And that's fine. Let it look the way he wants.

But don't shaft the people who grew up with it the way it *was*. Release the original version, everything intact and unaltered INCLUDING GRAIN, alongside his squeaky-clean version. Then everyone'd be happy.

About grain in general, you're right - but it'll be SUBSTANTIALLY harder to convince people that grain is supposed to be there when there's STILL such opposition to widescreen movies (Why's there be black bars on my TV's? I can't see the rest'a the movie!) and so many people thinking anything digital MUST be better.