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Year: 2008
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Plot: Based on the controversial writings of Russian historian Lev Gumilyov, director Sergei Bodrov's look at the early years in the life of the Mongol conqueror stars American actor Channing Tatum as the future military leader, and Japanese star Tadanobu Asano as his brother. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:56:36 GMTMongol: The Early Years of Genghis Khan2008Sergei BodrovBased on the controversial writings of Russian historian Lev Gumilyov, director <a href="/players/P____82260/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sergei Bodrov</a>'s look at the early years in the life of the Mongol conqueror stars American actor <a href="/players/P___419915/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Channing Tatum</a> as the future military leader, and Japanese star <a href="/players/P___199674/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Tadanobu Asano</a> as his brother. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide13Tag Target (>10)843http://www.spout.com/images/no_image.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Mongol_The_Early_Years_of_Genghis_Khan/265253/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/warmovieblog/archive/2008/10/31/36838.aspxPost By: WarMovieBlog
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Body: Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007) IMDB Few names bring fear into the hearts of men as much as "Genghis Khan" or as he was known to the people he led and the lands he ravaged, "Temudgin."  In Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan, we get a spectacular, if sympathetic, look at the rise to power of one of history's most infamous warlords. From his troubled youth, when he's thrust into power as a child and just as quickly overthrown by a member of his father's counsel, young Temudgin must fight his way up from nothing.  Escaping capture from this traitor Targutai (Amadu Mamadakov) he prays to the god of the sky, who seems to endow him with his powers.  As he reunites with his bride Borte (Khulan Chuluun), and a friend he made along the way, his leadership and stature become clear to everyone around him. He finally becomes enemies with said friend, Jamukha (Honglei Sun), who has teamed with Targutai in order to elminate Temudgin.  The battle scenes in Mongol are spectacular, with maybe a certain amount of Kung-Fu movie flair to them.  At times they can get a little grisly, and possibly over the top.  The scene early on where Temudgin caves in the guy's skull is probably the prime example.  Not for the weak, to be sure. He's captured and sold to a Chinese nobleman, who puts him on display as an animal.  Later freed by his wife, he returns to Mongolia to unite the tribes he fought against, and sets us up (I think) for the rest of this trilogy, which I cannot wait to see. The greatest thing about Mongol is not Tadanobu Asano's performance as the warlord, although it is excellent.  It's the simply breathtaking location shots.  Time after time they show you locations you never dreamed could be real.  It's just amazing.  The production team also went the extra mile in setting everything up.  From the costumes to the props, you -will- buy into all of it. And yet again, I have to change my position on the love story angle.  Here it is an integral part of the story.  His love for his chosen bride throughout is what drives him.  And the opposite is true, as Borte goes as far as becoming the wife of a Chinese nobleman, and mother to his child, in order to get to Temudgin and free him from his cage. Somewhat troubling throughout, though, is the sympathetic nature of the story.  I don't know about you, but I was always taught that Genghis Khan was a merciless killer and ravager.  The typical leader of "the mongol hordes", but it's clear that this is not that man.  Maybe the portrait will change if the rest of this story is told, I can't say.  But that "feeling" is continually in the back of your mind as you watch Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007) on Spout.com Originally posted on:War Movie Reviews and News
