The Salty Nerd Podcast

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Fast X - It's All About NONSENSE!

The Salty Nerds talk about the Fast and Furious franchise and about how much they disliked Fast X, the latest entry into the Fast saga. Too long, too bloated, and not fun at all, the Salty Nerds really HATED this movie, espec...

Salty Nerd Rewatch: Warrior Season 2 Episodes 1-2

Hold onto your onions, folks, because things are about to get STICKY with the return of the MAX original series WARRIOR, starring the totally awesome (no pun intended) Andrew Koji as everyone's favorite Bruce Lee surrogate. W...

Evil Dead Rise & Why Do People Like Horror Movies?

The Salty Nerds have a discussion about why people like horror movies, because half of the nerd crew hate horror films, and the other half love them. What is it about horror movies people like? Is it the gore? The fear of the...

Renfield and The Rise, Fall, & Return Of Nicolas Cage

The Salty Nerds talk about one of the greatest actors of all time - Nicolas Cage, and his storied career while giving a spoiler-filled review of his most recent movie, Renfield. The Nerds talk about Cage's start as a quirky ...

Salty Nerds Rewatch: Warrior Season 1 Episodes 9-10

The Salty Nerds talk about the epic final two episodes of Season 1 of the incredible HBOMAX series, Warrior. Episodes 9 & 10, entitled Chinese Boxing and If You Have To Bow, Bow Low, pay off all the epic story threads of the ...

Super Mario Bros. & The Curse Of Video Game Adaptations

The Video Game Adaptation Curse is a real thing, because Hollywood is stupid. Apparently, it's impossible for Hollywood creatives to take a great video game's story and just make a live action version of it. No, they have to ...

Salty Nerds Rewatch: Warrior Season 1 Episodes 7-8

The Salty Nerds continue their recaps of the excellent Kung-Fu crime saga Warrior, covering Season 1 Episodes 7 & 8 - "The Tiger and the Fox," and "They Don't Pay Us Enough To Think." These two episodes have a ton of action a...

The Whale & Why Hollywood Hates Fat Actors

The Salty Nerds talk about The Whale (2022) and the controversy surrounding Brendan Fraser playing a morbidly obese man when he isn't actually morbidly obese. How much does representation matter when casting a movie? Why does...

Salty Nerds Rewatch: Warrior Season 1 Episodes 5&6

The Nerds talk about The Blood And The Sh*t - one of their all-time favorite episodes of MBOMax's WARRIOR, where Ah Sahm and Young Jun fight cowboy bandits in one of the most epic barroom brawls of all time! Then they discus...

Salty Nerds Rewatch: Warrior Episodes 3 & 4

The Salty Nerds review "John Chinaman" and "The White Mountain" as the continue with their season 1 recap of the awesome Kung Fu crime drama from HBOMax, Warrior! If you're not watching Warrior on HBOMax, you are missing out...

Salty Nerds Rewatch: Warrior Episodes 1 & 2

In 1878, newly arrived immigrant Ah Sahm arrives in San Francisco and joins Chinatown's most ruthless tong, the Hop Wei. Thus begins the epic crime saga from the mind and writings of legendary martial artist Bruce Lee, broug...

Salty Nerd Reviews: The Wandering Earth (2019)

The Salty Nerds watch The Wandering Earth, a movie that ignores science so much it's insulting. In what is meant to be a fun, science fiction adventure film, we get one ridiculous scenario after another. Basically a full-fled...

Salty Nerd Podcast #168: Why Does Hollywood Hate Redheads?

The Salty Nerds discuss the recent trend of Gingercide in Hollywood, where redhead characters are targeted and replaced with people of color in movie and TV adaptations. Are gingers being unfairly targeted in the entertainmen...

Salty Nerd Reviews: RAMBO: First Blood (1982)

RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD - A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. Whether it's the jail escape or fighting in the jung...

Salty Nerds Review: Jung_E (2023)

Jung_E movie review from the Salty Nerds have them marveling at how good Korean cinema is at making awesome sci-fi movies. Jung_E takes place on an uninhabitable Earth that has been ravaged by ecological disasters and a drawn...

Salty Nerd Reviews: 65 (The Dinosaur Movie with Adam Driver)

65 movie review from the Salty Nerds has them split on whether this is a good movie or not any why people seem to think Adam Driver is actually a movie star. In the immortal words of Ian Malcolm "..uh Hello? are there eventua...

Salty Nerd Reviews: John Wick (2014)

John Wick 2014 movie review by the Salty Nerds lets you know what happens when you kill a man's dog. We have no sympathy for the bad guys in the beginning of this Keanu Reeves action franchise that started off as a sleeper f...

Salty Nerd Reviews: Better Off Dead (1985)

Better Off Dead (1985) Movie Review - join Jude, Alex and Kadish as they gush over this classic 80s high school comedy created by Savage Steve Holland. Where's Vader you might ask? He's off wondering why we haven't reviewed ...

Salty Nerd Reviews: Brahmastra Part One: SHIVA

Is Brahmastra Part One: Shiva Bollywood's version of Star Wars? Join the Salty Nerds as we discuss our latest venture into International Film - particularly Indian cinema. Brahmastra, a 2019 Indian film directed by Ayan Muker...

Salty Nerd Reviews: The Menu (2022)

Join The Salty Nerds as they discuss the HBO movie "The Menu" (2022). How much Christian allegory can you fit in one movie? We're about to find out! The Menu is a 2022 American comedy horror film directed by Mark Mylod, writt...

Salty Nerd Reviews: Batman (1989)

1989's Batman paved the way for modern comic book films as we know it, changing the movie landscape in Hollywood when it comes to comic book adaptations. In 1989, Tim Burton brought a fresh take to the iconic superhero with h...

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Salty Nerd Reviews: Superman (1978)

Well folks, buckle up, because we're about to embark on an epic journey back to the good old days of 1978. That's right, we're talking about the birth of the superhero movie genre, the film that started it all, the one and on...

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Salty Nerd Reviews: Demolition Man (1993)

Our controversial review of 1993's Demolition Man and how the film's disturbing predictions of the future are coming true. Demolition Man is a 1993 science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla and starring Sylveste...

Salty Nerd Reviews: Legend (1985)

Time Curry as the devil fights Tom Cruise's unibrow while the girl from Ferris Bueler's Day Off does a dance in an extremely low cut dress. Welcome to Ridley Scott's fantasy epic, Legend! The Salty Nerds Talk about 1985's "L...