Gaffer Tape said:

captainsolo said:

The truth is it hurts to watch star wars now. I go for classic EU novels when I want a good SW fix. The GOUTs are painful to see-especially those damn garbage mattes!

I can't blame the GOUT for that. I find the garbage mattes to be just as visible on the '04 sets as well. In fact, that's when I first noticed them.

And I personally couldn't give a fuck about garbage mattes or garbage cans or whatever. They don't bother me. They're not a problem.

ChainsawAsh said:

The garbage mattes should not be fixed - they were there in 1977, so "fixing" them is just another alteration. A film is a snapshot of the time in which it was made, and effects flaws are a part of that. I really wish the Raiders of the Lost Ark DVD had kept the cobra reflection, too.

I seem to be in the minority as far as this idea goes, though.

I agree fully. Changing these things years later is dishonest and ruins the film's function as a record of film in its time.