moviefreakedmind said:

unamochilla2 said:

I thought the 2004 version actually wasn't a rushed project but just lazily done?

It may have been a lazy job as well. The person I know said he tried to make it work but there were a lot of difficulties and George had no clue what he was doing and ruined all the colors. I'm paraphrasing ;) he's much too professional to say something that harsh. It's also possible that he was one of the only ones putting any effort into the project. I do think that there had to have been a lot of laziness to allow such blatant errors in a DVD release. Especially one as big as Star Wars. The green lightsaber stands out a lot but there are many other ones too.

I should also add that I haven't seen the DVD's in what, 10 years now? I don't have a good memory about some of the coloring issues, and looking at Hayden Christiansen's ghost makes me physically ill, so it's been a long time since I've even watched any of the butchered versions. I think it was that change that completely turned me off of the Special Editions forever.

Do you know exactly when your friend starting working on the project and when Lowry started the restoration? Interestingly, all the blatant errors were defended as creative choices, some of which were magically fixed for the 2011 Blu-ray. There was at least some laziness since those errors originally past quality control or maybe they just didn't care.