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<blockquote data-quote="Voranzovin" data-source="post: 9546587" data-attributes="member: 7020495">Yeah, and this has always bugged me--there's a wide range of quality in terms of how Asian martial arts are portrayed on screen, but there just aren't a lot of good examples of Western martial arts and swordplay on film (unless you count boxing of course). It's pretty hard for me to think of any western fantasy film that I thought did a good job with portraying hand to hand combat--the only thing that comes immediately to mind is The Witcher, which is both very modern and a TV series. And I'm not in any way a purist. I did a little bit of HEMA in my youth but I'm hardly an expert, and I don't care much about realism anyway. I just want something that's exciting where it looks like the participants are actually trying to kill each other, and fantasy films have largely failed to deliver this for me.That's probably why my image of how a Fighter fights is more likely to resemble The Raid then it is to resemble any of the films about knights in armor I can recall.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voranzovin, post: 9546587, member: 7020495"] Yeah, and this has always bugged me--there's a wide range of quality in terms of how Asian martial arts are portrayed on screen, but there just aren't a lot of good examples of Western martial arts and swordplay on film (unless you count boxing of course). It's pretty hard for me to think of any western fantasy film that I thought did a good job with portraying hand to hand combat--the only thing that comes immediately to mind is The Witcher, which is both very modern and a TV series. And I'm not in any way a purist. I did a little bit of HEMA in my youth but I'm hardly an expert, and I don't care much about realism anyway. I just want something that's exciting where it looks like the participants are actually trying to kill each other, and fantasy films have largely failed to deliver this for me. That's probably why my image of how a Fighter fights is more likely to resemble The Raid then it is to resemble any of the films about knights in armor I can recall. [/QUOTE]

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