The Salty Nerd Podcast

The Salty Nerds watch Conan The Destroyer (1984) and quickly realize why PG rated barbarian movies don't really work all that well. With a jailbait leading lady and a half-nekkid Arnold Schwarzenegger, this is one of the most bizarre Conan movies ever made. What is your Conan the Destroyer review? Did you love it? Hate it? Did you hear the lamentations of the women? Let us know on our Discord...

Invasion gets back to everyone's favorite jerk soldier, Trevante Cole, and his Miami adventures, along with Discount Zendaya and the Casper Crew. Trevante decides to go to Oklahoma while the Casper Crew decide to go to Paris. That's it. That's the whole episode. Just when you think Invasion might be trying to course correct and get good, we get episode 2 of season 2, "Chasing Ghos...

It's Kadish's birthday! And to celebrate, he chose to watch John Woo's classic action film from 1992 - Hard Boiled. Starring Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung Chiu-wai about two Hong Kong policemen who get embroiled in a dangerous arms smuggling Triad. This is an action movie so amazing, it influenced Hollywood to step up its game and inspired action directors such as Zack Snyder and Michael...

One of the worst TV shows ever made is back - Apple TV's INVASION returns with the first episode of season 2, titled "Something's Changed." But NOTHING has actually changed for the show itself, because it's still as nonsensical and boring as ever. The Salty Nerds talk about the storylines of Aneesha Malik and Mitsuki Yamato, as well as introducing new characters like Global G...

The Salty Crew discuss the newest Dracula movie, "Last Voyage of The Nostromo....I mean Demeter. Look we know this movie is just "Alien" in the 1800s but you know what, that may not be a bad thing. Also - Dracula on a Boat. What is your The Last Voyage of the Demeter review? Did you love it? Hate it? Were you bored by it? Let us know on our Discord server: http://www.saltynerddiscor...

The Salty Nerds return to their most detested TV show ever - INVASION on Apple TV. In preparation for season 2, the Nerds go over all the events that occurred in Season 1. All the terrible, slow, boring, monotonous, pointless events. Luckily, you don't have to watch the show now! Huzzah! What did you think of Invasion season 1? Did you hate it? Did you really really hate it? Did it make you wa...

The Meg was dumb. The Meg 2 blew it out of the water in terms of dumbness. And the Salty Nerds have a LOT to complain about! Jason Statham is back as everyone's favorite rescue diver, who now is more like James Bond than a former military man. When Statham isn't kicking butt and flipping jet skis in slow motion, he's a single dad trying to raise an intrepid teenage girl while ignoring...

The finale of Warrior Season 3 is finally here, and boy-oh-boy, is it a good one! In fact, the Salty Nerds say that it's one of the best finales to a season of TV that they've ever seen. Lots of story threads are tied up and brought to a satisfying conclusion, while new possibilities are teased for a potential 4th season. LOTS of crazy stuff happens this episode, and the kung fu fights are...

Do you like hot chicks? Do you like sharks? Do you like hot chicks and sharks fighting to the death? Then we have a movie for you! A little sleeper of a film called The Shallows from 2016, starring Blake Lively and... no one else. The Salty Nerds continue with their August Bites 2023 watches with this film about a former medical student who goes to a secluded beach to surf but gets stranded on a r...

It's the PENULTIMATE episode of Warrior season 3, and whoa boy, is this one heck of an episode! Lots of stuff set up earlier in the season is starting to pay off, and that means lots of people are dying! What do the Salty Nerds have to say about "All of Death Is a Going Home"? Well, we got some blue balls from the opening scene where Lai finally confronts Strictland. Big Bill finally...

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. What is your The Black Demon review? Did you like it? Hate it? Let us know on our Discord server:...

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, and everyone is invited! Including Big D Lee and his partner, who think it's kinda fishy that the Tongs are all han...

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 came to embody how awesome America and its military was, and was even screened at the White House for President...

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 wound, but at a big cost to his mental state. Mai Ling starts inviting everyone to her wedding while Ah Toy is dealing with a rival p...

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 his first solo outing after his partner Don Simpson died, Con Air has a stellar ensemble cast who are all aware tha...

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 team up, Lethal Weapon Style, on the midnight train to Georgia. Also, Leary discovers what real whiskey tastes like. What did...

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 to take over machines and use them to try to exterminate humanity.  We join an intrepid Emilio Estevez at a tru...

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).Young Jun is getting deported and Mai Ling is in the clink, and neither of them are very happy about it.  Ah Sahm despe...

The Salty Nerds talk about one of the quintessential 80s action movies from writer and director John Milius - Red Dawn, from 1984. Starring most of the cast from The Outsiders, including Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Powers Boothe, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer Grey, this is a movie that explores the idea of World War III, told from the point of view of a small group...

Episode 4 of the MAX original series Warrior, season 3, has dropped, and things aren't slowing down! BD Lee is taking his job as a Secret Service agent seriously and tracking down the Hop Wei counterfeit ring right to their headquarters! Ah Toy gives up on the Lesbian Vinyard and goes back to doing what she knows best - looking fabulous and running brothels. Buckley finds his Lady McBeth (who...

Filmmaker Len Kabasinski stops by to talk about a movie based on a beloved book that he named his dog after - THOR. From writer/director Eric Red comes Bad Moon, a tale about a loyal and beloved German Shepherd who protects his family from a malicious werewolf. Starring Mariel Hemingway and Michael Pare, this is a real hidden gem of a film that is a unique twist on the Werewolf mythos, with an unu...

After a long hiatus, the epic kung fu crime story of WARRIOR has finally returned! With the premiere of the first three episodes on MAX, the Salty Nerds sit down and go through each glorious episode and break it down.   6 months after the events of the season 2 finale, things are rough in Chinatown.  The police are cracking down, tensions between the Tongs are at an all-time high, the Secret Servi...

In this video, we're going to review the 1995 movie The Hunted, starring Christopher Lambert and John Lone, about an "American" computer salesman who gets caught up in a web of intrigue and revenge in a generations-long feud between a deadly ninja clan and a dying samurai family. Recommended to us by film director Len Kabasinski, this J.F. Lawton movie (also starring Yoshio Harada an...

We have finally reached the epic final two episodes of Warrior Season 2, and boy oh boy, are these episodes MASSIVE with the action! First, the Irish invade Chinatown and start causing all types of trouble, forcing the Tongs to put their differences aside and fight together against the violent invaders. And in the aftermath of that, Ah Sahm and Leary finally have their one-on-one battle to a concl...

The Nerds are back to celebrate yet another June-Claude Van Damme episode! This time it's yet another JCVD movie from Hong Kong director Tsui Hark where Van Damme plays a fashion designer with a criminal past who gets caught up in the most convoluted Russian Mafia plot ever to hold the United States hostage by shipping a bunch of explosive knock-off merchandise to America. And only Jean-Claude...