Hello! 50 yo IT/Sci-Fi Geek here. I host a weekly movie night with some friends, and the subject of the original trilogy has been coming up a lot lately. Sooooo I promised that I’d look into sources for us to watch the original trilogy on one of these evenings.
Currently, I’m trying to download “bits of RARs” to reassemble as that seems to be the easiest way to get me there. I’ve bought many issues of the films over the years, but sadly my DVD/BR collecting started after the special editions, so I’ve never owned the original versions. I’ve been a big fan of things like The Phantom Edit and Topher Grace’s re-cutting of the prequels to a single “film.” Editing in general has been an interest of mine, though generally if I edit something, it’s more like taking a hatchet to scenes I don’t like (I removed the CG alien “Blarp” character from my “Lost in Space” movie DVD, and haven’t missed the character once).