Haarspalter said:

generalfrevious said:

You could say that George was doing the same thing with the PT, but I wanna say he is worse than Jackson because the LOTR is not being reedited to fit in with the Hobbit trilogy.

You should listen to the audio commentary of the AUJ EE. At one point Peter Jackson and Philipa Boyens are discussing the possibility of a Six Movie Middle-Earth Box Set AND ... ... that some shots of the opening scene from 'Fellowship' have to be replaced with Hobbit scenes (think Bilbo = remove Ian Holm, insert Martin Freeman) and that Thranduil could be digitally inserted into the battle scenes along with Elrond and Gil Galad.

History repeats itself. A director should never touch the same material a second time.

Eh, it's not really the same thing objectively speaking. Jackson has been talking about a super edit of these movies since before The Hobbit trilogy came out. In all honesty, its less comparable with the water head antics of Lucas and more like Coppolla's Godfather Saga. The Godfather Saga is the first two GF films re edited with newly added deleted scenes so it flows together in chronological order. Its actually kind of interesting in that sense and, unlike with the SEs, it wouldn't be trying to replace the originals.