http://registan.net/index.php/2007/10/31/nomad/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 03:15:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://registan.net/index.php/2007/10/31/nomad/comment-page-1/#comment-375785 Joshua Foust Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:52:50 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/10/31/nomad/#comment-375785 I'm with you that Kazakh cinema should get a fair shake in the west. Maybe they'll <a href="http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/10/20/the-power-of-media-bring-down-the-mpaa/" rel="nofollow">avoid the MPAA</a> somehow? I’m with you that Kazakh cinema should get a fair shake in the west. Maybe they’ll avoid the MPAA somehow?

]]> http://registan.net/index.php/2007/10/31/nomad/comment-page-1/#comment-375783 Michael Hancock Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:34:26 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/10/31/nomad/#comment-375783 The original packaging [in Russian and Kazakh] definitely lacks the American packaging flare. Seems like an obvious rip off of The 300. Oh well... Whatever sells, right? But I want to be straightforward in that I kind of liked it, too. Wish it could have been a little more substance, like Nathan said, and a little more honest about 'national' identity and how the unification of the hordes didn't actually end well at all for the Kazakh people. The original packaging [in Russian and Kazakh] definitely lacks the American packaging flare. Seems like an obvious rip off of The 300. Oh well… Whatever sells, right? But I want to be straightforward in that I kind of liked it, too. Wish it could have been a little more substance, like Nathan said, and a little more honest about ‘national’ identity and how the unification of the hordes didn’t actually end well at all for the Kazakh people.

]]> http://registan.net/index.php/2007/10/31/nomad/comment-page-1/#comment-375782 Michael Hancock Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:31:23 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/10/31/nomad/#comment-375782 The loved the ending especially, where the little boy brings the globe back from Ablaykhan [spelling escapes me temporarily] with the borders of Kazakhstan marked on it. Not too sure if I'm supposed to laugh or not - Cartography as we know it didn't gain much from Asia. Lots of traveling, but little good map making. The loved the ending especially, where the little boy brings the globe back from Ablaykhan [spelling escapes me temporarily] with the borders of Kazakhstan marked on it. Not too sure if I’m supposed to laugh or not – Cartography as we know it didn’t gain much from Asia. Lots of traveling, but little good map making.

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