dwasifar
Joined Mar 2015
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I watched this mainly to see Shirley Jones play against type as a dirty cougar granny. (Hint: Most of that made it into the previews.) But it turned out to be a darn funny film in its own right. Typically I find stoner comedy tiresome, but this one is an exception. Joel David Moore deserves a lot of credit for creating a character that's equal parts Nic Cage and Napoleon Dynamite. You have to see it to know what I mean; he's uproarious. I can't believe I'm recommending this film, but: Recommended.
This is where Season 8 finally lost me. Though to be fair, it barely had my attention after the reappearance of Stevie Nicks. Having her show up in Ep 5 and sing a song while everyone else stops moving the plot forward and blissfully admires her was just as jarring this time as it was the first time.
Anyway. The season starts well, with a literal bang, and then throws away its interesting premise in favor of some warmed-over gobbledygook about witches and warlocks. Bringing in characters and locations from previous seasons seems interesting for about five minutes until the novelty wears off and leaves it feeling like a clip show.
The dialogue mostly sounds like it was lifted from a second-rate book of ghost stories for young adult readers. It's a credit to the ensemble cast of AHS veterans that they can deliver some of these ridiculous lines with a straight face. Some of them can't, in fact. Most of the senior warlocks are given really bad lines and can't find a way to make them convincing. Billy Porter in particular seems to have decided that if he's going to have to read silly dialogue, he's going to camp it up as much as he can get away with. There are some excellent performances here, but that's like saying someone makes excellent mud pies. They're carefully crafted but still made of mud.
In the end I just couldn't take it anymore. It's not that I can't suspend disbelief about the supernatural long enough to enjoy a good piece of fiction, it's more that I can't imagine real witches and warlocks talking to each other like their speeches were written by Ed Wood.
Anyway. The season starts well, with a literal bang, and then throws away its interesting premise in favor of some warmed-over gobbledygook about witches and warlocks. Bringing in characters and locations from previous seasons seems interesting for about five minutes until the novelty wears off and leaves it feeling like a clip show.
The dialogue mostly sounds like it was lifted from a second-rate book of ghost stories for young adult readers. It's a credit to the ensemble cast of AHS veterans that they can deliver some of these ridiculous lines with a straight face. Some of them can't, in fact. Most of the senior warlocks are given really bad lines and can't find a way to make them convincing. Billy Porter in particular seems to have decided that if he's going to have to read silly dialogue, he's going to camp it up as much as he can get away with. There are some excellent performances here, but that's like saying someone makes excellent mud pies. They're carefully crafted but still made of mud.
In the end I just couldn't take it anymore. It's not that I can't suspend disbelief about the supernatural long enough to enjoy a good piece of fiction, it's more that I can't imagine real witches and warlocks talking to each other like their speeches were written by Ed Wood.
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