Sword Expert Reacts To Star Wars Sequel Trilogy | Lightsaber Fight Scenes
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- We got Matt Easton, a Historical European Martial Artist, Antique Arms Dealer, and owner of the fencing club Schola Gladiatoria, to react to the sequel Star Wars Trilogy. Telling us his sword-fighting expert opinion on just how realistic Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, and Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker is when it comes to lightsaber (or sword) combat
From breaking down Finn and his battle against FN-2199 with his riot baton, to Rey and Kylo taking on the Praetorian Guards, and more, Matt breaks down these iconic Star Wars battles!
Want to watch more of Matt's own videos? Make sure to check out his Scholagladiatoria RUclips channel: / @scholagladiatoria
MASSIVE thank you to the legendary Matt Easton, for all the help and for his expert reactions in this video and the previous Star Wars videos as well! Although this SW Expert Reacts trilogy has come to an end (for now), what other Star Wars fight scenes from games or TV would you like to see Matt react to? Let us know!
And for more on Matt and everything swords/HEMA, make sure to drop a hello over on his channel: ruclips.net/channel/UCt14YOvYhd5FCGCwcjhrOdA - Jesse
The Clone Wars lightsaber duels (Mainly Ahsoka vs Maul)
@@cy9884 yes and sidous vs maul x savag opress and obi wan vs maul in rebels too
The Old Republic cinematic trailers maybe?
Hey, fam.
Just a lowly star wars content creator here.
Could you please ask him to react to the Star Wars The Old Republic Cinematic Trailers?
Thanks for your work.
Old republic cinematic
According to Mark Hamil, the reason why the original trilogy characters didn't do fancy one handed twirls or held their lightsabers with one hand in general was because the props they used were surprisingly heavy. He compared it with Excalibur and if you try to use it with one hand you would drop it.
Also during the shooting of "A New Hope" the lightsaber props had "blade" parts made from glasslike material and were very brittle so any hard hitting was also out of the question.
That makes sense! The thing is, the actors here had to deal with heavy props too, with LEDs inside them no less. Way heavier than what they used in the prequels.
Also, Lucas's original idea was to make lightsabers really heavy to use.
Uh... Darth Vader?
@@DainLaguna It wouldn't be the LEDs that weighed them down, because diodes have just 2x the density of plastic, and very little of that material is needed to generate light. The heavy part would be the metal batteries (9x density of plastic), with a large mass of batteries to support a small mass of LED material.
it's neat to point out that once Finn landed the hit on Kylo, that Kylo disarmed him and ended the fight instantly. like he was just done with toying around
Just like Vader in TESB after Luke hit his shoulder: 2 moves later and hand just goes off
@@lord2.0works heh as most us say these two aren't so different
It just makes it look, yet again, like lightsaber fighting isn't so much two guys with weapons trying to kill each other so much as a ritual dance.
Kilo: "What?! How dare you actually try to hit me? 😤 Enough of that!"
It's like in EIII when Obi Wan and Anakin just start spinning their sabers around without making contact with anything or even trying to hit each other. They both seem to go, "Right. We're in this part of the choreography now."
Thanks for having me on again - it was an absolute pleasure to review these fights!
Captain Context is back again!
Hi Matt, loved all these, thanks.
For me the lightsabre catching whip is a bit daft, as couldn't Rey just off and on the blade and be free? Unless it somehow prevents it retracting, which I'm pretty sure they didn't show.
Love these! If you haven't yet, please please please do the fights from the Star Wars The Old Republic trailers. Probably the coolest lightsaber fights ever!
Thanks for doing this! Gives me a different way of appreciating the Sequels, especially TFA! 🙂
SALVE!
Something maybe worth pointing out when he said there wasn't much thrusting at all in the Prequels - when Palpatine fought Mace Windu and the Jedi Three, and then Yoda, he was all about the thrusting.
The only time it was seen, never again
@@mikenotic8430 thrusting “is not the Jedi way”.
Palpatine's facial expression while thrusting his lightsaber made it look like he was thrusting something else
@@rexalivera5058 HAH this comment fills me with star wars fandom pride
@@rexalivera5058 Is it possible to learn this power?
Let’s be honest. If you have a lightsaber you will twirl it. It’s just cool.
Definitely
The internet will laugh at your self dismemberment
You will twirl it once, and it won't be cool.
