The legend about "Deluge" says one of the actors basically "lost it". He was trying to hype himself to become angry to the point he lost it and started fighting for real 😅
I like with the Deluge duel how they show the white shirt guy is less experienced by the way his non-sword arm flails around wildly while he's fighting, and the colonel's is just chilling behind his back.
Fun video! :) But just a little errata, for the first fight in Vinland Saga: "Snake", the man with the curved sword, was not at all a Charlemagne bodygard/a warrior from his court. (Charlemagne is long dead by this point in the story) He is in fact a "Viking". It is implied that he was a Varangian guard, serving the Byzanthine Empror. (So a Norse/Russ man serving as mercenarie/bodyguard for the East Romans) His sword is probably a Paramerion. (Who is thought to be primerly a cavalry sword)
It won't help seeing as people can move shit with their minds exist in that universe, they can just use force stasis on instinct the moment they hear "BANG"
If you were looking for a realistic fight from Vinland Saga, I wish you'd picked the Thorfinn vs Askeladd duel from Season 1, Episode 8. The Thors vs Askeladd fight isn't terribly realistic in some ways (nobody is doing flips and acrobatics with armor on), but it would have been interesting to see your reactions.
You guys should react to the final fight from Sword of the Stranger. There's no mid-combat dialogue, no BS magic abilities, just two master swordsmen trying to kill each other. It's probably still not realistic, but it's a lot more believable than most anime fights, and the music is epic as hell.
vinland saga is sacred. In many ways is waaaay more realistic thsn most shows, AND it has the rule of cool for depicting extraordinary heroes. Since the show isnt as mainstream im pretty sensitive about it. Is my second favourite anime of all time
The thing is, when I watch those fights in Ashoka or Obi-Wan, they really aren’t all that different from the fight in Samurai Cop. For years, I’ve maintained that the most realistic fight in any of the Star Wars films or series is the Vader & Obi-Wan duel in A New Hope.
I have to make the comment about the Ahsoka fight where of course having the dialogue cut out of it will make that scene seem bad because the dialogue is what made that scene showing that the battle was not just physical but mental as well.
@@SellswordArts I'm not arguing it'll make anyone like the choreography only that the scene is not meant to be choreography alone and leans very heavy on the dialogue that got cut out, if that makes sense.
I get what you're saying, but I would rather that the multi-million dollar production not have to rely on the dialogue to prop up the fight. They could do better. Sorry, I'm just tired of making excuses for Star Wars.
You should try bladesong, it’s a very cool sword creator game with almost infinite possibilities for creation. Fair warning tho, it crashes often so he sure to save often.
13:10 "What was he aiming at?" Well if you knew what was happening in the story you'd know that the entire point of this fight is that Ahsoka is trying to get that orb on a pedestal in the centre of the arena. She was reaching for it, he was denying her path to it. Why did he turn his back? Because he was walking back to the orb he needs to guard, and his character has excellent precognition so it's not that grievous a sin in the middle of a duel. Choreography is a storytelling tool, especially in SW. If you don't know the story, you won't understand the choreo. I'm not saying the choreo here is great, but not knowing these characters or their goals or why they're fighting *necessarily* means you don't have enough context to judge the choreography. Once in a while you'll see a fight that perfectly conveys everything you need to know through the choreo alone (ESB, TFA, Crouching Tiger), but those are extremely rare especially in SW. Also, that clip splices the scene to hell, as you noted. It's not just dialogue, it also cut out a cool phrase of both changing stances while sizing each other up, and cut a few strikes short. Anyways, these are fun videos, I think you'd love the fights from Blue Eye Samurai.
I ran into them at a renaissance fair once. I was pretty excited to see him, but I didn't have any good questions to ask him and ended up saying some stupid shit about double bladed lightsabers. I feel super embarrassed and wish I never said anything.
Im actually suprised that you included my home country's movie "The Deluge" It was so fun to see the reaction! By the way you should totally watch vinland saga, its life changing
Hey man got a request for a video could you do an updated pell video for the longsword? I find myself just swinging at it and would appreciate some direction on combining footwork and strikes to make a coherent work out
I'd like to see a reaction to and breakdown of a later fight in the Ahsoka series, the final duel between Ahsoka and Morgan Elsbeth, who is played by Diana Lee Inosanto.
