Originally posted by: eros
Their's a big difference between cleaning up old special effects and putting things in that are obviously going to piss a lot of people off. GL seems to revel in upsetting the fan base as much as he can. Either that or the guy HAS completely lost his marbles.

With that in mind, I wonder if one of the things fans would like to see is an original theatrical cut to anamorphic widescreen version w/out any enhancements whatsoever (like the one I saw yesterday), OR perhaps an original version with the visuals touched up for clarity (as in the new 2004 DVD's) BUT without any enhanced special effects, scenes, sounds or dialogue. An interesting question, b/c it seems like even within the original trilogy community there may some difference of opinion as to just how to implement the whole thing.

Further complicating (not necessarily, but its fun to speculate) are some issues just as to what constitutes the original films. In the laserdisc transfer (from the 1993 Definitive Collection) I was watching the otherday it was revealed in the production notes that there were three seperate sound effects mixes made by Ben Burt during the film's 1977 premiere. One was for monoaural theaters, another for the select few with multiple speaker placements and a third for the films initial "hurried" release. The production notes state explicitly that fans were watching different sound effect versions in theaters, depending upon where they were watching. In addition, for the laserdisc version Ben Burt and a colleague remastered the sound effects. Which begs the question....

Would fans want a DVD release of the original trilogy with 5.1 surround? 2.1? And just what exactly would constitute original? Hehe, just some more fun speculation.....

Oh and by the way.... (edit).....

For those of you reading this thread: If you had the option of showing a friend or relative who had no prior exposure to star wars the original trilogy or the Special editions which one would you show?