Always use that V key in KotoR.
Yeah like martial artists doing 360 degree flying kicks out of nowhere. There's no reason to do it but it's cool.
Here's a tip: If you find your lightsaber caught up in an anti lightsaber whip thing, just turn your lightsaber off and then on again. Works for my computer
Or just… don’t hold it straight up…
There is fighting form in which you activate and deactivate your lightsaber repeadetly, by that confusing your enemy and making blocking more difficult
Yes, just like you can do that against a lightsaber user. However apparently it's frowned upon
@@whyareyouhere6274 form 7- vaapad, shit's forbidden, made by Samuel S. Windu himself
Works for when your saber glitches too.
21:09 "They couldn't show a human being chopped in half."
*Angry Darth Maul scream*
Darth Maul isn't a human.
@Starkiller 5555 Yes, but he is a humanoid being.
@@DavidDavid-lr6uu still, dathomir zabraks arent humans
Sad Dooku and Anakin noises...
Prequels werent bothered by that, Disney is
This review of the Kylo/Finn fight is probably the most positive one I've seen. You're the first person to notice how easily Kylo just slips out of the way of Finn's heavy-handed swings. And lets' not forget, Finn has had stormtrooper training. He's probably used that lightsaber-resistant tonfa. He has SOME idea of how to block. That's why he does as well as he does, but like you said, Kylo is literally just toying with him.
So, a reverse grip is basically the swordsmanship version of holding your gun sideways?
It's arguably worse, there are plenty of situational reason why a shooter may need to cant the gun to one side. There really aren't any situations why you'd want to use a sword in a reverse grip. Dagger sometimes, especially in armored combat, but not swords.
Never... ever hold your sword in a reverse grip. It halves your range, limits the number of moves you can make and makes it easier to hurt yourself
Hm, maybe he shouldn't review any of Ahsoka's duels then, as the reverse grip is pretty much her signature style!
On the other hand, a gun held sideways still maintains most of its functionality. It's not ideal, as you can't aim down the sights, but it still shoots just as well.
Indeed. It's very suicidal to hold your sword in a "reverse grip".
The reason you often won't see people using the technique at 17:32 (turning the blade on and off in the middle of a battle) is because it was frowned upon by both the Sith and Jedi. The rare lightsaber form known as Tràkata, utilized this ability of the lightsaber. The Jedi thought this form was unsportsmanlike, while the Sith thought it showed a lack of power.
Jedi: "You have no honour using Trakata"
Sith: "Skill Issue"
"The heroes... or 'the people we don't want to die yet'..."
perfect phrasing to explain plot armor xD
If he hates reverse grips he’s going to loath Ahsoka
And Starkiller
I'm happy to find out he agrees with me on the useless reverse grip. Looks great, almost totally useless.
@@revolver_oshawott7305 In The Force Unleashed, Galen uses the reverse grip as a ready stance and switches to a normal grip when he strikes. The reverse grip is used to defend against blasters and other projectiles it's a variant of Shein great for hoards of stormtroopers not so much against other lightsaber enemies. Makes sense because he utilizes overwhelming force power to defeat his enemies. It's the only reason he beat Vader and if you remember Vader was the hardest boss in the game. In TFU2 its a mess with two blades.
My thought exactly
She usualy uses one blade normally and the shoto in reverse grip.
That's less ridiculous.
Do them old republic cinematics, they’re great.
Yesss! Old republic cinematic trailers! My favourite lightsaber fights in all of Star Wars (visually at least)
They’re cool to watch
From a HEMA or any serious martial art point of view they’re not great
@@Fish2049 would still be interesting to see a breakdown. To me they are just the flashy/spinny prequel choreography, but done much faster and more fluidly and it just looks amazing visually. And it’s also fighting that, taken with a grain of salt, could potentially make sense for people who have superhuman senses, speed and reflexes thanks to the force.
@@Fish2049 still better than these fights though
Love that you got someone who clearly loves the source material and knows what he’s talking about.. Bringing in an expert to review a fictional universe like this, it’s way too easy to harrumph and critique things that don’t make sense in the real world or are impractical. It’s so much more fun when the expert involved can pull facts and details from within the franchise to give these scenes extra context! Cheers
It would be interesting to see him react to the combat in Jedi Fallen Order.
That would be difficult review as it is a game.
