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Merlkir
I'm looking forward to it! so far it looks like Alexander Něvskij meets Kingdom of Heaven meets Hero or something like that 
Merlkir
Well..it looks a bit too much fantasy...but at least they show blood and spear wounds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHno62B6c7w&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHno62B6c7w&mode=related&search=
I agree, it looks a little bit exaggerated as always but also looks promising.
Feerspoir
Knight
I'm always astonished how people expect epic action movies to become history lessons. They just use widely known historical events/personalities/biographies to weave a larger than life story, aimed at entertaining people for 2 hours.Aqtai said:
And 300 was based off a comic, which is a fantasy adaptation of a historical event. I didn't like the movie, but I didn't go see it expecting Ancient Greek History 101.
Watch it and enjoy it (or not) as the entertainment flick it is.
Merlkir
Aqtai said:
exactly.
Raz said:Fantasy stuff aside, I just love the gore in that movie. Did you see the spear penetrate that horseman?!
exactly.
Feerspoir
Knight
Stop being so naive. For us history buffs maybe, not to Average Joe who pays to watch exactly those kinds of fantasy exagerations, which are, on a side note, exactly what "epic heroes" are all about. You just have to read Homer, Virgil, Camões, Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, classical Chinese literature to see how those authors and others treated their heroes and gave them supernatural abilities or real life impossible martial skills. It's a characterization feature of sorts, to separate them from the common, ordinary man, from secondary characters, to enhance their heroic aura in the mind of the reader/watcher; to make them instantly recognizable as heroes and sort of justify their impossible feats.Aqtai said:
That said, I do agree with you, history is far more interesting than fantasy exagerations, but history is not art and art is not history.
13 Spider Bloody Chain
Grandmaster Knight
One thing that irks me: wouldn't the Mongol archers use their thumbs to pull back their bowstrings?
There might be a mistake in grammar, I'm sorry for such faults.
AH! *insert light bulb here* I thought he was referring to thumb-ring, silly me.
AH! *insert light bulb here* I thought he was referring to thumb-ring, silly me.
Sanzo84
Sergeant at Arms
ZOMG! It's "Khergits: the Movie"! Looks very promising. Notice how they had Genghis speak Mongolian only to be dubbed in Russian and subtitled in English. And having a Japanese actor play the lead role sounds a bit... off. Still, I'll be seeing this movie if it comes out here in Euroland!
Looks very promising. Notice how they had Genghis speak Mongolian only to be dubbed in Russian and subtitled in English. And having a Japanese actor play the lead role sounds a bit... off. Still, I'll be seeing this movie if it comes out here in Euroland! 
I've always thought the problem is using the actual historical stuff meant that you couldn't disguise the shoddy acting, pathetic dialogue and crap script with a bunch of CGI splodes.Feerspoir said:
Then again, I consider calling the mainstream movie industry 'art' an insult to human culture in general.
Subotai
Sergeant at Arms
Many amongst the Mongolian community are very disappointed with the lack of historical accuracy in the movie - which is based on a Russian novel itself. But nonetheless, Sergei has tried his best but in the end you can never really please everyone.
Personally - I'm still going to watch it for entertainment. Besides - as Sanzo84 said it is KHERGIT: The Movie
Personally - I'm still going to watch it for entertainment. Besides - as Sanzo84 said it is KHERGIT: The Movie
Merlkir
It's bad. I've seen a BBC (at least I think it was BBC's) docummentary and it was thousand times better.
