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Yeah they balanced out cuz they were two extremes.Lightsaber fights in the OT weren't as much an action scene as a duel between the two characters, their motivations, story, etc.
I think there's a balance between what we saw in the OT and prequel movies (where the lightsaber fights were over-choreographed and visually distracting at times).
I get the dialogue driven this is a showdown in the OT but even then they were just paced so weirdly or I should say boring. I found myself drifting away and losing interest. Specifically with Obi-Wan vs. Vader. When Obi-Wan gives himself up to make sure he dies in front of Luke I'm like the **** was that? (That was my reaction when I first saw the movie) Now I'm just like it's w/e let me be on NT while that happens in the background
I don't think they needed special effects for lightsaber fights, just better choreography. They blew their load on all those blaster shootouts. That to me was hectic and just as wild as the light show we got in the PT. To me it makes no sense why yall jump to the nonsense in the PT as a comparison thoguh. Lightsaber duels are basically sword fights. The OT started in '77, there's really no excuse for better fights. We've seen good sword fights done in the 70s and 80s. There's old *** movies from the 30s that have action packed fencing but yeah I get it they weren't solely action scenes.They didn't overly rely on the special effects, which allows the movies to hold up
Which is why I compare the movie to jaws.. Or back to the future.. Movies that had special effects, but still hold up
I think of Luke vs Vader in Empire which was a better fight than ep 4 but still it was like it didn't know what it wanted to be in between Vader's taunts and revelation. First it's pedestrian then out the blue Luke is force jumping out of the carbonite chamber Then he's seemingly plummeting to his death. Vader's just there but not as menacing when I look back on it. To me that's where direction should've stepped in and shown us better camera angles but it's w/e.
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