Rom Bombs

RomBombs

Rom Bombs is a podcast where two childhood best friends chat about bad romantic comedies. Follow along with E and J's bafflement, outrage, and grudging appreciation as they recap rom-coms and save you from having to actually watch them.

  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    Ep 51 - Exmas
    We're back, just in time for Christmas! New holiday romcoms were thin on the ground this year, but we managed to find the Freevee original "Exmas," starring Robbie Amell and Leighton Meester as ex-fiance(e)s who reunite. One of us watched the movie in 5-minute chunks with a toddler kicking them in the ribs, and the other of us watched it like a normal person watching a movie; can you guess which of us liked the movie more?

    Join us as we discuss terrible bangs, romcoms continuing to not understand how baking works, romcoms continuing to not understand how toilets work, and what happens when Buzzfeed makes a movie. (That's not a figure of speech. Buzzfeed literally made this movie.)

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    Theme music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com (Xmas remix by E)
    24 December 2023, 6:34 pm
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    Ep 50 - Love Again
    Holy moly, we've reached episode 50! To honor the occasion, we went out and actually PAID to see a movie in theaters. That movie is "Love Again," a fever dream of a romcom that will make you ask "did I hit my head and wake up in 1997, a year when it might actually make sense for everyone to be obsessing over Celine Dion?"

    Join us as we discuss such important topics as:
    -Sam Heughan's butt
    -Emotional support basketballs
    -Chekhov's journalist
    -Boy Meets World
    -Celine Dion, licensed OB/GYN

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    Theme music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com
    15 June 2023, 2:10 am
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    Ep 49 - Ticket to Paradise
    In this episode, we discuss "Ticket to Paradise," the movie that reunites romcom mainstay Julia Roberts with a George Clooney who has gradually abandoned his suaveness and embraced his wackiness. We all love an enemies-to-lovers story, but can we love a lovers-to-enemies-back-to-lovers-again story? Maybe not?

    Join us as we discuss the world's most disappointing wardrobe, the real dangers of swimming with dolphins, Balinese(?) wedding traditions, Schrodinger's yoga pants, and the fact that the creators of this movie clearly did not understand how law school, art curation, or graduation ceremonies work.

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    Theme music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com
    13 March 2023, 12:08 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Ep 48 - Christmas With You
    Ho ho ho! Meeeerry Christmas! What's that in your stocking? It's another holiday episode! In this one we talk about "Christmas With You," the incredibly generically-named Netflix original romcom that marks Freddie Prinze Jr.'s return to the screen. If you enjoyed "Marry Me" then you'll probably enjoy this one, since it's essentially a store-brand "Marry Me" with a slightly more plausible premise. Join us as we discuss FPJ's Just For Men hair, emotional support guitars, whether the Christmas song in this movie was written by an AI chatbot, and sensual tamale-making.

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    Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com (XMas Remix by E)
    25 December 2022, 3:32 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Ep 47 - Falling for Christmas
    It's holiday season, baby! And you know what that means: another Vanessa Hudg— (touches earpiece) Sorry, I'm being told that... this can't be right... Netflix didn't put out a Vanessa Hudgens Christmas romcom this year?

    Well, we'll just have to settle for "Falling for Christmas," the movie that marks Lindsay Lohan's return to the screen as well as millions of people learning for the first time that there's a guy named "Chord Overstreet." Join us as we run down the checklist of Christmas romcom clichés, consider the movie's threatening undercurrent, and talk about bidets a weird amount considering there are no bidets in this movie.

    Follow us on Twitter: @rombombs
    Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com (Xmas remix by E)
    3 December 2022, 3:07 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Ep 46 - Blast from the Past
    In this episode, we discuss "Blast from the Past," the classic 1999 "fish out of water" romcom that itself constitutes a blast from the past, but in case that wasn't enough, we actually recorded this episode a year ago and then E never got around to editing it, so the episode itself is a blast from the past! INCEPTION.

    Anyway, join us as we talk about the "born sexy yesterday" trope, proper Air Force bailing-out behavior, the disservice this movie does to Sissy Spacek, and, for some reason, Vanessa Hudgens, even though she is very much not in this movie.

    Follow us on Twitter @rombombs
    Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com
    12 July 2022, 12:05 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Ep 45 - Moonshot
    In this episode, we tackle "Moonshot," a straight-to-streaming young adult romcom set *~*in the future*~* when humans live on Mars and yet nothing else has changed. Although we have surprisingly different opinions about this movie, we still manage to tackle lots of important issues, including:
    -Cole Sprouse's confusing career and tonsorial choices
    -Cat welfare
    -What the Big Bang looked like
    -Whether it's possible to enjoy a movie without realizing it
    Plus J introduces a great new party game: "What DIDN'T happen on Riverdale?"

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    Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com
    27 June 2022, 3:27 am
  • 55 minutes 57 seconds
    Ep 44 - Marry Me
    We're baa-ack! (Actually, we recorded this episode a while ago, and then E took an embarrassingly long time to finish editing it.) In this episode we talk about "Marry Me," the new social-media-infused heir to the golden age of romcoms (the late 1990s). Join us as we talk about JLo's seeming inability to age, Owen Wilson's hair, Central Illinois geography, and the logistics of marrying a stranger pulled out of a crowd.

    Follow us on Twitter @rombombs
    Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com
    20 April 2022, 2:48 am
  • 55 minutes 58 seconds
    Ep 43 - Single All the Way
    At last, we reach the end of the holiday season, and our final Netflix original romcom: "Single All the Way," a movie we both unironically enjoyed. Join us as we unpack what exactly makes this movie succeed where so many others have failed, engage in some light nitpicking, and go off on a bunch of tangents because we didn't have enough to complain about.

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    Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com (Xmas remix by E)
    27 December 2021, 9:52 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Ep 42 - A Castle for Christmas
    Continuing our marathon of Netflix Christmas romcoms, in this episode we discuss “A Castle for Christmas.” It’s yet another British-adjacent royalty-adjacent Christmas movie, but this time without any Vanessa Hudgenses and with a middle-aged couple at the center. Brooke Shields is an “author,” Cary Elwes is a “Scottish” duke, and a big stone house is the “castle” at the center of their romance.

    Join us as we tackle such hard-hitting questions as:

    -What, exactly, is a castle?
    -What crime-related word starts with B?
    -Did Myles date Kate Middleton?
    -Is Cary Elwes a good actor?
    -Who is Winston, and what is wrong with E's brain? (we figure the former out eventually, but the latter is still a mystery)

    Follow us on Twitter @rombombs
    Music: “Our Big Adventure” by scottholmesmusic.com (Xmas remix)
    18 December 2021, 8:13 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Ep 41 - The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star
    It's that time of year again: the chill in the air carries the scent of roasting chestnuts and the sound of multiple Vanessa Hudgenses giggling, so it must be Christmas season! We return to the Princess Switch well to discuss the The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, aka The Princess Switch 3: Still Switchin'!, aka The Princess Switch 3: This One's About Fiona. Join us as we consider character trajectories (who's getting hotter with each movie? who's getting stupider?), the practicalities of laser grids, and the fact that a basketball is almost but not completely unlike a giant diamond-encrusted tree-topper.

    Follow us on Twitter @rombombs
    Music: "Our Big Adventure" by scottholmesmusic.com (Xmas remix)
    3 December 2021, 3:00 pm
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