My point was that your characterization of what JC has done to Titanic is an exaggeration.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration, but I think we can both agree that GL went further with his revisionism.
So I am all for preserving, but I do not think such extreme comments are called for when a director just goes in and cleans up his work with modern tools. Yes, preserve both, but there is no need to call such a minor tweaking (compared to what Lucas has done) a major reworking.
This isn’t “minor tweaking” though. Minor tweaking in a restoration would be to re-composite bad quality elements but make them as faithful as possible - that’s not at all what was done here. They re-composited elements that didn’t need restoration purely to create a precursor for a 3D conversion. They went through and re-did everything. A good restoration has a “light touch” and only retouches where needed to bring the poorer quality elements up to the quality of the rest of the film. But as I’ve mentioned, this film was not in a state that it needed such a restoration!! Star Wars on the other hand WAS in a state that needed restoration. And of course they went way too far with it and introduced changes we all hate. 😃