The Biggs scene. It really should be there, adds a bit more to the whole Yavin battle sequence. Not sure why they cut it on the original release, even without the Tatooine Biggs scenes, it could fit there, since Luke had mentioned him ("Biggs was right..."), and it felt like they knew each other, but personally I think it would be much stronger with the orginal Biggs scene included. I am currently reading the A New Hope Novelisation by Alan Dean Foster and I really enjoyed the bits about Luke and his friends on Tatooine.
The celebrations scenes at ROTJ. The ending of ROTJ always felt kinda empty to me. They destroyed the empire, and they are out celebrating with Ewoks? What happened on the other planets? Also, yub yub was not my favorite song anyway...
I agree it felt kinda empty. but the new ending is way too much.
The matte lines cleaning up, obviously. All those artifacts, transparencies (Hoth battle), black boxes, distracting matte lines, projections (Rancor scene), light sabers going off (Obi-Wan spinning his lightsaber, Vader's when the door shuts down on him), they should be fixed.
Definitely. Any effects changes are acceptable as long as they are given the attention they deserve, and not the botch job they recieved.
The new Jabba palace song replacing that horribly dated Lapt Nek thing. BUT... with the original scene. No CGI added. No Bobba Fett flerting.
NO NO NO!!!
I recently watched the original ROTJ, and there is nothing wrong with Lapti Nek or the scene in general - the music is just a background thing, which is how it should be. The new one is horrible in every respect. It's like the movie stops, shows us some CGI, then resumes.
People on Cloud City listening to Lando's announcement, and the new window views. I'm fine with that.
I would keep Jabba's scene as a cut scene, which you could watch over the extras, with the original actor AND the CGI as alternate angles, but not on the movie itself.
Ian McDiarmid COULD be on ESB, but he should be done properly, to look exactly like teh ROTJ Emperor. Shouldn't be that hard.
That's it. The rest is crap.
As I mentioned, I am currently reading the Original Star Wars Novel, written before ANH was released in the seventies, and although it is quite inaccurate (it mentions Dogs quite a lot for some reason, and other earthly things to), it captures the general feeling of Star Wars much better than any of this new stuff. That novel is Lucas' original vision because it is based on original scripts and drafts, and unlike a movie a book does not have budget or effects limitations. In the book, Greedo shoots first. You telling me that was budget restrictions? Bullshit.