The MovieByte Podcast #84: They’re Nobodies

This episode may be recorded on April Fools’ Day, but this is no joke! TrailerByte is back this week as Chad and TJ make their way through a long list of very fun and exciting trailers. Lots of good discussion on the upcoming films — it’s all very exciting! Some of those trailers and upcoming films include ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’, ‘Transcendence’, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’, ‘Jupiter Ascending’, ‘Edge of Tomorrow’, ‘Peanuts’, and more! And don’t miss our review of ‘Divergent’. The critics are being quite harsh on the film, is it really that bad? Emphatically not. It’s not bad at all.

• Sasquatch Decoy Coming SoonWhether you’ve dedicated your life to hunting Sasquatch or you are simply a weekend Squatch hunter, this new decoy will bring him close to your sets.
• Flux Capacitor Car ChargerGREAT SCOTT!! Marty has travelled back in time and taken the Flux Capacitor with him.
• ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Teaser — Cap Trusts Black Widow NowThere’s obviously something going on between our favorite captain and the Black Widow.
• ‘Captain America 2’ Clip — ‘Here to Ask a Favor’Apparently it takes a hijacking or possibly nuclear war to get Nick Fury to visit the big boss upstairs (at least I assume he’s the big boss or something).
• ‘Captain America 2’ Black Widow FeaturetteIt’s not much, but if you’re like me, you lap up most anything Marvel throws at you. In’s just a couple short weeks until Marvel kicks off their cinematic year and I can’t wait. At the risk of repeating myself, Captain America: The First Avenger was easily my favorite pre-Avengers Marvel film and I’m hoping that despite all the tonal and directorial differences we’ve been hearing about, Captain America can stay high on my list.
• ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ TV Spot — Destined to Destroy Each Other?“Are we destined to destroy each other? Or can we change who we are?”
• Latest TV Spot Highlights Mutants for ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’In case the lastest trailer wasn’t enough for you, 20th Century Fox has more for you. In this TV spot, the “mutant roll call” is given, and all our old favorites are here, as well as some new faces.
• ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Trailer 2Bryan Singer made the two best X-Men films hands down. That is not to say that I have not enjoyed some of the other installments in the X-Men movie universe, but there just isn’t any topping X2. That may be about to change of this trailer is any indication.
• Frequency - IMDbAn accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father’s life, but then must fix the consequences.
• ‘Transcendence’ FeaturetteThis may be a typical featurette without a whole lot of new or interesting information, but I’m intrigued with the film all the same and found it worth watching.
• The Apes are Scary in TV Second Spot for ‘Dawn of the Planet of the ApesStill not sure I care about this one really. I’m also not sure what I need to have already watched in the Planet of the Apes movie franchise in order for this film to work (if anything). I think someone told me I only need to see the James Franco film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I’ve put it in my Netflix queue but I’m not all that excited about it.
• ‘Into the Storm’ TrailerWell here’s one I haven’t heard of before. It looks pretty ludricous to me and I have no idea what the story motiviating it is and/or why I am interested. But here it is anyway.
• ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ TrailerFrom what I do know of TMNT, this feels a lot grittier, but at the same time it would appear if you watch until the end of the trailer that they are trying to preserve the humor of the Turtles.
• Honest Trailers : TransformersBased on the cartoon shamelessly designed to sell toys, Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS is an incomprehensible mess that doesn’t make any sense. But at least there’s a lot of porny shots of Megan Fox!
• The ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Trailer Looks AWESOME!Somehow I missed the first trailer for this film, but this second trailer looks quite amazing.
• ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ TrailerI sure do love a good Tom Cruise Sci-Fi flick, and this appears to be one of the good ones — at least as far as I can tell thus far.
• New ‘Godzilla’ TrailerI’ve never seen any incarnation of Godzilla, but from what I can tell, they have previously all been cheesy, at the very least in the looks and visual effects department. If this trailer is to be believed that is about to change. I think the technology has advanced sufficiently to let us make a good Godzilla film.
• ‘Maleficent’ Trailer 3 — Here There Be DragonsIf you were waiting for a little bit more DRAGON to spice up your Maleficent trailers, well wait no longer. Your time has arrived!
• ‘Peanuts’ Teaser TrailerI suppose by some measures of time, it was long overdue for someone to take advantage of this franchise. I can’t say I’m particularly excited about the money machines getting ahold of this one, but I have to say the teaser trailer does definitely get me excited about this film.
• Peanuts — IMDbFor the first time ever, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang we know and love from Charles Schulz’s timeless "Peanuts" comic strip will be making their big-screen debut; like they’ve never been seen before in a CG-Animated Feature film in 3D.
• Divergent — ReviewThis is not exactly the film that the trailers tried to sell. And it’s definitely not the film many critics would have you believe either. They’ve been a little bit rough on this film. Yes, at times it felt like it was sticking a bit too much to the “young adult” formula, but I did find it to be pretty good.
• Divergent — IMDbIn a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she’s Divergent and won’t fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it’s too late.
• Divergent — Rotten TomatoesWith an adherence to YA formula that undercuts its individualistic message, Divergent opens its planned trilogy in disappointingly predictable fashion.
• Divergent — Box Office MojoDomestic Total as of Mar. 31, 2014: $96,042,660 Distributor: Lionsgate/SummitRelease Date: March 21, 2014 Genre: Action / AdventureRuntime: 2 hrs. 23 min. MPAA Rating: PG-13Production Budget: $85 million