@@allknowingfreddybear9291 Maybe not as clear cut as a film since there's not a lot of choreographed fights, but considering that Fallen Order used mo-cap it'd be possible. Ahsoka vs Maul would also be cool to see.
It's here now
In the old Expanded Universe, it's stated that certain kinds of cortosis ore can block lightsabers, but they also have the added effect of shutting down lightsabers on contact. However, the ore is very fragile against blaster type weapons IIRC, making it impractical to coat on standard infantry armor
Didn't stop the CIS in legends or palaptine in canon
It only shut down lightsabers if it was pure cortosis. Most armors were not pure, it was a costly material
Yeah, it was insanely expensive stuff. Same thing with Beskar, of which, neither was used in Kylo's lightsaber. The writers just didn't care, and threw out anything that might be considered rules, so they could make things look cool without having to do any work for it. See also: Why Kylo survived the bowcaster shot that would've explodded literally IN his kidneys.
Y'know how odd that is? Given that a lightsaber is essentially a sustained blaster bolt in blade form. Why should cortosis work against one but not the other?
@@RJALEXANDER777 Actually, it isnt. Blasters use a form of gas for their shots (Bespin Gas is one of those gasses), while lightsabers use essentially a crystal for their light. They're not actually the same.
Matt Easton: “why does everyone spin and twirl so much?” As someone who knows how to do that, it’s purely because it’s fun
Also jedi can move at extremely fast speeds, were spinning a sword could be confusing or could disorient the opponent confusing them on were the attack is coming from.
@@chrisd8180 try twirling around in a circle repeatedly, u will get disoriented because your equilibrium will cause u to be dizzy, this is why the suit actor don't land a hit and their coordination for the fight stunt are way off. In prequel they do twirl their lightsaber. Not their body like a fool. If u spin in a circle u will obviously be dizzy after a few spin. In that throne room fight they spin non stop almost they think it look cool but is like a ballet dance lol
@@chrisd8180 this part. Especially in the prequels. The Jedi are at the height of their order. Trained since they were 4-5 maybe 6 years old at the lastest. And Lightsaber skills were almost an art form for them as well.
I'm so glad you made specific mention of that bowcaster wound holding Kylo back. Too many critics gloss over that.
Canonically, he uses that wound to harness more power from the dark side so theoretically he’d actually be more powerful than usually :P but he isn’t
@@Zlittlepenguin Where does it state that?
@@randomthoughtsonapapernapkin In the books. Plus, his wound didn't stop him from beating Finn.
@@mongooseunleashed It also didn't stop him from Force throwing Rey into a tree before the fight even started.
@@Zlittlepenguin Novelization went into that a bit. He thought killing his father would bring him power but it just brought him more doubt. So he was using the wound for darkside power, but his being conflicted evened it out.
looking at the comment section
"This is where the fun begins"
"oh I'm not brave enougth for politic"
@@Lord_Andrew88 your lack of faith is disturbing
People really are this fragile , they cannot accept that people will talk about this movies without needing to complain about it
Surprisingly not too bad down here actually
@@Crocthunder People are allowed to complying my dude. The lackluster fights were one of the criticisms fans like my had regarding the sequels, it's far more fragile to complain about the complainers than anything the complainers can do themselves.
17:16 Not going to lie, once you've seen the disappearing dagger, you cannot un-see it.
to begin with problem with this is that if you fail to catch it and you're not my ex who carried like 4 different weapons you're screwed.
Glad to see Matt mention the issue with lightsaber combat around the lack of any actually defined edge and the lack of weight. It makes the handling of them absurd in how they are portrayed, especially the big heavy swings because not only do you not have to consider edge alignment at all but also it'd basically be like using a torch/flashlight. A flick of the wrist would be as effective a cut as some big exaggerated movement, in fact you'd get killed by someone just flicking with it whilst you executed some huge cut.
Though, lightsabers are described as feeling heavy in Rebels.
And in the old cannon they were described as having a gyroscopic effect that makes wielding them difficult.
Lightsabers have a lot of weird in-universe lore to explain why they behave like weapons with actual weight. As someone else mentioned, they've got a gyroscopic effect. Once they're in motion, they want to stay in motion. Also as a result of the magnetic field around them, lightsaber blades are actually drawn toward each other, and stick against one another in much the same way metal edges on swords "bite" into one another during the bind. Lastly, lightsabers still require some force to actually cut through things. They don't effortlessly pass through everything they touch. We've seen lightsabers bouncing off of a variety of hard surfaces in Star Wars. Just like an actual sword, if someone wielding a lightsaber wants to cleave straight through something, sufficient force is required.
