Film Review: THE OLD GUARD 2 (2025): Even Uma Thurman Can't Save a Movie Where Less Could Have Definitely Been More
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The Old Guard 2 keeps up the fight
The Old Guard 2 is a continuation of the story of the immortals we met in The Old Guard. A few new characters and twists bring some changes but basically the story remains pretty much the same.
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Bodyguards in the Dark
I’ve been rereading Greg Rucka’s Atticus Kodiak books on the occasion of him republishing the first four in the series, and it’s been a pleasure. A gloomy, morose pleasure but a pleasure nonetheless. As always they seem like they ought to be quite adaptable to tabletop RPGs, so I spent a while thinking about that last night while I was falling asleep.
The super-easy adaptation would use Night’s Black Agents, drop the vampires. It’s easy to dial that flavor of GUMSHOE into gritty dangerous street level action, and the bursts of competence that result from the Military Occupational Specialty rule — automatic successes once per session on your chosen MOS skill — would also fit perfectly. Atticus and his friends spend a lot of time being able to push themselves to unreasonable levels of competence when the situation really calls for it.
You’d have to generate some new Backgrounds, I think, which is easy. Also drop Occult Studies and Vampirology from the abilities list and… yeah, Sense Trouble is the critical ability for keeping focus when you’re on watch for hours at a time. Without play testing this, I think using the Thriller Chase rules for standing watch would work really well; the assassin is testing abilities like Infiltration, Surveillance, and Disguise against abilities like Sense Trouble, Surveillance, and Preparedness. Winner gets points in a combat pool before playing out the actual attempt.
But then I had another idea, which I like more and which would take way more effort to implement. The post title gives it away, I know.
One of the core mechanics of Blades in the Dark is the engagement roll; the goal was to reduce the amount of time a group of players spend planning out every detail of a heist. You just go straight to the start of the action, and rely on flashbacks to fill in plans as necessary. So why couldn’t you just invert that — make an engagement roll to cut right to the start of the attempt on whoever you’re body guarding?
In Blades, you choose the point of attack before making an engagement roll. For this application, I think you’d go a bit metafictional and choose the opposition’s point of attack — this may be a bit too much player control for some but it allows the body guarding PCs to look awesome. Bad engagement rolls mean more variance from the determined point of attack, so that it’s not a guaranteed win for the players.
The time consuming part of this hack would be building a bunch of new playbooks. Not too hard to come up with them, just using the Kodiak series as the point of reference: Bodyguard, Private Detective, Driver, Special Forces, Cop, Medic. There’s six, voila. Writing them up is left as an exercise for someone else.
I don’t see a lot of value in multiple crew types, since this is about a very specific topic. I suppose there’s a game about urban action in here somewhere, in which case Bodyguards is one of several crew types with special rules for engagement rolls, but that’s even more work.
And then time to work out a new list of actions, etc. etc. As I said, there’s real effort necessary here, but I dig the idea.
Watch Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman in the trailer for The Old Guard 2 here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/05/09/watch-charlize-theron-and-uma-thurman-in-the-trailer-for-the-old-guard-2/
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Aus dem Comic Backstage:
ISB Officer Alecia Beck verhört eine IG-Einheit namens "Captivator". Ich habe mich damals gefragt, ob sich das künstliche Auge von Officer Beck mitbewegt. 👀
Vom "Captivator" gab es nur ein Bild von Phil Noto … und es wirkte, als hätte er einen Stehkragen. Ich habe Greg Rucka später in Polen getroffen, aber vergessen zu fragen. Ich beschloss: Das Auge bewegt sich und "Captivator" hat einen Kragen. 🙂 Hihi.
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http://foritismansnumber.blogspot.com/2023/09/netflix-and-chill-old-guard-2020.html
Netflix and chill for this week is The Old Guard. And I enjoyed it. Much more than I expected to, although I wouldn't call it a classic or anything. I'd definitely enjoy a sequel though.
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http://foritismansnumber.blogspot.com/2023/08/netflix-and-chill-heart-of-stone-2023.html
URGH!
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Filmy i seriale:
»„Heart of Stone”«
Spy-fi, to przegięta w kierunku nieprawdopodobieństwa wersja opowieści szpiegowskiej. Uważana jest za formę fantastyki, dlatego chcieliśmy Was poinformować o nadciągającej premierze filmu "Heart of Stone" z Gal Gadot ("Wonder Woman") w roli agentki Rachel Stone, strzegącej artefaktu znanego jako "The Heart". Reżyserią zajął się Tom Harper, natomiast za scenariusz odpowiadają Greg Rucki (znany twórca komiksów) oraz Allison Schroeder.
Premiera zapowiadana jest na 11 sierpnia 2023.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/film/heart-of-stone/
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Da ich gerade nichts aktuelles zeigen darf und grade so schön in meinen alten Star Wars Files wühle... hier eine sympathische Truppe von Kopfgeldjägern aus "Smuggler's Run - Im Auftrag der Rebellion", geschrieben von Greg Rucka, geskriptet von Alec Worley, von mir gezeichnet im Jahre 2017. ✌️😃
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Das Beste kommt zum Schluss
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Today's #ShakeYourCLZ #random #comicbook generator. Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's too probable for comfort speculative drama, Lazarus.
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Plätschern
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Here are ten of my #FavoriteWriters shared as hashtags:
#RobinHobb
#BeckyChambers
#NaomiNovik
#LeeWinter
#RachelHartman
#DanielOMalley
#BernardCornwell
#GregRucka
#VivianShaw
#EdgarRiceBurroughs
I must admit that I would need multiple sets of ten to encompass all of my favorites.
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Viele gute Geschichten
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Ein stimmungsvolles Panel aus "Smuggler's Run" - der "Millennium Falke" beim Landeanflug über der Stadt Motok, die ihre Bewohner mit einem kuppelförmigen Energiefeld vor der vergifteten Atmosphäre des Planeten schützt.
September 2017. S/W und Farbe. 🙂Geschrieben von Greg Rucka, Skript von Alec Worley, Redaktion von Gunther Nickel.
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