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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!