You should check out the fight with Kristina Locken in Sword of Xanten. Also, The final fight at the convent in The Four Musketeers With Christopher Lee. For "so bad it's good' try Deathstaker II. You do not need to see the first.
If you want a really bad sword fight that makes all of these look competent, look up the final fight scene from Deathstalker 3. You won’t be disappointed. ;) Keep doing what you’re doing and having fun guys. Love the content.
Great content! Can you guys comment on or make a breakdown on the swordfights in the movie Rob Roy? Especially the last fight between Robert Roy MacGregor and Archibald Cunningham. Thank you.
In most of the video she's holding it fine, but that spot right when they comment on it she's holding it with the curve away from her (or really sideways to her, but the wrong way). The katana and wakizashi curve towards the user, not away.
The best Polish sabre fight recorded to date is this one; th-cam.com/video/Darpu7JUhqY/w-d-xo.html The technicality of the swordsmanship is staggering. It's one of those demonstrations that the lay person won't understand the depth of just how impressive it is.
Your other blind reaction video was blocked, so I can't even read my comments. But if I could add anything to my previous suggestions, there's By the Sword (1991), and The Fencing Master (1992). There's some fights I categorise as "interesting", like The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984), the movie is terrible, but Tony DeLongis and David Carradine came up with some interesting choreography that belonged in a much better film. Apart from that, there's a few fights that I find interesting because of a clash of different culture's sword arts, like The Myth (2005), Dragon Blade (2015), Journey of Honor (1991), Heroes of the East (1978), and Fearless (2006). And possibly the last decent fight of Steven Seagal's career in Out of Reach (Video 2004).
The "swordsman" in the first scene shouldn't be allowed to use a sword ever again. That was a lazy fight scene full of dumb stuff that was done because "the story needs to happen"
if you do this again i recomend 2 channels whith amazing choreographies; Adorea, the best channel ever. Spatha, french group. both have good historical fights but adorea is just out of this world
22:14 You need to understand filmmaking on at least a basic level for The Room to be so-bad-it's-good, because then you're pulling entertainment value as much from WHAT happens in the movie as from WHY the directprial choices that led to it are so ridiculous.
The legend about "Deluge" says one of the actors basically "lost it". He was trying to hype himself to become angry to the point he lost it and started fighting for real 😅
I like with the Deluge duel how they show the white shirt guy is less experienced by the way his non-sword arm flails around wildly while he's fighting, and the colonel's is just chilling behind his back.
Fun video! :)
But just a little errata, for the first fight in Vinland Saga: "Snake", the man with the curved sword, was not at all a Charlemagne bodygard/a warrior from his court. (Charlemagne is long dead by this point in the story)
He is in fact a "Viking". It is implied that he was a Varangian guard, serving the Byzanthine Empror. (So a Norse/Russ man serving as mercenarie/bodyguard for the East Romans)
His sword is probably a Paramerion. (Who is thought to be primerly a cavalry sword)
Ah, that's right. I remembered he was more than 'just a viking', but not exactly what he was implied to be, just something to do with the Romans.
The chair creak at 19:46 while the guy fell down KILLED me.
I love that the background for the "cool" pose for samurai cop doesn't change
This format is really fun to watch !
12:42 Her lightsaber hilt is based on that of a tachi, which does curve toward the user, so no, it's not backwards.
this made me realize they should have curved lightsabers lmao
React to Metal Gear Rising Revengance and analyze how accurate it's swordplay is
Loving this video format! Probably gonna check some of these out!
I feel like every fight in star wars can be like indiana Jones (just pull out a flippin gun).
It won't help seeing as people can move shit with their minds exist in that universe, they can just use force stasis on instinct the moment they hear "BANG"
They can literally block it.
I would not be surprised to see (modern) Star Wars in here
Edit: I was right, wish I wasn't
Yeah, those fights are laughably bad. To make it worse, the dialogue is as bad, or worse, than the duels😞
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Ahsoka vs anakin and obi wan vs vader where pretty good tho
If you were looking for a realistic fight from Vinland Saga, I wish you'd picked the Thorfinn vs Askeladd duel from Season 1, Episode 8. The Thors vs Askeladd fight isn't terribly realistic in some ways (nobody is doing flips and acrobatics with armor on), but it would have been interesting to see your reactions.
