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I don’t know what my favorite saber duel is, but I can tell you my favorite sound effect in Star Wars is a lightsaber blade against pure beskar. More specifically, the Darksaber blade against pure beskar. That ring is just **chef’s kiss** heavenly…

This is all great and all, but one of the biggest issues is just that the fights don't make sense, nobody does anything that adds up, not to mention the great knife disappearance and all the other glaring issues of the fight choreography itself with everything being 1v1's just a bunch of times, 4 opponents? They will approach 1 by 1, while in the prequels, if there were 3 opponents, they would actually fight all 3 at the same time and use clever tricks and moves to win, not just have the people wait their turn.

7:58 Anakin vs Obiwan: 🤨

I find it so fucking stupid how Rey got a YELLOW lightsaber. Every lightsaber colour has its own meaning, and in case you didn't know, yellow lightsabers were given to extremely powerful jedi! And rey wouldn't stand a chance against a true jedi master. Hell she couldn't even beat the younglings. She's a bitch.

-Too frequent -Too inconsequential

At the end of the day, they sacrifice good fighting scenes for quicker production. Actors don't put in the effort and are afraid of getting hurt. I havent watched movies in a while, but my eyes hurt watching any fighting scene with all the cuts and camera tricks to try to make up for lack of actual combat skills.

I LOOOOOOVE SWTORs duels on the Intro movies its absolutely BEAUTIFUL, but yeah I totally agree with you :D

Sabine legitimately feels like a self-insert from one of the writers. Which is hilarious because she is widely regarded as the worst and least likeable character in the show. Idk why after seeing all the hate Rey got for being such a Mary Sue in her movies, their brilliant idea was to do it again, but this time also make the character a total asshole. What a great idea.

Legit me and my friend can take styrofoam swords and make better fights than the sequels its like they are scared of the blade using it with extreme caution like it could explode or something

i genuinely like all the star wars films just because i like the lightsabers lol

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The reason they're always fatigued is because they're bums. Nowhere near the level of Master let alone knight. Rey and kylo were a joke. Pong krell smashes them.

My favorite lightsaber duel was the Cloud City one between Luke and Vader. It has narrative purpose, builds up to the most iconic moment in Star Wars history, and the fighting, although more slowly paced, is great. The emotional weight behind it is fantastic; you see that Luke wants to avenge Obi-Wan, his father, and his friends, before his world is turned upside down by the end.

There's way too many of them. They don't have any narrative significance. They are given to characters who shouldn't have them (e.g. Yoda). And the entire purpose of them is to sell toys and video games and other junk. There should be maximum 1 lightsaber duel per movie, no more. It should be confined to Jedi vs. Sith scenarios with a red lightsaber vs. a normal one (preferably green or blue) and narratively significant as the climax of the movie's good vs. evil storyline (Which could send me on another rant.. Ever since Star Wars went down this trendy moral-ambiguity path the movies have been crap. Star Wars should be about simple adventure tales and good vs. evil. A clear good guy, a clear bad guy, and good triumphs. good vs. evil types of stories are a novelty these days, as every hollywood movie feels the need to outdo the last in terms of how deep and edgy the existentialist message is. No Star Wars movie has been good since the 1980s. All crap. Revenge of the Sith is a little better than the others -- a 5.5/10 so not saying much -- so still a very mediocre movie that is only good because the original trilogy exists. If the original trilogy did not exist, it would have no narrative weight whatsoever, and no one would care about the 10 minute lightsaber fight between Anakin and Obi Wan).

