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Godless (2017)
A lot of potential but just a joke.
I can't believe I sat and watched this whole thing. I kept complaining about how impractical, improbable and downright unbelievable to where my wife kept threatening to turn it off. Still I forced myself to finish it. I just needed to see how it ended. What a waste of time.
There is a mob reminiscent of the gang in the original Magnificent 7, who goes around robbing mines and trains and ends up killing everyone in an entire town but the government chooses not to go after them but for sending a marshal and small posse. When troops are requested, the commander seems disinterested. Really? We learn from the gang that when in Texas the Buffalo Soldiers chased them out of the state but for killing an entire town, the military is no longer interested?
A young widowed woman lives on a horse farm with her mother in law and young teen or preteen son. There are no hired hands and no crops. The son doesn't know how to even ride a horse and his mother who runs the horse farm is not good at breaking horses. The mother in law, the native American woman, proves to be a better hunter than the former gang member and gun fighter who shows up at her house. We know that because I guess the plains Indians had their women go out and hunt while men stayed behind and cooked. Yeah right.
The setting is the late 19th Century but the culture is 2017. Lesbians are open in the town, interracial relationships are not illegal and actually acceptable. The women are better gunfighters that the men and the F word is thrown about like a casual word of today. I am surprised it didn't show the women going to work in the mine. A couple of women out gun a Pinkerton detective like he was an amateur. Improbable.
Great characters are developed only to have them killed off in the middle or near the end. Sam Waterston, who plays the Marshal for one, and the deputy Whitey. The sheriff is going blind but buys spects and is enamored as I guess spectacles were not around though they actually were around for over a hundred years prior.
The town is made up mostly of women as their husbands died in a mine explosion. When a new mining company comes in to meet with the townspeople regarding a deal to reopen the mine, the remaining men of the town, propietors of businesses, were not present at the important meeting. Only the widows were present to make decisions about the future of the town, which was so ridiculous.
The gang seems to follow their leader blindly, in his long quest to seek revenge on a former gang member who turned on them. I am pretty sure the gang would rather go out making more money in robbing than just traveling all over the land trying to track one man. These men rob and steal but have no possessions other than their horses and tack.
The Buffalo Soldiers are retired and living in a town knowing the gang is coming. Despite setting up an ambush for the gang, the gang still seems to show up with surprise and kill the entire black town because these soldiers forgot their soldiering and didn't provide pickets. Not only that these well trained and experienced ex soldiers don't seem to kill many of the gang.
This means a bunch of widows without formal training or experience have to hold off the gang of experienced sociopathic killers. Um, yeah.
A gang of 30 just ride into town without sending men in for intel of the defense of the town, and get ambushed from a bunch of widows, all mainly in one building. Instead of backing out from the ambush to outflank and burn the building down, the men fight it ot from the street and make charges into the building and burn OTHER buildings down. There is a never ending supply og gang members. You see about 30 die, then there are 30 more. There is also a never end of ammunition. Everyone just keeps shooting like their guns are assault weapons of the next century. Two ladies on top of a building keep shooting down and never miss but none of the gang takes cover and concealment to shoot them off of the roof. The two ladies also have rifles that never run out of ammo. As much as they shhot you would expext a crate of ammo at their side.
People also take bullet wounds lightly. People with GSWs to the chest and abdomen go about as if mere flesh wounds. I have seen enough people with these types of GSWs to tell you that does not happen.
The sheriff shows up and casually rides through the hailstrom of bullets and faces off with the still strong gang in the middle of the street and starts taking out bad guys one by one, without his spects of course.
Once the gunfight is over, and all of the wounded people with torso shots are limping about, the movie begins to be good, since it is the beginning of the end.
Charité (2017)
Some inaccuracies but great series
Very well made and great character studies. There were some inaccuracies such as the setting started out in the Autumn of 1943 and and there is a discussion about heading to Africa to be with Rommel. The North African campaign was lost by the Germans and over by the Spring of that year.
Many medical issues and procedures seem correct for its time, but the one doctor was doing mouth to mouth on a baby and that procedure did not come into practice until the 1950s. Perhaps that was to show the doctor was imaginative and non-conformist.
An event where the doctors were treating a hemo-pneumo thorax showed the doctors first interested in removing the metal in the chest, when in fact the priority is on relieving intrathoracic pressure via a chest tube or needle decompression and then stopping bleeding and then vascular and tissue repair. Getting the bullet out is something Hollywood has been hung up on from the beginning. The doctor though, does explain why he wants to look for the metal and remove it, perhaps to appease those that would question it, but the priority was off.
Anyway, the show is a must for those interested in history and/or medical shows.