Well, after a bummer of a movie in Star Trek: Nemesis, I thought it was time for some comedy. Duplex flopped in the theaters, but I like just about everything Ben Still does so I figured it was safe. It was Home Alone with a mean old lady instead of a mean little kid. Straightforward slapstick is what they seemed to go for at times, but it lost that by pretending to have too much of storyline. Why put the "not so clever" reveal at the end? What is wrong with straight slapstick? It worked like a charm for The Three Stooges. This was almost as bad as Zoolander (which was a blatant ripoff of Austin Powers,) and I guess it goes to teach me the lesson that there are no actors that I can absolutely count on anymore.

Jimmy Stewart was the last one.

RATING 6 out of 10

But wait.... today's blog is not over... there is more!



I finished the Great Religions: A History of Buddhism college course today. I discovered about half way through the course that I was definitely not cut out to practice Buddhism. There is too much "all is nothing and nothing is all," and a too much "there is no time and all time is universal" gibberish for me to get too excited.

I feel better for having learned the tenents of the religion as well as having a working knowledge of the development of the religion, but I am just not interested in heading to Tibet, shaving my head and contemplating my navel for the rest of my life.

Next up is Great Ideas of Philosophy.
- posted by Chris @ 12:15 AM