100% agree, I hope he talks about it, or tries doing something like that in sparring.
Please do more videos like this
That last one had the energy of Star Trek Original Series fight scenes
There's some great Sword play in 13 Assassins. And even some proper use of Sabers in " Dracula Untold" before it gets super natural.
Ah, yes, my favorite masters-experts of sword arts :D
You guys should react to the final fight from Sword of the Stranger. There's no mid-combat dialogue, no BS magic abilities, just two master swordsmen trying to kill each other. It's probably still not realistic, but it's a lot more believable than most anime fights, and the music is epic as hell.
Another excellent example for fencing is the Princess Bride, especially the fight between Wesley and Inigo.
vinland saga is sacred. In many ways is waaaay more realistic thsn most shows, AND it has the rule of cool for depicting extraordinary heroes. Since the show isnt as mainstream im pretty sensitive about it. Is my second favourite anime of all time
Man if you haven’t see Vinland saga you should definitely watch it. It has a great story
The thing is, when I watch those fights in Ashoka or Obi-Wan, they really aren’t all that different from the fight in Samurai Cop.
For years, I’ve maintained that the most realistic fight in any of the Star Wars films or series is the Vader & Obi-Wan duel in A New Hope.
That's a baffling choice, considering it was all just a bunch of little baby boops so they wouldn’t break their props.
I have to make the comment about the Ahsoka fight where of course having the dialogue cut out of it will make that scene seem bad because the dialogue is what made that scene showing that the battle was not just physical but mental as well.
Talking will not fix bad choreography. Sorry, disagree
@@SellswordArts I'm not arguing it'll make anyone like the choreography only that the scene is not meant to be choreography alone and leans very heavy on the dialogue that got cut out, if that makes sense.
I get what you're saying, but I would rather that the multi-million dollar production not have to rely on the dialogue to prop up the fight. They could do better.
Sorry, I'm just tired of making excuses for Star Wars.
@@alannatherson7721"the choreography wasn't meant to be choreography" is a bizarre thing to say
It would be awesome to do an action movie and just randomly put your sparring videos in wherever there's action... LOL
you missed a fact that snake didn't wanna kill thorfin
You should try bladesong, it’s a very cool sword creator game with almost infinite possibilities for creation.
Fair warning tho, it crashes often so he sure to save often.
18:38 You can IMMEDIATELY tell they did it slowly for safety and digitally sped it up in post.
Definetely need 7 more episodes 🤣🤩
13:10 "What was he aiming at?" Well if you knew what was happening in the story you'd know that the entire point of this fight is that Ahsoka is trying to get that orb on a pedestal in the centre of the arena. She was reaching for it, he was denying her path to it.
Why did he turn his back? Because he was walking back to the orb he needs to guard, and his character has excellent precognition so it's not that grievous a sin in the middle of a duel.
Choreography is a storytelling tool, especially in SW. If you don't know the story, you won't understand the choreo. I'm not saying the choreo here is great, but not knowing these characters or their goals or why they're fighting *necessarily* means you don't have enough context to judge the choreography.
Once in a while you'll see a fight that perfectly conveys everything you need to know through the choreo alone (ESB, TFA, Crouching Tiger), but those are extremely rare especially in SW.
Also, that clip splices the scene to hell, as you noted.
It's not just dialogue, it also cut out a cool phrase of both changing stances while sizing each other up, and cut a few strikes short.
Anyways, these are fun videos, I think you'd love the fights from Blue Eye Samurai.
I ran into them at a renaissance fair once. I was pretty excited to see him, but I didn't have any good questions to ask him and ended up saying some stupid shit about double bladed lightsabers. I feel super embarrassed and wish I never said anything.
