@mikkaq said:
The new lightsaber looks silly, but I hope the big clunky looking light-claymore means a return to the slower-paced sword battles of the original film and not the silliness of the later films. Lightsaber fights were coolest when treated like duels from old samurai films or some shit.
On the one hand, fight choreography has come a long way since the late 70s. On the other hand, I think having everybody do fucking Jet Li flips and spins in the prequels was stupid. I'd rather go back to the original trilogies, where I believe the actors were literally told to pretend the prop they were holding had the weight of a samurai sword, and that each swing had to have some weight behind it. You look at Luke at the end of Empire, and he looks sweaty and exhausted, and it makes the fight seem like it's a big deal. In most of the lightsaber fights in the prequels, they're spinning the lightsabers around like they're fucking drumsticks, and it just looks lame.
Yeah giving the swords weight made for some really tense duels. I think even though they have the ability to choreograph more complex mores, I think the filmmakers need to realize that less is more for some things. By Episode 3 the final hyped up battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan ended up falling flat for me because it was just a crazy lightsaber-and-lava-light-show. Like I can remember specific memorable moments from the fight at the end of Empire Strikes Back, but nothing about the Episode 3 fight felt memorable, it was just flashy as all hell.
Judging by the Star Trek movies JJ Abrams isn't great at subtle action, but we'll see!
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