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...

Jar Jar Binks is really stupid. He went down in instant infamy as one of the most unlikable, inane characters of all time. I'm certainly not here to argue about that opinion. For the most part, I held it myself when I first saw the movie in theaters back in 1999, although it didn't bug me as much as it did others. In the years since I have heard the theory that Jar Jar had been originally marked as a Sith, and that idea intrigued me. As a writer myself, I am always looking for interesting ways to believably present unlikely plot twists.  So, naturally, I did some intense research by rewatching the film tonight with my husband, dogs and leftover Christmas candy. What I discovered in watching The Phantom Menace with this Jar Jar = Sith theory in the forefront of my mind is that it really makes perfect sense.  In the very first scene with Jar Jar, Qui Gon asks him if he's brainless after having saved his life. It's uncharacteristic of the Jedi to essentially dis...