THIS is WHY George Lucas DESTROYED Star Wars Special Effects!

[mcvenne]

That must have felt like a punch to the gut. 😭

[mattfischer]

They musta hit some next level party favours cause they came back and set an astronomicaly high bar for many to come

[Maximbaumann]

He didn’t destroy the footage because he didn’t like it it was because something like the optical printer messed it up and the effects ended up unusable I may be wrong though

[TheAaronRodgersTao]

Dude those space and ground battles STILL hold up today against the very best cgi.

[Lucas-ekuc]

Loving the behind the scenes videos on Star Wars!

[kingsmithgaming]

I love George, but if any other director had a story like that come out people quickly come to criticise them. It's fine that he wanted them to redo it so he could get the perfect shot for his movie, but he definitely could have handled that better.

[xnetpc]

They must be getting paid salary. If they get paid hourly, that’s a lot of billable hours. Having to undo or redo work is job security.

[jayteah]

And it was worth it, it’s been nearly 30 years and the movies are acclaimed in every aspect (besides character development). George had a world and was free to say no to people who’d only seen the movie 10 times, not the 10, 000 times George had.

[smexydaveyt]

Based George Lukas. He made sure the original star wars was the best

[mrchannel]

That background music is creepily familiar...

[tobias]

“this is the reason” continues not to state a reason

[MarioBrosJediKnightXD]

That's why Star Wars special effects are great, because of passion. If it's garbage, it's garbage period.

[Drkcymor]

His movie, his vision, he's paying them, he gets what he wants how he wants it.

[Lone_Paladin]

Still waiting for the reason he threw away 100, 000 ft. of special effects. "Because he didn't like it" is obvious. 🤷

[indominusrex]

So the ehads took a break and left everything to the employees great idea

[MochaSugar]

You didn’t give the reason. Could you provide George Lucas’s reasoning?

[neatwheat]

So the reason being ... he didn't like it? Wow!

[PMCbecker]

You never told us the reason why he did it

[abadalfa]

This isn't the first time you're going to see people talking shit about Lucas without evidence just to get some headlines or views. The Hollywood media spoiled a bunch of us into thinking we know better about how to make movies and write them, than the guy who is basically the most influential director and producer in all Hollywood history at the moment. Lucas changed the industry every time he made a movie. This is clearly not what happened.

[LonelyKnight]

Feels like having a big bum on the head 🤦‍♀🤦‍♂