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solium: Yet another example of a fan making a better Star Wars action sequence than a multi billion dollar company with all the resources at it's disposal.
Uh, no it's not.
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Really? I can't think of one decent light saber fight in the Disney sequels. The prequels were just over the top. This was perfect. To each their own!
The fight between Rey and Kylo against Snoke's guards after Snoke is killed in The Last Jedi us pretty damned great, honestly. Regardless of what you think of the film itself, it's a very well done sequence
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May 11, 2019 - 9:06 AM
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Spinmeister
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Uh, no it's not.
Ditto.
Like everything else Star Wars (and a good many other genre properties) these days, it pays lip service to story and character to fetishize action/violence.
In other words, it suffers from "wouldn't it be cool if…" syndrome.
Because this reimagined confrontation clearly springs from the imagination of someone whose conception of drama has been woefully malformed by one too many obsessive hours spent playing video games—which is why it more resembles a manicured Boss Battle, and why, when intercut with the original film footage, it looks so laughably OTT.
It not only upstages the narrative, but it also mutates the austere Vader of judicious violence into a "power up" rage monster (as previously depicted in that other video game inspired outing Rogue One).
So, no. While the effort is commendable for the effort, it's simply 6 minutes of bad storytelling.
To add: this is just as bad, if not actually worse, than what dear old George did when he decided to make all his so-called "improvements" to the original trilogy with the "Special Editions."
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Some imaginative work here, with good intercutting with the original footage.
The conceptual problem is, George Lucas has stated on the blu-ray commentary and elsewhere that these two Jedi are essentially old, broken down Jedi at this point in their existence.
Hence, the overall hyper-kinetic, ADHD, cutscene vibe of the whole thing makes it more appropriate as an overzealous fan-fic adaptation.
Though, to be entirely forthright, it’s no more laughable than Disney’s current Star Wars for Girls trilogy.
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Relax folks. Enjoy it for what it is. A pretty good bit of fan made extra. Enjoyed that.
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I got a kick out of it. It's amazing how cool this turned out. If not to Rogue One, BTW, this never would have been necessary. I love the Vader sequence in that film, but it made the slowness of the Vader/Obi-Wan final duel stand out.
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