Sounds like you'd be interested in Form 2: Makashi
Subtle wrist movements and occasional lunges are all that's needed for a weapon with constant cutting power, so foil fencing is a natural fit. Small accurate jabs and cuts, expending as little effort as possible, this was the aged Count Dooku's preferred form.
@@matthewbreytenbach4483 No. Rebels described lightsabers being not weightless but become lighter as the crystal connects with the wielder.
@@vetarlittorf1807
Oh Okay, thanks.
If you look closely at the stormtrooper's riot baton, it has an energy beam running down it. THAT'S what makes it lightsaber proof. The problem is, now that baton is just as dangerous to the wielder as it is to the target, making it even MORE impractical
maybe it uses magnetic fields to repel the field containing the lightsabers plasma.
Matt should do Kanan and Ezra's training scene and Sabine's. He explains it better in that scene than most.
He has a video about it on his own channel.
The electric field deflects light sabers and it's a riot control weapon not designed for lightsabers. But because Finn was a trooper and knows these dudes they know he doesn't know how to use a saber hence why he just goes at him. The storm trooper armor isn't light saber proof for the same reason our soldiers aren't bullet proof...Cost. Not worth it to the Empire or the U.S. for that matter to equip their infantry with better armor.
Why didn't he just shoot Finn?
@@user-xx6vy9ri8p Did he have a blaster?
@@Nghilifa Yes, but he threw it away before the fight. Specifically, the trooper recognized Finn as the turncoat, yelled "TRAITOR!", threw away their blaster and then switched to the tonfa, signifying that this fight was more personal to this seemingly random trooper
Plus, how many lightsaber wielders are in this era??
@@tallietorchersproductions2740 Kylo, Luke and Leia.
Finally a great and actually non-biased down to earth breakdown
The Z6 baton was utilsed to aid in imposing/maintaining First Order occupation on dissenting worlds. As a result the replulsion shock delivered from the weapon itself, is meant to be non-lethal, although it is meant to harm a target, and perhaps incapacitate, in the possession of a skilled user. Therefore useful, in repelling populations in active insurrection, revolt or uprising and sustaining order.
It was not intentionally designed as an weapon to resist lightsabers. The property of energised blades or staffs results in the effect of lightsaber resistance and even to a greater extent.
Since a lightsaber is essentially confined energy, energised weapons can be impervious to them. The energy field, generated by conduction vanes prevents the baton being sliced into. If it were deactivated, it does not possess such an capability.
Matt should react to the Obi-Wan and Maul fight from Rebels.
It won't take long
@@thistledownsname Haha, no it will not.
Sadly, it wasn't long enough, but it did reach an emotional connection between the two characters. That at in the end, Maul wanted to finish the fight for decades and was fine that it finally finished. It made me almost choke up at the end of that fight. The hatred Maul felt for Kenobi was finally layed to rest in a poetic fashion, but the fight was criminally short.
Edit: my dumb spelling mistakes.
There actually was a lightsaber form that you would switch on and off the lightsaber but was highly frowned upon because the Jedi thought it to be unsportsmanlike and the sith thought it was petty and unskillful.
It was called Tràkata
its like pulling out a pistol in the middle of a duel
Jedi fallen order laughing in the corner
Not the most practical when the enemy is going for your organs and you disable your block halfway through
The 1st Order trooper nicknamed "TR8R" does make sense, in universe- from Supreme Leader Snoke's point of view.
If you've got Kylo Ren, a short tempered apprentice with anger management issues AND a light saber, then it makes sense for Snoke's self-preservation to keep a squad of troopers equipped with ANTI-light saber weapons around Kylo.
It's not stormtrooper it's Bond.James Bond😎
3:19 - There are definitely materials that can block lightsaber blades, yes. In fact if you get into the elements introduced in Knights of the Old Republic (which is literal THOUSANDS of years before the movies), you find out a lot about this, since it came up in a big way during the Mandalorian Wars in which the Mandalorians fought Revan's faction of Jedi and put up one hell of a fight. There's also a particularly rare material that shorts out lightsaber blades on contact, though you don't often see stuff made of it because it's a really hard-to-come-by thing to make something out of.
