On Trav's Plate 12/4/08

Yeah, so this is the first of what I intend to be a weekly post basically chronicling my basic plans for what movies I intend to see the upcoming week. Being the movie whore that I am( I see roughly 200 films a year), I want to see everything. Being in a relationship, however, has the side effect of derailing my plans in amazing ways. There's the likely chance my intentions to see Punisher War Zone will somehow end up with me seeing Four Christmases or something equally saccharine.

After what's been a pretty quiet couple of weeks, Hollywood has done what they typically do and backloaded all the heavy hitter films to the final weeks of the year. So now my schedule is looking pretty damned full up:

Tonight John and I(along with our two ladyfriends I assume) will be catching a screening of Brad Pitt's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. This is one of the movies I've been waiting for most this year so getting a chance to see it early had to be leapt upon. We'll be talking about it on an upcoming edition of the Punch Drunk Podcast.

I never saw Australia last week, being that it's a three hour long Pearl Harbor look-a-like. But I really do want to see it, so later today I'll begin the process of convincing Rebecca to see it Friday night. It might have to include taking her out to dinner or something equally unfair like that.

Depending on how things go Friday(if I've stayed out of trouble, that is) I might be able to catch Punisher War Zone on Saturday morning. This, along with Cadillac Records are the two films droppin' this week that I desperately want to see. Ray Stevenon looks the part of Frank Castle and thank God it's not set in Florida anymore! Cadillac Records will have to wait until sometime early next week, that is if we don't hit up the Nothing Like the Holidays screening on Wednesday.

Bring on the busy season! This is the best time of year to be a movie fanatic!