For me personally Battle of the Heroes is the worst lightsaber fight of the prequel trilogy. It’s too much style over substance. It’s supposed to be the most personal one in the entire Saga, but I can’t get over all the twirling they do its just ridiculous. And the cgi looks so bad.
I relate to this bc even tho I said earlier I enjoy that duel, I watched a version without music recently and realized Williams was hard carrying.
And I don’t think that’s unfair considering they didn’t include the music to the first part of the Vader vs. Luke ESB duel bc they realized it was better without it. Scenes are more then their music.
Maybe it’s my ADHD but it’s just overstimulating noise. The grounded swordfights in the OT, where you felt the stakes, the power of every slash, is completely gone. There are parts of the duel I like, I don’t dislike it I guess, but it should be cut in half. Maybe even a quarter.
It’s funny to me. For years I thought I loved the duel but it turned out half the time I was just jamming to John Williams. I guess I shouldn’t complain too much.