"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
08/20/2018 at 20:50 • Filed to: Show Uncle Dusty | 2 | 26 |
Phantom Menace was bad. Jar Jar was bad. The pod race added nothing and almost made me hate racing and jet engines. The members of the Trade Federaton and Watto were bad caricatures that should be as inappropriate these days as James T. Crow from Dumbo (did you know Disney literally named the crow in Dumbo “ !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ”? Seriously). Anakin was... less annoying than in the next two movies at least.
But the climactic lightsaber duel, that was magnificent. The choreography. The music. The unique fighting styles of each combatant. The savagery and menace of Maul’s appearance (just look at that screenshot). The physicality of it all. Compare it to any lightsaber battle in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and it’s a galaxy far far away indeed. I don’t like Phantom Menace, but I love this scene.
What other iconic fight scenes deserved to be in better movies?
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 20:58 | 3 |
Ok so the score and suspense was 2nd to none. But what gets me on the choreography is how many phantom (no pun intended) swings there were where they swung the lightsaber and even unguarded wouldn’t have connected. There’s a YouTube video on it.
But besides that it's a pretty amazing scene.
Honeybunchesofgoats
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 21:05 | 1 |
Knowing this was the precursor to Yoda jumping around like he did Tony Montana-levels of coke, I wouldn’t take it over Vader and Obi-Wan slowing fencing.
WilliamsSW
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 21:09 | 1 |
He he he
Dusty Ventures
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
08/20/2018 at 21:11 | 1 |
Very valid, there’s definitely a lot of flourish
Dusty Ventures
> Honeybunchesofgoats
08/20/2018 at 21:13 | 4 |
We do not speak of Attack of the Clones
The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 21:13 | 1 |
Rally Chicken Vs. Oppo in the Stef movie.
Dusty Ventures
> The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
08/20/2018 at 21:35 | 0 |
Are you saying The Stef Movie would be a bad movie?
The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 21:37 | 0 |
Depends how much her rally “chicken” makes an appearance .
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 21:40 | 1 |
Can’t think of anything at the moment, but wanted to reply so that I could give you a star. That insipid save button means nothing to me.
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 21:45 | 0 |
You shut your goddam whore mouth about pod racing.
Future Heap Owner
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 21:57 | 0 |
The pod race was the only entertaining part of that whole movie
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 22:06 | 1 |
See its attack of the clones because they're all clone tooled in
aquila121
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 22:20 | 0 |
I’m going to say pretty much all of John Who’s catalogue: everything from “Hard Boiled” and “A Better Tomorrow 2" have pretty mediocre stories and dialogue as far as Hong Kong action movies go, and those aspects certainly do n’t get better when you have him he’ll Hollywood stuff here in America (looking at you, “Face/Off” and “Mission: Impossible 2"). But damn if he doesn't put together exciting fights that make Michael Bay look like a seven year old with a hard-on for firecrackers.
aquila121
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 22:27 | 1 |
Also, Jackie Chan earns a place in my heart no matter what: “Rumble in the Bronx” is fantastic 90's cheese, and you can fight me over that fact, and the ladder fight in “Jackie Chan’s First Strike” warrants a DVD purchase on it’s own.
Similarly, I bought “Who Am I?” solely because of the Mitsubishi Evo V (or is it VI?) chase, and the climactic rooftop fight scene. Wonderful stunt driving and choreography.
Dusty Ventures
> WilliamsSW
08/20/2018 at 22:28 | 1 |
That’s actually a really well designed fight for the characters. You’ve got two average schmoes who are physically fairly fit from having to do a lot of manual labor, but they have no formal fight training and for the most part they fight like it. No fancy moves, no well executed hits, a lot of flailing and moves out of desperation. Maybe a few things in there that would be beyond what someone from their backgrounds would know to how to do, but for the most part the fight fits the role well.
Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
> WilliamsSW
08/20/2018 at 22:46 | 2 |
Cripple fight!!!
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Dusty Ventures
> aquila121
08/20/2018 at 22:47 | 1 |
I feel like those movies (talking about both your comments here) are a slightly different category. They’re not so much “a good fight in a bad movie” as they are “a ~2 hour master class in choreography raggedly held together by a rough semblance of a plot.” All the fights are good, all the stunts are good, start to finish, because they’re the central point of the films, everything else was built around them. A Jackie Chan movie is the martial arts equivalent of taking Gymkhana and trying to write a story around it. All the stunt bits are second to none, but the rest of it is secondary.
This is why I didn’t mention Ong Bak in my main post, though I immediately thought of that one as well.
Every
fight is good,
every
chase is brilliant, but the story is barely coherent garbage.
aquila121
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 22:51 | 1 |
Oh God, yes. How did I not remember Tony Jaa?
WilliamsSW
> Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
08/20/2018 at 23:05 | 0 |
That’s awesome - I’ve seen both before, never realized that.
WilliamsSW
> Dusty Ventures
08/20/2018 at 23:07 | 0 |
Yeah, but between the fact that it drags on forever, and the fact that you can boil it down to “two friends kicking each other’s ass because the one guy won’t put on a pair of sunglasses”, it doesn’t quite look so impressive.
That whole movie just seems like they scripted the fight, then spent a couple of hours drinking heavily in a bar while they sketched out the movie around the fight.
RTeeJay
> Dusty Ventures
08/21/2018 at 00:07 | 1 |
I’ll take “Obi Wan vs Anikan in Star Wars 3" for $500 Alex
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Dusty Ventures
08/21/2018 at 00:19 | 1 |
I can’t resist this one. The Last of the Knucklemen from 1979...
It’s slightly less shambolic than the rest of the flick but only slightly . However, compared to most other Ozploitation films from that era...it works for me.
Dusty Ventures
> RTeeJay
08/21/2018 at 01:04 | 0 |
Definitely a good pick! I almost went with that one, but the lava CGI hasn’t exactly aged well, and the Duel of the Fates song is just so damn good
EL_ULY
> Dusty Ventures
08/21/2018 at 09:38 | 0 |
I win...
StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8
> WilliamsSW
08/21/2018 at 09:47 | 0 |
All of I know of this fight is that South Park recreated it move for move with Jimmy and Timmy, and that’s amazing.
Hamtractor
> Dusty Ventures
08/21/2018 at 16:44 | 0 |
Every fight from Clint Eastwood’s Any Which Way But Loose