Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:... That GL deleted them is testament to what a good director he was then. Putting them back in weakens the film and is proof that he has lost his eye for what's good and bad in a film.

I fear that Luca$h cannot take credit... I would give that to his editing team... as has been said on these boards before, Luca$h's choice of collaborator is the real difference between SW77 and all he's done since as a director... in fact, I would go further... his work on the PT indicates that he was never a great director, in the sense of an auteur... he was just one part of the great team that made SW77... in my opinion, ESB is noticeably much better directed...

The raw material that the SW movies were based on may have come from Luca$h... but he has never been able to shape it... others have always done that for him... problem is, he always took the credit... and now he can't remember the truth... the result of this is his appalling attitude to the OOT... dismissing those wonderful films as rough drafts of his "vision"... the real artists of the OOT having to suffer the indignity of having gaudy, artless, computer-generated images smeared across their pioneering contributions to popular cinema in an act of outright vandalism...

It's not just that the SEs weren't needed... you understate the case, my friend...