GENERAL RAMBLINGS

How good are lightsabers? Normal sabres are good too, but you just can't beat lightsabers when it comes to good old fashioned (in a long-time-ago-galaxay-far-far -away kind of way) dueling.

It's obviously all the pretty colors - the greens, the blues, the reds - but also the sound they make, whether they are crashing together or not. You know, the zooom zooom then crack!



I had two when I was kid, a red one and a blue one like Darth Vadar and Obi Wan had in Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope, or just plain Star Wars back then.

They were about the right size and kinda made the zooom zooom sound if you moved them through the air the right way, but they were plastic and so you couldn't make them clash too hard together, otherwise they'd bend in half or even snap, which of course ended up happening.

But ... not before alot of interesting 'battles', in which the two combatants (me and some other kid) would give our 'sabers an almighty woosh and then suddenly slow down and then stop right at the point of impact, like it was slow-motion all of a sudden.

Anyway, on to the original point of this post. While researching for the recent The Greatest Fights in Movie History - Episode 2: Swords, Sabres and Sledgehammers I put together (shameless self-promotion, I know), I stumbled across these great videos on youtube ...

They are some of the most memorable scenes from sword movies but now featuring lightsabers.



The Color of Money



The Princess Bride



Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon



300



Pirates of the Caribbean





Lord of the Rings



The Last Samarai