Uh, a good movie would have provided a compelling story/plot based opportunity to have a fight that felt meaningful. You just described what's bad about the prequels. Its all about opportunity, here's a chance to shoehorn in Boba Fett, the Falcon, Chewie, Yoda using a lightsaber, it goes on and on. He was too busy finding excuses to do something and spent no time creating an engaging story to hang all those scenes on.
No, his whole tangent about "light sabers are not swords" is a goal post shift. Originally I was just talking about Dooku probably being the most "realistic" fighting style if we compared things strictly to RL (It was an extension of an earlier conversation about the "realism" of the prequel fights), which is neck beard sure, but it was what the conversation was about. Dooku fighting like a fencer--proves you can fightlike a fencer! He came in and said you don't block because of fragile steel; but that'snotthe primary reason. You don't do hard blocks because it's so easy for a light weapon to avoid them, just the angle of your wrist can drastically change the trajectory of a strike (And once more, Dooku's style proves this is possible with a Light saber). Then it got swapped to "Light Sabers aren't real weapons, here is this wookiepedia article explaining why they are wielded two handed!"
) The entire point was supposed to be thatALLsaber fights weresillycompared to RL; but at least the originals built a theme and contained it within the films, which let everyone suspend belief. Once the prequels came out, that theme got shattered and it made the fights seem worse...but within that mess, Dooku probably had the closest thing to what a "real" fighting style would look like if sabers could be wielded in such a way (IE like a one handed rapier)
Dissipate energy bro. And yes, without the force it takes a tremendous amount of skill to be able to use a lightsaber, because any incidental contact with the blade of your weapon can potentially cause a crippling injury.
You need to go watch that fight again, bro. Dooku wields his lightsaber two-handed for 99% of that fight, and he doesn't use a fencing stance either.No, his whole tangent about "light sabers are not swords" is a goal post shift. Originally I was just talking about Dooku probably being the most "realistic" fighting style if we compared things strictly to RL (It was an extension of an earlier conversation about the "realism" of the prequel fights), which is neck beard sure, but it was what the conversation was about. Dooku fighting like a fencer--proves you can fightlike a fencer! He came in and said you don't block because of fragile steel; but that'snotthe primary reason. You don't do hard blocks because it's so easy for a light weapon to avoid them, just the angle of your wrist can drastically change the trajectory of a strike (And once more, Dooku's style proves this is possible with a Light saber). Then it got swapped to "Light Sabers aren't real weapons, here is this wookiepedia article explaining why they are wielded two handed!"
My argument is refutinghisoriginalpremise, that in real life you don't block because of the steel with those weapons. Then I was doubling backmyoriginal point--if Dooku uses fencing, it breaks the theme of the saber fights. And I thought the original saber fights werethematicallybetter, and more entertaining. (But the whole neck beard comment was just poking fun at Wookiepedia to try and side step the original argument about blocking
You need to read the posts, bro.
Watch any shot where Lee isn't fighting, when he's just got a grip ready to fight (IE his dracula "come get some" stance)...All one handed, the saber twirls effortlessly. In any case, go to 1:37 in the video--that's some nice one handed blazing fast parrying (From Lee), combined with Anakindual wieldingthis supposed "heavy, clunky weapons" as if he were spinning around wiffle ball bats
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That's really a terrible explanation since they do manipulate themselves for force jumps.
