re: #321 HappyWarrior

It really is amazing how successful they were. Did anyone see Mongol? I believe it was a Kazakh movie made about the rise of Genghis Khan. Really good. It was supposed to be the first of three films about the Mongol empire but I am not sure if they ever made a second one. An empire from the gates of Vienna I believe that would have if not for an insane storm at sea reached the shores of Japan.

Yep, I saw it—great movie (hoping for a part two soon). As a matter of fact, I bought the DVD. I’m a total sucker for cinematic eye-candy, so probably half of the movies I buy are purely for the visual pleasure watching them brings—stuff like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Mongol, Memoirs of a Geisha, Apocalypto, etc.