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Very nice mention!
Season 1 of Spartacus is some of the best TV I've ever seen.
Sigh.... I can tell I'm not going to get anything done today at work now lol.
Holy cow that's pretty cool. I've never seen any of those animated SW shows. So, Darth Maul is the 'good guy' in these?
WELL DONE!!!!
No, he's not good. His sole purpose is revenge against Obi Wan for defeating him. In fact, they eventually have their final showdown in the Rebels series. It's both a blessing and a curse that the Star Wars story lines are so scattered amongst different media.
Reading through this thread it seems the appreciation of real vs digital is being lost forever.
Meh, it's all make believe for entertainment anyways. I appreciate various forms of it.
RxD. sports are nothing but entertainment as well. I idea people are actually doing things vs made up from pixels or flying on wires elevates the real over the pretend in my book. I've never cared much for the Kill Bill and Hong Kong originated stuff where people are hooked to wires and do things humanly impossible. To each their own, but I'd hate for the world to lose sight of the difference.
Not a sword fight per se, but when Optimus Prime and Megatron go at it with an axe and mace on their hands in the original cartoon....well I don't have to tell you my heart was in my throat
But sports aren't make believe. Well... the vast majority aren't anyways. That is the primary reason it's entertaining. And this off topic subject is about sword fights in movies anyways.
It comes down to suspension of disbelief, if a move can create good a setting for why the rules of physics don't apply then I'm good with it. However, I really appreciate something based in actual reality that does a good job in showing the technical aspects.
In sword fighting it varies heavily based on the type of sword and whether there is armor. I always hate an unbalanced wild swing. Rob Roy I felt did an excellent job of showing this, he just got cocky and overpowered.
Sword fights are nothing but choregraphed ballet for men. Car chases like the one in Ronin and gun battles like the bank robbery scene in Heat are more my thing.
RXD. I prefer real skills, just as I prefer singers use their actual voices without machines altering them.
Bank. I knew a girl/woman in Colorado who started out in rodeo, injured a knee, then went to LA as a model and ended up doing stunt work. Much of what she did was driving, but not like most think. She was like most real stunt people you see in movies, she drove vehicles that interacted with the primary vehicles. When you see a chase scene it often takes dozens of skilled drivers moving with absolute precision and timing to make the scene work without injuries. She'd work a few days and make up to $20,000. She was divorced from the local high school QB who I worked with. That is he was the starting QB when they went to Montrose HS together.