Legends Podcast

Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you’re a grifter, a hacker, a freelance spy, a bank robber, or a wheelman, you’ll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist! This week we’re talking about The Sting from 1973, which reteamed the crew of Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

From the movie studio that brought you Frozen a year later, which probably made you forget this movie existed, comes a tale of a video game villain in search of a higher calling. Combining funky animation with character cameos from across the arcade spectrum, Wreck-It Ralph established the template for overstuffed nostalgia-laden films like The Lego Movie and Ready Player One. But is Wreck-It Ralph still worth a shiny quarter or should it be unplugged?

This week, we’re skipping the movie and devoting an entire episode to running down all the news, trailers, panels, celebrity sightings, cosplay, and sweet, sweet swag from San Diego Comic Con. We’re joined by the man who was there, Wil AKA Rum Daddy, from the GonnaGeek Network’s own erstwhile Flash podcast Crimson Comet. Plus we discuss the weekend’s sequel driven box office and react to Disney’s firing of director James Gunn. Get your hall passes ready, folks, the con is on!

Join us this week as we dust off AVP and give it a 2nd opinion!

In the distant future, a man wakes up in a pod after a thousand years of suspended animation and encounters bug-eyed mutants and a world he doesn’t recognize. Bad news, everyone! We’re not talking about Futurama. We’re discussing the 2009 film Pandorum. Starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster, this sci-fi/horror flop found a cult following online, but does the film deserve to make it to the new world after we blow up this one? I don’t want to live on this planet anymore!

In honor of the Fourth of July, we’re opening the Legends Vault and serving up a retro episode from our storied past. Sit back and enjoy “Independence Day” with John D., Shooter, DefaultProphet, and Xer01 in Legends Podcast #89 from May of 2012. We’ll return to our regularly scheduled programming next week with Pandorum! Enjoy the fireworks, and welcome to Earth!

I live for this sh_t... again! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! These discussions will be spoiler filled and may explicit language, so consider yourself warned. For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com

25yrs ago, an amazing entertainment spectacle showcased a radical new technology that brought extinct creatures to life and captured the imagination of the entire world. The fact that it happened to be a movie about an entertainment spectacle that showcased a radical new technology bringing extinct creatures to life was purely coincidental. Unlike the titular amusement park, the movie was a monumental success and hatched a franchise that, though at times seemed endangered, has yet to go extinct.

Legends Podcast makes a detour to the Western Coast of Australia for a wannabe Tarantino flick from director Kriv Stenders! Co-starring Westworld’s Luke Hemsworth (brother of Thor), Kill Me Three Times also brings us Simon Pegg as a sardonic hit man in a layered tale of betrayal and revenge. The movie has more twists than you could shake a didgeridoo at, but is Kill Me Three Times worth watching more than once? Stay till the end, lobster comes in hot!

A mere five months after Star Wars: The Last Jedi divided fans with its treatment of beloved characters, Lucasfilm goes back to the well of the franchise’s mythos for another anthology piece, this time focusing on a young Han Solo. Although Solo: A Star Wars Story’s opening was a box office disappointment, early reviews and fan reaction were positive. Now Legends Podcast is wading into the fracas, hoping to make sense of this bunch of mumbo-jumbo. Tune in to find out!

With Solo: A Star Wars Story hitting the big screen, Legends Podcast takes a look back at another swashbuckling band of spacefaring misfits: the crew of Serenity from Joss Whedon’s Firefly. We think Mal and company could sit comfortably beside Han, Chewie, and Lando, so we’ve picked out a pair of episodes from Firefly’s first and only season, “The Train Job” and “Our Mrs. Reynolds,” which we think make a nice duo to discuss before Solo. We aim to misbehave, but never tell us the odds!

After eviscerating Valentine’s Day box office records, the Merc with a Mouth is at it again, this time setting his sights on Summer Movie Season. Deadpool 2, which adds Josh Brolin’s Cable and a fanny pack full of fresh faces, hopes to re-write history with a super-duper effing team movie. Will the one-time Green Lantern Ryan Reynolds be able to build a marketable franchise around an R-rating up against the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars? If not, we hear that X-Force is hiring...

Legends Podcast takes a detour from blockbuster to Blumhouse with 2017’s surprisingly successful debut film from writer/director Jordan Peele. In making the transition from TV sketch comedy to horror, Peele put a terrifying spin on the classic “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” set-up. Get Out earned a massive $250 million on a four-and-a-half million dollar budget and garnered multiple awards and nominations, including an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Peele. Join us

The MCU spent 18 films building to an epic showdown with Thanos, the Mad Titan. Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of ten years’ worth of storytelling, featuring dozens of characters, various locations across the cosmos, and stakes high enough to bring together Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Master of the Mystic Arts, and Spider-Man. The film has already broken box office records around the globe, now join Legends Podcast as we discuss the future of the MCU...

In 2007, one movie brought together Scarecrow, Captain America, Captain Phillipa Georgiou, Moira MacTaggart, Wong, the dad from Fear the Walking Dead, and Sinestro. That movie was written by the man who would create Ex Machina and directed by the man who will direct the 25th James Bond installment. That movie was Sunshine, and it was a box office flop. But just over a decade later, the legacy of the film seems brighter as many of its stars have found the spotlight and its director won a shiny Oscar...