For anyone wanting specifics.
Beskar, or Mandalorian Iron by it's other name, can block lightsabers. Mandalore is the only place in the galaxy where it has been found.
Cortosis is another mined ore, but this can short out lightsabers not just block it. During The Clone Wars, a Seperatist Droid Factory tried making B-2 Battle Droids out of cortosis.
Anakin managed to defeat some by deflecting their blaster shots straight back down their blasters, causing internal explosions.
It has also been used to make lightsaber resistant weapons and armour.
The Yuuzhan-Vong had genetically engineered snake-like lifesforms they turned into staff or whip weapons which were lightsaber resistant.
There is also Ultrachrome, Neuranium, Phrik, and Songsteel, but they're all a lot less interesting.
Don't think there are any others.
The Last Jedi is my favorite Star Wars movie and that fight in the throne room...*chef's kiss* so cool. The choreography and weapons are the most interesting and diverse of any of the films and the set design is just beautiful. Rian Johnson is incredible and he had a really great team.
This guy is the only person on RUclips who remembered that Rey already had experience with some kind of melee weapon lol.
But a two handed long weapon like a staff that can be rested against ones body is very different to a lightsaber, any technique you use with a staff would be extremely ineffective with a lightsaber, if you try to rest your lightsaber against your body you either lose a limb or die
If Kylo hadn't just killed his father and wasn't dealing with Wookie blaster pain, then I'd agree that he should have looked more skilled.
Yeah the patricide just destroyed his mind, you can see it on his face immediately after Han fell. Great acting by Adam Driver BTW.
You can see in the rise of skywalker that he won the fight, but leia took his attention
@@wintersoldier164 indeed when hes a 100% hes very dangerous
He shouldn’t have lost that fight with Rey in episode 7, it made no sense
@@captainpep3 it made alot of sense kylo was injured from a shot that would kill anyone else also he was weak from killing his father
Watched all 3 of these Star Wars sword fight breakdowns. Genuinely, these are super interesting.
"There is... another."
In the prequel trilogy the Jedi have not used lightsaber combat in battle, other than for deflecting blaster bolts, in several centuries. In that time lightsaber styles or forms had become largely ceremonial. They are twirly and dancelike because of that. These styles were pretty much lost after the Jedi were destroyed and new techniques had to be developed by the remaining lightsaber duelists like Vader, Luke, Kylo, and Rey. That is just the "in universe" explanation for the twirly styles of the prequels and how they pretty much faded out. As for the baton, it likely uses "vibro" technology to generate an energy field around the baton that fluctuates between different frequencies so that it can resist a lightsaber blade. It is the same technology used by Grevious's bodyguards.
Rey's opening with a thrust is why fans thought she was connected to Palpatine, at least it was a start down that road
Matt's assessment of the episode 8 fight feels super moderated compared to the rest.
Can tell he's taking it easy, considering the reputation of that scene in the fight community.
Yeah, and he ignored the edited-out weapon of the last guard killed by Rey.
He ignored a lot of the utter stupidity, but he's on IGN, so what would you expect?
@@Unknown-hb3id quite biased much?
@@kyleruiz7167 And correct, yes.
He's completely holding back. He picked quite a few nits with the OT and the prequels and just praises the sequels essentially. He doesn't mention that the guards spend 90% of the time spinning in and out of attacks, it looks like a power rangers fight.
Again, great job getting Matt Easton doing these
17:15 where did the other knife go? He got her locked in his arm and could have stabbed her in the back..but his knife just dissapear
magiced away by VFX so Rey doesn't get stabbed.
Is called shitty movie after production effect after they realize their mistake
Not only that, but when Rey drops her lightsaber, he just stops pushing his other knife and waits to be killed...
@@user-xx6vy9ri8p And remember when she kicked three enemies at once without actually hitting them. Force kick, lol)
we requested it and they did it. Thank you guys
Lol who requested this garbage to be broken down? 😂😂
@@eddyguey5895 exactly
@@eddyguey5895 so it could be made fun more of course
While crossguards generally would work it was this specific crossguard design that was silly because the lasers do not touch. So in a fight it would converge the opponents swings towards the vulernable part of the handle and towards your hand.
Please let him react to the ahsoka Fight in the mandalorian!!
