I swear, it's days like this you wish Co-Host was still activated, _just_ to hear hi rip shit like this apart. And yes, Some shit. When both _Underdog,_ *and* _Pixels_ used Peter Dinklage better than your studio produced film, you *know* it's SOBS!
I might get beat up for saying this, but their descriptions of how fake and inconsistent the effects for turning Oldman into a dwarf were, are pretty much the same ones I had for the hobbits in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films (and a number of other movies from around that time, like Harry Potter-with turning Robbie Coltrane into a giant-and Moulin Rouge). In that case, the movies were good enough that I was able to forgive these flaws.
The thing is, they know what they're making with them Leprechaun movies. The thing with this is, were they being serious? Or did they know what they were doing... TBD
@@DoubleToasted_ Can you do another Disney Classic, Is called Air Buddies release in 2006, you gotta review this movie along with Martin, Chris, and Billy.
I like the story of a man who never came to terms with his family genetics. The lifetime if guilt knowing you consciously had a child that was going to suffer their whole life with conditions others look down upon.Like Hereditary but the genetics isn't a curse. I know someone, despite being the last of his family name, refuses to have kids because of the genetic seizure brain disease they all have and suffers from. I think they were being serious but didn't know how to execute it.
"The role of a lifetime" Wow 😂 I have a theory, what if they thought they were getting Gary Coleman and once Gary Oldman rolled up to the set, they said fuck it and rolled with it.
They all thought they were gonna sweep the Oscars. Imagine their reactions when they actually watched the movie. I’m picturing them all slowly standing up and tip-toeing their asses out of the screening room, one by one.
2003?! I THOUGHT THIS WAS FROM THE 90S! I thought it was from that era in movies where actors got praised for playing "disabled" or "gay" and reaped in the accolades for it!!! For God's sake, Gary Oldman's riding around in the same go-kart Rick Moranis had in LITTLE GIANTS!
I swear I think I remember this movie being filmed in the late 90s and was shelved because it got terrible test reactions and was just so controversial that I didn’t come out on dvd until 2003. Even the director said that he had to edit a lot of the film because of poor testing and that no studio would release it because of the controversy.
@@tasheenajohnson602 It had to be at least 1998-99 cause Bridget the Midget wasn't old enough to be a big thing. I'm mad I never heard of this film tho. Gary oldman should threw all the copies of this movie away with those ET games
@The FirstBourne nah, it’s like he noticed people liked his laugh and now he cranks it up. Like how Jennifer Lawrence noticed how everyone praised her for being “real” and she plays it up.
Wild thing about this movie is that this came out after Lord of the Rings. They had three whole ass films that seamlessly pulled off having some very tall actors play the tiniest of people that they could have emulated but nope, instead they had this fool wobble around on his knees. Amazing.
hothotheat3000 I mean, it wasn’t like it was a lot of CGI. LotR used a lot of camera tricks and forced perception to make the Hobbits and dwarfs appear smaller and body doubles for the wide shots. So lack of budget isn’t really the problem here, it’s a matter of bad filmmaking and not even giving a fuck.
Just watched tiptoes with the wife. I was also questioning a lot during the movie. Got to leave a like for nailing it in your review!! Hilarious. Have a good day.
well, A) like Korey and crew said, once they got Gary Oldman in, they basically sold the movie on him to get the likes McConaughey and Beckinsale and B) I could be off on my timing but this was probably around the time when he was still considered a pretty face who couldn't act or was just not the name he was today.
yakuza01 Mathew MConaughey wasn’t taken very seriously at the time, mostly doing romcoms. Kate Beckinsale is a b movie star so I don’t think it’d be too hard to get her in anything. Costarring with Gary Oldman was probably a bonus.
This was pre-GOT Peter Dinklage. Granted, as mentioned by Billy here, he had already made Station Agent at this point and got acclaim for it but mostly in the indi circle, not mainstream. Don't get me wrong, in a fair world, he should have definitively played the lead no questions ask. However, they were counting on Gary Oldman to sell the movie. Also, much like with the recent Cats movie, I think the producers thought they were onto some boundary pushing technology with the effects or just thought having a regular sized actor like Oldman play a dwarf was cool.