The duel vs Luke was meant to let the audience observe that he really wasn't there. Everything about it was screaming, "He's not there you dumbass Sith. You're just blinded by anger!" You think Obiwan or Yoda would have fell for some shit like that? That was one of the more interesting parts of the movies for me because they were so careful that he didn't touch anything.

its a shame that disney had to touch star wars at all with its grubby little hands. Now, i've had how the fights transpired (or, how they were meant to transpire) explained to me, and they sounded like they would be amazing to watch. But then, I watched them, and was extremely disappointed. Now, don't get me wrong, both Kylo and Ray are very inexperienced compared to literally anybody else who had a lightsaber fight in the entire rest of the movies, but the way they were *meant* to fight was supposed to be a lot more loose, more visceral. Two people who barely knew which way the pointy end was, but fought their hearts out nonetheless. It just wasn't portrayed well at all and thats a huge shame. Kylo kind of got the emotional parts down, though his role was essentially just an angry toddler so thats not that big of an accomplishment, and I agree with cap here that Ray doesn't have a single redeeming feature. I like the actors, but they obviously weren't given enough time or pushed enough to make a good enough impact in the actual movies. Hell, side characters that had no place having the spotlight were given more screen time for useless little tidbits that nobody cared about than any of the actual duels. It's just... gross... They axed the Jedi Outcast series, for this?

I still can’t believe people hated the prequels for so long, they were tripping

Watching the geriatric Ahsoka try to "lightsaber fight" made me go "alright, i'm out for good". I can't watch this shit anymore.

also, i didnt like how they tired out in the sequals, but, again, no formal training.

honestly, i think it was the lack of the formalized teaching of lightsaber combat in the sequals really, really, dragged down the quality of the duels.

I like how you unfavorably compared them to the absolutely terrible fights from the prequels.

My two favorite lightsaber fight scenes are a tie between the Obi-wan and Maul duel in Rebels, and Mauls duel with Ashoka in Season 7 of Clone Wars. Both fights short, simple, but pack meaning and emotion behind them. The action behind them literally drawing the sabers out before the fight even begins shows a level of care and detail the Fanfiction Trilogy fails to capture at all.

Yoda vs palpatine was sick ngl

0:03 But I wasn't exactly a kid when that was first shown.

Transformers bayverse transforming sounds and star wars light saber and blasters sounds will always be iconic

The choreography look so half assed compared to prequel trilogy, and old republic. And there doesn't seem to be a real sense of danger in getting hit by a saber.

3:08 it does look sick 😂

absolutely sinful to not even mention Hayden and his fancy behind the back lightsaber twirl

My personal favorite is dooku vs anikin and obi wan in clone wars season 6. Dooku knew his opponents had opposite strengths and weaknesses. Thus he managed to escape unscathed by forcing anikin, form 5 user to stay defensive, while continually enticing obi wan, a form 3 user, to attack.

I'm not sure what you mean by lack of professional training in swordfighting. In the Kylo vs Rey fight we got to see some masterfully done reverse-grip swordsmanship with his longsword-saber just like they did in the medieval era.

My favorite duel is hands down Obi Wan vs Darth Maul... From Rebels. One of the shortest duels in the entire franchise, but so much emotional weight, and every single movement they take has meaning behind it, from the build up, squaring off, the psychological warfare, then the quick clash and it's over.

Obi-Wan vs Ani/Vader on Mustafar quick start pauses for emotional build up. And like you the pain of "You were my brother." Which is Obi-Wan's failure. He needed a father figure not a brother. If Quigon had lived it might have been different.

It would’ve been better if George Lucas has made them like honestly, Disney f*ck up

"the jedis cannot move fast like that..." um... jedi dash??? jedi inhuman reflexes and speed??? the fri*ken FORCE??? HELLO????????

The real problem with duels after the first three films, is the lack of tension. Everything after is "lightsaber porn". There's no tension when everyone can just go Super Saiyan. The whole Jedi concept stems from samurai and we all should know that Kurosawa was a huge influence on George Lucas. Go watch those old fights. There isn't a lot of flash; but there is a load of tension. Samurai don't need spinning blades non-stop and choreographed dance moves. That is just eye candy. Junk food. If samurai had lightsabers in real life, a typical fight would be over in a split second. Of course, the typical modern audience would find that boring. We've all been conditioned. But the original three movies strike a great balance. There's tension, alongside some cool swordplay. Nothing insane. Anakin's duel on Mustafar was absurd. The fight with Maul was also absurd. And the duels in the sequels are beyond absurd. Snoke's throne room is what it wrong with modern lightsaber fights. Way too much energy spent on not landing any saber blows.

