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Originally posted by: Master Sifo-Dyas
I think he's just stubborn and deceived by his own misconceptions about the original trilogy. To be honest, I wouldn't have any problem with his point of view at all. But by making the decision not to release the original trilogies on DVD, he aggressively forces that view onto me."
Exactly.
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"It saddens me in a way, that he's not ashamed of selling fans every imaginable kind of useless junk as StarWars merchandising, yet he seems to think he'd loose his face if he'd sell us the 'junk version' of his old films on dvd. I mean, even if he couldn't bare contributing to the making of the OT DVDs, he wouldn't have to. After all there wouldn't be any creative input required of him for ILM to clean up the film and remove stuff like the opaque snowspeeder cockpits or black lines around objects. He could leave it all up to the good folks at Lucasfilm and stay at home tinkering on the concepts for his archive edition of the hexology."
Yep. I've defended GL for years, but its getting harder and harder to understand his logic. I think he lost me with digital stormtroopers.
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Somehow I imagine he's angry of the fact that in the end he will never ever be able to succeed in undoing the OTs - not even by not releasing them on DVD. Fact is, the OT is out there and people still love to watch it. Perhaps the mere fact that he can't prevent people from preferring what he now sees as ugly work in progress, makes him denying them the one thing that would make those people even happier. Along the lines of "if I can't be happy, you won't be either".
thats quite possible. Thats why I've always said he won't release the OV, because he can't risk it outselling his prequels and SEs. Can you imagine the embarrassment? "Well it seems George Lucas can't convince anyone to like CGI, after 30 years people still prefer his aging original films with cheap models and rubber masks to his cutting edge digitally made versions." Basically everything he's been preaching the past 12 years would lose any validity.
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"I don't envy him at all. But I certainly don't hate him."
Me either, he seems to be a loving father and kind man, and he's been a personal source of inspiration for me as a filmmaker, even if his last few contributions have more been a lesson in what not to do.