Last Friday (and the Friday before that, too) we went to see Monsters vs Aliens. It's a cute little movie with some funny moments. Kiefer Sutherland is particularly good as General Monger. There are a few little jokes that the kids probably don't get, but I liked. For example, these two guys in a monitoring outpost see a UFO, and when one calls it in to HQ, he says, "We have a Code Nimoy! I repeat, CODE NIMOY!"

I'm quite enthralled with the new 3-D technology. After seeing this and Coraline in 3-D, I'm looking forward to Up which is coming in late May, and - speaking of Mr. Nimoy - the new Star Trek movie. I don't think that one's in 3-D, though.

Alan and I were talking - we've gone to the cinema more in the last two months than we have in the last five years. I think for me, this is because the more I go, the more I hear about other movies I want to see, and the more I appreciate the "big screen" experience. Another big factor has been, whether we've been remarkably lucky or people in our town are extremely polite or something, none of our recent visits to the cinema have been anywhere near as awful as I tend to think of "going to the movies" as being. Nobody talked over the movie, rattled candy wrappers through the whole thing, no kids romped up and down the aisles, no infants screamed through the entire presentation...which is generally how I imagine the theatre when I think, "Nah, I'll just wait and get the DVD when it comes out."

It's been pretty fun - and Date Night with the husband is never a bad thing.