moviefreakedmind said:
Sure, I agree that at that time Lucas was still hung up on his "true vision" and that's why the GOUT was so poor. He wanted it to be released in a subpar quality so that his , and it was very petty. Remember though, this was in 2006, and by the time we got to the blu rays he didn't even mention his "vision" he just mentioned it being expensive and time consuming. He didn't even say it'd never happen, probably because he was already working on the Disney sale. I've always noticed George softening on his whole, "one version only" idea. In 1997 he wanted to let all copies of the trilogy deteriorate, and in 2006 he released the laserdisc on DVD which effectively "preserves" the films digitally (I know it sucked, but he did release), and then by 2011 he's just saying that he isn't interested. Not opposed to releasing them, just not interested, and he completely admitted that he was perfectly capable of doing so, while in '06 he was claiming that it was impossible to restore them.
That "softening" some speak of, did we ever see anything being materialized...?
I can assure you he never changed his mind on this, I put together a greatest hits of his comments to the media regarding this last year: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Lets-all-say-something-nice-about-George-Lucas-No-insults-allowed/post/617831/#TopicPost617831
I only see a hypocritical man burping the same shit over and over again, when he spoke to the media, he couldn't behave himself either due to being too personally invested in the things being criticized or he acted like a politician.
The only thing he gave the old fans who made him during his last twenty years at the helm of Lucasfilm was a 15 year old LD master as a bonus feature and in the process destroyed a bit of American Cinema history. Btw, where is his THX 1138 he was so proud of back in the day? Oh, right you can watch it on laserdisc, I forgot... The irony, the true cut of his film Coppola and him fought so passionately to save from the studio back in the day is just another series of patches in his software program.