danny_boy said:

You missed my point mate.

Are you f**king serious? The only one who misses the point is you, the story about The Godfather films you bring up as an example of "why are people angry at Lucas but not Coppola" is ridiculous, this whole issue became news first when film-preservation expert Robert Harris started to work on the restoration, nobody knew about this, not even Paramount. And even if this had been known, there's no comparison... what the hell have this to do with Coppola?

I admit that some things I mentioned earlier were a bit silly, the separation masters and negative being in bad shape was obviously out of Lucas control, but when it became clear how bad the situation was for Star Wars, there should've been a serious restoration done, new preservation negatives created, a new print sent to the National Film Registry for preservation, instead of this he created The Special Edition and tried to get the NFR to preserve a print of that instead of the original film. All this from a man who is on the board of directors for The Film Foundation - an organization dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history. If this isn't enough he also basically tells the fanbase in the press from time to time who would like to see the films restored, to fuck off along with other bizarre statements.

If Lucasfilm doesn't get their act together soon and make a restoration, his crusade to eliminate these films will make him look even more ridiculous in a few years when some fans have scanned some prints and released those to the public.

You know very well why people are upset, but if for some weird reason you don't, I'm afraid I cannot help you.