Well, of course the shot doesn't stand out in DJ's GOUT - it's all GOUT, so the whole scene looks like crap, so there's nothing for it to stand out from - no disrespect to DJ, he's working miracles with it but sometimes you just can't polish a turd enough and this whole particular scene is pure turd in the GOUT, which I suspect may have to do with there being a lot of subtitles in that scene, so a different source was used for it:
msycamore said:
Some interesting info from THX Technical Supervisor Dave Schnuelle regarding the process of making the Definitive Collection Laserdiscs In the September 1993 issue of Widescreen Review:
...
"One small difference from the original films is that in letterbox transfers we prefer to put any subtitles in the black border beneath the actual picture area. Thus we didn't use the same interpositive as the theatrical one, because that one contains subtitling already.
...