{"id":19530,"date":"2022-08-28T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T01:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19530"},"modified":"2022-08-28T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T01:49:15","slug":"the-old-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-old-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I found the new one. She stabbed me, so I think she has potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Old Guard<\/strong>, released in 2020<\/p>\n<p>Andy heads a team of 4 &#8212; they rescue good guys, and kill bad guys. Now they&#8217;re going to South Sudan, to rescue a group of captured students. The whole team is killed. But then they wake up again, and kill the people who killed them. They realize that there are no students &#8212; it was all a setup. Then they feel someone has died and been reborn, like them &#8212; an army officer in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>With a more interesting storyline than <strong>Eternals<\/strong> and a nice sense of humour, this is the movie about immortals that you want to watch today.<\/p>\n<p>It ends with a surprise that leads into a sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Greg Rucka (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/wonder-woman-by-greg-rucka-volume-3\/\"><strong>Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka Volume 3<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Stars Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Harry Melling. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (<strong>The Secret Life of Bees<\/strong>). The music is by Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O&#8217;Halloran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I found the new one. She stabbed me, so I think she has potential.&#8221; The Old Guard, released in 2020 Andy heads a team of 4 &#8212; they rescue good guys, and kill bad guys. Now they&#8217;re going to South Sudan, to rescue a group of captured students. The whole team is killed. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-19530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19533,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions\/19533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}