Can you guess a movie's plot by just looking at the movie poster?
Let's talk about that.
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- Good Mythical Morning. - Movies: you've seen 'em.
- Yeah! - But have you seen movie posters?
- Wow there was a tornado involved. - Yeah and you have seen
- movie posters, right? - I've seen lots of 'em.
- So I probably malused the tornado? - Yeah.
- Because I built up something -- - Unless you're talking about Twister,
- which is one of my favorite movies. - It was a good movie back in the day.
Here's the thing about movie posters. A lot of 'em are not good any more
- first of all. - Hmm.
But even if they are good, a lot of 'em have nothing -- they don't really indicate
- a lot about the movie. - Right. Or do they?
- Or do they? - That's what we're gonna do today.
- We're playing a game -- - We've invented a game!
where we look at the movie poster. I'll present one to Link, Link'll present
one to me. We guess the movie plot by only using the poster and then we hear
- the real plot and see how right we were. - Yeah.
And I think you've got one for me first, right?
Yeah. So let's play. You can play along at home too.
- Oh they can? You have permission. - I'mma pull in my answers. Alright.
- You've been given permission. - Take a look at this movie poster Rhett.
- Oh. - This is from 1989.
- What do you see there? - I see Phantom of the Mall?
- Mhmm. - Eric's Revenge. Is that Eric?
- Yeah. I can't say. - Well first of all --
I'm not telling you anything except it was directed by Richard Friedman.
I believe that that's supposed to look like a scar but I think there's some
spray paint involved on the face. He's at a three-story mall, which --
- Points for that, Eric. - (laughs)
There was a nightmare at the mall. Eric the phantom struck.
Okay that's a hint right there. First of all, either there's a perspective
thing going on or this guy is huge. So that's a hint, take it or leave it.
Well I think he's just superimposed, Link.
And I don't think that's spray paint. I think that's probably a shadow.
- But again, that may be another hint. - Okay, I think I know what happened here.
I think he went to Brookstone, as a lot of people like to do at the mall,
- (laughs) - he put his face in some contraption.
- Like a griddle? - Because there's always something
to test out. But he did it without asking the permission or the help
- of the employee at Brookstone? - Mhmm?
And it ruined his face. And now he's going back to sue the guy at Brookstone.
I guess that's what the plot is. Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge Against
- (laughs) - Brookstone was the original title.
Alright you wanna hear the correct answer?
- Mhmm. - ♪ (dramatic movie and voice-over) ♪
Eric was just a regular guy with a big house, but when some greedy
people decided they wanted to build a mall over it, they burned Eric's house down
with him still in it. Now, Eric lurks in the vents of the mall, wreaking havoc
- on those who wronged him. - Lurks in the fence?
- What? - He lurks in the fence at the mall?
- He lurks in the vents at the mall. - Oh the vents.
- I didn't know how he got inside a fence. - That's Jon Bailey, Honest Trailer's
- voice right there. - Oh.
- Called in a little favor. - Thank you Jon for --
we couldn't sound that epic, so thank you for doing that for us.
That's amazing. So you didn't get any of that right. What you got --
- Eric. I got Eric right. - You got phantom, you got Eric right.
And mall! Of course that was all pretty obvious.
- Alright give me one. - Nothing about Brookstone, though.
- Nothing about Brookstone was in there. - Okay Link, here's yours.
- Mama's Foot! (laughs) - Mhmm.
- Mama stepped in somethin' didn't she? - (both laugh)
Now the fun really kicks in. Okay I get it.
- Uh huh. It's a pun. - This is kind of a classic movie poster.
This is like a parody of Big Mama's House with Martin Lawrence? It looks like
the same kinda thing except the foot's really big and --
- Parody, huh? - And Martin Lawrence is not playing
- the Mama here. - Hmm.
But there's a man with a microphone. He is a rapper. And his mom stepped in
some somethin' but then his manager with the white tank top --
- The money man. - is a peace-loving money man
whose seeking to make money off the venture, and he actually
brushed that stuff on Mama's foot in order to make money
- on the talk show circuit. - Alright Link, here's the real plot.
- ♪ (dramatic movie and voice-over) ♪ - When Mama's diseased foot is threatened
by amputation, it is up to her twin sons from South Central to raise the money
to save her foot. They must host a chili cook-off and rap battle their way
to earning $1000 before Mama's foot becomes Mama's stump.
