Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-03 (Thursday)

On 7/4/2025 2:53 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
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 What did you watch?
 

I watched:
The Old Guard (Netflix) 2020 direct to Netflix movie starring Charlize Theron as a Highlander, I mean immortal, who leads a team of several other immortals.  They work as mercenaries with hearts of gold or something.  I don't know.  Anyway they are hired to rescue some kidnapped girls but it turns out to be a trap by an evil pharmaceutical company that wants to capture them to dissect them for their healing abilities.  There's also a new recruit who is new to immortality which gives an excuse for Charlize to provide exposition throughout the movie.
The Old Guard 2 (Netflix) New 2025 direct to Netflix sequel starring Charlize Theron and I assume the same returning actors from the first movie who must this time go up against two evil Highlanders, I mean immortals, lead by Uma Thurman.  Uma is evil because reasons.  This was mostly background noise, then it suddenly ended without resolving anything.  So I guess they must be planning on a part 3 to wrap up the story.  It would have been one thing if they actually filmed part 3 and it was sitting in a can (or hard drive) waiting to be released, but as far as I'm aware this is it.  So if you watch this expecting any type of resolution to the story, prepare to be extremely disappointed.  But who knows, maybe in another 5 years they'll crank out a sequel and let us know how it all ends.