Ray is self-taught in hand to hand combat that's why she's better the Fin.Well Fin is a soldier from birth.He should be much better.
most likely he’s been trained with blasters and other firearms, not close combat weapons.
@@calinm242 And yet the stormtrooper with the baton fights more skilled than Rey does... hmmm.
@@calinm242 One of the novels explains that Finn was indeed trained in close combat.
@@AK-lx1cr she also was trained in a staff. Which could not be more opposite from a sword.
But Rey has the thickest plot armor ever smithed that would rival the armoured plates of the yamato
In defense of the twirling of the prequels we know that Jedi and Sith use precognitive defense, making them appear faster than they actually are. We also know that the best way to overwhelm a Jedi is to be as random as possible as quickly as possible. Considering lightsabers don't have an edge they can theoretically end the twirl at any point of the twirl to land a blow. In other words every twirls adds different possible angles it could come from to possibly gum up that precognitive defense.
Well according to the logic applied by the fandom menace, if it's not explained clearly onscreen, it doesn't count.
@@strangelyukrainian7314 In seeing future events. Not in determining your opponent's next move. The Force increases your reaction time and physical abilities. That was made clear. Not that you can forsee your opponent's next strike.
@@strangelyukrainian7314if thats true, every force sensitive that dies is incredibly weak then. Fights would never end if theyre constantly predicting eachother
In regards to the storm trooper wielding the tonfa in real life weapon systems will have tungsten parts to prevent failure in the field but that doesn't mean the army is going to start dishing out tungsten plates. Might be a cost, weight or even availability issue
Well I’m the mandalorian we’ve seen how much you need to effort when you want a full beskar armour
Star War WHAT IF- What if Mendalorain didn't get destroyed but assimilated into Jedi culture. Imagine Jedi Knights with Beskar amour.
Putting the "knight" back into jedi knight.
17:16 surprised he didn’t mention the guard’s left sword magically disappearing or the fact that she should have been eviscerated right there.
It's too bad all the bits where Finn used a lightsaber were just red herrings and that after the first movie he was just relegated to comedic relief side character status.
JJ Abrams's mysterious box failed once again
Would love to see him react to the old republic cinematics.cheers
when rey had her arm locked by the staff/knife guy, she sould not have been able to do that move, unless the guy changed his position while the camera was off of him. he was pushing his blade against her and her hand was the only thing holding him back, as soon as she moved her hand the blade shouldve gone throgh and slicked he rhead,neck,or upper torso
Well, he pulled back in surprise when Rey dropped her lightsaber, but that does make him seem very poorly trained for one of Snoke's royal guards. It also doesn't explain where his other blade went.
The electro tonfa could stop a lightsaber in the same way Grevious's guards staves could: they conduct energy, allowing them to redirect the energy that would otherwise melt them back into the end
Love to see someone give the sequels a fair shake.
Meaning missing a lot of the bad stuff in episodes 8 and 9 fights? Yeah the one in 7 is decent though.
@@inarencommander4663 The first thing he points out of the Throne room is that they do take turns so no, he doesn't miss
It would be great to see that type of reactions to Clone wars duels
They gotta hire this guy! These are fun to watch.
He's got his own job(s), and his own channel, but it would be neat.
Lovely to see someone analyzing the fights from a rational perspective. The people who hate on these fights should watch this video and rethink some of their overblown criticism about Rey and the fighting style in general
You should watch shadivarsy's lightsaber breakdown
@@CRYSTAL_CUSTOMS You can make any 3 minute fight scene in a movie seem bad if you nitpick it for an hour.
Really refreshing to see positive analysis of the sequel trilogy fights (especially Force Awakens). The choreography was excellent, and blended with the storytelling in ways the prequels didn't really manage.
Yeah but that’s simply a lie. It’s not excellent, and honest stunt guys have gone over very clearly why. The prequels are 20 tiers above these sad pathetic fights that are the result of terrible actors who can’t to the choreography so they look like amateur. Which is the excuse in the story despite kylo being a prodigy.
You are creating a story that doesn’t exist to match with a fight that is awful. True cult level dedication to the cause
That’s just not true. The sequel fights didn’t have any quality in them and you can tell they were rushed. The prequels actually made you feel like powerful being were fighting each other
"Can't show somebody being cut in half." Have u seen the Prequels?! Maul is cut in half, Jango gets his head sliced off, Anakin gets every limb torn off😂
That was all before Disney
@@WardancerHB Before the dark times
The o.t barely had any of that lol , a hand and that was it, does that make it bad?