- (laughs) - Ew!
- So you were right about Mama's foot -- - I was right about rap.
- being diseased. - I was right about money.
You said she stepped in something though. It's just like a gangrene thing.
- Ew. - And he is a rapper, it's a rap battle,
but the chili cook-off. You wouldn't've known that. There's no chili in there.
There's a dog. There's a girl in the back with booty shorts, but there's no chili.
Why is she so happy if her foot's about to be amputated?
- Because they're great rappers - (laughs)
and they're gonna save it. Alright, what do you got for me?
- Alright take a look at this one. - Take a look.
- (laughs) - Oh wow.
- Look at that. What do you see Rhett? - Is that Colin Farrell?
- I can't say for sure! - That is Colin Farrell!
- I've never heard -- The Lobster? - I will say this is a movie
from this year directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
Well I mean, I guess he's hugging an invisible lobster.
One man's love affair with the world's largest invisible lobster.
- (laughs) - That's not my guess.
- That's not your guess? - No because as I look closer, I can see
hair up there. That's not a lobster. That's a woman. You know what?
That's two women. That's a woman over each shoulder.
One Maine lobster fisherman's love affair with two lobster-loving ladies:
- The Lobster. - (laughs)
- Who are invisible? Or no? - No, not invisible.
- Okay. Let's find out. Let's find out. - But they feel invisible around him.
- ♪ (dramatic movie and voice-over) ♪ - In a dystopian future, single people
are taken to the hotel, where they're forced to find
romantic partners in 45 days or be transformed into beasts
- and sent off into the woods. - (laughs)
I mean this was a tough one right? Not a lot to go on.
Transformed into lobsters? Or just beasts. Well lobsters don't live in the woods!
- They live in the sea! - I haven't seen the movie.
But there is a love affair. I got that part right. Is it two women?
- Or is it one woman? - No it's just romantic partners.
You gotta hook up in 45 days or they become beasts
- in the dystopian future. - Wow. I'm not looking forward to that.
You were pretty much -- You nailed it man.
- Yeah I was -- yeah. All over it. - (laughs)
- Alright give me one. - Alright here's your next one, Link.
Oh! Daniel. This one has a high production value.
- Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. - I can tell just by looking at the
DVD cover, this is not even a movie poster. This is a DVD cover!
- This is Daniel der Zaubuhberer. - Played by Daniel Küblböck
- Von Millionen giblet. - (laughs)
- Von Vielen gehasst. - He's a giblet.
- (laughs) - Yes he's definitely a giblet.
- You can tell. - Okay.
- Don't miss the lady in the back. Link. - Oh that is is his father.
- Oh. Really? - That is not a --
And his father is also a magician. Okay. I got this one. Alright an ESL magician
will stop at nothing to put the fire out on his fingertip.
- Hmm. - But his father's not happy about it.
- Nope. - (laughs)
That's my -- I mean what else could it be right?
Good guess, Link. Alright let's hear the real plot.
- ♪ (dramatic movie and voice-over) ♪ - German Idol runner-up Daniel Küblböck
has many fans and more than a few enemies. When two evil assassins hunt him down,
Daniel will stop at nothing to save himself the only way he knows how:
- by writing a new hit song! - So he's not a magician.
He just wears a hat and a bow tie and has a magic finger!
- He's the German Idol but -- - Runner-up. Runner-up, buddy!
- (laughs) - But listen to this:
he did say, "Daniel will stop at nothing." And I said, "Daniel will stop at nothing."
Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah! Kudos to you Link, for getting one phrase right.
- (laughs) - That Jon just added.
It didn't have anything to do with the plot.
- Okay so I did alright. - You did good. You did good.
- Thank you. - You're very good at this, Link.
- Alright what you got? - Let me give you another one. Bam!
Hmm. Redneck Miller. He's a good ol' boy but with a mean streak
- as wide as the Catawba. The Catawba! - Yeah.
- That's a North Carolina river! - Yeah it is!
- I'm familiar with that. - Rated R.
- Feeds into Lake Norman. - Lots of stuff to take in here,
- so just kinda verbally process. - Yeah there's a lotta ladies.
