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September 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Welcome to the last installment of the Trailer Scaler Fall Movie Season Extravaganza. It’s been a blast getting ready for the upcoming deluge of Oscar Bait, and if you can’t get enough, then I encourage you to visit Roommate Joe over at Low Resolution. He’s just finished up a great run of trailer analysis himself, covering everything from 127 Hours (where James Franco plays that guy who had to cut off his arm to get out of a canyon) to Unstoppable (where Denzel Washington tries to stop a runaway train.)
As for me, I’m closing out this mini-marathon with Fair Game (where Naomi Watts plays Valerie Plame).
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Movies · Trailer Scaler

Welcome to the latest installment of the Trailer Scaler Fall Movie Marathon.
Today, I’m covering Morning Glory, which stars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, and Patrick Wilson. Right now, the prospect of this movie fills me with hope.
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Movies · Trailer Scaler

By DOUG STRASSLER
Today’s entry in Trailer Scaler-palooza 2010 is the latest from Woody Allen, a man who knows a thing or two about how to create some good adult Oscar fare.
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Doug Strassler · Movies · Trailer Scaler

By DOUG STRASSLER
Here’s another entry in the Trailer Scaler Fall Round-Up. Though not a likely Oscar contender, Paranormal Activity 2 will likely scare up plenty of audience attention this fall.
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Doug Strassler · Movies · Trailer Scaler

The Trailer Scaler round-up for the start of Oscar Season continues with Howl, in which James Franco continues his performance-art life by portraying Allen Ginsberg.
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Movies · Trailer Scaler

Welcome back to the Critical Condition’s Trailer Scaler celebration. We’re running up to the fall Oscar season by sampling some of the previews that make us especially interested in this year’s crop of Serious Films.
Today, we continue our journey with Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky’s tribute to ballerinas gone wild. Horribly, gruesomely wild.
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Movies · Trailer Scaler

By DOUG STRASSLER
Happy Friday everyone! Who’s up for taking a look at another entry in this fall’s packed movie season? A lot of people should have a vested interest in The Social Network — roughly 500 million, in fact.
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Doug Strassler · Trailer Scaler
August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The fall movie season is almost upon us! Oh bliss! Oh rapture! Oh Oscar bait!
In celebration of our favorite cinematic season, Doug and I will be doing a lot of Trailer Scalers in the next few days. Today, I’m starting with Conviction, Hilary Swank’s return to biopics.
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Movies · Trailer Scaler

Despicable Me, the upcoming animated film starring Steve Carell (or really, Steve Carell’s voice) has had one of the most instructively terrible ad campaigns in recent memory. Let’s take a look, shall we?
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Movies · Trailer Scaler

It’s coming to theatres on March 19, but is it possible you’ve already seen Repo Men? Multiple times? Or is that not true? Is it an original and exciting sci-fi adventure starring Jude “Still Hot” Law and Forest “Oscar” Whittaker?
Watch the trailer and let me know what you think…
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Listen up ya’ll it’s Movies · Trailer Scaler