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Post #1144641

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Ryan
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
18-Dec-2017, 5:41 PM

JediExile said:

The lightsaber fight with the Praetor guards honestly seemed “Revenge of the Sith spinning lightsabers at each other” level.
The Praetor guards in the beginning kept spinning and running away from Rey and Kylo. When they did attack, they attacked in the same exact location in the same exact way (ex: overhead swing) and then scurried away when their attack was blocked. It was REALLY hilarious looking.
When the focus of the fight got onto them individually fighting the guards the choreography got better, but was still pretty wonky and hilarious (whip guy reeling in Rey, Rey swinging her lightsaber at nothing while Praetor guy just calmly walked up to her, etc)

Yes, I do think those lightsaber battles with the guards were rather hokey and too choreographed looking. Kind of like they were doing a dance.

This isn’t the only thing. But I do think part of the problem is that the actors playing Rey and Kylo probably aren’t naturally able to swing a sword and do all of those moves like someone who had been training in that for years. So they are probably limited to a heavily choreographed fight, etc. But part of the problem too is probably the person who designed the fights.

For example, look at Ray Park who played Darth Maul. He was trained in that in real life and you could tell he knew what he was doing.