Learn how to lightsaber duel - The Phantom Menace

[Luke Skywalker]

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0mUVY9fLlw

I literally LOL'd

[Darth Fanboy]

I literally LOL'd

Why?

[FaxModem1]

Could we get a working link?

[Luke Skywalker]

Fixed link.

[Jim Raynor]

Old. It's also an example of fans holding the prequels to different, far stricter standards, literally slowing down and replaying split-second shots to emphasize out that the fighting technique isn't totally real or perfect.

You see the same thing in the original trilogy, with pointless spins or people hitting each other's sabers instead of each other. Also, walls and rails were visibly pre-damaged before being struck by lightsabers (I'm guessing that it was kind of hard to explode physical objects next to actors without CGI). Hardly anybody lined up their gun sights to aim, and Han couldn't be trusted to put multiple shots through a doorway-sized hole in the wall.

The tactics and fighting in Star Wars has always been Hollywood fake.

[the atom]

The british accent makes it all the more hilarious.

[Darth Fanboy]

ten times zero is still zero

[Irbis]

You see the same thing in the original trilogy, with pointless spins or people hitting each other's sabers instead of each other.

The tactics and fighting in Star Wars has always been Hollywood fake.

To be fair, do we know how people with the Force would fight? That 'pointless spin' in the OT might be Jedi moving their saber to block 3 most likely attacks by opponent, attacks we then won't see because enemy knows beforehand they won't connect, hitting of the sabers might be disrupting enemy tempo or forcing him to abandon strategy he was about to use, or hell, even trying to hit specific muscles in his hand by exerting pressure just right and transferring strike energy through his lightsaber

[Daefaron]

Meh. Mostly blah because they stop it, then play a SINGLE persons move. In a fight like that, a swing might look like it's going wide, but the opponent doesn't take a chance with the lightsaber blade and ducks anyway.

I'm sure if we did the same treatment to any saber duel we'll find them just as stupid.

[Adam Reynolds]

This type of issue is often common in visual media, especially SF where the blasts are visible. Star Trek has long had the same problem with the phaser blasts often modified to point the right direction(leading some to claim auto-aiming features despite the large number of misses). The current Avengers movie has a similar problem with the actor playing Hawkeye not properly firing a bow such that if the arrows were really fired none of them would be even remotely accurate.

[aussiemuscle308]

To be fair, do we know how people with the Force would fight? That 'pointless spin' in the OT might be Jedi moving their saber to block 3 most likely attacks by opponent, attacks we then won't see because enemy knows beforehand they won't connect, hitting of the sabers might be disrupting enemy tempo or forcing him to abandon strategy he was about to use, or hell, even trying to hit specific muscles in his hand by exerting pressure just right and transferring strike energy through his lightsaber

Certainly most Sabre fights the laser-blade is usually blocked and the only 'hit' is from a fist or kick. if these things were real, most jedi would have artificial arms.