- A lotta ladies with not a lotta clothes. - What else?
Burning car, purple pants, gun. That one guy looks like a pimp.
Oh. Oh! This is a -- oh! He's a skinny- dippin' pimp.
- What? - He is in charge of a group
of skinny-dipping ladies, and another skinny-dipping pip -- pimp,
- (laughs) - has come on the scene
and wants to take some of his ladies away. And he's like, "Uh-uh. You ain't gonna
mess with this redneck's skinny-dippin' ladies! That's the plot.
- (laughs) - What I just said basically.
- His name's Miller. He's a redneck. - Okay. But you didn't mention Elvis
down there on the lower right. Let's hear the correct answer.
- ♪ (dramatic movie and voice-over) ♪ - Redneck Miller is a hard-living,
country music-playing disc jockey. When his motorcycle Is stolen
and used in a drug deal, he stops at nothing to get it back
- from the hapless thugs who stole it. - Heh. He's just a disc jockey
- looking for his motorcycle. - There's no skinny dipping?
- (laughs) - Well I'm sure there is,
- but it's not central to the plot. - It's central to the poster!
- (laughs) - There's fire --
- Literally, that one's in the middle. - Funny thing is, the movie's about
a motorcycle, yet there's a burning car in the poster.
Yeah. That's why they had to get a motorcycle.
- 'Cause the car burned up. - Right.
I mean, that's a lot to take in in one poster though.
- (laughs) Rated R! - Okay here's another one for you.
Seizure! Okay this is hard to read. Oh it kinda looks like you're --
- Having a seizure. - The movie poster may induce a seizure.
Their only purpose is the breath-stopping panic of Seizure. Okay so we've got
a little person, a luscious woman, and a luchador with an ax.
- Hmm. Mhmm. Okay. That's true. - (laughs)
Alright, I think there's a little misdirection in this poster.
It's not about having a seizure, I think this is about seizing property,
and they are a trio of repo men who when you don't make your payments
on your knife, your candlestick, or your ax, they come lookin' for ya!
- (laughs) - And that guy at the top is their boss.
- The man in the square is the boss? - Yeah he's yelling a lot, he's like,
- "Get to work guys! - Does he have a square head
- or is he just in a square? - Go seize some property!"
Link, I'm just gonna go out on a limb here --
And that little person is from Fantasy Island.
That's true. That is Tattoo. You're right about that,
but you're wrong about everything else. Let's hear the real plot.
- (laughs) Okay. - ♪ (dramatic movie and voice-over) ♪
Author Edmund Blackstone suffers from a recurring nightmare where three evil
people terrorize him and his family. When the dream becomes a reality,
Edmund must fight for his life against the Queen of Evil,
a giant scar-faced man, and a dwarf named Spider.
- (laughs) - A dwarf named Spider.
That's Tattoo, who's playing Spider this time.
- And a giant scar-faced man. - Yeah. You know who directed this?
- And a luscious lady. - Kubrick.
- Oliver Stone. This is his first film - Are you kidding me?
and I'm not joking. He's been trying to hide from it all of these years,
but we're letting the cat out of the bag! We're letting the Seizure out of the bag,
- Oliver Stone! - (laughs)
We know this was your first film and we think it's great!
- I had a lot of fun with this game. - We think the movie poster's great.
- Thanks for -- - We're gonna watch it!
Oh we're gonna watch it. Thanks for liking, commenting,
- subscribing and sharing this video. - You know what time it is.
Hey I'm Kristina Fay from Phoenix, Arizona, and it's time to spin
- the Wheel of Mythicality. - ♪ (theme music) ♪
Thanks to Jon Bailey from Honest Trailers for providing our epic movie voice.
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And click through to Good Mythical More where our friend Andy Signore,
the creator of Honest Trailers and host of Movie Fights
- joins us for more movie poster madness. - Currency is burps.
- Hey... - Oh you're in the market
- for this mug here? - I like it. I'd like to get a double.
- I'd like to match up what I got here. - Here pay up man!
- (burps and laughs) - How many is it? 'Cause that was one.
- Uh well it's three. How many -- - (burps) (laughs)
- It sounds fake. Do it again. - (burps)
- Oh that sounded real. - There we go. Now I got this cup.
- What do you want? - A tip.
- (burps) - (laughs)
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