@@moxiemaxie3543 Don't know if you're joking but absolutely no one was insulting my man. They just expressed their opinions and Billy chose what he liked. Honestly his normal look distinguishes him from his brother who actually looks good with the stache.
Martin at 1:58 -- "It's as if for him he was like, 'This is the challenge, this'll be the biggest challenge I've ever had, and as an actor, I SHALL RISE TO IT!'" Interesting thing to say about an actor playing a dwarf...
I'm shocked there wasn't a cheap CGI scene of Gary's head on another person,.. this was right around the time studios were doing that actor cgi stunt/edit shit since the technology was new.
Ikr 😅 (smh) He could've won an Oscar! But honestly, his role in Station Agent was similar. Where a woman falls in love with a man that's unique & charming
I just re-watched The Dark Knight again tonight at the theater, which is now my 5th time seeing it at the theater if I am including 2008. Only 3 others were there as a group and they left before The Joker even got arrested. So then it was just me, and I started laughing when Gary Oldman came on as Commissioner Gordon. I kept thinking of this review of TipToes, and imagined him playing that same character in The Dark Knight.
This is like a real world version of "Help My Son is a Nerd" Kent Brockman: I'm here with Rainier Wolfcastle, star of McBain and the upcoming film "TipToes" Rainier Wolfcastle: I introduce my fiancé to my family, but am embarrassed by the fact that they're all dwarves. Brockman: Ha, ha, ha! I'm laughing already. Wolfcastle: It's not a comedy.
Whats funny about that is he actually has cross dressed at his show lol. Not sure if hes till does it but he used to dress like a cracked out whitney as one the skits he would do
18:45 "What about that weird one in the front?" I know when it comes to jokes, Korey usually is the one dishing out most of the laughs, but Martin really got me busting up with that delivery. Also, what was the ending exactly? And why was it so crazy? Was it just Gary Oldman and Kate Beckinsale's characters getting together, or was there more?
I remember when I first saw the trailer when I wanted a bad movie to watch and I thought that "Oh, maybe they couldn't find a real little person with a well known name? I don't think Peter Dinklage was a working actor yet..." Doesn't make it right, but that was my reasoning. So imagine how my soul temporarily left my body when Peter Dinklage was in the first five minutes of the movie. Just...I can't...this movie made me cry tears of pain from laughing so hard!
The thing that is weird with the midget or dwarf thing is that both midget & dwarf are medical terms for two different conditions resulting in two different body proportions.
While it was a lot of fun seeing you guys riffing on the 90-minute "producers' cut" of this film, it would've been nice to talk about the post-production aspect of it, where after writer-director Matthew Bright had a 150-minute director's cut screen at Butt-Numb-A-Thon, he was fired and had his version cut and re-edited without any involvement. Peter Dinklage and Nicolas Winding Refn have seen the director's cut, the former found it gorgeous and criticized the producers' cut for being a "rom-com with dwarves". He even defended Oldman's casting as the main little person. www.yahoo.com/amphtml/the-incredible-story-behind-tiptoes-the-movie-in-121940150.html www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/magazine/peter-dinklage-was-smart-to-say-no.html
1st, Billy's laugh is infectious!! If I feel bad, I can't help but laugh when he gets started! 2nd, Gary Oldman riding that motorcycle looks more like he's playing like he has Spina Bifida. * Absolutely no disrespect to folks who have it, I'm just saying that this seems more plausible *
This movie went through a crazy production that rivals that of the 90’s Dr. Moreau flick. It’s like Tiptoes was ice skating uphill. Then, when it reached the top, was rightfully mauled by the public.
I actually watched this entire movie. It was just weird. This movie has no plot whatsoever, it goes nowhere. And Gary Oldman playing a little person was just bizarre. I liked Peter Dinklage he was kinda funny. This also has some of the worse acting and dialogue I have ever seen. My brain hurts.
So, there was a question on ask reddit asking what movie couldn't be made today, top answer was tiptoes. Someone in the comments recommended your guy's review saying it was the funniest shit they've seen! So thanks for being the buffer between the viewer and the movie for our own sanity!
Can you guys do a review for Watermelon Man on prime video? Never seen it before but read the plot online and I think it would make an amazing episode lol