Obi Wan v Anakin is the best. You can't convince me otherwise

I really does feel like a lack of substance and thought to the fight. Take the final fight between Obi Wan and Maul in rebels. It’s only three blows in the span of like 3 seconds but it’s actually a really great fight when you examine it closer. Maul used the exact same move he used to kill qui gon and that was his downfall. He was so dead set on revenge that he never took the time to learn from his mistakes the first time and I think that’s a great poetic detail. Now take that and compare it to the fights we have now.

Not bringing back Nick Gillard as stunt coordinator was one of disney's biggest mistakes

My favorite duel is a tie between 2, the battle of the heroes in episode 3, which is anakin vs obi wan, and the battle between father and son and episode 6 on the death star between luke and vader, both are so great

The only thing I dislike now is it seems like lightsabers gained 300 pounds 💀 there’s also no Jedi flips and techniques like that

My favorite duel has to be ROTJ Luke vs. Vader duel. Luke's thoughts betray him as he finds strength within the thought of his sister, but inadvertently gives her existence away to Vader. At the very mention of turning her to the dark side, Luke flies into a rage, knowing that he has to kill his own father to protect his sister. And Vader can barely keep up with him as Luke taps into the Dark Side to beat him. A Jedi's Fury, for me, is tied with Duel of the Fates and Battle of the Heroes. It perfectly sells the "Him or Her" moment with its long cuts.

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The guy is ignorant and arrogant.

obi wan vs Anikan is my personal favorite duel

For me it's also a choreography that sucks in new films. Like, if you watch new movies closer or just slow it down a little you can perfectly see how bad the choreography is. I'm not saying that in prequels it's PERFECT, I'm saying that it's CLOSE to PERFECTION.

Let’s never say Rey is the chosen one. She is a Mary Sue and should be removed from canon. 7:44

One big thing for me is the lack of danger that a lightsaber presents in the new films. In the original Star Wars movies, a lightsaber was handled with extreme caution and precise movements, because it can literally cut your limbs off! In the new movies, a lightsaber is about as dangerous as a baseball bat and most wounds a lightsaber causes are not even fatal anymore. When Reva was stabbed through the stomach on two separate occasions, she definitely should not have survived. Maul has a reason for surviving being cut in half in the Clone Wars, because he used his dark side training from Darth Sidious to survive, also he literally went insane, it was only the power of the night sisters that restored his sanity. Reva doesn't even show any signs of being fatally wounded, she just stands up and walks away. Also, when Kylo stashed Finn literally up his back and it didn't kill him?! I just don't feel that Disney respects lightsabers at all. Qui Gon died from a stab to the stomach, but Finn doesn't die from being slashed up his spinal column! LOL. Oh and one more thing, when Rey stabbed Kylo in his stomach, then just freaking heals him, because NoW sHe CaN fOrCe HeAl. How is she able to do all these things that no other jedi has been able to do with barely any knowledge of the force? Why didn't we see any scenes of Luke training her as a force ghost? I don't understand how Rey can beat Kylo in a lightsaber duel at all the first time they fought. Sure, Kylo was injured, but Rey never used a lightsaber before... She trained with a staff, but not with a lightsaber. Kylo had 15 years of experience prior... That's like Anakin being able to defeat Dooku as a Padawan. Where is the difference in training? So yeah, I have some complaints about obvious plot holes. Although, I do like Kylo as a character, but they severely underpowered him against Rey and Finn.

They are way overused and narratively pointless duels in the last 6 movies, with the sole exception being revenge of the sith obi wan vs Anakin, which was still 2-3 min too long. Lightsaber battles themselves are really boring, just like all action in movies is by itself boring. They are only good if there is narrative weight behind them, which is why every lightsaber duel in the original trilogy was good and why only 1 in the prequels was good and 0 in the sequels. Just wasted time. People dancing around with sticks. Just another example of how the entire purpose of the last two trilogies has been to sell toys and video games and crap and not actually produce a good story.

Liam neason deliberately threw the fight, he knew that being impaled by a light sabre isnt lethal and he had to run off to train batman AND rescue his daughter.

Because he mentioned some amazing anime in the video, I'm gonna like the video and then never see it again