I don't know why all this Lego awesomeness is happening this week, but I hope to hell it keeps up. As incredible as yesterday's Lego Blade Runner final scene was, this incredibly animated lightsaber duel by Fancy Pants Productions -- based on The Force Unleashed videogame -- is even better. Hell, it's better than The Force Unleashed game and several lightsaber duels in the actual Star Wars movies, for fuck's sake, and it's done entirely with Legos! (Note: I will never, ever call the term of "Lego" as "Lego," so you'd best get over it.) Great White Snark brought the clip to my attention, and I begrudgingly have to agree with him that the camera angles and shots along are worthy of a real, professional movie, to say nothing of the remarkably smooth animation. Enjoy.
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Nicnac said:
WOW
more please, thanks.
DoctorSmashy said:
Well, beats The Phantom Menace.
Grenadier replied to DoctorSmashy:
Prequel bashing in the second post. Earlier than I expected.
DoctorSmashy replied to Grenadier:
Ehh, it was too easy, that's all.
dnwilliams replied to Grenadier:
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Revelo replied to dnwilliams:
But you called it Lego in the title...
SpiderHyphenMan said:
Too bad he chose to focus on a shitty character. Now if he did one of Luke and Vader in the throne room, I'd be impressed.
stewbacca replied to SpiderHyphenMan:
Except there would be about 2% of the motion and action that was in that clip.. Rewatching the DSII fight scene is depressing after seeing the newer ones.especially when some of the railings never get cut....
SpiderHyphenMan replied to stewbacca:
WRONG SIR WRONG!
The duel on the second Death Star is the best duel in the entire saga. The choreography in the prequels was far too rehearsed and fast paced for true emotion. In lightsaber duels, there is a lot going on OUTSIDE THE FACT THAT PEOPLE ARE SWINGING SWORDS AT EACH OTHER. Compare Luke's wild and furious strikes against Darth Vader when he threatens his sister to Obi-Wan's emotionless, carefully composed attacks against Darth Maul after he kills Qui-Gon. The only fight in the prequels that hss any real emotional impact is the duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan, but the terrible dialog and ridiculously distracting surroundings drastically weaken the scene. Sure they look nice, but the same could be said of the entire prequel trilogy. Despite that, the relatively primitive Battle of Yavin has more excitement and tension than any of the massive space battles in the prequels.
So yeah.
lukeg37 replied to SpiderHyphenMan:
good sir, I never really thought about it that way before and you are %100 right. Regardless the fight in Phantom was still pretty damn cool
dnwilliams replied to SpiderHyphenMan:
This.
I actually think Jedi had the best space battle too.
SpiderHyphenMan replied to dnwilliams:
I actually stole most of those points from the seven part review of phantom menace on youtube. Check it out.
the new transported man replied to SpiderHyphenMan:
Star Trek Insurrection sucks my balls.
Anonymous replied to SpiderHyphenMan:
Consider the fact, however, that this Lego movie was just about the fight, not the emotional intesity of the scene. So flashiness and cool moves were everything that it needed.
Not that I disagree with you regarding the comparison between the two movie duels, of course.
RoboKy said:
The bricks are strong with this one.
Bingo said:
Awesome! I'll bookmark it. Thanks a lot :)
SoonerMagic said:
That was awesome. Although legos are made to be dismembered so I'm surprised there weren't some Storm Trooper parts flying around.
dnwilliams said:
This was about 300x more awesome than it had any right to be.
Kaoy replied to dnwilliams:
Dude, Legos and Star Wars. There is no freaking cap on that kind of awesome.
demoncat said:
this proves star wars and Legos together are a power that is great. and at least if nothing else since the characters are lego people some one can rebuild them. though the light sabers looked too big for their hands.
MYMA said:
Amazing! The camera work is ridiculous!
Tasan said:
Watch the rest of this guy's videos. He's really good and has tons of funny and/or cool stuff.
Tilius said:
Why the refusal to call it 'Lego' not 'Legos'? I'm all for getting over you calling them that, but I don't quite understand your strong beliefs about it....
'Cause 'Legos' just sounds stupid to me.
Eric replied to Tilius:
Not only does it sound dumb, but the term "Legos" is just plain incorrect. As nerdy as this may sound, I did a huge report on the LEGO Group some time ago for a college project. They are very much against the word Legos, instead calling them (and in their Marketing documentation, very much stressing the fact that they should be called) LEGO Bricks, or LEGO Characters, or LEGO Sets. You'll never see them describe it as a "Set of Legos".
Oh, on a side note, the LEGO group is the largest tire manufacturer in the world by volume (something like 300+ million tires a year). Go go useless facts!
Tilius said:
By which I mean, the refusal to call it 'Legos' not 'Lego'.
Triforce said:
Brilliant camera work!
And the Phantom Menace lightsaber duel with Darth Maul was very cool. One of the few things about the movie that WAS actually good.
