jonathan7 said:

It's an interesting idea although, I would like to point something out...

I don't know how many of you have done any sword fighting; I've done a bit in Aikido, and I actually think the ANH duel is actually far more realistic than the Prequel Trilogy fights. (I'm not claiming to be any master or special... So if anyone knows better I'm happy to be corrected). Here's a video of Kendo; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh2TNO5CGXQ Also found a video of longsword fighting here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8PGRo61rCQ

As such although the Prequel fights may look more impressive, they got more and more OTT in my opinion. The Maul fight I think was really well done, but the later fights I find a bit meh. This may partly been because for Episode 3, I'd pictured Obi-Wan really regretfully taking Vader apart piece by piece.

Realistically speaking, sure, the Obi-wan and Vader fight in episode iv is probably the most practical and realistic of the duels.

Still......I personally feel like the over the top bombastic swordfights of the PT more befit the epic space fantasy world of Star Wars. They feel more at home to me amongst things like their overblown starship fights. This ultimately is just something that boils down to how you interepret Star Wars personally I think.