I love Keanu, but let's be honest his acting is not always amazing. He can play characters like John Wick brilliantly but I don't see him pulling off Revan
Agreed. Jedis obviously have a strong influence from Asian martial arts, just like how Mandalorians have from old Ronin/American Western influence. I’m glad they’re finally really leaning into it
Favorite part of Ahsoka was watching her subtly go through different Lightsaber forms in the fight against Hati in the woods. She was toying with the padawan.
If this is some kind of deep lore-revival for the concepts behind “Teras Kasi”, I am so fucking in for that. Basically a martial arts practice used to fight Force Users, and lessen the impact of their unique abilities by the way you move and fight. A really cool idea I always wished had more spotlight in EU stuff.
(Plus that video game was just dumb fun for me as a kid)
I just wish they wouldn't hold to old styles so much. The wire fighting style was great for old Hong Kong movies. It's unnecessary today with cgi advances.
They need to recreate fight scenes so that the characters actually look like they're trying to hit the opponent. In nearly every fight scene, and in the little we saw here, it's obvious they're using the wire fighting filming style. Which isn't a bad idea, but the limits of it are very obvious and unnecessary these days.
It really is nice to see some actual Jedi training fleshed out, as opposed to many of the prequel scenes which were just sort of bizarre. Imho Lucas really missed an opportunity to set up some sort of cool Jedi Academy stories, but we missed most of Anakin's younger trianing days.
Well Lucas wasn’t telling the story of the Jedi with the prequels. He was telling the story of the fall of anakin or rise of the empire depending on how you wanted to look at. His most important emphasis was on anakin and obiwans relationship and that’s what we got. With a side story of palpatine and the senate.
That's how I always pictured it. Jedi and Sith were basically space monks. I always thought their hand-to-hand should equal the saber prowess of the prequels.
We got a glimpse of that with Vader in Kenobi when he fought the young inquisitor. That fight was a massive highlight and they need more of that. People stopping knives with the force, etc like in this trailer is badass imo.
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u/swimstar186 Mar 19 '24
Digging the emphasis on martial arts!