Rogue One - Why was Vader seem so much more impressive than Prequel-era fighters?

[MrBoBo]

The fights in the Clone Wars cartoons were pretty great.

I wouldn't know. All I've seen of The Clone Wars is that shitty CG movie.

I'm referring to the 2D cartoon from the Samurai Jack guy, these were made before it went CGI, which was a different dude.

 

[MrBoBo]

Ehhh...yes and no? On the one hand, Duel of the Fates (and the fight that accompanies it) are the two best things about The Phantom Menace.

On the other hand, every other lightsaber fight in the prequels (and to an extent, that one) looks fucking ridiculous. Yoda's fight scenes in AotC and RoS are some of the most hilarious and ridiculous bullshit put to film.
The more grounded lightsaber fights in the original tri...fine, that one fight in Empire looks better simply because it's not as stupidly OTT.

The fights in the Clone Wars cartoons were pretty great.

Clone Wars was even more ridiculous than the prequels. I mean, it had Yoda on horseback, Obi-Wan and Anakin dropping thirty stories from a transport ship, and a Jedi slicing a ship in two with one motion of his saber. The lack of an interesting story made those fights boring. I heard that it gets better in season 2, but I have no desire to rewatch the whole series. I last saw it fully when it originally aired.

I disagree, the meduim it's used for (i.e. cartoon) fits. And the choreography and what not is far better than the jumbled mess of the movie. It actually makes use of the hard light 2d plane layered upon each other which live action can't do.

Someone in a stylized cartoon landing 30 feet works, someone in live action against a backdrop green-screen of a cartoon doesn't.