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& sizzle, who cares there’s no meat?">Jedi fanflick with such nice flash & sizzle, who cares there’s no meat?

I’ve poked around and watched a num­ber of Star Wars fan­flicks. Many of them fea­ture lightsaber duels — after all, every­one who grew up on Star Wars as a lit­tle kid had dreams of wield­ing a lightsaber and bat­tling with it. There is one film, how­ever, that I think has done it best: Ryan vs Dork­man 2.

The stunt­work isn’t the slick­est.  The story is non-existent.  You have no idea why the two char­ac­ters are fight­ing, and you don’t even know who’s the “good guy” and who’s the “bad guy”.  There’s no fancy cos­tumes or fancy sets.

But what this one has is a near-perfect exe­cu­tion for sheer enter­tain­ment value.  Every­thing was poured into the fight sequence design, the shot design, and every­thing about the filmmaker’s art that makes the ordi­nary extraordinary.

I lied with the title for this post.  There’s no story to this fan­flick, but there’s a lot of meat in terms of cin­e­matog­ra­phy and artistry.

If you’re a Star Wars fan — or, maybe I should say, if you ever used to be a Star Wars fan before the pre­quel tril­ogy killed off your inter­est in the Star Wars uni­verse — then you’ll enjoy this!