Snoke literally gets sliced in half and Kylo decapitates a guy 2 minutes later
@@Crocthunder no one got cut straight through the back or sliced through except obi wan but he dissaperd before he could get cut in half
A video about the sequels? Where the comment section is relatively tame? Is this what heaven looks like?
“This is where the fun begins”
17:02 And now class we will so the magic disappearing hand blade. As you can see the blade disappears from his left hand just before he puts Rey in a bind.
waheyyy great choice bringing Matt Easton on
When you realize the Stormtrooper's tonfa thing is basically Rayne's arm knife thing.
Surprised he missed the disappearing knife in 15:40 when the red soldier attacks Rey. If you watch the full clip his left rage just completely disappears!
Never heard that one before
17:01 The Guard does actually have TWO blades/daggers (he's the guy who split his staff in half) and could have easily stabbed her in the back, but his second weapon gets editted out
There it is: lightsabers are penetrating rods!
If he knew what he was doing, he would be twirling
Beskar is lightsaber proof but it is very expensive and rare. Mandalorians wear it. And a well skilled Jedi can still kill them. Example is mace windu cutting off the head of Jango Fett.
Well, Jango didn’t wear full beskar. No one did. It’s so expensive, no one can afford that. The people that could afford a full beskar armor are the ones that don’t fight themselves. Most armors only had a very small amount of beskar in the metals. Therefore, you can still cut through it with a lightsaber relatively easy.
Din Djarin is wearing full beskar because it was the payment for Grogu. To the empire he was worth the beskar they gave Din Djarin.
Matt has better opinions on the Sequels than most Star Wars fans at this point
For the first fight- supposedly those are riot suppression batons, and the electrical field, not the material, is what allows them to repel lightsabers. In that case the electrical field is to give the baton some extra umph when you smack an uncompliant civilian with it. Why not make the whole uniform fielded? Supposedly because that would be difficult to engineer without shocking the wearer.
Rey could have turned off the Skywalker saber to untangle it from the whip
Or you know, since the guy was pulling the lightsaber towards himself, just impale him in the face...
I’ve noticed there are lots of moments throughout the whole saga where someone could’ve just turned off their saber, remember Anakin and Obi also made the mistake of leaving their sabers on when tangled in whips in TCW
This is what we needed
The sword fights of the sequel trilogy are brilliant imo. Rough, passionate and beautifully composed :)
Shut up
yes, despite the off timing of some of the choreography, that throne room scene in the last jedi is fire
@@StayFractalesque when she drops her lightsaber, she's supposed to be grappled with no escape. The dude literally just lets her do that
@@tedtsangg yes, the moment she dropped the lightsaber she should've died instantly
yeah nah
“I’ve been looking forward to this”
"Now, obviously it's not heavy 'cause it's a lightsaber"
Well spotted!
Otherwise it would have been called a heavysaber, now wouldn't it? ^^
This guy would hate Ahsoka
Just a thought.....If my guy can wrap the whip round his arm...which is armoured. You'd think they'd be lightsaber proof no?🤷
No cause it was different to lightsaber material lightsabers have plasma but with The Whip it is used by a really strong electrical current
The Praetorian Guard's armor is lightsaber resistant. There are a couple of times in the fight where you can see their armor tanking saber blows, but it isn't proof. With enough direct force the plating can be pierced. It's also worth noting that the body glove isn't lightsaber resistant, only the plating.
@@OniLink147 Thank you🙌
1:43 because that would have been TOO heavy for a normal Trooper to wear. Vader's armor was KIND OF lightsaber proof, but it was TOO heavy. He was using the force like always to move around and even walk
mandalorians manage
These comments are expected. Prequel biased fans are exactly the way anyone expects.
Exactly bro, the prequels and sequels suffer from the same or similar problems. Star Wars is Star Wars, the sequels are fun
@@IndyStudios It’s funny how he pretty much pointed out the Sequels Gad better fights? Except dudebros are extremely obsessed with the EP8 fight scene lol
@@al112v4 agreed
@@IndyStudios not really. They both have their problems but I'd argue they are different ones
Show him the old KOTOR trailers or even stuff from the rebels and clone wars animated series.
