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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 1026352" data-attributes="member: 4779">Yes, and Lucas has been releasing the DVDs of the movie he is currently working on as well.Sure, he's had time to do all that but as mentioned Lucas is a control freak and wants his hands in all aspects of his Star Wars universe.  Speilburg did some work on the E.T. DVDs and moved on.  And I'm pretty certain that it was in production for a while.  Whatever the case is, Speilberg has always worked on multiple projects at a time.  I think it's not always a good thing.  Maybe if he slowed down a bit and thought about it we wouldn't have gotten the mess that was AI and had a better, balsy ending to Minority Report.  I can't say anything about Catch Me If You Can as I have not seen it but it didn't seem like there was a ton of post-production on it in the way of special effects, etc.  I digress.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lucas works much slower and more methodically than Spielberg and this has always been the case.No one cares about double-dipping?  Oh sure they do.  I didn't complain about the 2 versions of FotR because I like having both cuts of the film plus both contained different sets of extras.  Now if I had to buy a version of Star Wars which was the same version only with more extras I would be a little cheesed and I'm positive I wouldn't be the only one.I think folks are loosing track of a vital fact:  If the DVD format was popular before Lucas started his work on the prequels we would already have the DVDs.  It was in its infancy at that point and he just finished with the SEs.  Sure, he could just say, "Okay boys, whip up some menus slap the SEs on the DVDs and get that sucker out the door in time for Christmas.  Throw a few of my interviews on there and we're good to go.  I'll just release my definitive version when I'm less busy creating the rest of my vision."  But he isn't.  I don't want to have to buy the DVDs again.  I want him to get them right the first time.  And I am more than willing to wait.</blockquote>

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