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Illustrations of history

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Inspired doesn't mean much. "Jedi" fighting is useless and made to look cool in extended duels. No actual techniques from historical martial arts are being used

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

in the original films the fights are very short.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As they should be. Most fights between trained sword fighters were over within seconds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That looks like a good movie. I've never heard of it before. Harvey Keitel isn't really in any bad movies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's Ridley Scott's first big movie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The best part is the ridiculous explanations using the force and whatever else as to why actually it all makes perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, there needs to be an explanation in universe, but out of universe - it looks cool to an average dude. It's just HEMA practicioners that cringe internally when seeing it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I just fine the explanations funny because they so obviously came after making the moves look the way they look.