skyjedi2005 said:
This is not a slight at any of the fine laserdisc transfers going on here only that Lucas Should be doing the work not the fans, it is kind of backward if you ask me.

That's really only true if he cares one iota for the original unaltered trilogy. He clearly doesn't. The artist does reserve a lot of control over their work, and one of the things GL set out to do from the beginning was to have total control over his films.

Is it ridiculous and dumb that he has such contempt for the original cuts? Absolutely. But don't expect him to change his attitude anytime soon. If you want to see an older cut of a film that the filmmaker has completely renounced, don't expect anybody but you and the other fans to make that happen. It's like the Moroder soundtrack for Metropolis, or Bad Religion's "Into the Unknown." Sometimes an artist just gets it into their head that they don't like something they've done, and if they've got the power to keep it under wraps, they will, to the best of their abilities. Wouldn't you?