Originally Posted by GloucesterChief:
If they base it off the 2000s Iron Fist series, no it isn't like Batman except for the fact that they both use martial arts.
Exactly.
Fisty is more mystical/supernatural instead of detective/crime oriented. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
That's really bad.
None of those 'strikes' look even remotely powerful. It looks faker than pro-wrestling.
Eh, as someone who knows little about fighting choreography I thought it was pretty decent. Lazily written scene that's been done many times before and better, but I don't really expect better fight scenes than that in a television show. Usually they're smoothed out with heavy shadow and tight shots that obscure the action. I give props for degree of difficulty in comparison. [Reply]
Originally Posted by kysirsoze:
Eh, as someone who knows little about fighting choreography I thought it was pretty decent. Lazily written scene that's been done many times before and better, but I don't really expect better fight scenes than that in a television show. Usually they're smoothed out with heavy shadow and tight shots that obscure the action. I give props for degree of difficulty in comparison.
When you compare that to the scenes in something like The Badlands, it's blown off the screen.
And these are equally little people (often women) who look like they're actually delivering a blow. It's damn impressive.
I don't know anything about fight choreography, I just know that looked like a person swatting flies and yet 250 lb men were flying across the screen. Like I said, it looked like bad wrestling. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
When you compare that to the scenes in something like The Badlands, it's blown off the screen.
And these are equally little people (often women) who look like they're actually delivering a blow. It's damn impressive.
I don't know anything about fight choreography, I just know that looked like a person swatting flies and yet 250 lb men were flying across the screen. Like I said, it looked like bad wrestling.
Just watched a couple badlands fight scenes. Kinda hard to compare due to the stylized, Kill Bill meets Crouching Tiger style of violence, but I do see what you're getting at. [Reply]
Originally Posted by kysirsoze:
Just watched a couple badlands fight scenes. Kinda hard to compare due to the stylized, Kill Bill meets Crouching Tiger style of violence, but I do see what you're getting at.
Then I guess I'll go back to an earlier response - "it's a superhero show".
They aren't perfect comparisons, but we're not dealing in completely real world logic here so if it takes a little 'stylizing' to make the fight look like something with some nominal grasp on actual physics (or at least the whole 'force = mass*acceleration thing), then stylize it a bit.
Originally Posted by kysirsoze:
Eh, as someone who knows little about fighting choreography I thought it was pretty decent. Lazily written scene that's been done many times before and better, but I don't really expect better fight scenes than that in a television show. Usually they're smoothed out with heavy shadow and tight shots that obscure the action. I give props for degree of difficulty in comparison.
It's certainly nothing like the Daredevil fights. [Reply]
