Over the years, Hollywood has proven it has no idea how to adapt a book into a movie (with a few rare exceptions). Booktuber KrimsonRogue joins the Salty Nerds as the do a deep dive into why Hollywood can't seem to take a clearly established story with a hard core…
The Salty Nerds review the new shark movie The Black Demon, about a supernatural shark some Mayan God unleashes to punish humanity because humans ruin the environment, or something. Thing is, there isn't much shark in this "shark movie." But we do get a lot of Josh Lucas doing... things.…
Due to the 2023 Writers Strike, HBO has decided to suspend author George RR Martin's development deal. GRRM has been busy developing all sorts of Game Of Thrones related content for the channel, but now he's deciding to take a break until HBO decides its worth paying him ridiculous sums…
Mark Hamill's boycott of Twitter fails spectacularly, apparently because of TRUMP. Feminist Frequency shuts down for good, Star Trek gets musical, Gal Gadot remains as Wonder Woman, Lizzo is in trouble, MAX loses a TON of subscribers, and Fantastic Four may have found its Sue Storm. All this and more…
Hey everyone! Mai Ling is getting married! Which means lots of people are gonna die! This is a real banger of an episode, written by Mr. Chow himself, Hoon Lee! And nothing brings a show's characters together like a marriage. This time, Li Yong is getting hitched to Mai Ling,…
Despite the Star Wars franchise being in the worst place it's ever been in years, Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm still keep greenlighting TV shows no one wants. The latest news is that Donald Glover will be reprising his role as Lando Calrissian from Solo A Star Wars Story in a…
After the crazy success of the Barbie movie, Mattel wants to spin off all their toys and games into films - including weird things like UNO and The Magic Eight Ball. And they seem to be giving them really adult themes as opposed to making fun movies for kids and…
The Salty Nerds talk about Elon Musk rebranding Twitter into X - the everything app, Elon's competitor to China's WeChat. This is the first step toward creating that one-stop app for everything, but is it wise to do? What is Elon's plan? Is he destroying the Twitter brand he paid…
Hey everyone - today on IRL we're talking about Disney's continuing disappointment at the box office, and ask the question why so many horror movies are being released during the summer? Also, hype for the Last Voyage of the Demeter, Barbie hits a billion, and Gal Gadot stars in Heart…
In a new interview with Clownfish TV, the CEO of Giant Freakin' Robot and the founder of Cinemablend say that almost every entertainment news website will be out of business by mid-2024. Robert Meyer Burnett and Dave Cullen join with the Salty Nerds to discuss this possible future. ============= Get…
Today's expert panel of nerds sees book reader extraordinaire Krimson Rogue return to the show to talk about why Hollywood can't adapt things right, George RR Martin getting his HBO deal suspended, and Donald Glover writing a new Lando Calrissian show for Disney+. We also discuss Twitter rebranding to X,…
The Salty Nerds review Rambo First Blood Part 2 from 1985, one of the most glorious action movies of the period which cemented John Rambo as the embodiment of action movie machismo for all of the 1980s. Though the movie is inherently "anti war" the one-man army of Rambo quickly…
In the seventh episode of the MAX Original series Warrior, entitled Gotta Be Crooked To Get Along In A Crooked World, Big D Lee and Chow return to dish out some revenge on Happy Jack - who's not going to be happy very longer. Father Jun recovers from his gunshot…
The sleeper hit of the year, Sound of Freedom, is beating out major Hollywood tentpole blockbusters at the box office, crossing $100 million dollars. And considering it only cost $14 million to make, that makes it THE most profitable movie of the year so far! Robert Meyer Burnett and Dave…
Paramount is hurting for money and their streaming service has fallen on hard times. Should the studio sell Star Trek to another company that might actually fire Alex Kurtzman and treat the series with the respect it deserves? Robert Meyer Burnett and Dave Cullen share their thoughts. ============= Get Exclusive…
The Nerds sit down with industry expert WDW Pro to talk about the double-whammy of box office success, BARBENHEIMER! Barbie and Oppenheimer have done great box office this weekend, but is this a sign of things to come or a fluke? We talk about all this and more in this…
Everyone's favorite entertainment "journalist" Grace Randoph is back with her hot take for the Barbie Movie (2023) where she gives it her full endorsement due to it being insanely feminist and woke. Special guest panelists Robert Meyer Burnett and Dave Cullen share their thoughts on James Gunn's favorite social media…
On todays Salty Saturday our expert panel of nerds will be talking about the sorry state of Star Trek, Disney being sold to Apple, entertainment news sites going broke, The Sound of Freedom, Jason Aldean getting "canceled", Kevin Smith killing the He-Man movie, Grace Randolph giving the kiss of Death…
The Salty Nerds get their 90s on as they watch one of Nic Cage's first forays into the blockbuster action genre after is major Oscar win for leaving Las Vegas, the delightfully cheesy (and some would say STUPID) Con Air. Directed by Simon West and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer in…
We finally get our bottle episode for Warrior Season 3 - sort of. It's a half-bottle episode where Ah Sahm, Young Jun, and Father Jun leave San Francisco and go to a silver mine town to get crazy sticky with the ultimate German prostitute. Meanwhile, Chow and Big D Lee…
The Salty Nerds talk about Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 and how Tom Cruise keeps using the blockbuster formula for a guaranteed billion dollar movie that Hollywood seems to have forgotten! Join us in the chat as we talk about all this and more. #TomCruise #MissionImpossible #MovieReview
The Salty Nerds convene to talk about what the heck is going on over at Disney! Bob Iger gets his contract renewed, he then disses Marvel's "lack of focus", the actors/writers strike is shutting down everything except for shows in the UK, a new and terrible Ahsoka trailer drops, Microsoft…
The Salty Nerds decide to sit down and watch Steven King's directorial debut - Maximum Overdrive! A movie that Steven King doesn't even remember making because he was doing so much cocaine at the time. This is a movie where a comet bathes the Earth in radiation and allows aliens…
It's the midseason episode of the MAX original series WARRIOR and the Salty Nerds talk about all the fallout from the banger of a cliffhanger from the previous episode. This episode is called Whiskey and Sticky and All the Rest Can Wait, and a lot of stuff happens (as usual).…
