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ChainsawAsh
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Which version/release of the Star Wars movies do you watch and why?
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6-Feb-2011, 1:52 AM

I feel that, to answer this question, a range of sorts would be a better way to answer.  These are ordered by the frequency I choose each version - #1 is most often, #2 is less, so on and so forth.

Star Wars

  1. Dark Jedi's GOUT V1 restoration, usually with the 1977 mono mix, occasionally with the 1985 stereo mix, and recently with Hairy_Hen's wonderful 1977 70mm 5.1 reconstruction.  (I also cropped out the yellow subtitles in the letterboxing, and made my own SRT subs to replace them.)
  2. Adywan's "Revisited" NTSC DVD-9
  3. EditDroid DVD (if I ever want to see the '81 crawl, that is)
  4. Official widescreen 1997 SE VHS (second set, after they stopped calling it the SE)

 

The Empire Strikes Back

  1. Adywan's 1980 Theatrical restoration, either with Ady's 5.1 or Hairy_Hen's purist 5.1 mix.
  2. Dark Jedi's GOUT V1 with the 1993 stereo mix.
  3. ABC/Dark Jedi's "Imperial Edition" (isolated score w/black-and-white video)
  4. Adywan's 1997 AVCHD restoration
  5. Official widescreen 1997 SE VHS (second set, after they stopped calling it the SE)

 

Return of the Jedi

  1. Harmy's 1983 Theatrical restoration, with Hairy_Hen's purist 5.1 mix.
  2. Dark Jedi's GOUT V1 with the 1993 stereo mix
  3. Official widescreen 1997 SE VHS (second set, after they stopped calling it the SE)

 

The Phantom Menace

  1. Adywan's 1999 Theatrical restoration, with the laserdisc 5.1 mix
  2. Official widescreen 1999 theatrical cut VHS

 

Any other versions I pretty simply never watch.  I refuse to ever put the 2004 DVDs in, I have no reason to ever put in the official GOUT discs when I have DJ's restorations, I never have any desire to watch Clones or Sith, and I never have any desire to watch the official DVD cut of Phantom.

I really only put the SE VHS tapes on the list to illustrate what I'm willing to watch before any of those things I just mentioned.