]]>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:01:26 GMTWarMovieBlogWarMovieBlog Blog10/31/2008 8:01:26 AMMongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007) IMDB Few names bring fear into the hearts of men as much as "Genghis Khan" or as he was known to the people he led and the lands he ravaged, "Temudgin."  In Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan, we get a spectacular, if sympathetic, look at the rise to power of one of history's most infamous warlords. From his troubled youth, when he's thrust into power as a child and just as quickly overthrown by a member of his father's counsel, young Temudgin must fight his way up from nothing.  Escaping capture from this traitor Targutai (Amadu Mamadakov) he prays to the god of the sky, who seems to endow him with his powers.  As he reunites with his bride Borte (Khulan Chuluun), and a friend he made along the way, his leadership and stature become clear to everyone around him. He finally becomes enemies with said friend, Jamukha (Honglei Sun), who has teamed with Targutai in order to elminate Temudgin.  The battle scenes in Mongol are spectacular, with maybe a certain amount of Kung-Fu movie flair to them.  At times they can get a little grisly, and possibly over the top.  The scene early on where Temudgin caves in the guy's skull is probably the prime example.  Not for the weak, to be sure. He's captured and sold to a Chinese nobleman, who puts him on display as an animal.  Later freed by his wife, he returns to Mongolia to unite the tribes he fought against, and sets us up (I think) for the rest of this trilogy, which I cannot wait to see. The greatest thing about Mongol is not Tadanobu Asano's performance as the warlord, although it is excellent.  It's the simply breathtaking location shots.  Time after time they show you locations you never dreamed could be real.  It's just amazing.  The production team also went the extra mile in setting everything up.  From the costumes to the props, you -will- buy into all of it. And yet again, I have to change my position on the love story angle.  Here it is an integral part of the story.  His love for his chosen bride throughout is what drives him.  And the opposite is true, as Borte goes as far as becoming the wife of a Chinese nobleman, and mother to his child, in order to get to Temudgin and free him from his cage. Somewhat troubling throughout, though, is the sympathetic nature of the story.  I don't know about you, but I was always taught that Genghis Khan was a merciless killer and ravager.  The typical leader of "the mongol hordes", but it's clear that this is not that man.  Maybe the portrait will change if the rest of this story is told, I can't say.  But that "feeling" is continually in the back of your mind as you watch Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007) on Spout.com Originally posted on:War Movie Reviews and News http://www.spout.com/blogs/joem18b/archive/2008/10/27/36710.aspxPost By: joem18b
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Post Date: 10/27/2008 7:01:58 PM
Body: I always pictured Mongols as small and tough, riding across the steppes of Asia on their hardy little war ponies, each man keeping a vein open and clamped in his horse's neck so that he could drink its blood while in the saddle. These Mongol horsemen were all bowlegged and handled their innovative recurved composite bows with deadly accuracy. However, my son had a friend throughout grammar school whose father was a Mongol. Far from being small and bowlegged, this dude was built like a Tongan. He did have the Mongolian attitude that I imagined, though. When his wife told him that she was leaving him and taking the kids with her, he told her that she was free to go but that if she tried to take the children, he'd kill them all. She believed him. So he raised the kids. We took the boy on a camping trip once. His father gave him some money to help out with supplies. At our first stop - a general store down the road from the Rouge Y Noir Cheese Factory, he spent the whole wad on candy, which he stored away in his backpack and worked on throughout the trip. Anyway, along came The Story of the Weeping Camel and Mongolian Ping Pong and my image of the Mongolian male transmogrified in the direction of, say, the Inuits. But now, with Mongol, I'm back to the image of my son's friend's father, even though the star of the movie, playing Genghis Khan, is Japanese. And by the way, what is it with Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia? I was all scheduled for my Asian Adventure when I noticed that I was only ticketed to Inner Mongolia. No way! I told them. I don't want to be stuck in Inner Mongolia; I want to sleep out under the stars in Outer Mongolia.For whatever reason, I haven't watch any of those doctor and lawyer shows that deal with a current social issue or two every week. Until Eli Stone, that is. I just watched the first season on DVD. Each episode, a new issue. My question is, given the fact that no one has ever learned anything in their high-school civics or social studies class, why not just show an episode from one of these shows every day in class? It couldn't hurt. The Hulk movies are entertaining except for the Hulk himself. It would make all the difference if The Hulk, when called into existence, was moved to do something other than rage and break things. Perhaps the big transformation could be triggered by Bruce Banner's extreme hunger, and he would binge on sushi, or get set off by Bruce Banner's powerful thirst, with Hulk do Jello shots to an insane degree. Or, of course, Bruce could get a powerful itch down there.
