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Post #540167

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TMBTM
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"The People Vs. George Lucas" documentary...
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Date created
24-Sep-2011, 11:28 AM

I finaly bought the DVD (france) and watch it with the bonus.

It is very good, although fans like us will not learn much about the matter. It is however the movie you need to show to someone who does not have any idea about the personal story of Lucas and what happended to the original theatrical cuts.

I wished the movie was a bit longuer as I feel that the editing was a bit too fast without much of Dale Pollock and Gary Kurtz's interviews. Fortunately they are on the bonus (Pollock: 27 minutes, Kurtz: 15 minutes). In fact I think we could make a very cool extended edition  fanedit (!) of the documentary, adding those interviews and lot more of the fans ones, also from the bonus (60 minutes).

I personnaly have like 10 or 15 seconds on screen: that's great! (I have my own full interview on my PC, of course, so I could make a special editon all about me if I want anyway, lol!) but I really feel like Adywan's work needed more focus on. In fact it was just few seconds of him talking about the rage amongs some Star Wars fans against his Revisited fanedit.

All in all it was quite intertaining. Some people said the doc came a bit too late and should have been made right after, or during, the making of the prequels. But I think that with the release of the controversial Blurays... the timing is perfect.

PS: if Adywan is okay to give his full interview (if he ever have it), I could make that extended edition of the movie in my spare time. I'm sure the director would even be pleased by that, as he sounded quite exited and interested by all the fanedit community in the few emails we had about one year ago. Just an idea.