I have to say he does good work, but the man is ignorant as to why Lucas edited out some of these shots. He keeps saying there is no reason and even after he cleans them up, I can see the reason and it isn’t what he thinks it is. For instance, the Wolfman was replaced not becasue of the quality of the shot, but because of the mask itself that Lucas hated. And the composite shot outside Yavin base just looks horrible because the matte painting looks so fake when you get to higher resolutions. We all still love the original, but Mike doesn’t seem to understand what drove Lucas to make the changes he made. It was not the quality of the shots, it was the composition and the flaws in production that had been under his skin.
Nice to hear from him after so long, but kind of depressing that nothing is going to come of this.