I'm happy to say that I bought a training sword
Antoni Olbrychski's grandfather is Daniel Olbrychski (guy who played Andrzej Kmicic in the Deluge)
check Hema ratings
Im actually suprised that you included my home country's movie "The Deluge" It was so fun to see the reaction! By the way you should totally watch vinland saga, its life changing
Hey man got a request for a video could you do an updated pell video for the longsword? I find myself just swinging at it and would appreciate some direction on combining footwork and strikes to make a coherent work out
I'd like to see a reaction to and breakdown of a later fight in the Ahsoka series, the final duel between Ahsoka and Morgan Elsbeth, who is played by Diana Lee Inosanto.
Rurouni Kenshin Live Action movie series fight scenes are amazing!
Now I don't condone public shaming, but TV shows do have the credits for a reason
Where is the mug from? I love it
It's from The Knarly Knot
Cool tattoos! What do the Norse and Hebrew say?
You should check out the fight with Kristina Locken in Sword of Xanten. Also, The final fight at the convent in The Four Musketeers With Christopher Lee. For "so bad it's good' try Deathstaker II. You do not need to see the first.
20:47 that title is diabolical
I would love to see y’all react to some fight scenes from shows like vikings or GoT
This was fun!
If you want a really bad sword fight that makes all of these look competent, look up the final fight scene from Deathstalker 3. You won’t be disappointed. ;) Keep doing what you’re doing and having fun guys. Love the content.
Man I need to start watching Vinland Saga again
Let's him watch some Jet li and some Chinese martial art. ❤❤ Especially Wushu styles
Great content! Can you guys comment on or make a breakdown on the swordfights in the movie Rob Roy? Especially the last fight between Robert Roy MacGregor and Archibald Cunningham. Thank you.
That Evangelion shirt is amazing💚
Can you react to Star War the Old Republic Trailers?
Ashoka is holding the swords the "corect" way as thay are inspierd by japanese swords. Its as he has a disho.
In most of the video she's holding it fine, but that spot right when they comment on it she's holding it with the curve away from her (or really sideways to her, but the wrong way). The katana and wakizashi curve towards the user, not away.
@@chrisdonnell7200But it is curving towards her...
The best Polish sabre fight recorded to date is this one;
th-cam.com/video/Darpu7JUhqY/w-d-xo.html
The technicality of the swordsmanship is staggering. It's one of those demonstrations that the lay person won't understand the depth of just how impressive it is.
Should blind react to the sabre fight at the end of Shanghai Nights with Jackie Chan.
You should react to Jedi: Fallen Order and jedi: Survivor cutscene duels.
Your other blind reaction video was blocked, so I can't even read my comments.
But if I could add anything to my previous suggestions, there's By the Sword (1991), and The Fencing Master (1992).
There's some fights I categorise as "interesting", like The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984), the movie is terrible, but Tony DeLongis and David Carradine came up with some interesting choreography that belonged in a much better film.
Apart from that, there's a few fights that I find interesting because of a clash of different culture's sword arts, like The Myth (2005), Dragon Blade (2015), Journey of Honor (1991), Heroes of the East (1978), and Fearless (2006).
And possibly the last decent fight of Steven Seagal's career in Out of Reach (Video 2004).
The "swordsman" in the first scene shouldn't be allowed to use a sword ever again. That was a lazy fight scene full of dumb stuff that was done because "the story needs to happen"
if you do this again i recomend 2 channels whith amazing choreographies; Adorea, the best channel ever.
Spatha, french group.
both have good historical fights but adorea is just out of this world
You guys should check out History channel's Born for the saber, best sword film i have seen
Cool mug
i have not seen the vid yet but i know it is good
cool shirt clark
Video 3 of asking you do to a legitimacy review of the Songs of War animation fight scenes
18:47 video game turn base style, gotta (not) love it
You should react to the Arkham Origins trailer Batman vs Deathstroke fight.
I can see why you don't like spins after watching that trash. Going from The Deluge to Ahsoka was a little painful.
what the bloody hell was that last one? I mean, the battle scenes from Meet the Spartans are better than that
TIL Senator Ted Cruz was a baddie in Samurai Cop.
22:14 You need to understand filmmaking on at least a basic level for The Room to be so-bad-it's-good, because then you're pulling entertainment value as much from WHAT happens in the movie as from WHY the directprial choices that led to it are so ridiculous.
Judges in a personal duel??? No such thing.
The light saber duels on disney are garbage and look like trashy chinese dance fighting...
"Experts"