Originally posted by: Wesyeed
And just in case some have forgotten how GL thinks.
"The special edition, that's the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it's on VHS, if anybody wants it...I'm not going to spend the, we're talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it [the original OT] doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it."
- George Lucas
Riiiiiiight...
And just in case some have forgotten how GL thinks.
"The special edition, that's the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it's on VHS, if anybody wants it...I'm not going to spend the, we're talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it [the original OT] doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it."
- George Lucas
Riiiiiiight...
Jeez....what a fucking idiot. That quote just makes my blood boil. How can he say that the version he released into theaters, that so many people spent so much blood and sweat on is half finished? How can he say that a version with added CGI and Jabba is 50 percent more finished then the original? How? How? It baffles me. I hope George Lucas gets hit by a car one of these days, because he deserves it. So many people spent so much time and effort on these films, and then he says the originals were crap. I can't believe any of the relationships with people he had while making the OT still exist.
And any real filmmaker never calls the version they release to the public half finished. Did Peter Jackson say the LOTR theatricals were only half finished, because they didn't last 4 hours? No, he didn't. Do modern teen-movie creators call the theatricals unfinished because the unrated had more boobs? No, they don't. Lucas can rot in hell.
And this thing about Tolkien and the original Hobbit not being in wide circulation...I'm sorry but that is just not comparable to Lucas' films. First off, Tolkien can do whatever he wants to his books, because they're all his. The OT is not Lucas's, but a huge collaberation. And when a book is revised, its just natural that the other one stops getting published. Why would you spend the time publishing version one of a book, and versions two and three and all that? It's silly. You don't see the World Book 1992 being widly circulated, do you? An updated version came out. Not improved. Updated. They aren't trying to squander the old version, its just that in books, when a new printing comes out, they don't keep making the old printing.