]]>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:01:58 GMTjoem18bjoem18b Blog10/27/2008 7:01:58 PMI always pictured Mongols as small and tough, riding across the steppes of Asia on their hardy little war ponies, each man keeping a vein open and clamped in his horse's neck so that he could drink its blood while in the saddle. These Mongol horsemen were all bowlegged and handled their innovative recurved composite bows with deadly accuracy. However, my son had a friend throughout grammar school whose father was a Mongol. Far from being small and bowlegged, this dude was built like a Tongan. He did have the Mongolian attitude that I imagined, though. When his wife told him that she was leaving him and taking the kids with her, he told her that she was free to go but that if she tried to take the children, he'd kill them all. She believed him. So he raised the kids. We took the boy on a camping trip once. His father gave him some money to help out with supplies. At our first stop - a general store down the road from the Rouge Y Noir Cheese Factory, he spent the whole wad on candy, which he stored away in his backpack and worked on throughout the trip. Anyway, along came The Story of the Weeping Camel and Mongolian Ping Pong and my image of the Mongolian male transmogrified in the direction of, say, the Inuits. But now, with Mongol, I'm back to the image of my son's friend's father, even though the star of the movie, playing Genghis Khan, is Japanese. And by the way, what is it with Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia? I was all scheduled for my Asian Adventure when I noticed that I was only ticketed to Inner Mongolia. No way! I told them. I don't want to be stuck in Inner Mongolia; I want to sleep out under the stars in Outer Mongolia.For whatever reason, I haven't watch any of those doctor and lawyer shows that deal with a current social issue or two every week. Until Eli Stone, that is. I just watched the first season on DVD. Each episode, a new issue. My question is, given the fact that no one has ever learned anything in their high-school civics or social studies class, why not just show an episode from one of these shows every day in class? It couldn't hurt. The Hulk movies are entertaining except for the Hulk himself. It would make all the difference if The Hulk, when called into existence, was moved to do something other than rage and break things. Perhaps the big transformation could be triggered by Bruce Banner's extreme hunger, and he would binge on sushi, or get set off by Bruce Banner's powerful thirst, with Hulk do Jello shots to an insane degree. Or, of course, Bruce could get a powerful itch down there. http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/6/9/30890.aspxPost By: Karina
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Post Date: 6/9/2008 10:00:49 AM
Body: Kung Fu Panda made $60 million this weekend, 150% of the gross of the weekend’s number two film, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan. Sex and the City dropped 63% to fourth place; power blogger Peter Bart says its because the women of America spent the weekend atoning for the previous ten days of cosmo-steeped empowerment fantasies by bowing to the demands of their boyfriends and children. Which may not bode well for… Chickflicks, a new indie production company headed by Sara Risher and Stephanie Austin, which will produce two or three films per year with women in mind. Risher, hooking the project to the success of Sex and the City, said “the underserved market for intelligent, emotional films with relatable female characters has spoken emphatically.” For one week, at least. Meanwhile, Mongol, one of the very last films to come out under the Picturehouse banner, easily won the specialty race this weekend, with a per screen average of $26,627. Also: Bob Berney is apparently planning on going into business with unidentified pedestrians. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:00:49 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog6/9/2008 10:00:49 AM Kung Fu Panda made $60 million this weekend, 150% of the gross of the weekend’s number two film, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan. Sex and the City dropped 63% to fourth place; power blogger Peter Bart says its because the women of America spent the weekend atoning for the previous ten days of cosmo-steeped empowerment fantasies by bowing to the demands of their boyfriends and children. Which may not bode well for… Chickflicks, a new indie production company headed by Sara Risher and Stephanie Austin, which will produce two or three films per year with women in mind. Risher, hooking the project to the success of Sex and the City, said “the underserved market for intelligent, emotional films with relatable female characters has spoken emphatically.” For one week, at least. Meanwhile, Mongol, one of the very last films to come out under the Picturehouse banner, easily won the specialty race this weekend, with a per screen average of $26,627. Also: Bob Berney is apparently planning on going into business with unidentified pedestrians. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/6/9/30889.aspxPost By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 6/9/2008 10:00:40 AM
Body: Kung Fu Panda made $60 million this weekend, 150% of the gross of the weekend’s number two film, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan. Sex and the City dropped 63% to fourth place; power blogger Peter Bart says its because the women of America spent the weekend atoning for the previous ten days of cosmo-steeped empowerment fantasies by bowing to the demands of their boyfriends and children. Which may not bode well for… Chickflicks, a new indie production company headed by Sara Risher and Stephanie Austin, which will produce two or three films per year with women in mind. Risher, hooking the project to the success of Sex and the City, said “the underserved market for intelligent, emotional films with relatable female characters has spoken emphatically.” For one week, at least. Meanwhile, Mongol, one of the very last films to come out under the Picturehouse banner, easily won the specialty race this weekend, with a per screen average of $26,627. Also: Bob Berney is apparently planning on going into business with unidentified pedestrians. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:00:40 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com6/9/2008 10:00:40 AM Kung Fu Panda made $60 million this weekend, 150% of the gross of the weekend’s number two film, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan. Sex and the City dropped 63% to fourth place; power blogger Peter Bart says its because the women of America spent the weekend atoning for the previous ten days of cosmo-steeped empowerment fantasies by bowing to the demands of their boyfriends and children. Which may not bode well for… Chickflicks, a new indie production company headed by Sara Risher and Stephanie Austin, which will produce two or three films per year with women in mind. Risher, hooking the project to the success of Sex and the City, said “the underserved market for intelligent, emotional films with relatable female characters has spoken emphatically.” For one week, at least. Meanwhile, Mongol, one of the very last films to come out under the Picturehouse banner, easily won the specialty race this weekend, with a per screen average of $26,627. Also: Bob Berney is apparently planning on going into business with unidentified pedestrians. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/adventure/MemberTagFilms.aspxadventure
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