Episode 238 - Tiptoes
Welcome back to Not A Bomb podcast, the show where we tackle cinema’s biggest box office failures and decide if they deserve a second chance.
Happy New Year, and thank you for supporting the podcast in 2025. After this week’s choice, you might never want to listen to the podcast again. Troy and Brad had the best intentions. There was once a movie in which Gary Oldman, in the role of a lifetime, played a little person who happened to be the twin brother of Matthew McConaughey. Sounds fun, right? Well, not really.
In this week’s episode, the gang discusses the unbelievable film - Tiptoes. Trust us, this is a real film, but there isn’t much else to say about it. If you tuned in to watch this one for the podcast, we apologize. Please, do not send us your therapy bill.
Tiptoes is directed by Matthew Bright and stars Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale, Matthew McConaughey, and Peter Dinklage.
Don’t forget to check out our Not A Bomb Tee Public store for all your favorite podcast merch! As always, we love your feedback, so hit us up at NotABombPod@gmail.com or leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Let’s keep saving cinema’s forgotten treasures together.
Cast: Brad, Troy
Welcome back to Not A Bomb podcast, the show where we tackle cinema’s biggest box office failures and decide if they deserve a second chance.
Happy New Year, and thank you for supporting the podcast in 2025. After this week’s choice, you might never want to listen to the podcast again. Troy and Brad had the best intentions. There was once a movie in which Gary Oldman, in the role of a lifetime, played a little person who happened to be the twin brother of Matthew McConaughey. Sounds fun, right? Well, not really.
In this week’s episode, the gang discusses the unbelievable film - Tiptoes. Trust us, this is a real film, but there isn’t much else to say about it. If you tuned in to watch this one for the podcast, we apologize. Please, do not send us your therapy bill.
Tiptoes is directed by Matthew Bright and stars Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale, Matthew McConaughey, and Peter Dinklage.
Don’t forget to check out our Not A Bomb Tee Public store for all your favorite podcast merch! As always, we love your feedback, so hit us up at NotABombPod@gmail.com or leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Let’s keep saving cinema’s forgotten treasures together.
Cast: Brad, Troy
Episode 145 - Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
Welcome back to another magical episode of Not A Bomb. This is the podcast where we go back and reexamine some of the biggest bombs in cinematic history and see if they deserve a second chance. On this week’s episode, the guys tackle a film that grossed over $942,000,000, only for the studio to claim it lost them money. That’s right, we are talking Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film in the Potty franchise and one of the bigger hits of the series. So how did the studio claim they lost money on a movie that almost made a billion dollars? Some creative “Hollywood Accounting”, that’s how! Brad and Troy do their best to explain how this accounting practice works and why studios use it. You also get to hear their thoughts on one of the most successful and belovied franchises of all time. Full disclsoure - Brad and Troy are novice Harry Potter fans and one of them hasn’t ever really liked the films outside of a single entry. Does this discussion change all of that? Listen and find out!
Timestamps: Intro - (2:04), Franchise Talk - (9:47), Box Office Results, Critical Response, Hollywood Accounting, and Movie Guide - (19:18), Behind the Camera - (39:19), In Front of the Camera - (42:19), Production and Development - (49:19), Commerical Break - (55:54), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Discussion - (57:51), Is it a Bomb? - (98:27), Listener Feedback - (99:33), and Outro - (109:36)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is directed by David Yates and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Fiona Smith, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, and Julie Walters.
If you want to leave feedback or suggest a movie bomb, please drop us a line at NotABombPod@gmail.com or Contact Us - here. Also, if you like what you hear, leave a review on Apple Podcast.
Welcome back to another magical episode of Not A Bomb. This is the podcast where we go back and reexamine some of the biggest bombs in cinematic history and see if they deserve a second chance. On this week’s episode, the guys tackle a film that grossed over $942,000,000, only for the studio to claim it lost them money. That’s right, we are talking Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film in the Potty franchise and one of the bigger hits of the series. So how did the studio claim they lost money on a movie that almost made a billion dollars? Some creative “Hollywood Accounting”, that’s how! Brad and Troy do their best to explain how this accounting practice works and why studios use it. You also get to hear their thoughts on one of the most successful and belovied franchises of all time. Full disclsoure - Brad and Troy are novice Harry Potter fans and one of them hasn’t ever really liked the films outside of a single entry. Does this discussion change all of that? Listen and find out!
Timestamps: Intro - (2:04), Franchise Talk - (9:47), Box Office Results, Critical Response, Hollywood Accounting, and Movie Guide - (19:18), Behind the Camera - (39:19), In Front of the Camera - (42:19), Production and Development - (49:19), Commerical Break - (55:54), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Discussion - (57:51), Is it a Bomb? - (98:27), Listener Feedback - (99:33), and Outro - (109:36)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is directed by David Yates and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Fiona Smith, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, and Julie Walters.
If you want to leave feedback or suggest a movie bomb, please drop us a line at NotABombPod@gmail.com or Contact Us - here. Also, if you like what you hear, leave a review on Apple Podcast.