Nerd Legion
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Street Fighter Nailed The Cast, Then Skipped The TOURNAMENT
Street Fighter Nailed The Cast, Then Skipped The TOURNAMENT
About this podcast
Nerd Legion is a weekly podcast exploring science fiction and fantasy TV shows and films as well as other aspects of nerd culture. Featuring long-time esports casting duo Erik "DoA" Lonnquist and Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles, the show highlights their years of established synergy and banter to lend humor and insight into the latest pop culture trends.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 117 episodes
- Street Fighter Nailed The Cast, Then Skipped The TOURNAMENT · 1 h 7 min · Episode 117There is a good Street Fighter movie buried inside the new Street Fighter movie, and MonteCristo and DoA spend an hour digging it out. The cast is close to perfect, the neon…
- Resident Evil Is the Best Reviewed Video Game Movie Ever · 56 min · Episode 116Resident Evil is a horror movie where the scariest thing is a padlock. Shoot it twice with a shotgun, ram it with a car, and it holds, because you never found the key with the…
- Why House Of The Dragon Season 3 Finale Surprised Us · 50 min · Episode 115House of the Dragon season 3 is the best season yet, and it is also the one that proves the show has a structural problem it cannot fix. MonteCristo and DoA break down a finale…
- The Original Transformers Movie Is MUCH Darker Than You Think... (40 Year Anniversary) · 51 min · Episode 114Forty years ago this month, a movie made to sell toys killed Optimus Prime twenty minutes in, traumatized a generation of children, bombed at the box office, and turned out to be…
- Why Star Trek Is The MOST Confusing Show On TV Right Now... (Strange New Worlds) · 53 min · Episode 113Star Trek: Strange New Worlds might be the most confusing show on television. Not confusing to follow. Confusing to rate. It has been an Aliens clone, a musical, a 1960s parody…
- 35 Years Later... Why The Rocketeer Became A Cult Classic · 56 min · Episode 112The Rocketeer came out in 1991, flopped at the box office, and has quietly become one of the best superhero movies ever made. MonteCristo and DoA revisit the 35th anniversary of…
- House Of The Dragon Is FINALLY Getting The Recognition It Deserves · 47 min · Episode 111Game of Thrones sabotaged its own fan base worse than any franchise in television history. And then HBO did the impossible: they actually fixed it. MonteCristo and DoA break down…
- Is Spider-Noir ACTUALLY Good?... · 52 min · Episode 110MonteCristo and DoA are on opposite sides of Spider-Noir, and the gap between them is wider than a Prohibition-era speakeasy. DoA loved it. MonteCristo thinks you should watch…
- Steven Spielberg Made His Worst Movie and Nobody Will Say It · 1 h 1 min · Episode 109The critic reviews are a lie. Disclosure Day is sitting at 81% on Rotten Tomatoes and it is terrible. MonteCristo and DoA break down how Steven Spielberg, John Williams, David…
- Who Is Masters of the Universe REALLY For? · 54 min · Episode 108Masters of the Universe cost $200 million and it's probably the best He-Man movie anyone could have made. That's a compliment to the filmmakers and a ceiling on the IP…
- Star Wars Fans Waited 7 Years For A Bad Movie... (The Mandalorian and Grogu) · 58 min · Episode 107The Mandalorian & Grogu is not a good movie. It has a James Bond cold open that made both hosts genuinely excited, and then it spends two hours systematically destroying that…
- The Boys Finale Is Worse Than Game of Thrones. Here's Why. · 1 h 0 min · Episode 106We watched every episode of The Boys so you don't have to. The verdict on the series finale: it's worse than Game of Thrones Season 8, and unlike Game of Thrones, nobody will…
- Mortal Kombat 2 Has No Right Being This Good · 55 min · Episode 105Mortal Kombat is a meme franchise built on Bloodsport, Big Trouble in Little China, and Monty Python-level gore. It has never been serious. So why is this movie better-crafted…
- Disney Is Quietly Erasing the Sequel Trilogy. Here's the Evidence. · 1 h 20 min · Episode 104The decanonization rumors are back, Kathleen Kennedy is out, Dave Filoni is running Lucasfilm, and Galaxy's Edge is finally putting Darth Vader back in the theme park…
- EX MACHINA Is More Relevant Than Ever · 57 min · Episode 103Ex Machina came out in 2014. It feels like it was made yesterday. MonteCristo and DoA revisit Alex Garland's directorial debut a $15 million chamber piece about a tech…
- We Used To Love The Boys. Here's What Happened. · 55 min · Episode 102We were fans of The Boys. Seasons one and two were genuinely great television: it was a cynical, funny deconstruction of corporate superhero culture that understood how Vought…
- After 35 Years, Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze Still Good? · 59 min · Episode 101MonteCristo and DoA celebrate the 35th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze: the 1991 Golden Harvest sequel that traded the original film's…
- Is Project Hail Mary A Money Grab? Or Is It ACTUALLY Good? · 51 min · Episode 100Project Hail Mary is a massive box office hit, a visually stunning sci-fi spectacle, and genuinely well-crafted filmmaking, so why did one of its reviewers spend nearly three…
- One Piece Season 2 Is the Best Live-Action Anime Ever Made · 1 h 2 min · Episode 99Netflix's One Piece might be the most ambitious live-action anime adaptation ever attempted and, somehow, it works. Season 2 takes Eiichiro Oda's gloriously absurd world of devil…
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the Blueprint Every Franchise Needs · 1 h 6 min · Episode 98A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms just wrapped its first season on HBO, and it might be the most important template for franchise storytelling in years. Six episodes. Thirty…
