Ripplin said:
Rhikter said:
oh_riginal said:
However, the AOTC duel, as short as it is, feels overbearingly long when it gets to the silly looking close-ups of Anakin and Dooku twirling the lightsabers above their heads, not even looking like they are clashing sabers, even though we are supposed to think they are.

Ha! I'm so glad you brought that up. I've never mentioned it to anyone, but I've always thought that part of the duel looked ridiculous.

I figure that's them trying to put a sort of martial arts feel into it. Watch any movie in the genre (which I'm a fan of) and there's a ton of that 'twirling things to look cool' action. :p The needlessly flip their swords around a lot in ROTS too, innit? It kinda makes sense for the more casual 'fiddling', kinda like a batter will flip/twirl his baseball bat around sort of mindlessly.

But I don't want them fighting mindlessly. Episode 3 should have been the most emotional of all the movies, but we get lots of crazy stunts, twirly lightsaber antics and whining.