Etrian Oddity
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Yar har har!Technically a duel involves two persons
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Best Star Wars lightsaber duel
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Yep. Season 1 and 2 had moments of greatness but hindered by a lot of mediocre but Season 3-5 became so good. Even though Disney were douches and cancelled the series when 5 ended it ended on good enough terms to be satisfying though with a few questions left.
Ah, thank you. Would you happen to know under what phrase I can find the video from which the gif was made?
KeeSomething
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No. People won't mention it because even though it looks "cool," no one cares about the characters fighting. It's basically bland guy 1 and guy 2 vs cool-looking dude.
Heres the video for that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3k45xlAXYU
Why ObiWan is the perfect Jedi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu8HGSG3ugA
Thank you.
GillianSeed79
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Vader Vs. Luke in Empire Strikes Back hands down, even though I think the rematch in ROTJ is more emotional. The great part of the ESB duel is that there's a deliberate slow pace to it and there's a real feeling of dread/fear that Vader is going to flat out destroy Luke he's so powerful.
cj_iwakura
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I was looking far more forward to Yoda VS Palpatine than Obi-Wan VS Anakin. The former was a little disappointing, but that build-up was worth it.
Out the way, guards.
Out the way, guards.
It would have been great to have more force battle usage but I think creativity was an issue and how to show it from Lucas. I was like you though the Idea of Palpatine and Yoda duking it was so much a bigger thing to me than Anakin and ObiWan. When the trailer showed Palpatine was going to wield his saber I was like :O
Bobby Roberts
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What's happening ITT are people are either heavily weighting towards story, or heavily weighting towards physicality. Not a lot of blending the two, or one side taking the other into account somewhat, or people accounting for lighting/editing/score along with the acting/choreography.
DrForester
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4 was a simple fight between an old man and a guy in a suit who couldn't move. There was nothing to it, choreography wise. 5 and 6 saw lengthy lightsaber fights across multiple and large sets and were choreographed perfectly.
As others have said, the problem with the fights in the prequels is no one is trying to kill the other. They're swinging at each others lightsabers, not the person holding the lightsaber.
Now granted, in ESB, Vader was intentionally not going for the kill shot on Luke, but Luke sure was trying to kill Vader. It wasn't really until ROTJ that they were both trying to kill each other, and even then, the argument can be made that Vader was still holding back until he pushed Luke over the Edge and Luke raged at him. But the point is that there was motivation behind the fights and their choreography in E4-6, where the coreography in the prequels was done in a way to make the fights last a long time, and in no way looked like people fighting to kill.
Dr_Boris_Goltz
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Yes. I don't think human actors can properly portray a good sword fight. Sadly neither could the CG Yoda. I hope they start thinking outside the box in what makes a cool swordfight. John Williams fight tracks are always amazing.
I'm pretty sure they need some kind of one hit mechanic like they used in troy
My friend you contradict yourself by bringing up Troy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmj1gjPcZh8
Possibly one of the best fights in cinema.
DrForester
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RoninChaos
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Agreed.
This.
1.75 movies worth of build up towards this moment. Culminates in the greatest twist in cinematic history. Oh, and the good guy gets absolutely dominated.
Of course, the final duel in Jedi is incredible as well, but I'd have to give the ESB fight the nod just barely.
DiipuSurotu
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Yeah I think a more interesting question for the topic would have been do you prefer the duel in ESB or the one in RotJ.
Clone Outcast
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Ya, you right. This was the most visually entertaining and action packed duel.
The best one though has to be Luke duelling Vader on the Deathstar II. The raw emotion and power Luke emits before his cuts Vader's hand off. Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkrGSv2cv3s
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