stossmo said:eriously, any time Yoda has a lightsaber battle with a Sith, I feel like I'm watching the dali lama and Osama bin Laden have a knife fight.
really? my version doesnt excise the lightsaber fight. He explained in the commentary that he worried removing it would take too much from the movie and he ultimately kept it. Ide be interested to see the version you have if that could be arranged.
If you click on the "phantom editor" symbol around that part it takes you too a cut where he removes the fight.
ah, thanks. I cant believe I missed that.
In the shooting script for "TPM" the Yoda lightsaber fight is described to be much more meaningful. Dooku decides they need to fight with lightsabers, and Yoda takes his out and with the extreme minimum of motion effortlessly blocks all of Dooku's attacks. Like Mr. Miagi at the start of Karate Kid II. It's only after being frustrated by Yoda's Zen Lightsaber Master defense that Dooku uses the force to endanger ObiWan and Anakin.
I think if it had been shot this way, character based, and less 'badass,' we would have found the seen much less objectionable.