Could you have him review Star Wars: Visions? I'm sure he could have some fun with some of those fights.
The fact that Finn survives having what should be a deep lightsaber cut along the entire length of his back is absurd. Anyone watching that automatically thought, "OMG! They just killed Finn! Why is he not in two pieces."
Hi! Just wanted to say the baton weapon at the start is probably based on a Vibro blade, these have been saber proof in the past and can get through most armors.
Vibroblades are not lightsaberproof. Unless they have cortosis in them, the lightsaber will go right through the blade.
next, do review on Clone Wars sword fight
The second knife disappears entirely when rey does the lightsaber dropping move.
Also the red guy just stands there and lets it happen.
You mean like Anakin lets his arm getting cut off by Dooku?
Btw the reason that kylo has a crossguard isnt for defense its because the handle couldnt properly cotain the amount of energy coming from the crystal so kylo made crossguards to allow the extra energy to go somewhere
He does say exhaust port
It was definitely cool seeing Matt on another channel
🤣 i love how disappear the blade in this moment, hilarious... 17:14
The metals are probably rare and expensive so they wouldn't be giving storm troopers that stuff, not sure if the energy thats pushing back the LS or materials.
Iirc it’s some kind of energy edge, like the energy arcing on a MagnaGuard’d staff. To use it on a suit of armour, you’d need to be covered in basically blades, resulting in it not being the best in non-combat situations, which is much if soldier work.
Beskar, what Mandalorians use for armour and weapons, is rare and expensive and not the best for mass production, especially after the Mandalorian purges at the end of the Clone Wars, leading to the destruction of much of the beskar available.
Cortosis hasn’t shown up much in the more recent canon Star Wars, and isn’t widely used, mostly in weapons like vibroblades, as shown by Commando Droids. It again would be too expensive for mass production for the general army outside of special groups like Commando Droids and the like.
LOVE to see a reaction to Star Wars SC38 reimagined ;p
At lease the characters in the S trilogy looked like they were actually trying to kill each other, despite the flaws in choreography
17:15 they edited out the enemies OFF HAND weapon. So that was actually pretty bad imo. Should have made it a more logical choreography.
That's some pretty ridiculous nitpicking of an extremely complex sequence. You can't even notice it unless you're looking for it. Stuff like that happens in like every movie.
ed1rko17 poor choreography.
@@auralian1428 It's great choreography.
@@anon1403 Cope
Problem with a cross guard lightsaber is you'd probably slice your own wrists off... Any sword it's fine, its just metal, a great tool for defence and for combat, but a lightsaber blade where your wrist moves is just one twirl or wrong move towards pain.
Another martial artist disproved that. He covered the cross guards with red paint and did a lot of swings, cuts and fancy spins. Not a drop of red paint got on him. Meaning he didn't and wouldn't have cut himself with it.
@@Shootingthegalaxy Tell that to the people that made to Witcher show, because they had to modify the cross guard due to it constantly getting caught on the guy's arm during some of the moves.
@@dangerdash4393 the guy who did the experiment mentioned is a trained swordsman, like a Jedi or Sith would be. The guy in the Witcher is a trained actor.
Its a bit like watching shadversity, and swordsmen talk about how twirling is how you die...but the force is a thing so anything is possible in that universe.
@@Shootingthegalaxy happen to have a link to the video, or at least a title to look up? I'd like to see it for myself, plus I'd like to see if they're similar motions to what we'd see in most Star Wars duels, and not just practical twirls.
Actually on the topic of Kylo's lightsaber, in order to actually make a lightsaber become red, you have to bleed the kyber crystal and sometimes bleeding your kyber crystal doesn't work and might just break the crystal which is what happened to Kylo's which is why his lightsaber and the sound of it are so broken like and he made the cross guards so that his lightsaber is able to be maintained instead of just not being useable
According to cannon sabers are drawn towards each other. Kanen said it to Sabine when training her to use the dark saber in SW rebels.
Awesome video, really enjoyed it!!!! Loved the Sequel films.
Sword Expert Reacts to SW KOTOR cinematics
Pretty please!
17:16, guy has two swords. 17:17, guy has one sword.
Uh oh, don’t let Shadiversity see this video.
Shad does not actually practice anything.
More like shad his pantsiversity like a man baby.
Something tells me that it's not what someone wanted to ear 🤣🤣🤣. Great video!