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Old 01-08-2006, 08:28 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Redjake
IGN.com has all these videos like this. There are tons more there (including this one). One thing I don't like about these clips and what I liked more about the older Star Wars movies (especially Return of the Jedi) is the "unstructured" feel of the lightsaber battles. These new videos like this one seem way too structured and "look what I can do, this doesn't actually help the battle, but wow, I can do THIS!!!!!!!" Such as flipping the lightsaber around when it doesn't need to be flipped around. Mark Hamill wielding his lightsaber swinging violently at Darth Vader is the best......you can almost feel the hate/rage Luke is venting through his lightsaber swings as he just swings that fucker......his only purpose is to kill/incapacitate Darth Vader, not do cool little moves and swings and shit....seems much more natural (and pertains to the original purpose for a lightsaber - a weapon. not a glow stick). These videos just seem like "LOOK AT ME! I'M AN ATTENTION WHORE!!!!!"
Exactly. the later movies have too much posing, and this film even more. Not that I'm nay saying this, this is a great amateur film but most of that is not martial arts, its movie martial arts (acrobatics).
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