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Post by jammer81386 on Feb 22, 2017 17:04:10 GMT
What is your Favorite Lightsaber duel of the Star Wars films?
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Post by HorrorMetal on Mar 10, 2017 20:43:02 GMT
Luke vs. Vader from Empire.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 11, 2017 14:23:38 GMT
The Anakin/Obi Wan duel at the end of Revenge of the Sith that they spent six movies building.
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Post by grindovermatter on Mar 12, 2017 2:25:52 GMT
1. Luke vs. Vader (ROTJ)
2. Luke vs. Vader (ESB)
3. Kylo vs. Rey & Finn (TFA)
4. Obi-Wan vs. Vader (ANH)
5. The rest.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 12, 2017 3:13:30 GMT
1. Luke vs. Vader (ROTJ) 2. Luke vs. Vader (ESB) 3. Kylo vs. Rey & Finn (TFA) 4. Obi-Wan vs. Vader (ANH)
5. The rest. I don't get the hate for this I see on various SW boards. I know it made your list, but lots of people shit all over it. I think it's epic and awesome and even cooler after having watched their duel in III, in terms of the contrast. One question, though: what is it about the ROTJ Luke/Vader battle that elevates it for you? Just the stakes? Personally I prefer their conflict on Cloud City. |
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Post by grindovermatter on Mar 12, 2017 3:18:23 GMT
1. Luke vs. Vader (ROTJ) 2. Luke vs. Vader (ESB) 3. Kylo vs. Rey & Finn (TFA) 4. Obi-Wan vs. Vader (ANH)
5. The rest. I don't get the hate for this I see on various SW boards. I know it made your list, but lots of people shit all over it. I think it's epic and awesome and even cooler after having watched their duel in III, in terms of the contrast. One question, though: what is it about the ROTJ Luke/Vader battle that elevates it for you? Just the stakes? Personally I prefer their conflict on Cloud City. Specifically, it's the tracking shot just after Vader threatens to turn Leia to the dark side. It's my favorite single shot in the entire franchise. Plus just after, when Luke is just wailing on Vader with pure rage, right before he takes his hand off. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 3:22:30 GMT
I loved seeing Yoda open a can of whoop ass in Revenge of the Sith.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 12, 2017 3:35:11 GMT
I don't get the hate for this I see on various SW boards. I know it made your list, but lots of people shit all over it. I think it's epic and awesome and even cooler after having watched their duel in III, in terms of the contrast. One question, though: what is it about the ROTJ Luke/Vader battle that elevates it for you? Just the stakes? Personally I prefer their conflict on Cloud City. Specifically, it's the tracking shot just after Vader threatens to turn Leia to the dark side. It's my favorite single shot in the entire franchise. Plus just after, when Luke is just wailing on Vader with pure rage, right before he takes his hand off. Yeah, those are such EPIC moments. And the Williams score is haunting and awesome at once. I've long thought that Jedi is the weakest of the original trilogy but that its best moments are the best of all of Star Wars. Particularly the dogfighting/space combat sequences, which hold up super well and are really stellar. I don't think they've yet surpassed that, though I'd give honorable mentions for effort to the opening of Revenge of the Sith and some of the stuff from Rogue One -- especially the depiction of the Y-wings. They put them over as devastating, heavy bombers capable of crippling an Imperial-class Star Destroyer, rather than them getting punked out in IV because they're not being used in an optimal capacity in the trench run. But I digress.  |
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Post by poelzig on Mar 12, 2017 4:00:18 GMT
The Anakin/Obi Wan duel at the end of Revenge of the Sith that they spent six movies building. I know it was supposed to be epic but it was kind of silly. How exactly did obi being slightly above ani (can't take a villain named ani seriously) somehow make obi unbeatable? Wasn't Darth Maul high ground over obi and yet obi won that one as well? Sup with that? It wasn't as silly as a spinning puppet kicking ass but it wasn't epic. |
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 12, 2017 4:12:57 GMT
The Anakin/Obi Wan duel at the end of Revenge of the Sith that they spent six movies building. I know it was supposed to be epic but it was kind of silly. How exactly did obi being slightly above ani (can't take a villain named ani seriously) somehow make obi unbeatable? Wasn't Darth Maul high ground over obi and yet obi won that one as well? Sup with that? It wasn't as silly as a spinning puppet kicking ass but it wasn't epic. The... uh, the will of the Force in its infinite and mysterious knowledge? No, it's a good point and I don't really have a great explanation other than, apparently, we're supposed to just deduce that Obi Wan is a badass not to be fucked with. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 12:53:46 GMT
I personally believe that the ultimate message of the Saga was in this very little quoted line from Kenobi in Return of the Jedi:
That climactic fight, where Luke lost it to his darkness, showed all the rage that he was capable of, but gathered himself, turned off that saber, had blind faith in a whole lot of things, and came out on top, was the culmination of the 3 (even later the 6) films that lead to that point. I loved that fight, and over 15 years later, as the previous 3 episodes were revealed to us, I found I loved that fight even more.
What Luke did at the end of that fight was what Kenobi learned to do in episode IV, and what nobody did in episodes I-III. It's why the Jedi fell, and it's why the Jedi were doomed at some point long before episode I began.
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Post by THawk on Mar 12, 2017 13:04:53 GMT
Even if the movie itself was lesser than the others in the series, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn vs. Darth Maul (The Phantom Menace) is possibly the best duel in movie history.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 23:09:31 GMT
Obi-Wan Kenobi vs. Darth Vader
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Post by rateater on Mar 12, 2017 23:32:22 GMT
i voted rotj.
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Post by shinnickneth on Mar 13, 2017 4:57:17 GMT
Luke vs. Vader in Return of the Jedi.
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Post by chalk2 on Mar 15, 2017 18:28:56 GMT
Obi-Wan vs Vader in R.O.S..
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