[Jura]

Originally Posted by The Mask weapon combat is stupid. especially in martial arts films. if there is a sword fighting scene in a random film that's fine. kill bill being a good example. but i don't want to watch a kung fu film and find it's all swords. like if i saw a jackie chan or bruce lee film like that i would be gutted. plus swords are utterly fucking irrelevent in this day and age.

I saw the film and like Dale Newstead said it's not all sword fights but there was plenty of hand to hand combat. I just think weapon combat isn't your thing and you don't like that the movie had a lot of it.

If it's a film set in a more modern time then yeah it's pretty ridiculous for some dudes to have swords and fight with them but these are not really martial arts films. They are basically action films that have martial arts in them and other things too.

And you know there's a story to this film and it has cultural influences. Back then, not just in Thailand but people used swords and other weapons to defend or attack.

It's like saying you're gutted because in a World War II movie there was a lot of hand to hand combat more than there were guns shooting and grenades and missiles.

There was a Bruce Lee film where he used nun chakus for a good part of it. Also there was Jackie Chan film with a lot of sword fighting. You'll probably hate those then.