#2573 today's best: going to the movies!

The best thing about today was going to see a movie at an actual movie theater. 

T and I went to see A Quiet Place Part II. We saw the original in the theater when it came out in 2018, and we liked it, so we were eager to see the sequel. It was our first time in a theater since the pandemic began, so that made it a little extra special. I was actually giddy. I got some popcorn and a Diet Coke. I kinda cheered when I got to my seat. I was excited about most of the previews - Top Gun: Maverick! - Black Widow! - Snake Eyes (because Henry Golding)! - even the Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard looked fun. 

Back to AQPPII: I enjoyed it. There were plenty of jump-scares, and T even let out kind of a quiet shriek at one point. The monsters are scary! If you don't know the premise, here it is in a nutshell. Aliens have landed on earth. They are blind, but are attracted to sound. The aliens have many legs and giant teeth and they are fast. Really loud screechy noises make them uncomfortable and throw them off balance, then you can shoot them or whack them really hard and they die. 

I'm pretty sure that if I was in a situation where there were scary aliens that killed without discrimination, or maybe a zombie apocalypse happened and my family was killed, I don't think I would like to live through it. What's the point? In shows that I have watched about such things, many humans become bad guys, too, so now you have to worry about monsters and mean humans. If you're family is gone, I don't know that I'm all that interested in living to save the world. Maybe that makes me a coward, but that's what I'm feeling about all that. Like in this movie, the husband (hot John Krasinski) gives himself up for the family in the first movie (spoiler), so Emily Blunt is left with a newborn and two teenagers. Pretty much everything is abandoned or destroyed by the aliens and they are lurking in the woods, waiting to hear a noise so they can kill. Who wants to live like that? Not this girl. 

It was awesome to be back at the movies, though. I think maybe next week I'll go see Cruella.