2015-12-28, 07:01 PM
VerrKol Wrote:Part of the reality here is that the prop sabers used ARE heavy. The weighting is obviously completely different than a real sword, but not trivial. Abrams opted to use very similar sword fight choreography to the OT and the old props themselves. Go back and watch those movies and you'll see tons of huge two handed swings. If you disliked those fights, I bow to your consistency. The fast swipes you see from Ben v Vader are the mark of masters testing each other for weaknesses.
I agree with a lot of the criticism here, but the reality is we just don't know the extent of KR's training with Luke or Snoke. Would it be dumb to let him run around while he's this wimpy instead of Luke beat him without even touching a lightsaber? Definitely, but possible.
As a villain, I agree that KR is pretty lacking. His motivation for joining the dark side is thin at best, but this is a chronic problem with Star Wars films. The Sith are either uniformly evil for evil reasons like Sidius and Maul or come across as whiny, angsty brats. KR apparently wants to be his grandfather, but WHY??? No one knows. If Snoke turns out to be Plagious, there's some real potential to add depth to a villain's back story.
Overall, I can't help but think of this as half a movie. It just doesn't stand up on it's own two legs. I think there's a decent possibility that VIII and even IX may prop it up in a lot of important ways.
Every lightsaber fight his two handed, but I don't remember a single lightsaber fight that had such CLUNKY styles to it. You can link me to a couple but most light saber fights are two handed, and are more for initial strike, to secondary strike whichi s the intended strike to wound. That just wasn't in this movie, it was just thwacking eachothers swords, the other fights have twirling, angled swipes, all I remember is these heavy perpendicular cleaves.
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