Didn’t post anything new today as my brain was tired and my body needed sleep. Yesterday I started watching a limited series, seven episodes, on Netflix, and I was so transfixed that I could not stop watching. So I sat in front of my monitor watching seven episodes. I kept telling myself one more, and I will go to sleep, but I could not stop until I watched till the end, and I do mean the end. It starts like many earlier good westerns: a wounded person shows up at a ranch where the woman is alone, maybe with a child or two. While “Shane” was not wounded, the beginning was similar.
Godless is not widely known, yet it is listed among the top fifteen Westerns of all time.
I am not a film critic or reviewer; I have no idea what the critics use to judge movies. For me, it is simple: do I stay glued to my seat, watching, or do I step away to come back later?
I found something interesting in the movie Godless: the bad guy was raised by Mormons, a young child who survived a massacre by Mormons masquerading as Indians. I had seen another great western about that not too long ago, “American Primeval.” American Primeval is presently on Netflix. I enjoyed the ending of Godless much more than the ending of American Primeval.
I did watch 1883, 1923, and Yellowstone; the only one that comes close to being as good as either Godless or American Primeval is 1883.
I had ignored Godless for quite some time; that must be the worst trailer I have ever seen to entice me — or someone like me — to watch that seven-part series—first, the official trailer, and then something a little more exciting.
Godless the triler
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Godless the movie
