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Very cool, Petey.
Now do the same to True Detective season 2.
Win.
Just pure win.
Very cool, Petey.
Now do the same to True Detective season 2.
Also, perfect handling of the crawl. Exactly what that text deserved.
My god, the fight choreography is so bad. It’s so slow. They’re spinning for no god dang reason every 30 seconds.
It actually got a lot faster once ol' boy dieded.
Could you make any sense of that jump over thing? Seemed like Maul was actively preparing to kill him if he did it and then he did it and Maul was shocked or something.You’re right, it did. I posted while watching.
Could you make any sense of that jump over thing? Seemed like Maul was actively preparing to kill him if he did it and then he did it and Maul was shocked or something.
lolWin.
Just pure win.
Could you make any sense of that jump over thing? Seemed like Maul was actively preparing to kill him if he did it and then he did it and Maul was shocked or something.
My god, the fight choreography is so bad. It’s so slow. They’re spinning for no god dang reason every 30 seconds.
It actually got a lot faster once ol' boy dieded.
Could you make any sense of that jump over thing? Seemed like Maul was actively preparing to kill him if he did it and then he did it and Maul was shocked or something.
To me anyways, the Maul vs. Jedi battle here isn't great because it's so well choreographed - hell, Obi-Wan vs. Vader from ANH looks like pure shit by those standards - it's great because it actually has emotional resonance, something almost every other lightsaber fight has lacked since the original trilogy. I don't really care how good the swordsmanship of Luke vs. Vader from ROTJ is, for example; but I REALLY care when Luke suddenly starts to go ham because Vader threatens Leia. The emotional component elevates the action to something more, and then I'm invested.
In fact, the best part of this Darth Maul vs. Jedi fight from TPM here for me, isn't even any swing of a lightsaber - it's when Jinn is cut down, and Obi-Wan is forced to watch from behind the forcefields, in shock, then waiting, seething. That sequence is absolutely gripping to me. As far as the actual fighting physicality of Star Wars goes, I look at it more like ballet anyway, same as the gun violence in a John Woo film. It's only there to service the characters, it's extra theatrical, almost to the point of blatant choreography. So as long as there is an emotional core there, I'm hooked.