Some gossip: I worked briefly with a guy who worked at the lab in L.A. where the 97 film restoration was done and he had worked with the negative just after Lucas had taken possession of it from Fox and he felt it wasn't in abnormally bad shape. At least not moreso than other 70s movies that used that troublesome stock (such as Jaws and Close Encounters) it needed restoration obviously but so what? This is the most annoying type of thing about LFL-I don't see the people who restored Saturday Night Fever acting like they deserve a fucking medal just for doing what you're supposed to do. (to say nothing about actually doing it right, or doing it at all in the case of the original versions)