@Sheekago​​Obsession sounds like a perfume name
7:42 PM@Rainaharperrr​​Wow this is the worst one so far
7:42 PM@Sheekago​​The sequel will be called.
7:42 PM@Sheekago​​Sugar II: Diabetes
7:43 PM@Rainaharperrr​​At least there’s some medieval garb here
7:43 PM@addictedtochaos2​​That is a spin off of the Big Bang Theory.
7:44 PM@Sheekago​​Stewie from Family Guy all grown up
7:46 PM@Sheekago​​It’s about a guy who was discharged from the military and went bowling. He bowled a 300 game.
7:51 PM@Sheekago​​There’s a thumbnail of an animated mountain and two moles. One if jumping off and the other one is at the base. The name “Molehill Mountain” doesn’t tell me anything. Maybe it’s about moles?
7:52 PM@Sheekago​​Resident Evil is about Doctor Evil from Austin Powers. It goes back and shows when he did his residency?
7:53 PM@jaredknisely6213​​the title is based on a phrase
7:54 PM@Rainaharperrr​​WOW that title text is impossible to read.
7:54 PM@Rainaharperrr​​On the Hunger Games one
7:54 PM@Sheekago​​D(e)ad? Their dad is dead?
7:57 PM@addictedtochaos2​​That was Save The Last Dance with Julia Stiles
7:57 PM@Sheekago​​The flies are on the kid? Showing that he’s dead?
8:05 PM@Sheekago​​Spa Weekend is the best thumbnail so far
8:06 PM@Sheekago​​The barn is like the wardrobe in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” There’s a field inside with a magical tree miles away, inside the barn.
8:07 PM@jaredknisely6213​​hard to judge an arc based show on 5 eps
8:09 PM@Sheekago​​Ryu is pronounced Ree-Ooh I believe
8:10 PM@Sheekago​​No Ooo as in Ooo I mseed up
8:10 PM@jaredknisely6213​​i didnt like the characters so i stopped watching…
8:12 PM@jaredknisely6213​​i find it odd that you like trails and not frieren
8:16 PM@jaredknisely6213​​ see a correlation between you being single and not liking frieren
8:20 PM@jaredknisely6213​​was trying to make a joke about fern being a good female and you not getting it and tying it
8:20 PM@jaredknisely6213​​to you mostly not getting women aka being single
8:22 PM@jaredknisely6213​​mabye its just not a good joke
8:23 PM@jaredknisely6213​​hard to convey via typing