To tell you the truth, for me there's a certain charm in seeing THX-1138 (even Star Wars for that matter) with all of it's filmic blemishes for me. I kind of like the scratches and dirt on film, I guess maybe I'm overly romantic.
Me too, but I like to see my filmic blemishes crystal clear with as little post-transfer compression artifacting and picture softening as possible!
Hence the XO transfer for THX 1138 being a great idea, IMHO.
--SKot