My first impression was that the movie (Star Wars) did not look as good as I'd have liked. I kinda got the impression it was better than the laserdiscs, but it didn't look that much better to me. My first impression was spent analyzing sharpness, detail, artifacts, ghosting, grain patterns, wobbling starfields, scratched up crap print contrasting with beautiful undamaged sections, and all sorts of visual minutia brought on by too much reading of posts on this board. Sheesh. I barely enjoyed the film at all.
I look forward to watching it again without all that over-analysis going on in my head.
It was also more pleasant than I anticipated to see shots and segments that were not corrupted by special edition uselessness.
It was more of a disappointment than I anticipated when the fog of my 1977 illusion was lifted with the first wave assaults of 80's revisionism that affected the audio mix.
I appreciate the reviews of Empire and Jedi ... but despite promises of better picture quality than my laserdiscs, I'm not going to buy the DVDs. For movies I might watch 3 more times in my life, I will suffer with the laserdiscs that have, to my knowlege, been played exactly once since purchase in the laserdisc era.
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