Why wasn't that a bug story?

Of course they're aiming slightly above the other guy's head, or to the side -- they're trained to do that. Practically every fight scene ever put to film (with the notable exception of the ones by Tony Jaa and colleagues) could be deconstructed that way because they're not actually fighting. Some fake it in the choreography better and miss more narrowly than others, and better camera angles than the ones chosen in TPM would mask a lot of these moments, but they're pretty much always there.

It shows the two combatants standing about a feet apart swirling their lightsabres in huge and very non-hazardous circles. It's on a loop to be sure, but there's at least 2 seconds of them doing it. And what's more, the showmanship of most of the duel is at odds with the raw emotion of the scene! I really hate you, but look at my skills yo.

DISTRICT 9 is a bad example because it's kind of a confusing mess

I think it was a collaborative effort. http://www.break.com/nerdmachine-2012-l … of-2348230 this sheds some light on the case.

People went on+on about the inconsistency and how this showed/proved .... something or other (can't remember what). But in p3, a simple memory wipe showed all the hoo-harers had jumped the gun with their hoo-hariness.

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Great job adapting the comic, knowing what to keep and what to drop. I was very impressed by how the lack of narration, key to the comic but hard to pull off in a film, was replaced with wordless visuals and just the occasional dialog to get plot details across

That's the only thing I didn't like about it. Not everything can be replaced by visuals and once you've decided to drop the narration you can't use any of it by having Batman muttering to himself mid-action. It's really cool to be in Batman's head. Especially when Batman is older, crankier and a little more insane than usual.

I think they decided, rightly imho, that the narration was part of the problem with Year One. It just doesn't work on film. I agree, you miss most of the best lines, but you're left with a movie that flows well and tells the story. It's the kind of tradeoff you have to do when going from the page to the screen.