Blast Zone: Movies That Bombed

Take a scenic tour of beautiful Los Angeles in this week's episode as we discuss Michael Bay's action-packed 2022 flop AMBULANCE

AMBULANCE
DIRECTED BY: Michael Bay
RELEASED: April 8, 2022
STARRING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza Gonzales, Garret Dillahunt
BUDGET: $40m
BOX OFFICE: $52.3m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $30m

NEXT EPISODE: We're going back to the relatively quaint jingoism of 2004 with TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
0:00 Intro 
4:26 Show & tell
10:38 This week's movie

We're ALIIIIIVE! We're back with a deep dive into late-80s kids sci-fi with Guttenberg-less sequel SHORT CIRCUIT 2

SHORT CIRCUIT 2
RELEASED: July 6, 1988
DIRECTED BY: Kenneth Johnson
STARRING: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, Tim Blaney
BUDGET: $15M
BOX OFFICE: $21.6M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $8M 

NEXT EPISODE: We're hitting the road with our old pals Michael Bay and Jake Gyllenhaal for 2022's AMBULANCE

0:00 Intro 
3:51 Show & tell
10:02 This week's movie

We're wrapping up our look back at 2025 with one of the most talked about (and expensive) movies of the year: Paul Thomas Anderson's epic ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
RELEASED: September 8, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson
STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti, Regina Hall
BUDGET: $175M 
BOX OFFICE: $207M 
ESTIMATED LOSS: $80M

NEXT EPISODE: We go back to the 80s for problematic childhood favorite SHORT CIRCUIT 2. 
SHOW NOTES

Michael Cera CeraVe ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwOpQHeWo4c
0:00 Intro 
2:41 Show & tell
9:04 This week's movie

Bong Joon Ho is back with an original sci-fi movie! Did it make a bunch of money? We wouldn’t be talking about it if it did. It’s MICKEY 17

MICKEY 17
RELEASED: 
DIRECTED BY: Bong Joon Ho 
STARRING: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun 
BUDGET: $118m 
BOX OFFICE: $133m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $80m 

NEXT EPISODE: We wrap up our 2025 retrospective 

0:00 Intro 
3:08 Show & tell
8:12 This week's movie

We're heading back into the MCU for one of their best movies in years, that still unfortunately underperformed at the box office. It's the THUNDERBOLTS ASTERISK.

THUNDERBOLTS*
RELEASED: May 2, 2025
DIRECTED BY: Jake Schreier
STARRING: Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Lewis Pullman, Hannah John-Kamen, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gerladine Viswanathan
BUDGET: $180m
BOX OFFICE: $382.4m
ESTIMATED LOSS: $40m

NEXT EPISODE: We cover another 2025 bomb, this time an adaptation of a recent sci-fi novel.

Wheaties popcorn bucket Ian got at the premiere
https://imgur.com/a/LLnSqV2

Quotes about AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY that have us concerned

Alan Cumming
https://imgur.com/a/SOe56l8

Paul Rudd
https://imgur.com/a/GtSLinY

0:00 Intro
3:39 Show & tell
8:49 This week's movie