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BOMBED!

Liam Wolfe, Matt Larue, Matthew Komar

What makes a film a "Box Office Bust"? This question is what keeps NJ stand up comic Liam Wolfe up at night. Each week, Wolfe along with fellow cinephiles Matt Larue and Matthew Komar sit down, share laughs and discuss Hollywood"s most notorious failures. "BOMBED!" is a film comedy podcast where we attempt to answer those burning questions and deep dive into the finer details to fully grasp what went wrong with these motion picture disasters.

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01:25:27

Cool As Ice (1991) - The Rise And Fall Of Hip Hop's...

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2021/08/26

October 18th, 1991. Cool As Ice, the Vanilla Ice acting vehicle no one wanted, dropped into theaters to almost critical hatred. By the time of release, the oversaturation of Ice's skills (or lack there of) was reaching critical mass, causing a massive backlash to Ice's ascent to stardom. At the same time, Vanilla was dealing with court cases, terrible musical project and one very violent Suge Knight. From an onlooker's perspective, the young MC's time in the limelight was heading straight into a

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01:38:31

SON OF THE MASK (2005) - A Jamie Kennedy Experiment...

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2021/08/26

February 18, 2005. The day that changed actor, comedian and professional wildcard Jamie Kennedy's career forever. The release of Son of the Mask, the sequel to the 1994 Jim Carry comic book adaptation, was met with a swamp of negativity. Critical reception was rock bottom with critics slamming Kennedy's performance in review after review. Box office returns were worse than anticipated, not even making back it's initial $85-100 million budget. Somehow, the failure of Son's weak script and unfunny CGI

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01:34:42

United Passions (2015) - FBI Investigations, Money...

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2021/07/29

May 27th, 2015. An FBI sting operation took place in a small hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland. Nine FIFA officials were arrested and indicted on corruption charges. Just a few weeks later, on June 5th, the FIFA biography United Passions graced ten lucky theaters in the United States. After earning under $169,000 at the box office off of it's $32 million dollar budget, FIFA faced not just box office disaster but legal turmoil. Under the iron fist of Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA at the time,

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01:45:05

STARSHIP TROOPERS - Paul Verhoeven's Gory...

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2021/07/21

November 7th, 1997. Paul Verhoeven, director of Total Recall, Robocop and Basic Instinct, releases his sci-fi satire Starship Troopers to the masses. Adapted from Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel of the same name, Verhoeven's Starship Troopers twisted Heinlein's original by turning the jingoistic messaging in the original novel and sent it to it's natural end, a fascist utopia built for endless war exclusively. A 1997 audience didn't get the joke, taking Verhoeven's fascist satire seriously and showed

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01:06:14

RAD! (1986) - 80's BMX Cheese, Neon And Bunny Hops...

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2021/07/14

March 28, 1986. A small Canadian BMX production enters the box office race, a race this little film was not ready to take on. While failing initially to qualify for box office success, RAD! grew a cult following from the growing, pre-X Games BMX scene. This week, stand up comic and one half of the Better Off Drunk podcast Steve Pocaro joins Liam as the two discuss college fraud allegations, nice Canadian towns, 'Send Me An Angel' by Real Talk and an exhibition track so brutal that not even

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01:27:54

GRANDMA'S BOY - Happy Madison's 'Animal House' for...

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2021/06/30

January 6, 2006. Happy Madison productions releases their gaming stoner comedy 'Grandma's Boy' to a theatrical audience that would rather sit in late 2000s X-Box Live lobbies than go see it in theaters. Failing to earn any spare change in the box office, the crass stoner comedy gained a cult following through VOD and DVD, earning back their budget and then some through DVD sales. While some find 'Grandma's Boy' to be a hilarious romp akin to frat house comedies like 'Animal House' meets 'Clerks'

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01:58:09

CHILDREN OF MEN (2006) - "This is a Professional...

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2021/06/23

Christmas Day, 2006.Alfonso Cuaron's dystopian sci-fi thriller 'Children of Men' was released during the most wonderful time of the year. It's bleak look into a future where humans are unable to procreate due to a zero percent fertility rate won critics' favor, ending up in the Oscars race the following year. Considered one of the best films of the 00's, 'Children of Men' initial run couldn't find it's audience, mostly blamed on the nihilistic tones and lack of any real marketing campaign. This

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02:00:52

CALIGULA (1979): If Only This Film Had Just One Cut!...

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2021/06/16

February 1, 1980. Penthouse's pornographic Roman epic Caligula gets released in the United States through indie playhouses and art house spaces. The year prior, Bob Guccione's magnum opus was released in his home country of Italy and was met with shocked viewers and authoritarian action from Italian officials. Caligula toed the line between pure pornography and mildly interesting exploitation, earning it the ire and scorn of law makers worldwide. As soon as Caligula's reels reached US shores, law

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01:48:26

MARS ATTACKS! (1996) - Trading Cards, Mega Minded...

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2021/06/09

December 13th, 1996. Sci-Fi satire Mars Attacks! blasts off into theaters, coming as closes as second place in the weekend box office rankings. Tim Burton's dark take on '50s drive-in alien invasion features proved to be a risky venture from Warner Brothers who put in $70 million dollars into the Topps' trading card brand adaptation. Unfortunately, it didn't pay off as the competition from the following week took Mars Attacks! out of the running entirely, with multiple bangers and mixed, confused

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01:24:37

WATERWORLD (1995): Fractured Friendships and Sunken...

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2021/06/02

July 28th, 1995, Universal Pictures released Waterworld, the Kevin Costner led post apocalypses feature film which was set up to become a massive disaster from day one. Starting pre-production all the way back in the early 1990s, Waterworld would go from a simple $60 million dollar budgeted action film to a nightmare production which shot the budget up to $175 million dollars. That leap in budget price made Waterworld the most expensive movie ever made for the time. The jump in budget comes from the

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01:37:44

KRULL (1983): Space Operas, Weird Boomerang Weapons...

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2021/05/26

On July 29th, 1983, Colombia Pictures released Krull, their attempt at the space opera genre Star Wars made popular and profitable back in 1977. By the early 80s, every studio had rushed out their very own Star Wars-esk franchise starter, only to crash, burn and be forgotten years and decades after their releases. Krull was unfortunately one such attempt, an action adventure pulled straight outta someone's Dungeons and Dragons campaign and onto celluloid. If only Krull didn't release only three

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01:15:01

OSMOSIS JONES (2001): One Half Decent Animated Kids...

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2021/05/26

August10,2001, Warner Brothers released Osmosis Jones to the United States. The legendary gross out comedy duo, The Farrelly Brothers worked with animation directors Piet Kroon and Tom Sito to bring the buddy-cop adventures of Ozzy & Drix to the silver screen with...mixed success. While critics adored the animated buddy-cop action comedy, the same critics didn't have a single nice word to give to The Farrelly Brother's snot and vomit ridden wrap around talk of Bill Murray's deadbeat dad and his

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02:24:30

CLOCKERS (1995): Spike Lee's Urban Crime Procedural...

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2021/05/26

In 1995, Spike Lee released Clockers, a true crime look at early 90s Brooklyn post crack epidemic, into theaters across America three years out from the LA Riots. Clockers pulls no punches with it's depiction of police brutality, the effects of crack in inner city neighborhoods and the harsh realities of street life for black youths in the United States. Dropping on September 15th, 1995, Clockers got buried under steep competition and ended up as lines of chalk on the side of the road. On the

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