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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 301569" data-attributes="member: 812">I think you could argue that Jackson wanted exactly that -- choppy, confusing scenes where you're not really sure what's going on. Compare the Weathertop fight, or Aragorn's initial fight with the Uruk-hai, with the Cave Troll battle -- the former are confusing and it's impossible to tell who's where doing what, but when the Cave Troll bursts in and starts laying the smackdown, the action moves with total clarity up to Legolas leaping off its back, at which point things get frenetic again -- I think the choppiness is a deliberate choice.Jackson's not making a Jackie Chan film, nor even an Errol Flynn movie. He doesn't always want you to clearly comprehend what you're seeing. He doesn't want to impress you with what a great swordsman Aragorn is.That said, maybe you just don't like choppy fight scenes and that's totally fine.If you want to see the greatest swordfight scene of recent memory, rent <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0213682" target="_blank">Taboo</a> by Nagisa Oshima. The opening fight sequence has to rank as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) pure swordfights ever filmed -- truly. The movie itself is so-so but that first fight... Oh boy. No special effects, no slow motion, not even incredibly cool moves -- just two masters with swords going at each other.</blockquote>