Jasmine Hill Writes

If you miss the days when movies held your attention and made you feel something - than Gemini Man is for you.  I love a good action movie like anyone else, but action without heart falls flat. I want to connect with characters. Feel for them. Understand what is happening to them - that's a big one that a lot of movies often miss. I want their worlds and relationships to feel real. Added points if I'm fighting along with them for some kind of justice and truth. Within the first few minutes of Gemini Man, I was thinking "Ok, this MC, Henry, feels real. He may be the best at what he does, but I can relate to him in little ways as a human being. He wants to slow down. He wants peace in his life. I get that." I was particularly impressed with his interactions with other people. He has conversations that give you the impression that he's talked to some of these people before and he intends to again. Which is how most of us converse. Dialogue written with the so...

I don't care for gory movies. I just don't. So, so often it contributes nothing to the story. You’re watching a movie, following along and [insert gory scene here]. Extra points for shock factor. It reminds me of the early days of CGI when you would have those “let’s show you what we can do with CGI” scenes. And everyone at the time would go around talking about how great the CGI was. Now you look back at it and yawn because that scene only exists to show you what CGI was capable of back in 2002. Who bloody cares? A good story is only interested in itself. It doesn’t exist to bolster a scene. Scenes should exist to bolster stories. This being my firm belief made me wonder why I liked Ready or Not so much. As is evident even by the trailer, it is quite gory. Again, if you didn't see SPOILERS in all caps in the title, I'm warning you again. So many spoilers will happen below this line. Ready or Not is about a young woman marrying into a wealthy family. They are ...